Seems to have been fixed. Do we really need six stickys?

Yes but how do you visually distinguish between a Carib and a Tripe?

Lovely photos,what height did they have to get to to get the contrails.

I think it’s variable but don’t ask me why.

Thank you for sharing…

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More information on the Airbus and MoD site.

From AC Kermode:

“Contra-rotating propellers…eliminate or very nearly eliminate all the assymetrical effects of slipstream, propeller torque and gyroscopic action.”

“…The second propeller straightens the slipstream created by the first and so causes a straight high-speed flow of air over wings and tail; this improves the control and there is little or no resultant torque tending to roll the aircraft in one direction, and therefore no need to counteract such tendency; the gyroscopic effects are also neutralised. All this means that there should be no tendency to swing to one side during take-off, no roll or yaw if the throttle is suddenly opened or closed , no difference in aileron or rudder trim…the aircraft should be easy to handle and nice to fly”

Rufus Heald when piloting Tempests (?) told me last year that they took off with the left brake applied as rudder alone could not counteract swing.

The contra-prop would cancel the torque. However would there still be P-factor?

Hang on a minute… are you really saying the RAF’s tanker force is to be civilian owned and operated? What next, Typhoon Squadron Plc? 😮

Steve, this is a PPI thing. Tankers spend a lot of their time sitting around gathering dust. Why not then as the thinking goes lease the airframes to commercial airlines but recquisition them in times of need. The nearest similie would be cruise liners acting as hospital ships in wartime.