ah finally
Monday, February 25, 2008
The only day in the past two weeks that I've actually returned home at a civilised 3pm. How quaint, to be able to unpack my back without the pitch blackness engulfing my room, and Joseph, in his dreary slumber.
This update brings you images from the Singapore Airshow, a highly anticipated event that led to somewhat disppointment. Thankfully, under the Aerospace Induction programme islandwide for instituitions, I had a discounted rate of $10, rather than the robbery of 20 that Joseph and the rest got for their poor money's worth.
The weather there coulda been better, but at least the Sun wasn't in full blast, hidden partially behind the clouds as we squinted up for a better view. Travelling at Mach 2, the F16 is Singapore's widest fleet of interceptors. Agile and capable of 9G turns, this head turner is used widely in over 20 different countries. The F-15 on the other hand, recently purchased, goes at around twice the cost of an F-16, (29-30 million), and can achieve up to Mach 2.5. Just for a comparison, The Airbus A380 flies at a mere 0.85 Mach.
Scramjets, the fastest technology has to offer for airspace, fly at a maximum of Mach 15 (prototypes), while working ones are at 12. Launched from a rocket assisted ramp of vertical ascent, they can boast travel of Australia to Los Angles in two hours. cue *whoa*
Here ya go, picture montage.
Ah this was a second too late, or not I'd have gotten the 6 F-16s in a priceless shot. ):
The T-50 Advanced trainer jet with a swivelling jet stream. Awesome! Lol.
The green giant, Airbus 380 has set new bars in avaition costs towards the suppliers, and my, the pilot was one skilled dude to manouvere this hunka carbon at such tight turns.
Some jet trainer, cant remember the brand, but it's formation flying was spectacular, with them no less than 3m apart from each other, it takes lotsa nerve to maintain formation and still keep an eye out for your partners.
An amazing close-up shot of the Black Knights, not all of them, but it was zoomed in to 12x, and one of the best shots in my camera that day.
Preparing for the fan formation after a sharp 360 degree turn from striaght up, to straight plummeting. Kewl. :D
Dinner was at East Point, a claustrophobic mall that saw to the many heartlanders satisfaction. Nothing was of interest there, except for the $7 i blew on FPS games there. A real testament to seeing if you're gaming was as good as in reality when taking aim. Of course, just without the exhaustion of running around with a 3.8kg rifle. (tried a SAR21 M203? it's a whopping 5.3, I ached under it's weight when trying it at AOH)
Cheers for another time. And this post was to show that no, I do not blog about only the
girls. But on another note, I'm estatic, Cheryl made it into TPJC! She called this morning while at Meridian's orientation, and the bunch of us were high. But then i guess you wouldn't wanna know the details, so I'll spare the lot.
Cheers! :D *overjoyed*
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