Re: Wizz Air gets a visit from the bailiffs.

Funny how we all complain about Ryanair, Wizz, EasyJet or any other low cost airline. At the end of the day the vast majority of us is still going to choose the cheapest tariff we can get..... Still is nice to vent our frustrations though Not had problems with EasyJet. I would still fly with them. ...

Re: Wizz Air gets a visit from the bailiffs.

Same category as Ryanair.....I'd rather walk.

Re: MOM aircraft discussion - 100t to 200t MTOW

I start with the premise that the larger of two aircraft with equal efficiencies will always sell less well than the smaller. That has historically always been the case. A or B launches a MOM in the next few years. A few years later B will be needing a replacement for the 737 and A will either be up...

Re: A350 NPS Specs

SteelChair wrote:

This is pretty impressive. Imagine in ten years having this NPS mated with an UltraFan engine that burns ~25% less fuel. The only thing lacking is the software and procedures for single pilot operation.

Re: Nothing new from Boeing and Airbus in the next years?

My point is so many factors are in flux right now, getting in place the specifications for a new model is very high risk. Further it probably is not penciling out in the cost / benefit analysis. With the crazy supply chain, the big desire is to ramp up production to that of pre-covid but that is pr...

Re: Airbus / Qatar A350 dispute - Airbus filed defence and counter-claim

The court's opinion is a public document, both Airbus and Qatar are free to reference it. Selectively quoting the judge and making it out you've won the case when you've just lost is not going to endear yourself to a judge. As for the airworthiness issue, that's just laughable. Qatar has done every...

Re: Airbus / Qatar A350 dispute - Airbus filed defence and counter-claim

The judge is likely to take a very dim view of Qatar selectively quoting his judgement in a press release. I thought this bit was interesting. Whatever else happens in this case, I now expect Qatar and Airbus to work pro-actively together to try and satisfy the [Qatari civil aviation authority] that...

Re: Rapidly Reusable Rockets in the Military

How would one differentiate this conventionally armed system from a nuclear one? Routine spacecraft launches are announced well in advance and are thus easy to identify as non-hostile. Your proposed system I assume would not be announced in advance - it’ll look like a nuke. Non starter on this poin...

Re: Rapidly Reusable Rockets in the Military

Your rocket system would have one role only, strategic strikes against fixed targets, and the military already has something for that. They're not going to spend $200 billion in development cost just to save $1 million per rocket launch. You keep repeating that but it's not true. You could hit movi...

Re: Rapidly Reusable Rockets in the Military

Yeah it's one thing to land on a cheap autonomous barge in calm weather and another to land on the helipad of a multirole ship under all circumstances. Not to mention the risk of injuries to the crew, or even the loss of the entire ship, if something goes wrong. How many boosters has SpaceX lost on...

Re: Rapidly Reusable Rockets in the Military

I'm not sure what the application would be. Bombers are required anyway for their ability to loiter as well as their ability to identify and track moving targets. You're not going to replace them. Already countered. You use drones or satellites or troops on the ground for targeting, including movin...

Re: Rapidly Reusable Rockets in the Military

There's a big difference between acquiring a target with a SAM and the maximum intercept range. The further away they pick it up, the more accurately they can intercept it. The BE-4 runs on purified methane, not regular natural gas, and performance margin isn't the issue. Not working when the fuel ...

Re: Rapidly Reusable Rockets in the Military

A bomber that you can see on radar 500 miles away would probably not get to target or return home to be reused very often. It takes more than a few trucks of fuel to fill a Starship for the return trip, and the methane and LOX need to be much higher grade than normal gas plants can put out. But the...

Rapidly Reusable Rockets in the Military

I've heard the USAF are interested in Starship for delivering payloads anywhere in the world in minutes, but I've not heard about any other interest. If you have a stage 1 rocket that can deliver a hypersonic payload over some distance, then fly back for re-fuelling and re-arming in a short period o...

Re: Updated: Switzerland deciding to buy F-35A fighter jets

johns624 wrote:

How about the Luftwaffe Tornados? They're older than dirt.

Re: Updated: Switzerland deciding to buy F-35A fighter jets

Near where I live. Shame I haven't seen them flying over yet.

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments - 2022

At this very late stage, it would be extremely difficult for ULA to switch engines. For better or for worse, they are stuck with Blue Origin unless they want to completely scrap everything they've done up until now. No doubt it's very late for a major engineering change, but I'm not sure they would...

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments - 2022

Gwynne Shotwell is on record as saying SpaceX will launch a payload for any customer at list price, regardless if they are a competitor. I look at the very late BE-4 engine for ULA and think would ULA go to SpaceX as an alternative supplier, and if they did would SpaceX sell to them? SpaceX providi...

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments - 2022

Interestingly OneWeb are using SpaceX even though they are the competition with Starlink. But I guess there aren't many rides in town! Gwynne Shotwell is on record as saying SpaceX will launch a payload for any customer at list price, regardless if they are a competitor. I look at the very late BE-...

