Nope.

The 787-8 is the launch model and many have been built, some for flight testing the others stored awaiting certification.

When you say ‘many have been built’ do you have any idea of numbers?

As a tin basher I’m just wondering why it’s painted in primer. You don’t usually paint titanium, apart from the exterior colour if it’s outer skin/structure.

the mirage is probably far more maintainance friendly and cheaper to operate. I don’t think the Gr.4 or any IDS variant of the Tornado carried any nukes although it was capable of doing so.

now another more interesting one is Mirage 2000 series and variants versus the Viggen.

Gr1 certainly carried nukes. We used to practice prepping the aircraft often enough!

lancastermkx, that’s in a tank though. Fuels react completely differently in a tank when vapours are present to how they do in open air. They’re very different things, and the vapours are infinitely more explosive and dangerous than the liquid fuel itself.

A few years back before health and safety got to interfering with our fun we used to set fire to a large drip tray of jet fuel during our annual fire training.

The fuel itself is quite reluctant to burn, and if you pushed the burning rag into the fuel (on the end of a stick!) it would usually put it out.
However, if you hold the flame near the fuel to warm it up, it would eventually catch fire.

When it’s in a vapour form or a spray it’s a lot more volatile, hence you hear stories of people blowing up aircraft when working in wet tanks without a flame proof torch!

The only reason the cowling was missing was because it had burnt through.
The whole point of a suppression system is to control the situation early enough to prevent this happening.However in the case of a major component failure that also allows crankcase oil to be torched by the exhaust the “normal” fuel off practice will not suffice to control the situation.It is only because there are relatively few instances of these incidents that the serious consequences are not highlighted.A military trainer will have a different design criteria compared to its civil counterpart and that is why a “bale out” is a real option in dire circumstances.I would think it quite reasonable to be able to provide yourself with some protection if the “approval” regulations were able to cope with this.Radials are great, but they are more prone to “throwing a pot” than other types (for reasons stated in other posts) therefore the consequence of this should be considered in their operation.

I would respectfully suggest you read the report again. The cowlings didn’t burn through (though there was a small patch on one of the corners burnt off), the report draws the conclusion that they became detached when one of the cylinders flew off after failure. In this instance the report concludes the fire started after the cylinder became detached and the manifolds broke mixing hot exhaust gases and the fuel rich inlet mixture.

There are definitely no Lynx at Wattisham, just Apaches.

I’m pretty sure most of the Lynx are based at Dishforth.

What was he doing tooling around in the dark??

Do read the story again. It happened at 1900hrs and was “getting dark”. It’s still pretty much daylight at 7pm here in East Anglia.

Nice video, lots of the usual suspects! Looks a bumpy strip there.