Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

SweetAction wrote:

Anyone heard an update on 12R/30L? Last I heard the concrete wasn’t grooved right so it won’t pass FAA inspection.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

A Mi-8 just got destroyed by a drone in Transnistria: https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1769376730806923676 Time will tell is this is the beginning of a new chapter in this war or if it is a non-event. Pretty obvious false flag. That Mi-8 in particular was a rusting junkpile that has been ...

Re: Wendy’s announces Uber-like surge pricing on menu

Meh, they'll probably back off pretty quickly and be like "teehee, just a prank bro" and just use the free publicity to sell more food, especially since Wendy's basically has one of the best social media teams out there.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Ukraine should build a bunch of UUVs big enough for a standard NATO torpedo tube and Germany should send a whole bunch of IDAS missiles and missile magazines to Ukraine for "field testing". Would be absolutely hilarious to see what Ukraine could do with dozens of mini subs trawling the Bla...

Re: Boeing’s Troubles

Looks like she got her MBA from Lindenwood University in St. Louis. My degree is from Lindenwood. I don't like to admit to many people that I went to LU. It is not a good university, and the MBA program is a step above a degree mill. I suspect she knew someone at McDonnell (not hard to do in St. Lo...

Re: Virtual streamers/persona

RIP Mel.

Re: Could a Glass Floor Road or Railroad Bridge be Built?

ArchGuy1 wrote:

Would a glass floor railroad bridge be a good idea though?

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

The airport will additionally tear down and reconstruct Terminal 1’s parking garage, increasing its number of parking spots to almost 8,000 from about 2,000, and reconstruct its main roadway to help alleviate traffic congestion, Hamm-Niebruegge said. The plan would keep Terminal 1’s historic domes....

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

Regarding gate capacity and future possible expansion. Does the new plan leave any room for spillover concourses? Like what DTW has with B&C but with the tunnel. Is there a spot on the airport grounds they could potentially tunnel to? They should theoretically still have the ability to build a ...

Re: Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider Production And Delivery Thread

She's got cat ears. Love it. https://preview.redd.it/j3lxqh775kzb1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=f9889ca7c5ff1d29117168a304cb9cac4cc0090e https://preview.redd.it/37dbfg775kzb1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=d5716c9645bb0bfeee4a0adf805d79fab10c7e15

Re: GTA 6 coming soon!

Will be funny if two entire GTA games come out between releases of Elder Scrolls games.

Re: Gamers, have you ever fallen back in love with a game?

Every time I start up a new playthrough of Skyrim I fall in love with it again. The Command and Conquer series. Manic Miners, especially now that the full release is out, made me fall in love with Rock Raiders again. It's so nice to have a fully remade version of the original in UE4, with all the mo...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

^ What I'm seeing over on r/NCD and r/CombatFootage seems to be corroborating the losses as well as the amount of shells expended per day per side.

Re: Safari suggestions

My parents thoroughly enjoyed Namibia. South Africa is very nice as well, from personal experience.

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

Ah, so that's what they were up to with that whole "Advanced Manufacturing center" development.

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

Yes, the metro station will not move so I am going to assume that part of the building stays, or is replaced in a way that getting into the terminal from the metro station doesn't change. I wonder if the Admirals Club will stay there or if it'll move to somewhere in the new concourse? Would make a ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

I dunno, the one time I flew back from LGB to STL the connecting flight from SLC was an A220 and I was honestly not as impressed as I thought I would be. Kind of uncomfortable even up in first class. I like that it has less middle seats. When traveling with a partner having a 2 side seat option is ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

I dunno, the one time I flew back from LGB to STL the connecting flight from SLC was an A220 and I was honestly not as impressed as I thought I would be. Kind of uncomfortable even up in first class.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Kind of an ironic thing to legislate when your own country literally has a law on the book that would demand an immediate invasion of The Hague (or any other court the US is not a party to) if any US official or service member were to be tried for war crimes.

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

Twitter's already censoring the picture of Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell together, so no big surprise there.

Hopefully this whole venture turns out similarly to Musk like Tumblr turned out for Yahoo.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Lol, when you thought the Russians couldn't get any more incompetent. Background: the FSB published footage about an alleged raid on a Ukrainian neo-Nazi cell inside Russia, who were allegedly planning to kill Vladimir Solovyov. https://ria.ru/20220425/pokushenie-1785355333.html https://yt3.ggpht.co...

Re: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion

Must've really had it out for the "Elon private jet tracker" guy to spend $44 billion just to ban that account.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Apparently the Ukrainians have destroyed the Russian landing support ship Orsk in the port of Berdyansk. https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1506887847911071747?s=20&t=bxBxVqI03R9-Nw3rW3CEgA https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1506884442861756421?s=20&t=FA2yesiGCk_obo_bJgcc6w ht...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Instead of calling it a "No-Fly Zone", NATO should just call it a "Special Aerial Operation" and go ahead with it anyway. Worked for Putin.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - News and Discussion Thread

^ Definitely German, it was never Lithuanian, or truly Polish for that matter. Would certainly appease a certain faction of Germans to see a return of Königsberg and the surrounding land to German hands.

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

RIP Wingtips Club. Why do you say this? They could easily have space in a new terminal and better yet have access to passengers from every airline. Oh, I'm sure they'll move, but any new space would definitely lack the same character. Curved windows are always a plus in my book and really make the ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

RIP Wingtips Club.

