Comparing costs from the 1960's to now in the USA simply by adjusting for inflation is not appropriate or accurate. Almost everything is more expensive, and some things explosively so, even after counting for inflation. My wife was born in the 60s, and her mother stayed in the hospital for a couple...
Jump to postBecause of a newer base aircraft there are probably one ot two major iterations ahead of the competing A320 series. . I do not believe that. Personally I believe any A320 interation following the NEO would need a new engine AND a new wing to remain competitive with whatever the Boeing 737 replaceme...
Jump to posthttps://youtu.be/Ar6f4Pw3UHs?si=rYQfexrU248TCDxU Fly-by-wire. Not sure if its relaxed Stability, probably not Fly by wire can mean many things. The first electronically controlled flight control surfaces date back to the 1920's(?), 1930's for certain. The F15 is not a relaxed stability airplane. It...
Jump to postThe best thing about this war is that it shows how rubbish their military hardware is compared to western equipment. I'd like to see a HAAD missile battery, a squadron of Rafales, a brigade of Challenger 2 tanks or a platoon of the SAS would fare under similar organisational and monetary conditions...
Jump to postWouldn't shoving the full 853 seats economy or say (pulling numbers out of thin air here) 500/600 premium economy seats in that A380 and flying from say gatwick to say newark and undercutting everyone with a flat fare make better sense then this? Or a long range version of Jet2 to Florida/Carribbean...
Jump to posthttps://airrace.org/news/2023-to-mark-final-year-for-national-championship-air-races-at-reno-stead-airport/ The original press release, Seems that the airport authority said no. Air races have happened in Mojave and Phoenix in the recent past. Given the popularity (especially in sport and STOL these...
Jump to postLooks like they announced an engine with GE. Maybe this shit might just fly....... but not in 2026, the little F5-esque demonstrator is almost 5 years late.
Jump to postSouth Africa is a geographically large country with over 60m people, and plenty of pockets of money dotted around. It should definitely be able to support a substantial airline with a significant number of A32x/B737 aircraft One forgets the sheer level of corruption in that country. I'm willing to ...
Jump to postI mean.... huge cities with large slot restricted airports will always exist, hub and spoke models will never truly die. Heck, they will probably get a lot more efficient at printing money in the future.... To this end it is obvious to see EK crying about not having big enough aircraft when he wants...
Jump to postDoes anyone know which aircraft "most" pilots would rather take into combat - the Typhoon or the Rafale? Let's use eastern Ukraine as the theatre and the aircraft being operated by the Ukrainians with their support assets. Whichever aircraft said pilots have been trained on. No point figh...
Jump to postThe livery isn't very good but it works a lot better on the A321 than the A330.
Jump to postAcquiring what was the CS300 was a brilliant move by Airbus, while the program hasn’t paid off yet they have the ability to significantly lower production costs and as time goes by slowly sell more and more of this clean sheet, highly advanced efficient aircraft Eventually the A320 series will be s...
Jump to postMmmm, talking about high speed.... is it me or is Dassault trying to get orders from customers with a 'higher speed' plane before Aerion build an AS2?
Looks awesome, but would look even better with a 3rd engine.
The front fell off. Was it towed outside the environment.?
Jump to post"Cosmic Girl helps Virgin get to orbit" Can't help but smile. Congrats to the whole team. Looks awesome
https://youtu.be/Yi-fBKK7nME
SU-27, MiG-21, Mirage is stand out for me. Underrated? Sea Stallion, it works.
Jump to postNobody's talking about the BAC TSR2 or basically anything British. Makes the Pentagon look like amateurs with more money. The AW-101 marine one helicopter that cost many $$$ is up there. The trophy HAS to go to the KH-11 surveillance sat replacement. These things cost as much or more than Nimitz cla...
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An AN-124 was seen in rhode island earlier today being loaded with American Magic's boat two for the America's Cup. While the destination is obviously Auckland, New Zealand. I know nothing about airports in the NE of America. Which airport is it, and more importantly how would one go about tracking ...
Jump to postPretending to be a west german F104 isn't a good idea. Hope it doesn't actually break the ground.
Cool plane though.
I doubt we'll see a clean sheet design, but who knows. Would be nice.
As a sidenote, do we know how the late MRA4 would have fared/compared to MPA's currently in service?
Forgive me for being ignorant, but does the XLR have a new wing?
Jump to postI came across this today from Discovery Channel. A group of searchers have been analyzing data from an underwater microphone system and even thought is some missing data, there is noise detected about the time it would have gone down. https://youtu.be/Qzvr2w2IVug Hydrophones at diego garcia are lik...
Jump to postWhich begs the question , even though the 146's have evolved from the above livery, will they and/or any other RAF aircraft performing government and VIP roles also receive this look as 'uniform' ? And do the ex TNT cargo, NATO grey 146's ever get configured for VIP work ? Heaven forbid :!: Imagine...
Jump to postShame the a346's are leaving even though it's perfectly understandable. My favourite plane for sure. Its proportions are just perfect.
