Re: G-VDOT (A350) struck by ground vehicle at JFK

I am supposed to be on a Virgin A350-1000 ATL-LHR on Wednesday. First time on a A35K. Booked this flight specifically for that reason. Does an incident have a downstream impact on other A35K flights? Does VS have a spare A35K? Hoping this is a quick repair so G-VDOT isn’t out for long. Is there any...

Re: G-VDOT (A350) struck by ground vehicle at JFK

DL_Mech wrote:

The link :

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1c4mr9h/somebody_got_fired/

smokeybandit wrote:

Maybe a "didn't put it in park" situation?

Re: The word "unalive"

Some websites flag and prevent posts using words like dead or killed or suicide despite the context. Unalive is as way to get around the algorithms. This is exactly it. And so you have this continuing war of escalation where it becomes Unal!ve, and then all sorts of nonsense as they try to stay ahe...

G-VDOT (A350) struck by ground vehicle at JFK

Picture on Reddit of a Gate Gourmet minivan that drove right into the port nacelle.

Oops. How do you miss that? It's enormous and painted bright red (Virgin Atlantic).

Re: The word "unalive"

Some websites flag and prevent posts using words like dead or killed or suicide despite the context. Unalive is as way to get around the algorithms. This is exactly it. And so you have this continuing war of escalation where it becomes Unal!ve, and then all sorts of nonsense as they try to stay ahe...

Re: Stabbing Attack at Shopping Mall in Sydney

Absolutely awful, but "Bollard Man" (he one who stood on the top of the escalator wielding a metal bollard or whatever it was) is a true hero, as is the officer who took him down.

My thoughts to those who lost friends and family.

Re: 10 years ago: The retirement of Delta DC-9-50

Growing up in Detroit, I flew on a LOT of NW DC-9s. They were used going to the South and East, as well as on DTW-ORD and DTW-MSP. In 2005 or 2006 I was on a DC-9-30 from JFK to DTW and we did a power-back out of the gate. That was interesting. They didn't announce anything, but I heard the engines ...

Re: NA Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

We have a hotel a few blocks from the museum. Depending on when they open the gates to the museum, we'll either head there or just hang out at the hotel. Also have a couple of reservations in other areas and will decide a few days out which way to go based on weather. Should we have an A.net meetup...

Re: BA Livery. Time for a change?

I'd be interested to see one, but only if they can commit to not doing Eurowhite.

The Evans Terminal at DTW

So a bit about my history: I grew up in the Detroit Area, flew out of DTW all the time. The old Davey terminal, while it had a beautiful headhouse, was a disaster of add-on concourses. I moved away in 1996 but came back in 2001. The new McNamara terminal was a game-changer. Overnight, DTW went from ...

Re: Windshear on A343 take off scare at Zurich

Wind calm, clear day, wind shear, I don’t think so. Then what was it? The video reminds me of a story I heard about a 727 captain who managed to get caught in windshear and firewalled the engines to 110% N1 in the recovery. When his chief pilot asked him why he'd pushed the engines to 110%, he resp...

Re: NY earthquake, flights temporary grounded.

evank516 wrote:

Last I heard this was a 4.8 magnitude though as opposed to 4.6.

Re: NY earthquake, flights temporary grounded.

evank516 wrote:

FlyingSicilian wrote:

Centered in New Jersey it seems felt Philly through NYC .

Even further north and east than that. A friend of mine in New Hampshire felt it.

Re: Larger airports without jetways/ small ones with….

SBA and BZN have jetways. Both are pretty shrimpy airports.

Re: Ever flown O&D between two hubs?

All the time. I've always lived in hub cities. Grew up in Detroit, went to university (and currently live) in San Francisco, did my residency training in New York City. So I've flown DTW-SFO I don't even know how many times. DTW-ORD/MDW, DTW-JFK/EWR/LGA, DTW-LAX, DTW-MSP (had an interview in Minneap...

Re: Air India's Inflight Safety Video

I love it when national carriers remember their national identity. India has a spectrum of beautiful and diverse cultural practices and traditions. I'm glad to see Air India showcasing all the color and vibrancy that India has to offer.

Re: OAK Renaming Proposal: San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

Changing the name of a thing usually solves all the problems. :biggrin: Honestly, one of the big hurdles for OAK as an international gateway will be the groundside services. The lounge situation is substandard. The major carrier at OAK doesn't belong to an alliance. It will be a great choice for lei...

