Photo-a-day

[Bobster]

You're right, strange lights in that hangar. This should be better

too cyan

[Ruggerbugger]

I honestly don't see that, ah well.

[kushtibari]

[nibbler]

Do you basically live in the most beautiful place on earth kushti?

[Bobster]

I honestly don't see that, ah well.

yours:


ok, well here's what it should be

[redddraggon]

yours:


ok, well here's what it should be

I don't see it either, the last one is far too red and the worst of the three

[mmh]

I don't see it either, the last one is far too red and the worst of the three

agreed, far too red.

[matty-hodgson]

Do you basically live in the most beautiful place on earth kushti?

Yes, in the lake district .

[nibbler]

I thought it was the highlands because of the Saltire and location being up north?

[kushtibari]

Scotsman living in exile mate - as Matty says I'm on the edge of the Lake District, about 5 miles or so from Ullswater. There are worse places to live

[Ruggerbugger]

Lol, Kushti makes us all jealous

I spent part of today inside this. Got to sit in the cockpit and feel five years old again

[stavroshamster]

I spent part of today inside this. Got to sit in the cockpit and feel five years old again

What is it? It looks like one of the aliens out of Mars Attacks!

[Ruggerbugger]

Aero Spaceline Super Guppy. This one was used to transport some of the Airbus A380 wings from Chester to Toulouse. 25 foot diameter fuselage bolted onto an old B29 basically. Sadly no flying examples left apparently

The cockpit was amazing, but extremely hard to take good photos in it

[edit] Not A380 wings, but earlier Airbus products. Also most, if not all, of the Saturn rocket system

[redddraggon]

Aero Spaceline Super Guppy. This one was used to transport some of the Airbus A380 wings from Chester to Toulouse. 25 foot diameter fuselage bolted onto an old B29 basically. Sadly no flying examples left apparently

The cockpit was amazing, but extremely hard to take good photos in it

It was never used to transport A380 wings, they've long been out of service, and A380 wings wouldn't fit in it anyway - they won't even fit in the Beluga fuselage.

I see the modern replacement, the Beluga, all the time, I need to get a decent telephoto lense though,


Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter) Beluga by redddraggon, on Flickr

[Ruggerbugger]

Ah, thanks for the correction

We were trying to figure out what the replacement was. It definitely moved wings for something, wonder what it was?

By the way, where does that Beluga fly from?

[redddraggon]

Ah, thanks for the correction

We were trying to figure out what the replacement was. It definitely moved wings for something, wonder what it was?

By the way, where does that Beluga fly from?

On average a Beluga comes and goes from Hawarden every day, but there's 5 of them flying between all the Airbus sites in Europe ferrying bits and pieces and doing the odd charter flights.

My Uncle works for Airbus on the new A380 wings, they must be one of the biggest employers in the local area - you see the Airbus uniforms everywhere. I think one of the prerequisites of being an Airbus employee is the inability to drive sensibly, shift change is an exhibition of dangerous driving.