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Joshu

Re: Boom Supersonic Overture Development - 2024

DocLightning wrote:
I'm absolutely shocked that this has gotten as far as it has. I'm actually starting to get optimistic.

I agree, I thought Boom was 1000% marketing.

I wish them success.

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Joshu

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Apparently NK's LGA add will be seasonal; kinda surprising for LGA. " According to the Allegheny County Airport Authority, it marks the first flight by an ultra low-cost carrier to connect Pittsburgh and New York. " https://www.post-gazette.com/business/development/2024/02/29/spirit-airli...

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Joshu

Re: Venezuelan airline 747 cargo flight sets off alarms in Argentina

Am I missing something? What did this aircraft need to return to the US to a middle-of-nowhere airport under such secrecy?

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Joshu

Re: Is Southwest having another meltdown? 1/15/2024

BWI has light snow but nothing major. The region will receive 3-4 inches starting around 1PM EST.

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Joshu

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

From page 68, "3.2 Probable cause The most probable cause of the accident is determined to be the inadvertent movement of both condition levers to the feathered position in flight, which resulted in feathering of both propellers and subsequent loss of thrust, leading to an aerodynamic stall and...

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Joshu

Re: United hard landing at IAH?

That MLG doesn't help. The 757 is much easier to "grease". This type of incident has happened before. The crease is always in about the same place. As I recall, it results from a hard landing, then a bounce that develops into a porpoise with the nosegear hitting with considerable force. I...

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Joshu

Re: Antonov AN 124 to Spartanburg (GSP)

phatfarmlines wrote:
Does GSP still get that near-daily 744F from Hahn?

Not sure if it is from Hahn, but Magma sends 744s to GSP every now and then.

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Joshu

Re: Ramp Employee Killed in SAT

Please refrain from unsubstantiated speculation. Regardless of the circumstances or details, this is a tragic situation, so please show some respect. ✈️ atcsundevil I share your message. But man it is hard to listen to a Caps fan as someone from Pittsburgh. Anyway, safety needs to be paramount with...

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Joshu

Re: Unresponsive Aircraft Crashes but causes Sonic DOD response..

Aircraft was N611VG

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Joshu

Re: Philadelphia Aviation - 2023

www.flickr.com/photos/runway27r/

He also had many images on our website.

Joshu

Re: Medevac PC-12 down in Nevada

The pilot is is the brother of the radio announcer for the NHL's Washington Capitals. From what I was told from those who knew him well, it was a weather-related crash.

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Joshu

Re: 36 Injured on Hawaiian Airlines Flight

Why are mods deleting all of the threads on this?

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Joshu

Re: Small Plane crash into power lines in Maryland (pax ok)

The local school district and college have canceled school tomorrow due to the power outage.

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Joshu

Re: You Ever Shot A Bird Later Involved In An Accident

The shot of the TWA DC9 was the most errie for me knowing everyone on that plane was going to be dead in a short time. I know the photographer who took that shot quite well. Bob Garrard took the photo. He often shared that he was asked about the photo from major news outlets. His wife is from New Y...

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Joshu

Re: Delta and the Psychiatrist Take a Great Fall

It's unreal how Delta acted here. It's definitely conspiracy on their part.

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Joshu

Re: Korean Air A330 overrun runway in Cebu

Delaxio wrote:

Looks like they made at least one landing attempt before the overrun.

They made two. Any longer down the runway things could have been much, much worse.

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Joshu

Re: MH set to return A380's to Airbus

I rather wish that Airbus came up with a P2F conversion plan. I understand that there would be limited abilities for freight companies to handle the birds, but if the equipment were at at key distribution hubs I wonder if it would be feasible. It just seems wasteful to break up something that can s...

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Joshu

Re: J.D. Power’s 2022 North America Airport Satisfaction Study

BWI could be so much higher on this list if they just got the baggage issue solved. It is incredibly slow and has a very old infrastructure.

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Joshu

Re: JetBlue Makes Hostile Takeover Offer for Spirit

So if this does go through, what changes with JetBlue's business model? Pardon my ignorance, I don't know their plans.

