Originally posted by GZYL
The APU is effectively the core of a turbofan engine, the bit that powers the fan.

Slight correction – for the most part western APU’s have a centrifugal compressor (naturally there will be exceptions). Centrifugal for the robustness of the design. Your turbo fans are constructed differently.

– Hamtech.

Not a good shot I know, but I was there to see the IL-18 🙂

The machine usually lives at the corner of the old international terminal apron which is now a freight apron.

Will wander over for a look one day, anything I should be looking for?

– Hamtech.

Re: Soviet P-40’s

Originally posted by PhantomII
And on another side note if anyone could provide me with good information about Soviet P-40 operations I’d greatly appreciate it.

Quite a bit of reading at this excellent site:

http://airforce.users.ru/lend-lease/english/index.htm

Specifically a “must read” is the “conversations” series featuring the recollections of N.G.Golodnikov, the second part mentions the P40:

http://airforce.users.ru/lend-lease/english/articles/golodnikov/index.htm

Long been a reader of this (airforce.ru) site, this series was a real treat.

– Hamtech.

Originally posted by Bmused55
No doubt the constant copying of western designs plays a small part too.

The more one learns abut aviation in the former USSR and Russia the more a comment like this becomes less valid.

Yes there have been some outright copies but certainly outweighed by the innovation of these nations. Could talk for hours about it but its a little hard here!

– Hamtech.

The Americans fly these aircraft in an “experimental” class. Down here and its probably the same in the UK for now we fly them under an “approval to fly”.

With that in mind these machines will not be subject to the same regulations as “real” aircraft which are allocated a certificate of airworthiness, but still hopefully kept under a close eye by the CAA / CASA / FAA or duly appointed representatives.

As you can see with the Reno air races the experimental class is taken to the extreme with total loss cooling systems – the P-51 “Stiletto” with no ventral scoop, build up of Merlins using a mix and match of parts, ie Packard parts mixed with RR parts etc. etc.

Even ground engineers don’t use their normal licence on “non CofA” aircraft, they are issued a “Maintenance Approval” to certify these machines.

Jump in if I’ve got it wrong chaps 🙂

An oldie’ but a goodie’ 🙂

I believe this probably originated from the Americans / USAF due to the nature and vintage of some of the comments. As its spread across the net somewhere along the line it was changed to Qantas ground engineers!

Sadly quite a few years ago in my old company this sort of thing (ie a friendly banter between ground and flight crews for non-flight critical defects) was knocked on the head and deemed inappropriate 🙁

– Hamtech.