What happened to the Space Jet?

I decided to start a separate thread from the one about the new proposed Japanese airliner. I know at the time there was a lot of discussion and it was hard to keep track of it. Now that it's in the rear-view mirror, Mitsubishi designed, built, and FLEW a regional jet airliner. Several of them. And ...

Re: Brazilian government looking into 3 way Azul/Gol/LATAM merger

Jetcruiser wrote:

What?

I can understand a possible Azul + GOL merger but adding LATAM in the mix? That's basically giving LATAM almost complete South American dominance.

Re: Are we finally approaching the time for an 787F?

The MTOW of the current 787-9 is 254.7t, max payload is 53t and OEW is 129t, which is somewhat similar to the A330, I would say it's somewhere around 70t, and with MTOW increase it can be 75t. If it will serve as a 767F successor, the large wingspan (47.6m compared to 60.1m) will prevent it. As a r...

Re: Proposal: San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

Isn't Oakland airport actually closer to downtown SF? I heard that somewhere. When using “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line” yes. Logistically, no. Crossing the Bay Bridge can be time consuming with traffic and toll. The airport train to BART is time consuming with change ...

Re: Reports EK A6-EDM damaged on ground in DME

Veigar wrote:

Whoa! No one has said it'll buff right out, or that you can fix it with duct tape? Come on!

Re: Terrorist Attack in Moscow

Unbelievable! First, Zelensky is a Nazi. Now, he is harbouring Islamic terrorists. Taking bets that they're going accuse him of being a Scientologist next... :stirthepot: Speaking as a Jew, I really wish we had space lasers. I'd just want to borrow the controls for a few minutes. For...reasons.

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a collision

The insurance will pay to their limit, if there was no reason to cut their payout. There are two questions here to be asked: How much liability insurance did the company buy and was there any violation of the policy. If the company took all the necessary precautions and followed protocol it will be...

Re: NA Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

cjg225 wrote:

Heard that from a colleague in Indianapolis today. This is craziness.

Re: Southwest nearly hits LGA tower

CATIIIevery5yrs wrote:

…..That escalated quickly……

Re: Southwest nearly hits LGA tower

Can you imagine the chaos had they actually struck the tower? Obviously, everyone on the plane would die instantly as would everyone in the tower. A high-speed allision (as I just learned it is properly called in the Francis Scott Key thread) would probably result in debris being thrown at the very ...

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a collision

cjg225 wrote:

Slightly pedantic but noticed from the thread title: This was an allision, not a collision.

Collision: Two vessels hit each other
Allision: A vessel hits a fixed object

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a collision

Watched President Biden's briefing. Glad to see that help is coming from the Federal government but did he mention anything about the responsible party paying for the damages? With six people dead this morning, I think that might be a bit tacky and also I don't think needs to be publicly litigated ...

Re: DDG(X) - Zumwalt in a conventional hull?

LCDFlight wrote:

The navy will have a “hell” of a time with drones for the remainder of the century. The ships are just too good a target.

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed

Will be interesting to see if other cities around the world now install barriers as a preventive measure. Would seem a sensible investment. The Bay Bridge in SF Bay does. And they've "done their job" a few times. The replacement bridge will most likely be a cable-stayed bridge. They seem ...

Re: NA Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

We'll be at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, which is smack in the path of totality. With my luck, it'll be cloudy, though. But at least I'll get to see the XB-70 again. We have a hotel a few blocks from the museum. Depending on when they open the gates to the museum, we'll either head there or just...

Re: United, FAA steps up oversight.

Aviation Herald: Friday: Southwest B738 at Fort Lauderdale on Mar 22nd 2024, engine shut down in flight Sunday: Delta A339 at Salt Lake City on Mar 24th 2024, dropped engine panel on departure Should these 2 be in line for an oversight too? Maybe not. Just Kirby has openly criticized the FAA. When ...

Re: Sweden Officially Joins NATO

Diesel electric submarines running on battery power are much quieter than nuclear boats I know that, but they say that it can run with the diesel engine underwater, which is pretty remarkable. Nuclear reactors require pumps and spin turbines, so there will always be some noise. An electric motor, e...

