Re: First transatlantic flight using 100% green fuel.

Actually Gulfstream beat Boeing/Virgin to it by a week and a bit, using a G600. That flight was powered by 100% SAF. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gulfstream-completes-worlds-first-trans-atlantic-flight-on-100-sustainable-aviation-fuel-301993029.html The G600 is very nice, but... https:/...

Re: Breeze Spent $2 for Every $1 of Revenue Last Year

How's their Charter Business doing? They seem to be in and out of South Bend, Indiana two to three times a week flying Notre Dame Hockey and Basketball teams and their opponents around the country. I'm sure it's that way for their other sports contracts. I saw them at BTR where they flew in Gators ...

Re: Do-328 Jets taking migrnts to Martha's Vineyard?

Many Dornier 328 are still active. It is most prominently used by charter services like Ultimate Jetcharters as well as the USAF.

Re: Investigation gone quiet on AA300 incident

It's that type of technique that contributed to the hard landings seen on the Gulfstream aircraft resulting in the ADs. Tell me more about this, I'm out of the loop. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2022/may/12/hard-landings-prompt-gulfstream-operation-limitations Data showed the pilots...

Re: Investigation gone quiet on AA300 incident

Hmm, something something large unnecessary amounts of rudder input from the pilots on an American Airlines Airbus taking off from JFK on runway 31L. I think I've seen something like this before. Using full control input on a FBW is no way to fly a FBW aircraft. It's that type of technique that contr...

Re: DL A220 rough landing, near-tailstrike at MSP

99% of you missed the sudden and deliberate pitch down at 20 ft causing the “firm” landing…never in my 30 years of airline flying would I have or ever done that in a transport category aircraft. Remember the A380 at Oshkosh pushed then tried to catch it…broke a body gear and it did not fly for 2 da...

Re: Delta Airlines shipping mistake kills millions of bees

Unfortunate. My dad works in the logistics industry and things like this happen every week, be it live lobsters, fish, bees... and there's usually nothing you can do.

Re: Delta welcomes its 1st Airbus A321neo

mbmbos wrote:

I noticed the NEO has the raccoon mask (black paint) around the cockpit windows. Does this serve a functional purpose or is it just reflecting the A-350 aesthetic?

Re: Airline with the oldest livery still flying/in use?

Emirates has been using pretty much the same livery since the 1980s, with only the font getting bigger and the addition of the belly logo.

Re: New suggestions as to MH370-'Depressed' Pilot made deliberate moves

Admiral cloudberg, known for writing in depth analysis and write ups on aviation incidents, wrote a very good piece on MH370, coming to a similar conclusion, looking through all the theories that people have come up with. I highly recommend a read. https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/call-of-the-voi...

Re: Person jumps fence at LAS, jumps on AS 737

I've always wanted a scale comparison of how big a 737 winglet is to a person when they are standing next to it. Guess this takes care of that!

Also that many people standing on the wing at once can't be good for the plane can it?

Re: 2020 College Football Charter Thread

The Allegiant A320 at Purdue KLAF today

Re: 2020 College Football Charter Thread

Iowa flying into Purdue (KLAF) on G4 4801 today from Cedar Rapids (KCID) for the game tomorrow.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAY4801

Re: Most Complicated Livery?

Alaska's "More to Love" liveries seemed like they were a bit of a process to paint since there were so many different shades of pink/red needed to be painted in a gradient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8YvQ22bGd4

Re: Corona Virus outbreak - Aviation related News and Discussion Thread

Is this correct that China Southern is still flying from Wuhan directly out to international destinations? https://flightaware.com/live/flight/CSN659/history/20200130/0710Z/ZHHH/KSFO No, CZ659 normally operates as CAN-WUH-SFO. For now, they are skipping WUH and flying CAN direct to SFO. Both CAN-WU...

Re: Corona Virus outbreak - Aviation related News and Discussion Thread

What the heck is this flight: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/CSN659/history/20200128/0710Z/ZHHH/KSFO It’s one of the few flights out of Wuhan today, lands in a few hours. Anyone have any details? It appears (I hope) that these flights don't actually originate from Wuhan, but rather Guangzhou a...

