KlimaBXsst wrote:I would not call JetBlue in trouble by any means though.
Oooh, some tough ones here for sure!
A: DC-8, but probably the CV-990 from the extended set of options.
B: L-1011
C: Tu-144
D: VC-10
NZPM wrote:Kangaroos are marsupials, not mammals.
questions wrote:According to this site, wings were on from 1947-1984.
questions wrote:Well Qantas tried to put an end to all this bird on a plane craziness!
Hi, not sure if this has already been mentioned but it seems when sorting a photo search by year ascending the approximately-dated photos appear before those with more-precise dates. This search ( https://www.airliners.net/search?airline=45547&sortBy=datePhotographedYear&sortOrder=asc&pe...
Jump to postbehramjee wrote:I checked on sabre and SYD-LAX-JFK is not a same plane service ... It is actually a same plane 789 service from BNE with the flight numbers changing in LAX for the LAX-JFK leg.
All inbound passengers to the US clear customs and immigration at their first US or pre-clearance port.
Note as well, though it's not overly important, that it's technically a connection in LAX (QF15 to QF11) as the direct QF11 service is SYD-LAX-JFK.
Why ICAO codes, which is the aviation, as opposed to airline, standard. Airlines don’t even file flight plans usin*gIATA codes. 45 years of flying I never used an IATA code except when they tagged my bags. ... When poster states “Las Vegas” for an airport that doesn’t have commercial service, why w...
Jump to postSoCalPilot wrote:PatrickZ80 wrote:SoCalPilot wrote:Las Vegas: LAS, VGT, HND
How is Haneda suddenly a Las Vegas airport?
It's not. Henderson is though.
Cube dwellers don't think much about that 10% like they used to, so we get performance turds. The closest a recent aircraft has come to a 757 in terms of airfield performance was the 787-3. It was 6,400-feet of runway sea level/hot day at MTOW (7,200' at altitude). Man that would have been a ride. ...
Jump to postCan you quit putting periods in US numerals you post cause otherwise you just show us the slowest plane ever. I doubt the Q400 flying 1.037 miles =2:15 min. Now I can can see the Q400 flying 1037 miles =2:15. In German, we always divide the numbers into blocks of three in a row to improve the reada...
Jump to postWasn't the 787 originally called the 7E7? So it's possible Boeing move to using middle letters once they run out of numbers e.g. 7A7, 7B7 Except that they'll overlap on more than just that - 7E7 was indeed the project name for what became the 787, but they've also used 7N7 for the concept study tha...
Jump to postHeard that it was doing very well. They were forced to stop. Why? The grant of fifth-freedom rights to NW for service between OSA and SYD limited them to no more than 50% non-connecting capacity - the other 50% had to be connecting traffic between the US and Australia, or empty. Since nobody really...
Jump to postYou hear a lot about how crummy US carriers are but I think they're leaps and bounds ahead of intra European, including th AFs, LHs and BAs of the world. Having come to Europe from a long and happy relationship with QF I similarly found that Euro short-haul can be a bit weak on service - but at lea...
Jump to postI think it's rather telling that a great deal of the support for this livery seems to be based not on its aesthetic merits but rather on the fact that it looks "less Continental". In my mind it's a major step backwards. Billboard titles can work but they need to be larger - this design is ...
Jump to postSo was Pan Am's 21 since the initial 747-100s were the 747-121? For the benefit of people who can't be bothered to read the whole thread before posting: Read about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_customer_codes We don't really need to go down this rabbit hole again, there are p...
Jump to postFor the benefit of people who can't follow links: Unique, fixed customer codes were used by Boeing Commercial Airplanes to denote the original customer for airframes produced as part of Boeing's 7x7 family of commercial aircraft between 1956, with the introduction of the 707, and 2016. ... In 2016, ...
Jump to postSo what you are saying is that they were delivered as non ER's, and then converted to a ER spec. ER and ETOPS are not the same. ER (and LR, for the 772) is Boeing's way of indicating e xtended r ange (co-inciding with higher MTOW), but it has nothing to do with where that range takes it. It is poss...
Jump to postx1234 wrote:I find it interesting that they also don't fly to Vientiane Laos (VTE).
The other prefixes they use are D-AExx for the (Cityline) Embraer fleet which could technically be expanded to 676 frames, just as the D-ACxx Cityline CRJ fleet. Looking back, the fleets of Augsburg Airways and Contact Air, who did most flying for Lufthansa, also followed that scheme with D-ADxx fo...
Jump to postOh wow the raccoon mask works so damn well head-on!
Jump to postAirbusA322 wrote:I’m more surprised by the ...
Guys, if y’all look at the top of the reference image, it seems like the title of it starts with “CON.” I have a feeling this is stock footage when Continental first started painting their aircraft. Plus, I can see a hint of yellow on the tail fin. It could also be CONFIDENTIAL, as another poster h...
Jump to postIt did NOT require power to open, though it was electrically powered. Ah, sorry mate, I misunderstood you - yeah the doors could be manually operated, but the air tank was there to blow it open in an emergency. By contrast, the 767's doors used the counterweight both for manual ops and emergencies.
Jump to postI can't help but get the impression that had UA adopted Rising Blue post-merger all we'd be reading here would be endless "bring back the globe!" :roll: Why would they petition to bring back CO’s logo? " had UA adopted Rising Blue post-merger all we'd be reading here would be endless...
Jump to postActually, the door is "unplugged" manually by the action of using the Emergency Open handle, after which the air is discharged. If by some freak chance the aircraft was still pressurised, it wouldn't be possible for the person operating the handle to overcome the difference. You may be int...