Jump to postFor all those complaining about the price. ZZ336 was going in for a C or D check which is going to be pretty expensive and lengthy anyway and our Favourite blonde etonian used it as an opportunity. The labour costs ALONE when repainting a 747 in ba colours is about 170K, the paint ‘only’ 30K. This i...
Jump to postLCDFlight wrote:I would be pleasantly surprised if basically any 744s or most A380s fly again in passenger service.
ME-264, barely known, barely flew. One heck of a looker though.
Boeing really can't catch a break with the MAX can it....
Play stupid games; win stupid prizes.
I'm willing to bet money that this will be on time for 2024. As a sidenote, I think it will be the first SST to be economically successful being squarely aimed at the business jet market where the explicit goal is to make travel faster (and to avoid those awful peasants who can only afford first cla...
Jump to postAs dumb as it sounds, I agree with this. China has a VERY big precedent of doing this sort of thing. Look at France, n1 in nuclear energy. Sold some top of the line EPR reactors to them in the early 2000's with - of course - a bit of technological transfer, no other way to get the contract. China la...
Jump to postLuckily if this happens this should only be temporary until corona goes away. Which is in 2034 according to my crystal ball. Nah seriously this i going to be all airlines no matter how big or small, lets hope that they can brave the storm.
Jump to postSo what's going to happen with Air France codeshare flights? Will those operated by flybe aircraft now be operated by the AF fleet or what? They will be rebooked on AF/KL/VS/DL flights to their final destination, possibly from a different UK airport, like MAN, LBA or HUY instead of DSA, for example...
Jump to postSo what's going to happen with Air France codeshare flights? Will those operated by flybe aircraft now be operated by the AF fleet or what?
Jump to postDying from the lack of oxygen is actually pretty painless as far as deaths go, with the added benefit of not having to stare at the ground rapidly approaching knowing you are about to die. If you want to kill a plane load of innocent passengers it is probably the most humane way. I hope you're righ...
Jump to postPersonally, I think the black boxes of MH370 will be found in our lifetime. The fact that they found AF447 and the stardust plane crash (by accident) is enough evidence for me. If we can go to the moon, land on Titan and find the Higgs I'm pretty sure someone or something will eventually find the b...
Jump to postWell, sort of, but not really. The B-1A was designed for high altitude flying/missions, not nap of the earth low level penetrations as the B-1B wound up being adapted for (under Reagan). The evolution to low altitude missions only is interesting (discussion at second link). The Tomahawks ultimately...
Jump to postPersonally, I think the black boxes of MH370 will be found in our lifetime. The fact that they found AF447 and the stardust plane crash (by accident) is enough evidence for me. If we can go to the moon, land on Titan and find the Higgs I'm pretty sure someone or something will eventually find the bl...
Jump to postProbably a new airplane manufacturer that's not in on it already. That's pretty much the only way I see planes departing from tubes and wing to blended wing bodies. 'Neo' versions of the a350 and 787 will probably be the last true tube and wing airliners along with nsa.
Jump to postThis is just an executive/DoD plan, not what Congress is going to actually pass/do. The replacement of global hawks by E-11’s is interesting, I wouldn’t have guessed that. The B-1 fleet just needs to...retire. Is the B1 that bad? The B-1's have been abused pretty heavily in the past decade, because...
Jump to posttexl1649 wrote:This is just an executive/DoD plan, not what Congress is going to actually pass/do. The replacement of global hawks by E-11’s is interesting, I wouldn’t have guessed that. The B-1 fleet just needs to...retire.
Since we're talking about the SR-71 right now. Remember that any record set before 1968 by the Blackbird is more likely to held by the less known A-12 Cygnus/Oxcart. The Blackbird and/or YF-12 were simply used as a cover story due to their cosmetic similarities. Although don't get me wrong there are...
Jump to postTruly a disappointing livery. What once was cutting edge is now tired. An omen for the X itself? Mr. Bitter...your table for one is now ready. Boeing has a handful of problems - big problems - but are you going to crap all over the 777x for the livery? The Boeing livery needs an update. I totally a...
Jump to postE4B takes what? 100 people, they'll probably go for commonality with 747-8, probably the freighter or a ULR 777 or A350. A350 is unlikely because it's not American. So maybe the choice is 747-8 freighter, 777-8 or maybe a 787 on steroids. I don't see the 767 happening. Sure most of the computing po...
Jump to post1000nm range? supersonic? That doesn't bode well for the UK. https://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/tsr2/images/dsj_tsr2_02.jpg Although, IF TSR2 was delivered on time, on budget and on target for its weight and no more engine explosions then it would have been a BEAST of a plane. Not that that was g...
Jump to postE4B takes what? 100 people, they'll probably go for commonality with 747-8, probably the freighter or a ULR 777 or A350. A350 is unlikely because it's not American. So maybe the choice is 747-8 freighter, 777-8 or maybe a 787 on steroids. I don't see the 767 happening. Sure most of the computing pow...
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