Re: FDA Settles Lawsuit over Ivermectin Social Media Posts

This is absurd. What next, the CDC and FDA being barred from discouraging people from taking antibiotics for colds?

Re: Kate, Princess of Wales, reveals she is having treatment for cancer

I'm thinking the most likely candidate is ovarian cancer. Cervical cancer would have been (hopefully) caught during a pap smear before it got out of hand. For all comers, the five-year survival for ovarian cancer is about 50%. She's young and of course will have access to the best and promptest heal...

Re: Why is filming airlines from some countries so rare?

I do hope that more and more authorities open up to the idea that spotters exist. In multiple cases now, spotter videos and photos have been helpful in accident investigations. We're also likely to point out security breaches if we see one happening. At least in the West, airports have warmed up to ...

Re: NA Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024

We'll be at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, which is smack in the path of totality. With my luck, it'll be cloudy, though. But at least I'll get to see the XB-70 again.

Re: Ryanair's MoL - warming to Airbus ?

I’m sure this is just MOL putting more pressure on Boeing. I’ll believe a MOL order for Airbuses when I see it. It does however highlight that he’s now having to lay in the bed he made. He can put all the pressure on Boeing he likes. But he can't put pressure on the FAA. Obviously, if Boeing is goi...

Re: United, FAA steps up oversight.

These sorts of things happen all the time. It's just that 20 years ago, no one would've known about half these incidents because no one was carrying around a mini computer that could allow them to instantly share the story to the world. 20 years ago or 50 years ago, the FAA would have known about t...

Re: Boom Supersonic Overture Development - 2024

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

Re: How many flights on a Boeing 767 do you have ?

A lot, which is interesting given I grew up in DTW, and NW never got the 767. But some notable ones: My first 767 was UA from DTW to DEN. It was a brand-new airplane. I've flown on UA 763 from SFO to LIH (that was a brief substitution from the usual 752). Also in J from EWR to SFO. I've flown on an ...

What aircraft have you flown transpacific?

747-400: NW and UA 777-300ER: BR 787-8: JL and UA (UA was SFO-PPT) 787-9: TN (was PPT-AKL on the same trip as above) A350-900: CX So I flew TPAC once when I was 17 in 1994 (the NW from DTW to OSA, which continued on to SYD) and then not again until 2008 (the UA 744 SFO-SYD). It wasn't until 2013 tha...

Re: Sweden Officially Joins NATO

Can someone explain how the Swedish air-independent propulsion system works on their subs? It seems like a perpetual energy machine from my quick read, so obviously I'm missing something. Basically a diesel-electrib submarine, but with air (liquid oxygene) stored in onboard tanks. This mean that th...

Re: Can the A320’s engine type be swapped?

xl0hr wrote:

Source: whiskey-infused stories from a pilot...

Re: Sweden Officially Joins NATO

Can someone explain how the Swedish air-independent propulsion system works on their subs? It seems like a perpetual energy machine from my quick read, so obviously I'm missing something.

Re: Shortest flight in F/C on an internationally configured long haul

Just SFO-HNL on UA in Polaris on a 77W. Interestingly, I've flown on only a few 77Ws in my life. I think only four. One was on TG, one was on BR, one was SQ (in J; that was a lovely experience), and one was UA. I also got to fly on a TG 773.

Re: Which US gateways have you flown to/ from internationally?

Not that many, oddly. But I've only lived in three places in the US (Detroit, NYC, SF Bay Area). So DTW, ORD, JFK, EWR, MIA, SFO. Also, while I'm American, when I was a kid, we went to SCL on CP by driving over to YQG and then from there flew to YYZ and then to SCL with a stop in BOG (it was a DC-10).

Re: UA 737-800 Loses Body Fairing In Flight

Whenever someone touts "agenda," all they're really trying to say is that they don't personally like the people or the things said people are saying. News is news. The panel came off of the airplane in flight. That is factual and is news. Whether you feel it's newsworthy or not is irrelev...

Re: Your Flights On A "Four-Holer" (4-engine aircraft)

A LOT. Until 2001, I had never crossed the Atlantic on anything that wasn't a 747. In 2001, I did it on a 763. I've flown on the 747s of: NW, UA, KL, LH (-400 and -8), TG (my last ever 744 flight), TW, PA, NZ, AR, and SR. I flew on a 707 of LA (SCL-IPC and back). Not sure if there are any other DC-8...