Re: Qatar and Airbus Legal Dispute Continues - Airbus Revokes A321 Order

I'll put it back to you: what narrowbody routes does Qatar fly that it couldn't do with a MAX9? Sorry to state the bleeding obvious, but quite clearly there are no current Qatar narrowbody routes that couldn't be done with the Max9 because no current narrowbody apart from the LR has these capabilit...

Re: Qatar and Airbus Legal Dispute Continues - Airbus Revokes A321 Order

so I guess this is getting revived https://www.airguide.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Qatar-Airways-snubs-the-B737-MAX-A321XLR-and-A380.jpg source: https://www.airguide.info/qatar-airways-snubs-the-b737-max-a321xlr-and-a380/ What version of the 737 can they get to replace the A321LR?

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments - 2021

Who thinks SpaceX will beat NASA to the moon? I'm 99% certain they will. It would definitely bruise a few egos. It will make it clear to the world that SpaceX has exceeded NASA/US government in terms of space capability. If you mean orbiting it then yes I think they will. Do SpaceX have any plans t...

Re: Plane Dumps Human Waste On Man and His Yard

Ziyulu wrote:

Did you know many trains around the world still dump the waste on its tracks?

Re: Boeing 777X Testing/Production Thread - 2021

The 777x was always a bad idea. It was too big. It was only able to compete because of new engines. An update of the A350 engines would make the 777x a modern day A340-600. It's cost them almost as much as a new aircraft now, and I think they will struggle to sell more than 300. It would have been m...

Re: Why was N106US the a320 involved in the hudson river ditching never repaired?

Check out the state of the aircraft and how much further damage was done when it was lifted. No was was this ever going to be an 'economic repair'.

https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-airbus-a320-new-york

Re: Is the RB211 finished on widebodies?

Most of the dedicated 744F's powered by RB211 engines are still active, Most were original purchased by Cathay and Cargolux. Cargolux has 10 RR RB-211 powered 744F aircraft operational. Silkway West Airlines has three RB211 powered 744F's operational. Sky Gates Cargo Airlines has two RB211 powered ...

Is the RB211 finished on widebodies?

BA have retired their fleet of 747's and 767's. So have Qantas. Is anyone else still flying RB211's on a widebody? If not, it's been a bit over 50 years from conception to out of service, which even with the various derivatives is quite a long time. It's an engine that almost killed RR, but by the s...

Re: 25 Years of the RR Trent

The T500 was not of poor quality. It was just a limited market on a 4 engine plane vs the 777 and sales were low. The engine itself performed to spec. This from lowbank who works at RR: - I am also interested in the real use of a a340 as I worked on lots of T500 parts. Shame a late design change sc...

Re: 25 Years of the RR Trent

GE effectively paid for exclusivity on the later 777 versions. That was financial not market. And it meant RR was off the platform. However way you look at it the T800 just wasn't as good a return for RR as the T700 was. RR bet on the A340 and the T500 and both the aircraft and the engine were lemo...

Re: 25 Years of the RR Trent

You are aware that on the first generation of 777 (prior to GE exclusivity), RR (with the T800) gained the largest share of the market? 777-200 -300 - 200ER: RR 40% PW 30% GE 30% "Not great in the market"? What does that say about the (original) GE90 or the PW4000? Yes, I am aware of that...

Re: 25 Years of the RR Trent

What's interesting considering they're a family of engines is the huge variance in quality and market success. T700 - great quality, big success T800 - great quality, not great in the market T500 - poor quality, poor in the market T900 - ok quality, ok in the market T1000 very suspect quality, medio...

Re: 777X vs A350 CASM

You have been caught lying multiple times on this thread to bring the A350 into a bad light. Even when you do claim to quote wiki, you make outright lies. I was grateful for your advice a while ago about the user control panel ignore list functionality. I have two posters in my list. I think you ca...

Re: Why wouldn't the Trent 1000-TEN problems also show up in the Trent XWB?

All I can say to you guys is, as I understand it. We are given a fan diameter and a power output required, SFC etc. Normally the power request goes up but the fan size stays the same. Go figure what happens. Going back to the XWB, as I remember it. The initial request was around 80k and 90k thrust ...

Re: Fuel Burn for A320

WIederling wrote:

Yup auto facepalm. )
( why would anyone do a comparative list CEO / NEO tagged Mission 1, Mission 2, ... and then use different Missions length? )

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

Interesting comments on simulators from Boeing's VP of Marketing: One key element of returning the jet to service is training pilots on simulators. While countries like India have advised Boeing to set up simulators locally, Tinseth on Tuesday said existing equipment should cover all training requi...

Re: Airbus - blended wing aircraft code name Maveric

Never mind the windows, what is interesting about this is they talk about it as a narrow body replacement. All blended wing ideas that I've seen so far have been very big planes. I didn't know a blended design could work in small sizes? Also, this is the problem with Boeing's NSA - some really innov...

Re: Boeing CEO: NMA will