marcandalysse 0 #1 March 16, 2009 This is really a cool website! There are numerous videos, including a guy doing a tandem, a paraglider, bird migrations, much more. You Brits must be familiar with Andrew Marr from BBC, but it is new to me... "Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird's eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways." I really liked this one tracing the GPS patterns of 24 hours of air traffic over Britain: http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/transport/secretjams.shtml Hey you guys really like drinking Tea! This is an amazing view of how the electic grid must quickly change and adapt when it's Tea Time in Britain: http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/people/teatimebritain.shtml Watch on Full-screen! "The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly." --GK Chesterton Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #2 March 16, 2009 That was an interesting series of T.V progs - well worth watching. (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #3 March 16, 2009 Interesting. I wonder why they use a helicopter instead of a fixed wing aircraft for their AWACS radar. Helos have higher operating costs per man/hour of flight, and I believe they are lower dispatch rates. Some other examples of AWACS appear below. http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_E-2C_Japan_Coast_lg.jpg http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_EMB-145_Erieye_AWACS_lg.jpg http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/e3awacs/images/e3awacs10.jpg Boeing is working on an AWACS aircraft based on the venerable, reliable B-737 airframe. It will have solid state synthetic aperture radar, very flexible, very powerful, very reliable. http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/Allmedia/SecurityReview/B737-WedgeTail.gif Very different mission those AWACS guys have. I've enjoyed working with them over the years. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
