• Question: what aircraft would you of liked/ would like to, work on and why?

    Asked by Emmett to Aisling, Colin, Laurence, Ned, Niamh on 4 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Niamh Shaw

      Niamh Shaw answered on 4 Mar 2016:

      Can I say Spacecraft instead of Aircraft? If so,then I really want have really liked to have travelled on the Space Shuttle heading to the International Space Station or the Mir Space Station. And in the future, I would love to take a trip on the new Orion Space craft currently under construction byNASA & ESA. I guess the reason I would like to take a trip on these Sapce craft is because they travel so fast and are all an incredible feat of engineering, made by thousands of great engineers- ho have been tirelessly improving the design and always thinking of the dangers that need tone overcome to ensure a successful and safe launch and landing for all the crew onboard.

    • Photo: Ned Dwyer

      Ned Dwyer answered on 4 Mar 2016:

      The Airbus programme is pretty cool. Trying to build aircraft that can safely transport hundreds of people around the world is amazing. And you’d get to work with enginerrs from almist every discipline materials for the body parts electrical and electronic for the energy snd communications computer engineers for all the automed systems mechanical for wings flaps and all the moving parts. The list goes on – an engineering hothouse !

    • Photo: Laurence O'Rourke

      Laurence O'Rourke answered on 5 Mar 2016:

      I always thought the Concorde was cool flying transatlantic flights faster than the speed of sound. There’s also the Blackbird military aircraft which is super fast. I don’t work on airplanes but as these pushed speed boundaries, they interest me a lot. There’s one other airplane that I like a lot – spaceship one – have a look on google to see what it does and you’ll see why.

    • Photo: Aisling Shannon

      Aisling Shannon answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      Years ago I read a book called Skunkworks, which was about American stealth fighters, which sounded like a really amazing thing to work on.
      For spacecraft, I think most of the ESA missions are really amazing, we do things that have not been done before, really advancing scientific understanding for the whole world, from understanding gravitational fields, to measuring the polar ice caps or the project that Laurence is on, that is looking at a comet and learning so much that nobody has ever understood before.

    • Photo: Colin Shirran

      Colin Shirran answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      I would really have liked to work on the Harrier jet. It was one of the first aircraft that I really got obsessed with in a sense. I was always reading up on it, playing games that involved it. I just loved the Vertical landing capability. After that I would say the Spitfire. It’s such an iconic airplane it would have been amazing to be a part of that. The most modern aircraft I would like to have been involved in was the F22 raptor. It just looks amazing!

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