Jump to postGalvan316 wrote:Why do people have some kind of perverse psychological emotional attachment to the Tulip?
... is this done by electrical power? If so, what happens in a crash situation where power is lost? the door can be opened and closed manually with or without power as they are counterweighted. This has been covered a here a few times in the past, but in short - yes, in normal operation the door is...
Jump to postDoes anyone have more news about the VOA granted to 60ish countries including the 28-European Union state, the Portuguese-speaking countries bloc along with Argentina, Canada, Chile and the US? It's not visa-on-arrival in the strictest sense - it requires electronic pre-authorisation beforehand. ht...
Jump to postAlso, I think the states only regulates the first letter of the reg right? Because AB used to have D-ABxx on their fleets, regardless of the aircraft type. As already posted - yes, the final three characters of the mark have no regulated meaning for the German civil register. Except that German reg...
Jump to postI always thought it was similar with the 3 letters registration format (first letter shows the airline, second letter represents the type, and third one is individual ID). How true this is ? This means that LH will have only 26 aircrafts of a certain type??? Except that German registration marks us...
Jump to postWonder if a LCC would be able to run 4/4 single aisle on something like that for high density? Not if it needs to comply with US law: 14 CFR § 25.817 - Maximum number of seats abreast On airplanes having only one passenger aisle, no more than three seats abreast may be placed on each side of the ai...
Jump to postakb88 wrote:Doesn't look like it has wifi dome or even winglets
northstardc4m wrote:Right now N703KW and N706KW are doing the flights, both ex-QF 767-336ERs (RB.211 powered)
If EIN or AMS are capped at x number of movements, why don't they (aviation authorities) raise that number to accomodate demand? Further to LJ's explanation, the caps are in place precisely to prevent demand-led growth - otherwise there'd be no need for caps and movements would simply top-out at th...
Jump to postJibberJim wrote:without the high UK air taxes always cheaper
I don't get why it's so offensive; the person in front of you reclines a paltry inch or two, you can recline the same paltry amount and you have the same amount of space, just at a slightly different angle. First there was trickle-down economics, now there's trickle-down discomfort! Say your neighb...
Jump to postCURRENT IATA ICAO NAME 07 ORG Orenavia (RU) 0B BMS Blue Air (RO) 0J PJZ Premium Jet (CH) 0Q HYD Hydro-Quebec (CA) A0 ANC Avian Lineas Aereas dba Avianca Argentina (AR) B0 DJT DreamJet dba La Compagnie (FR) C0 VCY One Caribbean (VC) D0 DHK DHL Air Limited (UK) F0 FJR Solitaire Air dba Fly Jordan (JO...
Jump to postRequiring customers to bring their own device doesn't get around the obsolescence problem Except that it makes it much easier to get around, because replacing the media server and wireless access point is a hell of a lot easier than scores of at-seat controllers and potentially hundreds of screens ...
Jump to postOutdated how, exactly? Simple: you install a wonderful fancy-pants top-of-the-line seatback IFE system tomorrow. Ten - or maybe even five - years later and it's like a black-and-white 15" CRT compared to the 50" OLED LCD 3D VR systems that have become the new top-of-the-line. Whereas if y...
Jump to postIt should also be noted that the actual positioning function performed by the receiver isn't affected by the roll-over - only the translation to the calendar day is.
Now, the Year 2038 Problem on the other hand should be a real fun one
Why get rid of seatback TV screens, Channel 9, and in-flight audio systems? To save money. Not offering in-seat IFE reduces weight, reduces maintenance requirements (both planned and unplanned), and eliminates the problem of the in-seat system becoming outdated. It's a trend being seen for the most...
Jump to postAmusingly, there are two main approaches to avoiding this in future: * Modernised GPS uses a 13-bit week counter, allowing for just shy of 158 years between roll-overs. Galileo and Beidou are similar. * GLONASS rolls-over every four years, in the assumption that something that happens so frequently ...
Jump to postI thought it was interesting that the A319 does not have a no-smoking sign with the buckle-up sign and wi-fi sign. Instead there is a sticker above the tray table. Maybe this is because you can smoke on certain A319 flights ROW, but it was still interesting to me. It's actually because you can smok...
Jump to postFantastic! Really love the look of the dome car... definitely have to try to score a ride in one. Neat that there are those slim European cars being pulled by those square, burly F40PHs! British loading gauge is even smaller than the standard used in Continental Europe, so compared to North American...
Jump to postExcellent read mate! Did a similar trip myself about a year ago, BA LHR-HKG on the 77W, CX HKG-MEL on the A359, then returning QF BNE-SIN A333 and BA SIN-LHR on the A388. I was greeted at the door by a steward who seemed a tad confused by my British Airways issued boarding pass. After careful inspec...
Jump to postI am looking for templates that I can download and modify Go to the websites of airlines operating the ERJ-170 and see if they offer downloadable versions? QF, for example, provide PDF seat maps for all their types but none of them are Embraers. I would, however, suggest you consider the copyright ...
Jump to postWhen they started doing it the reason given was a circa 200 kg weight saving, and the attendant fuel savings. However IIRC the costs of maintaining the polished finish started to add up faster than the fuel reduction, plus the fact that increasing use of composite materials in newer aircraft rules m...
Jump to postI don't get all the hate for the 767 on this thread. I mean, I know AA's examples were (are) very long in the tooth, and all; but coming from a website that has an absolute fascination with the 757... A sexual fetish I'd call it! I still find a tattered old 767 still waaaay more comfortable than th...
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