Uncle Dick Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Well I had to check my eyesight, but the caption confirmed it as well, a SLUFF carrying a spare tyre, first time I have seen this...A7E 159645-NG301 VA146... this type of thing probably happened more often than we think... Images from http://www.aircraftslides.com 11 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiskey Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Haha that's pure gold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Nah- this one's even better! Not only that, there is a resin/etched toilet bomb available in 1/72 and 1/48, IIRC. Ah, those were the days! Mike https://www.midwaysailor.com/midwayva25bomb/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jure Miljevic Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Those Corsair photos reminds me about courier Breguet XIV A-2 with armistice conditions to the German HQ on 11th November 1918 or RAF tribe policing F.2Bs and Wapitis during interwar period. They all had a spare wheel attached under the fuselage just in case. However, my favorites are airliners, carrying replacement engines for other aircraft, stranded away from maintenance facilities. Cheers Jure 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredag Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 The pilot was told he was landing on a Flat top, so thought to bring a spare... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoenL Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 (edited) Here's another such example, from the McDonnell Douglas F-4 "Phantom II" Facebook group: Edited January 6, 2019 by KoenL 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 18 hours ago, Jure Miljevic said: Those Corsair photos reminds me about courier Breguet XIV A-2 with armistice conditions to the German HQ on 11th November 1918 or RAF tribe policing F.2Bs and Wapitis during interwar period. They all had a spare wheel attached under the fuselage just in case. However, my favorites are airliners, carrying replacement engines for other aircraft, stranded away from maintenance facilities. Cheers Jure Ive never seen anything like this before ? Interesting i wonder what the passengers thought of this pod. Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jure Miljevic Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 (edited) Hello Corsairfoxfouruncle An average passenger probably took no notice or thought a pod had been a normal feature of an airplane, perhaps an oversized variation on Comet 4 wing leading edge fuel tanks. Such hard points used to be quite common on airliners, although I was surprised to learn that even VC-10 (check this webpage) with her relatively short undercarriage legs had been equipped with such a pod. According to this blog an engine on the photo above had been hauled to Sydney to replace a failed one on stranded cargo DC-8 with 24 very unhappy circus lions aboard. Cheers Jure Edited January 7, 2019 by Jure Miljevic corrected spelling error 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magpie22 Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 3 hours ago, Jure Miljevic said: Hello Corsairfoxfouruncle An average passenger probably took no notice or thought a pod had been a normal feature of an airplane, perhaps an oversized variation on Comet 4 wing leading edge fuel tanks. Such hard points used to be quite common on airliners, although I was surprised to learn that even VC-10 (check this webpage) with her relatively short undercarriage legs had been equipped with such a pod. According to this blog an engine on the photo above had been hauled to Sidney to replace a failed one on stranded cargo DC-8 with 24 very unhappy circus lions aboard. Cheers Jure Yeah, but you don't tell us where Sidney was! Was he in Sydney? 😁 Peter M 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredag Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 The Air New Zealand DC-8 were used purely as aircargo movers in their later years, about the time of this photo, so likely no passengers aboard. The classic version of this sort of 'carriage' would have to be the C-47 with a complete outer wing attached under the fuselage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Boeing 747 were known to have spare engine pods too. I saw one at Gatwick a long time ago,.Have a pic somewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jure Miljevic Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Sorry, a slip of a finger. Cheers Jure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Recently saw interview with captain B-747. In general they were not to happy with taking this extra bump on long hauls. It effected flight characteristics quite a lot. Not to mention the extra fuel flow. Regards, Orion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Puff Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Qantas had capacity to carry the fifth pod on their 707-138s (and possibly some of the -338s). They had a lot of experience with being caught somewhere along the Kangaroo Route with an L-749 with a dead engine and no way to fix it, to the point where they modified one of their Lancastrians to carry a Connie engine in what used to be the bomb bay. They didn't want to be in the same situation with their shiny new 707s! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickshaw Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 I first heard about this in connection with the tragedy of Air India Flight 182, which disintegrated on it's Montreal-London-Delhi flight, believed due to a Terrorist bomb in 1985. She was carrying a spare engine being returned to New Delhi after it had been serviced in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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