The Shape Of Things To Come (Aircraft Documentary)

[crazydave98]

Attention plane spotters. Apparently there is a documentary series on Channel 7 called "The Shape Of Things To Come".

The program is about new aircraft, both civil and military, which will be appearing in Australian skies. Aircraft types featured include the Airbus A380, Boeing 787, Boeing C 17 Globemaster, F/A 18 Super Hornet, Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II, Wedgetail, and the Global Hawk spyplane.

Tonight's program (Wednesday 6 Feb) stars our E-Jet Belle-Issimo Blue's handover and delivery flight in September. There is an interview with Virgin Blue's CFO and footage of the hand over ceremony at the Embraer factory. The film also includes shots of the destinations visited during the 14,500 mile delivery flight from Sao Jose dos Campos in Brazil to Australia via Manaus, Curacao, Brownsville Texas, Seattle, Anchorage, Petropavlovsk, Osaka, Guam and Cairns. The pilots Andy Glover and Paul Consodine told me that Petropavlovsk in particular was interesting - lot's of very grim faced soldiers carrying very big guns pointed at the aircraft when it landed.

cheers

CrazyDave98

 

[alien]

thanks for the headsup. I'll see if i can retrieve the remote from the other half

 

[BlacKnox]

I thought you were going to talk about this:

Sydney to London in just five hours

"A UK firm has unveiled plans for a hypersonic passenger jet that could take just five hours to fly from Europe to Australia..."

Nice thought, but unfortunately many moons away...

 

[alien]

our E-Jet Belle-Issimo Blue's handover and delivery flight in September.

here's a picture of VH-ZHA Photos: Embraer ERJ-170-100LR 170LR Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net= for those that are interested.

 

[serfty]

Only caught the last 10 minutes, but fascinating. (The Embraer bit must have been on earlier.)

 

[BlacKnox]

It wasn't a bad program but now it's clear I'm much more of a car and boat guy than an air one (couldn't have watched one more moment than the allocated hour).

It was amusing to see that Rolls Royce fitouts didn't extend to the RAAF; there was one classic scene when Wing Commander Linda on a C17(?) had to physically pull her seat forward to the stick, as if she was in an old holden...

Thanks for the heads up crazydave98.