Marconi Advert

[Martin H]

found this little gem

discuss

[The Rat]

Damn damn damn damn DAMN!!! There's a C-160 in there and I've already started whiffing mine differently.    

[retro_seventies]

*salivates*

good work mart - there are some real crackers in that lot!!    

[Jennings]

The poor Sherpa has hemorrhoids!  Ouch!



And what is that airplane at the bottom?  737?  It can't be an A320, since this was 1984.  

[AeroplaneDriver]

And what is that airplane at the bottom?  737?  It can't be an A320, since this was 1984.

I looks more like an 737 than an A320 with that windshield, but it's not really a 737 tail.  Perhaps a speculative EA-320 since the A320 program was well underway in '84, but lots of features were not finalized.

[B777LR]

Bottom plane is a A-310. You know, luftwaffe and canada operate them  (saw 2 luftwaffe A310 MRTTs at hamburg)

Whats that Biz-jet? and is that a Merlin i see there?

But of course, what killed the Nimrod AEW would kill those shown. Stupid to fit too much electronics into a much too small airframe when you can buy a E-767 or E-2 or E-3 right off the shelf...

[Radish]

WOW!!!!

I just love the ideas, love'em    

Older publications hold some fantastic ideas.
When we look back in 10 or 15 years time to now, I wonder?  

[Howard of Effingham]

thanks martin.

i remember this advert well. nice idea technically having a radar aerial at either
end of the airframe, just a bit ahead of its time, or it upset the americans. canucks
are blameless here, afaik.  ^_^

t.

[retro_seventies]

first time for everything - i wouldn't trust those hockey haired hosers as far as i could throw 'em          

[AeroplaneDriver]

Bottom plane is a A-310. You know, luftwaffe and canada operate them   (saw 2 luftwaffe A310 MRTTs at hamburg)

Whats that Biz-jet? and is that a Merlin i see there?

But of course, what killed the Nimrod AEW would kill those shown. Stupid to fit too much electronics into a much too small airframe when you can buy a E-767 or E-2 or E-3 right off the shelf...

The doors and windows look a bit out of scale for a 310, and the windshield is definately not an A310, though the tail is certainly Airbus.  I still think it's someone's 1984 interpretation of the 320.  Or just a generic narrowbody.

The bizjet is a Bombardier (nee Canadair) Challenger.

[B777LR]

The doors and windows look a bit out of scale for a 310,

But doors are much too big for A-320. Engines look just right for a A-310 as well. More military operators flew A-310 back then than A-320 excisted  

[Jennings]

More military operators flew A-310 back then than A-320 excisted

In 1984 there were no military A310s either.  The A310 was a very new airplane...

The problem with the radar setup in the Nimrod was that the fuselage flexed and twisted (natural aeroelasticity).  The problem with that was trying to get both radar returns to sync together.  No computer then (or now) could do that.  That's what really killed the Nimrod AEW.  That's why you don't see any US types with split radars like that.  Unless the airplane were made out of cast iron, there's virtually way to eliminate the aerodynamic twisting and bending (ever flown in a stretched DC-8 and watched the aisle in front of you bending in rough air?).

J

[B777LR]

(ever flown in a stretched DC-8 and watched the aisle in front of you bending in rough air?).

Too bad i was born in 1991, was it fun?

[Zen]

Must be the length of the fusilage, the shorter the distance between the two radars the less the twisting would be felt.

[phoenix54]

Jennings Posted on Mar 3 2007
The problem with that was trying to get both radar returns to sync together. No computer then (or now) could do that.

just my two penn'orth, know a chap that was involved with the beastie, according to him it wasn't aeroelasticity that was the problem, but powering the two arrays, as they pulled too much power, simple solution was (according to my source! R.A.F. W.O.) to fit an independant power source, and problem solved.
Problem was, nobody had the noddle to ask the R.A.F. fitters, seems like a problem ALL forces around the globe have, idiots in power think they know everything.


Phoenix