EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9292 posts, RR: 12 Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 3085 times:
looks like a Falcon 10
[Edited 2005-04-29 04:26:02]
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"
Crjonbeez From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 317 posts, RR: 4 Reply 2, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 3058 times:
i could be wrong, but it has a striking resemblance to a rockwell sabreliner
CitationJet From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 2250 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 3047 times:
2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62 Reply 4, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 3044 times:
Sk902hvy From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 64 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 3038 times:
It's an Aerospatiale SN-601 Corvette 100 owned by Airbus.
good eye! it's been ages since i've seen a corvette! i knew the tip tanks were a long shot, buy hey, i've seen some obscure planes w/ tip tanks, so i figured i would take a guess. thinking back, the horizontal stab is lower on the tail w/ the sabreliner.
the falcon is a bit larger w/o the downward slope to the upper aft fuselage and w/o the intake found on top of the fuselage above the engines(common on the lear series)
i can definitely see where you can confuse them though. falcon passed through my head as well because of the angled tail.
Sk902hvy From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 64 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days ago) and read 2957 times:
Interesting that the plane in the above photos is not owned by Airbus, but by Aero Vision. Is Aero Vision an Airbus subsidiary? Why wouldn't Airbus use its own Corvettes?
CitationJet From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 2250 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days ago) and read 2924 times:
Thanks for your help everyone. It only took 13 minutes for the answer.
I looked up the aircraft data on this model. It was built from 1972 to 1977, with only 40 built. It is a nice looking plane.
Revelation From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 10575 posts, RR: 21 Reply 10, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days ago) and read 2900 times:
Quoting 2H4 (Reply 6): Here are more photos of the actual chaseplane:
Now we know where Boeing got the idea for their new house livery
RayChuang From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 7717 posts, RR: 5 Reply 12, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 2736 times:
Quoting Sk902hvy (Reply 8): Interesting that the plane in the above photos is not owned by Airbus, but by Aero Vision. Is Aero Vision an Airbus subsidiary? Why wouldn't Airbus use its own Corvettes?
Maybe the Aero Vision plane was specially equipped with recording cameras to monitor the flight of the A380? The Corvette owned by Airbus is probably still in its executive configuration, so it's probably used to transport Airbus officials around Europe.
Pihero From France, joined Jan 2005, 3598 posts, RR: 72 Reply 13, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 2681 times:
NO, Ray
That aircraft is dedicated to air shots and case-plane duties, and equipped accordingly.
All the AI official aerial shots were from that airplane.
Considering the stability of the AI videoshots,there is one mean formation pilot on board.
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