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Joshu

Re: QR579 Cargo Hold fire and emergency landing at Karachi

Thankful everyone made it out safely. Let's hop that the A350 won't be too heavily damaged to be written off. Anyways, it is at least happy news that everyone made it out. The aviation community in general needs some happy news after the China Eastern 5735 crash. Am glad it didn't end up a tragedy ...

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Joshu

Re: British Airways Suspends Newly Restarted BNA Service Until May

IrishAyes wrote:
I am not confident that many of these new routes from the 2018-2020 era are going to make it.

The BWI route has been around for a long while. It is subsidized by the State of Maryland.

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Joshu

Re: Unidentified 4-engined jet on FR24 over TX

Have seen a few different aircraft with the SCORE callsign. If I recall correctly, I have seen C130s, KC-135s, E-6s, and P-8s with the callsign. I am not so sure I know what it means.

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Joshu

Re: 2021 NFL Charters

This happens quite often. I know the Baltimore Ravens do this often with various promotions. I would think other teams do the same. Real-world examples please, as I know of few (if any) teams doing this. I personally know four people (unrelated in any fashion with each other) who have flown with th...

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Joshu

Re: Boeing 747-400 Passenger Fleet Tracking/Retirements Thread - 2021

N464MC was probably my favorite a/c. We rarely saw 747s into BWI. She was a workhorse and will be missed

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Joshu

Re: 2021 NFL Charters

I highly doubt season ticket holders would be on a team flight though. If they want to travel for their team, then they are on their own for travel (unless there's a special promotion, but I haven't heard of such an occurrence). This happens quite often. I know the Baltimore Ravens do this often wi...

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Joshu

Re: Kabul Falls: Evacuation Charter Watch Thread

Looks like they'll be feet-dry just east of Gwadar shortly. This may sound like a really dumb question but why would the CIA be going INTO Afghanistan now...Just to remove sensitive equipment or extract high value government workers etc ? In or out who knows! You don’t think we’ll have any spies? I...

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Joshu

Re: Kabul Falls: Commercial Aircraft Evacuation Charter Watch Thread

C-17 heading back in https://www.flightradar24.com/RCH885/28cc9e66 How do you know that it is heading in? Because it is? https://www.flightradar24.com/WSLR51/28ccad8f taking the same route. As did the KC-130J and the C-17 before it. I'll be happy to rescind if I'm wrong. But I'm not. Cheers. Sorry ...

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Joshu

Re: Kabul Falls: Commercial Aircraft Evacuation Charter Watch Thread

https://www.flightradar24.com/RCH885/28cc9e66

Joshu

Re: Kabul Falls: Commercial Aircraft Evacuation Charter Watch Thread

The American C130, 167110, just departed Kabul as CREEP58.

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Joshu

Re: Qatar Airways has grounded 13 A350’s at the request of the Qatar Aviation regulator

Seems like Qatar will look for any excuse not to pay. I was thinking the same thing. Since QR already has these aircraft in their possession, I'd assume they were already paid for, so what is Qatar looking for an excuse to not to pay for? It was my understanding that Qatar recently had a beef with ...

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Joshu

Re: Qatar Airways has grounded 13 A350’s at the request of the Qatar Aviation regulator

rlwynn wrote:
Seems like Qatar will look for any excuse not to pay.

I was thinking the same thing.

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Joshu

Re: FDX9049 STN-MEM MD11 N582FE

N582FE has landed safely. No reports on what caused the issue just yet.

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Joshu

Re: 2 AA aircraft hit each other at DFW

This thread has provided such minimal information so far.

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Joshu

Re: Miami Air seeks Ch 11 bankruptcy protection

Moosefire wrote:
Doesn’t World Atlantic have a large contract for repatriation flights? That’s gotta be some of the most stable flying to be had these days

I believe they do.

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Joshu

Re: old planes still flying

Spacepope wrote:
AIRTRANSAT767 wrote:
Hello
I wonder if there is a civil aircraft regulation that can prohibit. to fly a classic B747 to steal foreigners?

OK I'll bite.

Why would you want to steal foreigners on a 747?

This took wayyyy too long the be asked.

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Joshu

Re: PIT Update Discussion Thread - 2019

JamesRenard wrote:
According to today's OAG report, 9X has officially ceased all service to FKL and HGR.
They're down to just 5 destinations out of PIT now: AOO, BFD, DUJ, LNS and MGW.

Oh no, are they doing ok?

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Joshu

Re: maintenance mishap causes extensive damage to an Emirates Airbus A380

ER757 wrote:
Boy, A.net is slipping - 30+ posts and no one said "That'll buff right out"

Our bad!

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Joshu

Re: U.S firm behind new WOW air found out + IAD to be one of new destinations

WOW was doing very well at BWI. Also, it seemed like everyone I knew back in Pittsburgh flew WOW to Iceland. When they added the A330, things tanked. Slow and steady to start will be good for them. This group seems to have capable minds and funding to make this work.

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Joshu

Re: PIT Update Discussion Thread - 2018

flyPIT wrote:
Here comes the next China Eastern flight:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/CES7027/history/20180811/0415Z/ZSPD/KPIT

Just flew over my house! Parents were shocked by the size of a 773.

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Joshu

Re: Southwest prompts $60M expansion at BWI

BWI is my home airport. That said, it's the worst baggage system in the USA.

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Joshu

Re: 60 Minutes to skewer Allegiant Air this Sunday

Now, let's look up which of the few airlines have a perfect safety record to see what airlines one should fly. Oh wait - Allegiant is the first result. Now let's scroll down to the Ds - wait what- no DL,, no UA, NO AA!!! hmmmmm..... It’s been so long since any of those airlines had a mainline accid...

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Joshu

Re: Thunderbird pilot killed

That's awful and I am sorry to hear. He was #4. I have a great photo of him flying that I shot at Nellis last month. Anyone have the serial of his plane so I could please upload it?

Condolences to his family and the Thunderbirds family.

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Joshu

Re: Southwest schedule question

barney captain wrote:
Joshu wrote:
barney captain wrote:

Since the NG's have been doing the West Coast to Hawaii for a few decades now, it should be obvious that the MAX will have no issues.

Wait, who is flying the NG to Hawaii?

Seriously?

DL, AS, UA, WS, AQ and soon SY and WN.

Who isn't flying NG's to Hawaii?

Whoa. Did not know that. Thanks!

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Joshu

Re: Southwest schedule question

The MAX should have no problems betwen LAX and HNL. Where did you come up with that theory, Let me guess, the internet? Surely you don't an ailine like SWA would buy an airplane without seriously evaluating all the possible route applications? Yo, chill out. It's not a theory but a question. It was...

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Joshu

Re: Southwest schedule question

How would the Max-8 perform? Wouldn't it barely make it there from LA? The MAX should have no problems betwen LAX and HNL. Where did you come up with that theory, Let me guess, the internet? Surely you don't an ailine like SWA would buy an airplane without seriously evaluating all the possible rout...

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Joshu

Re: Southwest schedule question

How would the Max-8 perform? Wouldn't it barely make it there from LA?

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Joshu

Re: Unmarked 767s at IAD

These are in fact former NA 767s. If I remember correctly, they formerly appeared in a 'sanitized' NA colors. No titles on the fuselage and certainly no massive US flag on the tail. When they were flying for North American (before North American shut down), they had the full livery, including the g...

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Joshu

Re: Unmarked 767s at IAD

Weren't these the routes formerly run by North American 767's?

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Joshu

Re: What's Your Favorite Photo from 2017?

Southwest retired their 733s this fall. They were incredible workhorses. I'm not gonna complain about their replacements though!

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Joshu

Re: FAA Proposes Change to 1500 Hour for Pilots

incitatus wrote:
mikejepp wrote:
(...) Or increase pay?

Just that word of caution on what you wish for. Expensive pilots opens the door to more automation in the cockpit using artificial intelligence, leading to 1-pilot cockpits, and eventually to fully automated aircraft cockpits.

Slippery slope fallacy

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