Re: Corona Virus outbreak - Aviation related News and Discussion Thread

What the heck is this flight: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/CSN659/history/20200128/0710Z/ZHHH/KSFO It’s one of the few flights out of Wuhan today, lands in a few hours. Anyone have any details? It appears (I hope) that these flights don't actually originate from Wuhan, but rather Guangzhou a...

Re: DL A220 "Whisperjet"?

Being based in DFW, I fly these all the time - yes the whine is noticeable, but once the throttle is pushed forward, that baby is probably the most quiet in the fleet, especially in front of the wing. I've measured the decibels with my apple watch, and I think it was like at 72 db at take off thrus...

Re: A DL 772, Flying LAX-PVG, Makes Emergency Landing And Dumps Fuel On School

That is one of the most confusing conversation with ATC. Initially crew said "we had an engine compressor stall, we got it back under control", later said "it just stalled and we got them terminated for now". Similarly emergency, later not critcal, Don't need to hold or dump, la...

Re: A DL 772, Flying LAX-PVG, Makes Emergency Landing And Dumps Fuel On School

That's ridiculous. They declared an emergency and never told the ATC they were going to dump fuel. And if the ATC had vectored them where they did, all the pilots had to say would be "unable" or tell them they needed to dump fuel first and they'd get new vectors. Pilots fly planes, and pi...

Re: A DL 772, Flying LAX-PVG, Makes Emergency Landing And Dumps Fuel On School

The kids were soaked per news reports. People on the ground said "it was raining fuel". This is not just people smelling some fumes and freaking out. News reports say a lot of things for clicks and ratings. Do you have any evidence that this was not the case? Or are you just baselessly de...

Re: A DL 772, Flying LAX-PVG, Makes Emergency Landing And Dumps Fuel On School

How are you screwed over the ocean? The aircraft can easily be ripped apart if it tries to ditch in the ocean. See US 1549 or that Ethiopian flight hijacked by terrorists. It depends on how dire the engine situation actually was. Why would you ditch for an engine failure? US 1549 did. Well, rather ...

Re: Aeroflot New Livery?

The grey belly gives me soviet-era vibes from the old, old aeroflot livery. I like that, though the silver will be missed.

Re: Aeroflot New Livery?

(Double post- please remove)

Re: DL Runway Incursion at JFK - Jan 10, 2020

We need Kennedy Steve back

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

sevenair wrote:

Odd question I know but where are the seats? Ive not seen any on any of the photos. I imagine the seatbelt sign is still on and everyone still strapped in. Perhaps the authorities removed them from their seats and piled the seats up someplace?

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

Sharing this video because I don’t see any references to it. https://twitter.com/heshmatalavi/status/1215033515932356610?s=21 Apparently a CCTV view of the crash area at impact (doesn’t show the plane trajectory however). Very harrowing. Absolutely incredible video. Amazing that the camera was not ...

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

The small flash is the first thing to see on the dark sky. It is clearly the root cause of the accident. This is the timeline: small flash -> dark for a moment -> huge flames The plane has already been going down in flames way before the small flash, and it's not the first thing that is seen. You a...

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

You can see in this video that there was a small flash right before the huge flames. That flash can only be some detonation either a missile or the engine. I think a missile exploding at the other side of the plane (the reason why there was only a small flash from this vantage point) is more likely...

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

https://www.isna.ir/photo/98101813851/%D8%B3%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B7-%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C#59 Those photos really puts the amount of damage and loss of life into perspective. Quite gut wrenching to see all the body bags and evide...

Re: Atlas Air 3591 Down in Trinity Bay, Texas

At what point did all of this happen in the approach? Were they on final approach? If not, why was he hand flying the aircraft? If I'm seated in the first two rows of F I can hear when the autopilot is disconnected. Usually it's jist a minute or two before landing. They were approximately 30 miles ...

Re: Biggest airline rivalries of the world

I’d like to throw in Jetblue/Alaska and Spirit/Frontier/Southwest as well.

