Anyone else like Birds AND planes? (1 Viewer)

[Andy Adcock]

Yes, Andy, you've hit exactly on the difference between a simple plural and a possessive plural, for " Pears' " isn't a simple plural, it's a possessive plural, which as you say indicates 'belonging to'.

I always look for any possessive indication while writing or reading so that I can sort out in my mind which it might be. With practice, it becomes automatic.
MJB

If we take another example e.g the family name Smith, Smiths' bakery would indicate that there is more than one family member in the business called Smith as opposed to Smith's yes?


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[Johann Sebastian Bach]

http://www.copywritingacademy.co.uk/what-is-the-plural-of-greengrocers-apostrophe/

Ignoring Apple's @ 20p per 100 gram's, there hasn't been much of a decline in those who write it's instead of its.

Even some of BF's finest luminaries think that it's is possessive. i.e.

The Rubythroat had lost it's ring by the time I saw it

This is incorrect.

The apostrophe in it's only denotes a missing something -

it was = it's
it is = it's
it has = it's

Peter

 

[MJB]

If we take another example e.g the family name Smith, Smiths' bakery would indicate that there is more than one family member in the business called Smith as opposed to Smith's yes? A

Got it in one, Andy!
MJB

 

[Captain_of_Crunch]

Three from last weekend birding in the Brecks:

-One of six F22 Raptors on an extended visit to Britain (https://theaviationist.com/2017/10/08/12-f-22-raptor-jets-have-just-deployed-to-raf-lakenheath-uk/)

-KC10 Extender arriving back into Mildenhall

-F15 arriving back into Lakenheath

 

[Bird_Bill]

I've enjoyed this thread since its beginning.
Many of us sharing the passion of what flies, regardless of how.
Fabulous photographs have been contributed,
along with the thoughts of good people.
Cheers!

Below, were both taken at my former favorite patch, when I lived in the area.
Confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers,
Columbia Bottoms Conservation Area

First are two Apache AH-64D helicopters
(hummingbirds hover and fly backwards)

Second, B-25, sound of those radials is still echoing.

 

[Euan Buchan]

Today for a change I decided to revisit my old patch next to the airport I used to go with my Grandpa to watch planes land & take off. Brought back fond memories I hadn't been back down for a couple of years.

 

[JWN Andrewes]

Beluga

Quite often see these going over (was at the Chocks Away Café at Broughton once when and saw one take off) but don't usually have a camera to hand. Today I was photographing the Long-tailed Duck on Fagl Lane Quarry Pit when Number Four put in an appearance....

 

[Farnboro John]

Quite often see these going over (was at the Chocks Away Café at Broughton once when and saw one take off) but don't usually have a camera to hand. Today I was photographing the Long-tailed Duck on Fagl Lane Quarry Pit when Number Four put in an appearance....

Now I am genuinely gripped!

John

 

[Andy Adcock]

What an incredible design.


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[crazyfingers]

Quite often see these going over (was at the Chocks Away Café at Broughton once when and saw one take off) but don't usually have a camera to hand. Today I was photographing the Long-tailed Duck on Fagl Lane Quarry Pit when Number Four put in an appearance....

Some kind of cargo plane? What is it? Airbus?

 

[Chris G6 UXU]

Klm B738 # Ph-bgc

I was out photographing Fieldfare at Pleasington Lancashire when this KLM B738 # PH-BGC was going around in the Rosun Hold this Morning 08/11/2017.

P.S. have a look at our sister site aviationnostalgia.com

 

[Chris G6 UXU]

It is a Airbus A300B4-600ST nicknamed Guppy used for transporting aircraft parts to other Airbus Factories from Broughton UK.

 

[crazyfingers]

That's pretty special purpose!

 

[Farnboro John]

There used to be Guppies based on, for instance, the Canadair CL-44 (similar to the Bristol Britannia) and the Boeing Stratoliner/Stratotanker series (itself a double-decker development of the B29 Superfortress). Airbus used a number of those for moving outsize but light cargo like fuselages and wing sections until they grew old, then produced the new generation Beluga as capably illustrated by Arch. At least one remains at Bruntingthorpe, which is a place I recommend for nostalgic Cold War spotters. I'll put a pic up in a while.

John

 

[JWN Andrewes]

Been many years since I've seen the old Guppies (silver jobbies with an orange stripe, and prop rather than jet if memory serves), precursor to the Beluga. They always seemed to fly a lot higher than the Belugas, never used to see them quite so well. If I manage to get any more shots I'll be back to share them.

 

[Hauksen]

Hi,

Been many years since I've seen the old Guppies (silver jobbies with an orange stripe, and prop rather than jet if memory serves), precursor to the Beluga.

Not the best shot, but one of these is preserved at Airbus Finkenwerder:



It appears there two more are preserved, one each in France and in Britain.

This one is actually a Super Guppy, recognizable by its turbine powerplants. The original "pregnant guppy" still had the Boeing 377's piston engines.

In the Super Guppy, the cockpit is part of the swing nose, which serves as front loading door. From I've read, this was rather inconvenient as it meant a lot of connections had to be broken and re-connected for before and after loading activities.

Which explains the unique and peculiar shape of its successor, the Beluga: The Beluga's cockpit is below the main fuselage section in order to keep it clear of the front loading door and avoid a lot of unnecessary complication!

Regards,

Henning

 

[Farnboro John]

Took me a while to find these, can hardly believe it was 2012 when I went to Bruntingthorpe for a Cold War Jets day. Two bonus shots, thought I might as well make use of the facility to post five. Brunty only does fast taxi runs, as the CAA (Campaign Against Aviation - oh no, its the Civil Aviation Authority, I always forget) doesn't like the idea of civilians aviating aeroplanes above the speed of sound. Rather ignoring the fact that airlines used to do it. Anyway:

Super Guppy X 3

Canberra (don't worry, all that smoke is just the starting system, it's supposed to do that)

The incomparable English Electric Lightning

John

 

[wolfbirder]

Love those old Guppy photos. Used to see them quite a lot.

Old piston airliners were fantastic.

 

[birdboybowley]

To answer the thread title: Yes, love them both....but not when [email protected] like this are allowed in the cockpit :[email protected]

Taken today over Pagham Harbour.....at some points he can't have been more than 40ft off the deck....absolutely ridiculous and when the literally thousands of waterfowl and waders flushed up (and he still kept circling lower!) it was amazing that he didn't get a Brent through the canopy. Pr1ck

 

[birdboybowley]

And here is the pr1ck himself...still can't believe what I saw....!