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2021

Can definitely see T1 consolidating into one long concourse but I'm not sure that Southwest will ever give up having their own terminal. I guess the real indicator of whether they're willing to move will be if the expanded T2 baggage claim comes back - if it does, I'd take that more or less as a com...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2021

If DL wants to grow at STL, then they should probably switch to Concourse C while convincing some of the smaller operators in C switch over to A.

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2021

^ I wish they'd bring back a viewing deck on top of Concourse C (or even B) like that. Could make it like Haneda's observation deck.

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2021

TWA302 wrote:

Hit job or not, the city and the airport really treated the residents and businesses of Bridgeton like trash. Can't deny that fact.

Re: STL almost had a people mover

This has been discussed in the STL thread before. The people mover would have been similar to what Northwest built in the McNamara terminal at DTW. As mentioned above, Metrolink is light rail and on its own structure. I can't say why it was never built, but my guess is the amount of people going be...

Re: STL almost had a people mover

I've mentioned this before over in the main STL thread; it's a shame it never was built since it would've made it possible to transfer between the terminals even after D was closed. Should be somewhat of a moot point soon since D is likely to open up fully again within the next couple of years, but ...

Re: The most important space exploration issue

Another problem is the lack of superluminal communication and no real solution (yet) as to how that could be overcome. On a cosmic scale, light speed is pretty slow, meaning long communication delays even within a single solar system. Sure, if you develop FTL travel then the problem is mitigated som...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2021

Of those proposals, option 1 the best IMO. It's big and bold, provides a completely modern facility and most importantly, consolidates all the airlines into a single terminal (badly needed at STL). It also repurposes the iconic Terminal 1. When are they going to make a decision? The only thing is c...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2021

LambertMan wrote:

The smell back in that area of the terminal hasn't left, either - smells like you are boarding a TWA MD80.

Re: F-15X has no mission!

bikerthai wrote:

But of course, you already knew that the Swordfish disabled the Bismark which slowed it down enough for the rest of the RN to dispatch the pocket battle ship.

Re: F9 Deicing Incident Nashville (BNA)

Are you suggesting airline pilots hook up a set of stairs, deplane, go get a ladder to climb up and look on top of the wings after being deiced? All while off the gate, where most 121 deice operations happen? You don’t have windows in the cabin? This is why TWA airplanes had a black stripe on the w...

Re: 737, shrinked 707?

ClassicLover wrote:

Any source for the MD-11 with a flight engineer, as I have never even heard of that.

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2020

Here's where I bet the airport's kicking themselves a bit for not having been able to get the cargo facilities upgraded like they wanted to, particularly in regards to the cold chain storage they had in mind.

Re: Rocket Labs - Tests, Launches, Developments

Well, it's a bit of an unorthodox thing but apparently Valve partnered with Weta Workshop and Rocket Lab to build and launch a titanium Gnome Chompski into space (sort of) today (Nov. 19) as part of Rocket Lab's "Return to Sender" launch as an homage to Half Life 2: Episode 2 while Gabe Ne...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2020

It's probably just to fulfill ADA requirements. In any case, it's better to have it and not need it than vice versa. Besides, the airport uses most of their vehicles for 15-20+ years so you can think of the purchase price being amortized over that length of time.

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2020

I also find the 1971 image interesting. Shows another concourse coming off near the beginning of A to the west. Parts are still there. Not sure what they are used for now. Maybe storage. Concourse A used to be the 'Blue' Concourse and had two separate concourse halls. AFAIK, the western Blue concou...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2020

Who is responsible for the STL wikipedia page? No one is updating the info and some people are deleting tons of information. Whoever is doing it, is ruining the Wikipedia page. Someone needs to fix it. I got fed up with the one dude that others have mentioned and was tired of the constant back and ...

Re: Coronavirus Aviation Related News & Discussion Thread - March 2020

@jetmatt777 Are aircraft substantially desinfected in that time you quoted or is this just cleaning? But there is a cheaper way to do this. Some hospitals use UV-C to desinfect rooms fast. With equipment like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMsPvxS2z4 No need to wipe every surface, UV-C kill...

Re: Not allowed to film or take photos in flight

AA has their no photography/film policy in the American Way magazine, although it's probably not enforced like it used to be after 9/11. Probably also depends a lot on the individual crew member, and perhaps on the subsidiary as well. For example, The Elevator Channel was asked twice during an AA E...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2020

Talking about all of the airport improvement plans for STL, would it be possible to use DOT grants for any of these upgrades? Asking because I have zero clue how this monery can be used. I wonder why W1W didn't use these funds? Those particular DOT grants are mainly for general airfield infrastruct...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2020

Also whoever takes care of the STL wikipedia page needs to keep it updated!! That used to mainly be me. I basically stopped giving a shit a few months ago because I got tired of fighting with this one person constantly changing stuff on there (and a LOT of other airport pages) to suit 'their vision...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2020

Third, while I agree the new SLC is a wonderful layout, that isn't feasible in STL because the airfield is not laid out in a configuration that would allow for a midfield terminal complex. The W-1W expansion originally included a midfield satellite terminal option that could be built out to 150 gat...

Re: Tesla Truck: What the Hell?

What I saw: