Re: Travel ban Europe-US

You're completely wrong about that. You contradict yourself, saying domestic travel restrictions are reasonable, but international ones are not. The issue in the USA is very much one sided. You are either for travel restrictions (democrats) or against them(republicans). R's are Pro-openening, trave...

Re: Travel ban Europe-US

The harsh reactions by some US states were in response to the irresponsible behavior of the federal government as a way to protect themselves. If a new US adminstration wants cooperation with Europe again I don't think we'll see more restrictions but a controlled opening instead. Looking at statist...

Re: Travel ban Europe-US

With a new US administration coming into office in January, can we expect any changes to the current travel ban for people that have been within Europe (except a few exceptions) 14 days before their arrival in the US? Of course the current state of the pandemic requires certain measurements onboard...

Re: Investigation gone quiet on AA incident

https://simpleflying.com/american-airlines-scraps-wing-strike-a321/amp/ Here’s also an article from 7/28/2020 regarding the scrapping of the plane “There is a suggestion the pilots didn’t anticipate the severity of the winds and did not deflect or apply enough rudder to keep the aircraft centered.”...

Re: Boeing Removes 8 x 787 From Service over Structural Issues

According the article all affected parts are joined at the Boeing Charleston plant. what a surprise..... Would that happen to be because the Charleston Division is non-union? I was a Teamster for 13 years, unions are nothing but cesspools of corruption!! Surely you can’t mean that about every union...

Re: Lockheed, uniquely talented company

The F35 has jobs in every state tied into the program someway. That’s what modern Lockheed has become, a company very adept at navigating DC politics.

While the company certainly produced some amazing aircraft, the talent behind those projects are long dead.

Re: Airbus announces € 1.36 billion net loss

william wrote:

And if the A400M is such a lead weight for Airbus, why not pull a A380 and pull the plug?

Re: Airbus announces € 1.36 billion net loss

I’m not in this industry it’s just a hobby, but how does this work where Boeing has outsourced much of its production system like on the 787? For example the wings are made in Japan, Is there any tax advantage that way directly or indirectly from the Japanese government or local government? Perhaps ...

Re: Boeing’s new CEO confronts its challenges

Boeing is right now merely a $134B market capitalization company. Calhoun as a long time insider now-CEO is not going to be the permanent seat-holder. They are close to hitting the 50% loss in market value from it's Feb 28th, 2019 peak, and had over a billion a month in free cash flow just last yea...

Re: Boeing’s new CEO confronts its challenges

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/starliner-faced-catastrophic-failure-before-software-bug-found/ Boeing does seem to have an issue with throughly testing their software. In the case of the Starliner, they never ran the entire software from beginning to end to see how it would perform, they ju...

Re: Seneate Minority Leader Schumer threatens members of Supreme court

Democrats aren’t the gun loving party you can believe that no Democrat has stockpiled ammo and is even capable of threatening anybody. Republicans pretending to be afraid to get maximum political mileage is just par the course.

Re: Swiss Airlines : aggression between pilot and passengers

Beware of biting passengers.

Re: Electric tail rotors for the helicopter!!

There is alot of BS in that article. As someone who used to regularly fly RC heli's with driven tails and electric tails, I can say that: Electric tails have slower reaction times, they will more subject to failure (which is why you seen 4 in that full scale aircraft), and It doesn't change the eff...

Re: Does NBC Know What They're Talking About Regarding Aviation?

No media organization knows a thing about aviation, whether or not certain elements call them the "MSM." Only the aviation press is worth listening to. :checkmark: :checkmark: :checkmark: It's funny how people here expect some scantily dressed female news reporter with a degree in communi...

Re: Is there room for another airline in the USA

Yes we desperately need the competition. We lost half of the legacy carriers over the last decade. They keep allowing them to merge. Perhaps they should relax some of the foreign ownership rules? Why? Most of the global carriers are becoming more like US carriers as time goes on. Emirates is slowly...

Re: Is there room for another airline in the USA

While more competition is always better, the barrier into entry in this business is astronomical. The airline business is the most regulated “de-regulated” business out there. The first sentence in your post is spot on. It is obscenely expensive and difficult to get all the regulatory approvals to ...

Re: Is there room for another airline in the USA

TTailedTiger wrote:

Yes we desperately need the competition. We lost half of the legacy carriers over the last decade.

Re: Kobe Bryant killed in a helicopter crash

https://youtu.be/OArVMTPNm5o New York Times did a pretty good job showing the path of the flight. After departing SNA only 13 minutes for them to reach the holding point north of downtown LA where they circled for longer waiting for clearance to continue on into the valley. That is an awful drive a...

Re: Kobe Bryant killed in a helicopter crash

https://youtu.be/OArVMTPNm5o New York Times did a pretty good job showing the path of the flight. After departing SNA only 13 minutes for them to reach the holding point north of downtown LA where they circled for longer waiting for clearance to continue on into the valley. That is an awful drive an...

Re: 777-9 has no red beacon light on top of fuselage.

Why would they convert the beacon light to LED? LEDs are essentially maintenance free, and may last the whole useful life of the aircraft? best regards Thomas Tell my city that when they replaced the streetlights with those nasty dim low temperature LEDs and they’re now all burning out! :lol: Reall...

Re: Boeing 737MAX Grounding, General Discussion Thread, January 2020

This is going to make a hell of a Harvard Business Review Case Study series one day. Yes, but it won't make an iota of difference so long as the Market rewards quarterly performance. It is soon enough of bad stuff for a whole MBA program and its getting worse by the week. Too easy to balme on quart...

Re: US, Boeing Commercial Aircraft Strategy Retaking Leadership 2020-2030 ?

Boeing have the talent and they have the cash. Do they have the boardroom will to stop handing the cash to the stockholders and give some to the engineers instead? I doubt it because when they say shareholders, that really means the executives. They often are the largest single shareholders. When t...

Re: Updated: Jetblue trims LGB further

Housing shortage is the biggest problem in California not flights. Wouldn’t it be better to just close Long Beach airport and develop over it? That way all the NIMBYs whining about airport noise can now share their commute with 50% more traffic. Sure. Why not do the same to the postage stamp known ...

Re: Rolls Royce 3.7 Meter dia. Engine

As I indicated in my previous comment, a 185 inch-diameter (4.7 m) nacelle would fit under the A350 wing if the engine is hung as high as the LEAP-1B is hung with respect to the wing on the 737 MAX . What I understand is that it will require an MCAS system also ? Nope, is already FBW. No need for a...

Re: Updated: Jetblue trims LGB further

Housing shortage is the biggest problem in California not flights. Wouldn’t it be better to just close Long Beach airport and develop over it?

That way all the NIMBYs whining about airport noise can now share their commute with 50% more traffic.

Re: Boeing 737MAX Grounding, General Discussion Thread, January 2020

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, more and more shocking revelations are released. I’m stunned that Boeing would discourage customers from buying sims purely based on how it would look to other regional airlines, and thus effect their chances of further sales. If this was Lion, and one of...

Re: Boeing 737MAX Grounding, General Discussion Thread, January 2020

“The language used in these communications, and some of the sentiments they express, are inconsistent with Boeing values.” —BOEING

Re: Boeing 737MAX Grounding, General Discussion Thread, January 2020

Wow. This looks like criminal negligence and if this is not than what exactly is?

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

I don’t suspect Russia wouldn’t waste a second trying to further the wild eyed speculation via their usual methods. Especially since this involves Ukrainian airplane and the existing tensions with the US and Iran. That trio is just going to be too much temptation. Expect them to try and stir the pot.

Re: Chinese passenger ordered to pay 123,358 yuan (US$17,712) for throwing coins at a plane engine

Couldn’t they have just towed the plane out to an open area and run the engines? Wouldn’t the coins just fly out the back? Sorry I’m not a daily mail reader. Not my kind of journalism.

Re: Have commercial pilots gone through CME/solar flare training/should they???

Have commercial pilots of major carriers around the world gone through major CME/solar fare? I.e. Training for what to do in the event of a major CME/major solar flare hitting Earth whilst they're airborne? A scenario could include electronics failing, losing power and having to glide as the plane ...

