FS2004: Boeing 747-400 landing video (with RR engines!)

[chris]

Here is a video I made for someone on another forum:

http://www.totalnfs.net/cpd/747_400_landing.wmv (4653kb)

(Windows Media 9 series required)

This demonstrates a landing of a Boeing 747-400 with Rolls Royce RB211-524 engines. Notice the very different sound to the standard FS2004 747. :D Also, turn on captions in your windows media player and you'll see text descriptions.

Enjoy. :)

[Cheyenne]

At the risk of quote Keanu Reeves...

Whoa!

That was beautifully done, Chris. -^ Got any more?

[chris]

I might make some of the Concorde in a similar style, taken from the tower view. :)

Believe me, Concorde is something to see when it lands. It is a jaw-dropping landing to watch. :) It looks like some giant white eagle swooping down on unsuspecting prey.

[Cheyenne]

Please do. That would be a special treat :love:

[chris]

Will do. :) I'm actually more familiar with landing Concorde than the 747-400.

Look here tomorrow about the same time. So, any preferences on which Concorde. You can choose from the following:

- BAC / Aerospatiale house colours
- Singapore Airlines (borrowed from British Airways)
- British Airways 2003 colour scheme
- Air France normal colour scheme
- Pepsi Concorde (Air France)

I also have the Airport 79 (that dreadful movie) themed Concorde, but it might be in bad taste to use that since it is the actual Concorde which crashed in Paris.

[Cheyenne]

Oh, Pepsi Concorde, please. Nothing like having some bright plumage :cool:

[Venom800tt]

Ooo, pretty cool :)
Kinda sounds like a C-5 Galaxy with it's GE turbofans :p
Now I wanna see another low-flying C-5 again...

[chris]

Did you know that the Pepsi Concorde was not certified to go at Mach 2.02 for more than 20 minutes because of its blue colour. At less than Mach 1.70, it was unrestricted.

Before doing the Pepsi colour scheme the original manufacturers, Sud Aviation (now Aerospatiale) had to be contacted for recommendations on the new paint.

The wings were left white because of fuel temperature, or probably rather so the fuel will still dissipate heat properly. Concorde uses its system of fuel tanks to also help cool the structure of the aircraft.

In cruise flight at M 2.02, the nose of the plane could hit over 120°C (more than the boiling point of water). They have sensors to advise the crew of temperature, and in some cases, this may dictate the cruise speed.

[Cheyenne]

That's some pretty wild engineering around paint!

http://www.707fan.de/Modellbau/Modelle_1_144_Jets/ConcordePepsi/Concorde-2.JPG

I wonder how much the paint on the plane weighs as well :eek:

[chris]

Not quite sure. But I know all Concordes use a special paint that is designed to stretch with the airframe. Concordes airframe expands during high speed flight, in comparison to when it is on the ground.

The traditional white paint was used for the purposes of reflecting, or resisting heat. While Concorde cruises at high speed, if you touch the inside of the windows, you'll note that they are warm, and you can feel them radiating heat.

It really does extroadinary things, but in a very ordinary way. (to quote Mike Bannister)

Most others who fly at such altitudes would have an oxygen mask and helmet, or a full space-suit type of thing. While in Concorde, we could just walk on in casual dress, and everything basically was as normal as any other plane, with the exception of the notable smoothness of flight at high altitudes, and the fact one arrives at the destination so soon after taking off.

There are no inflight movies, because there isn't enough time to watch one. Most of the passengers tend to get to know each other. Exactly the opposite of being on a subsonic plane.

That's why I call it one of mankinds most extroadinary technological achievements. In fact, many of its innovations found their way into the current subsonic planes.

With regards to the mention before of heat generated by high speed flight, if you look closely at this photo...

http://samchuiphotos.com/Concorde/CON40.jpg

... in between the right INS console, and the throttle controls, you'll see a round dial with 3 readings on it. That shows the temperatures, such as outside air temperature, nose temperature, etc.

The funny lever at the top with the zig-zagging gate controls the tilting nose/visor. Looking to the left of that, you can see that at this point when the photo was taken, she had 16,100kg of fuel left.

[chris]

Just did a nice landing with Concorde, but on viewing the replay, noticed a bug with the plane (contact points wrong for the main landing gear) so it looks like the wheels never touched the ground. :rolleyes:

I'll see if I can fix it myself, and then I'll try again. :)

[chris]

No Concorde landing video due to the bugs in the plane, but instead, I'll soon have a demo of TU-144D CCCP-77116. A highly impressive landing done at very high speed, in poor weather conditions! :eek:

It is a very difficult plane to land. I didn't put down the nose, instead using the ILS functions to guide me.

It doesn't fly very high either, it will only go up to about 48,000ft maximum, while I managed to achieve Mach 1.9.

[chris]

Here is the TU-144 landing demonstration: (3581kb)

http://www.totalnfs.net/cpd/tu144_demo.jpg (http://www.totalnfs.net/cpd/tu_144_landing.wmv)

Right click on image and save target to your computer.


That is a very difficult plane to land, and to fly. This is the first time I've tried to land it, or actually fly it in FS2004. On landing, I was looking for a key to activate a parachute or similar, just to try and stop it in enough time.

Friedrichshafen is perhaps too small an airport for this plane.