Re: Biggest airline rivalries of the world

The ME3 jump to mind, as do China Airlines/Eva Air, JAL/ANA, Asiana/Korean Air, Easyjet/Ryanair, British Airways/Virgin Atlantic, as far as rivalries that still exist go. Many have resulted in the demises of some airlines, such as Mexicana going against Aeromexico, or Varig and TAM.

Re: Sources: United ordering 50 A321 XLR

Okcflyer wrote:

PW or CFM?

Re: American Airlines Updating Their Livery

Well... here she is from my balcony on approach to 17L. She was pretty far away so it's crap quality. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49096336853_e0c48171b7_b.jpg DFW by Dylan Phelps , on Flickr So much for a new winglet design. Could be on the inside like most airlines do today. They do that s...

Re: Dubai Air Show 2019: Airbus Orders, announcements and discussion thread

Ishrion wrote:

Is there like a full list keeping track of all orders from each day for every aircraft?

Re: AZ Boeing 777-300ER retirement

AZ sends the 77W to JFK in the summer when demand is higher.

Re: DL2353 diverts to TPA after rapidly descending from FL 390

How serious was this event as compared to CI's 747 SP? This is absolutely nothing compared to CI006. Now that was a real plunge. CI006 experienced a real loss of control, while the rapid descent was under the pilots' control the whole time on Delta 2353. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines...

Re: ANA’s Boeing 777 seat configuration

Say you're traveling with just you and your spouse. Instead of other widebodies which are often 3-3-3 or 3-4-3 in economy, forcing you to crawl over someone you don't know, on a seat layout of 2-4-3, you can choose a seat in the 2 section, meaning you don't need to crawl over anyone unknown. The sam...

Re: Bird Logos on Asian Airlines

Cathay's logo isn't a bird. Cathay's logo is a stylized brushstroke, or what the refer to as the "brushwing".
Edit: upon further research, apparently it is supposed to resemble a bird. Learn something new every day I guess.

Re: S7 flight runs off end of runway, barely takes off

Well you know what they say in Russia, pay for the whole runway, use the whole runway Well you know what they say in Russia, pay for the whole runway, use the whole runway Yeap, seems to me like a normal, old school, Russian take off... Who is not remembering the IL86 take-off from Phuket Airport i...

Re: S7 flight runs off end of runway, barely takes off

Well you know what they say in Russia, pay for the whole runway, use the whole runway

Re: Flight Numbers with letters

Norwegian does it too. Their flight from Oslo to JFK is often NAX1G

Re: A380 High Density / Low Cost Configuration

Shhhh... Don't give Spirit any ideas.

Re: Any info on this 77W?

Seems like it would be unlikely for this to be a CX aircraft due to the presence of a SATCOM dome at the front. CX have no 77W with the front SATCOM dome, and it seems unlikely that one would be installed. It’s a stock photo of an AA 77W prior to tail painting, not the plane in question. ah that ma...

Re: Any info on this 77W?

Seems like it would be unlikely for this to be a CX aircraft due to the presence of a SATCOM dome at the front. CX have no 77W with the front SATCOM dome, and it seems unlikely that one would be installed.

Re: JetBlue Taking Delivery Of First A321NEO

I can try the imgur route later when I have time. Hey man did you ever figure out how to upload the photo? Lol sorry, I'm just quite curious to see how the cabin looks like from the inside https://imgur.com/a/SCiSRiR Hoping this works!!! Keep in mind this wasn’t a scheduled viewing as the plane had...

Re: The Atlantic Tackles MH370 Final Conclusions

I keep wondering though, when the cabin depressurized (for whatever reason), why didn't O2 masks in the cabin deploy? If they did, then surely the FA's and pax should been able to grab them and remain aware of what was going on, right? O2 masks for the pax only last around 15 minutes- just enough f...

Re: New Air Force One Scheme

You know.... it's not half bad. It's a lot more subtle than I would have thought it would be.

Re: Which airlines use Scimitar Blended Winglets on their 757s?

No one does as they are for 737s not 757s. https://www.aviationpartners.com/aircraft-winglets/types-blended-winglets/#split Scimitar blended winglets, not split scimitars. UA and Icelandair have 757s with winglets that have scimitars, which is just the top part of the 737 split scimitar modificatio...