Rip-off?

[charliegolf]

Awfully sorry to introduce a few actual facts...

1. It's always been named Voyager- the MoD/RAF name for it.
2. The paint job is PART OF a significant scheduled service (servicing is apparently handy in stopping them falling from the skies.)
3. If a tanker is dependent on a low vis paint scheme for its air defence survival, it's clucked. Most air-to-air kills are from beyond visual range, with radar targetting.
4. I like it. (The fact is, that it's my opinion.)

You're welcome.

CG

 

[ajohn]

My brother works in aerospace and visits most of the plane makers at times. For some reason he feels safer in an Airbus and has done for several years now. Years ago when he read Michael Crichton's book Airframe he was very annoyed and reckoned the business wasn't like that. Maybe he wonders now.

 

[EFLImpudence]

My query was just the cost.

Nearly a million pounds and completed in a week.

 

[ajohn]

My query was just the cost.

Nearly a million pounds and completed in a week.

Painters and decorators earn a lot.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Any visuals of what it's actually going to look like? It's surely not going to all the UK flag?

The aircraft today supported operational training acting as a ‘petrol station in the sky’ offering refueling support to RAF Lightning and Typhoon fighters during Exercise CRIMSON OCEAN. Taking off from RAF Brize Norton, the aircraft spent most of the day airborne to provide several refueling stops for the fighters taking part in the joint RAF and Royal Navy exercise.

 

[ajohn]

Which variant is it

The A330-300 has a range of 11,750 km or 6,350 nmi with 277 passengers, while the shorter A330-200 can cover 13,450 km or 7,250 nmi with 247 passengers. Later variants include the A330-200F dedicated freighter, the A330 MRTT military tanker, and the ACJ330 corporate jet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbu...a/File:Comlux_Airbus_ACJ320_VVIP_interior.jpg

 

[charliegolf]

It's an A330-200 derivative.

 

[JohnD]

The paint job is PART OF a significant scheduled service (servicing is apparently handy in stopping them falling from the skies.)

I've always known that flashy paint makes you go faster

Now I hear it prevents crashes as well.

 

[SFK]

AJohn
It is the

A330 MRTT military tanker,

with VIP suite.
https://www.airbus.com/defence/a330mrtt.html

Full spec from its registration code is here:
https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/airbus-a330-200-zz336-royal-air-force/ejnqkx


JohnD

Now I hear it prevents crashes as well.

In a way it does as they would have undertaken structural testing and monitoring whilst painting it.

SFK

 

[JohnD]

It's terrible to hear that planes are not serviced or inspected except when they are given flashy paint jobs.

 

[SFK]

Visual, Ultrasonic and and XRay structural testing is best achieved when paint is not present.

 

[bernardgreen]

I've always known that flashy paint makes you go faster

Dimples like those on a golf ball makes things go faster and further through the air.........

but not much when they are dimples on an aircraft

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334443079_Effect_of_Dimples_on_Aircraft_Wing

 

[durhamplumber]

My brother works in aerospace and visits most of the plane makers at times. For some reason he feels safer in an Airbus and has done for several years now. Years ago when he read Michael Crichton's book Airframe he was very annoyed and reckoned the business wasn't like that. Maybe he wonders now.

Been an ongoing debate for decades.Boeing V Airbus,which is safer.

 

[bernardgreen]

Boeing's rush to market of the 737 MAX makes me question the ethics of their management.

 

[durhamplumber]

Boeing's rush to market of the 737 MAX makes me question the ethics of their management.

They made a mistake...huge....but mistake.It happens,sure they will learn ..They do not always get it wrong...Then again,Airbus are not without mistake,over reliance on automation....etc.