Re: Boeing 737MAX Grounding, General Discussion Thread, January 2020

How are the tires on the parked 737 maintained? Would the plane need to be moved periodically to prevent damage from sitting too long?

Re: AA sues DL over the use of the term “Flagship”

Their lawsuit is silly and is a waste of time and resources. The term "flagship" is ridiculous and is an old maritime term that serves no real purpose in the 21st century. It may seem silly but it’s not really a waste of time. That’s what the courts are literally for. Which apparently is ...

Re: Boeing: Muilenburg out as Chairman (remains CEO); David Calhoun named Chairman

Agree, the whole early reaction of "we did nothing wrong" and imho if Boeing wants to convince the public that they have learned from the crashes and want to improve themselves, they need a new CEO. I would dare say somebody with an engineering background but from outside of Boeing would ...

Re: Why do planes with propellers only start one while leaving the gate?

Some aircraft produce significant power with all of their engines running idling. Enough so that it requires constant use of the brakes to keep the plane from rolling too fast around the taxiways.

Re: Opinion: Airbus and how to move away from the A320 family

noisier, a) what? b) Boeing WB are quite a bit more noisy than the Airbus ones, how many people do you know that avoid Boeing WB for that reason? I know none. operators realize that they are slower, You think they don't know how fast those aircraft are? How cute.... Best regards Thomas Only the cur...

Re: Southwest pilots allegedly placed hidden camera in lavatory

So you are telling me in the height of the #metoo movement, Southwest supervisors shut down a female coworker making a complaint about a male in a position of power. :roll: She didn't even file a police report as far as I can see so why did she wait two years to come to the media about it without r...

Re: Gulfstream Aerospace launches G700

Then you have airports like SNA that will not allow the 737 BBJ to operate from in spite of all the airline 737's that come and go. How crazy is that? That must be because of it’s size. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong but the Airlines jets only park at the gates or at the nightstand when they’re w...

Re: Gulfstream Aerospace launches G700

Then you have airports like SNA that will not allow the 737 BBJ to operate from in spite of all the airline 737's that come and go. How crazy is that? That must be because of it’s size. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong but the Airlines jets only park at the gates or at the nightstand when they’re w...

Re: Gulfstream DEBUTS G700

Had dinner with a Global crew last night and they are looking hard at both. Currently in "vintage" GLEX but the owner wants more range and comforts. The 2020 elction may influence their next move. The election 2020, because they want a plane with sufficient range for when the country impl...

Re: How does aviation tackle climate change?

The costs are only going to rise from here: SFO to spend $587m to raise the sea wall around the airport. http://www.mercurynews.com/sfo-plans-to-surround-airport-with-10-mile-wall-to-protect-against-rising-bay-waters A likely unnecessary effort for another 5000 years, but oh well. If people were se...

Re: GECAS and IAI to build 777-300ER Cargo Conversion

That spells the death on the 747-8F I see there is an existing thread for this https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1433187 I thought the 747 nose with the -8 extra length was the only thing able to move the long and skinny items ASAP for the oil industry. Without going to the An...

Re: Landing on water

The engine links are break points and the engine will detach at a certain load. In most cases this should work ok if the engines contact water simultaneously. Depends a lot on how level the airplane is upon water contact, I guess everyone remembers ET's 762 ditching asymetrically which pulled the a...

Re: Odd Sounds From Planes About To Land

Sounds like an Airbus. Do you know which aircraft you were looking at? Wasn't looking, I just heard them go over. Airbus speed brakes are fairly distinct. Then there’s the fuel tank vents that, apparently, if you live in an expensive enough SoCal neighborhood, are very loud to your tender ears. It ...

Re: Florida Woman’s Arm and foot severed by planes propeller

That’s truly horrific. Poor woman. Yet ultimately it seems that while she didn’t listen to the pilot, her husband, he should have turned the engine off before getting out of the plane. Perhaps regulations for private flights need to be tightened up and clearer education of users should be introduce...

Re: Florida Woman’s Arm and foot severed by planes propeller

That’s truly horrific. Poor woman. Yet ultimately it seems that while she didn’t listen to the pilot, her husband, he should have turned the engine off before getting out of the plane. Perhaps regulations for private flights need to be tightened up and clearer education of users should be introduce...