I have to wonder if creating a higher class of service has something to do with beginning flights of this distance, in addition to <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK...
Jump to postPart of the benefit sounds like the RAF already operated two VIP 146s. There are short term and long term savings because of that.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/WesternA318" class="quote" target="_blank">WesternA318</a> (<a href="#26" class="quote">Reply 26</a>):<br/><i>Not really...the freeway between D...
Jump to postYou mean the -100, and -200, I suppose? The -700 and -900 aren't going anywhere.
I'm also curious what the economics of cycle limits and heavy checks are, and whether these frames have a second life on other continents.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/L-188" class="quote" target="_blank">L-188</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>I am going to guess that if they are no R models...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ptrjong" class="quote" target="_blank">ptrjong</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>The Japanese have a system of sustained low-...
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Jump to postThis links skiing markets, in a way. Tahoe to Whistler. I wonder if they hope to sell ski packages to Vancouver residents.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/USAirALB" class="quote" target="_blank">USAirALB</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>here are essentially no airports between <...
Jump to postThis is a good firsthand account with some editorial comments:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest...12-how-we-searched-for-mars-3.html
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Aesma" class="quote" target="_blank">Aesma</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>To me it's difficult to justify very high sala...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LAXintl" class="quote" target="_blank">LAXintl</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>Imo $20mil is quite appropriate for depart...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/MaverickM11" class="quote" target="_blank">MaverickM11</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>How does Horton have any leverage? H...
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Jump to postIn *10* years, the 767, 777, and 787 will still be produced in Everett, the 737 in Renton, and craploads all-else whatever it is they do down at Boeing Field. P-8s and whatnot.
After 10 years, who the heck knows, but watercooler talk probably isn't going to be the best predictor.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rwy04lga" class="quote" target="_blank">rwy04lga</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i><acronym title="Salt Lake City - Internati...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jvaljean" class="quote" target="_blank">jvaljean</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>It's taken nearly fifty years for the re...
Jump to postA BA 747 (the one each day) always seems to be catching the setting sun around here in SEA. Just a big lumbering awesome plane on approach.
Jump to postNMUSAF cockpits here: <a href="http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/virtualtour/cockpits.asp" target="_blank">http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/virtualtour/cockpits.asp</a> The posts from jetstar about the 28-cylinder R-4360 engines here: <i><a href="/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/316675" target="_b...
Jump to postCLE is in the "Midwest?" I thought <acronym title="SilkAir (Singapore)">MI</acronym> and <acronym title="Comair (USA)">OH</acronym> people got ticked when that was suggested. <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> T...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PlanesNTrains" class="quote" target="_blank">PlanesNTrains</a> (<a href="#53" class="quote">Reply 53</a>):<br/><i>Ever heard of connecting? All ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ouboy79" class="quote" target="_blank">ouboy79</a> (<a href="#37" class="quote">Reply 37</a>):<br/><i>If a market to Hawaii only makes sense in ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/strangr" class="quote" target="_blank">strangr</a> (<a href="#39" class="quote">Reply 39</a>):<br/><i>It's pretty easy, before you get on your 1...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PIEAvantiP180" class="quote" target="_blank">PIEAvantiP180</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>But none of that spells out wh...
Jump to postWhat's the ROI? Fuel savings? And maintenance savings?
Jump to postThe C-17s delivered now will probably be too old to fly in about 2163. We can close the line.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/1337Delta764" class="quote" target="_blank">1337Delta764</a> (<a href="#46" class="quote">Reply 46</a>):<br/><i>Also, I forgot to point out, in ...
Jump to post^ Of course it is. It would be like retroactively arguing that the A345/A346 were just "to keep customers happy" and didn't really hope for more sales. Ditto things like the 736. They're just basically market flops, although flops that may work very well for their owners.
Jump to postIf Congress actually passes a budget, no doubt someone will tack some more on.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ZANL188" class="quote" target="_blank">ZANL188</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>From reading the flickr link it sounds lik...
Jump to postI wonder what the cost of keeping the passenger version available for purchase is when orders are a trickle. Is it much? Or is Boeing its own supplier for most of the parts?
Jump to postFrom MOL's perspective, the regulators prevent a lot of envelope-pushing in favor of chasing extra 999s after the decimal place in aviation safety numbers. Not surprising "regulatory crap" is something he'd say.
Jump to postHey, we've done it both ways. "Abetting friendly [hopefully] stable authoritarian regimes" might be Russia's current preferred method of harmonious international relations, but we've tried that too! Didn't work, for the most part.
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Jump to postIf it helps avoid additional taxes, it helps the consumer.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/zanl188" class="quote" target="_blank">zanl188</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>Someone asked what the white spots are on th...
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Jump to postFor what it's worth, Iran was shipping Chinese MANPADs to Yemen recently: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/world/middleeast/seized-arms-off-yemen-raise-alarm-over-iran.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/wo...over-iran.html?pagewanted=all&_r=...
Jump to postI once had a CSA try to send a bag to <acronym title="Sarasota - Bradenton International (SRQ / KSRQ), USA - Florida">SRQ</acronym> instead of <acronym title="Syracuse - Hancock International (SYR / KSYR), USA - New York">SYR</acronym> when I was gate checking. That's easy to do if they're just hand...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/compensateme" class="quote" target="_blank">compensateme</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>The article describes the incident...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/cargotanker" class="quote" target="_blank">cargotanker</a> (<a href="#51" class="quote">Reply 51</a>):<br/><i>Quoting Max Q (Reply 42): You have...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/planemaker" class="quote" target="_blank">planemaker</a> (<a href="#26" class="quote">Reply 26</a>):<br/><i> Not any more. The Q400 and the 200/...
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Jump to postThe diplomats of the world are going to have to come up with what constitutes a "cyberattack" versus what constitutes just another new form of electronic surveillance. Yeah, reading what should be private is perhaps an "attack" but then again ... that's what intelligence agencies do. Absent some int...
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Jump to postThere are some interior photos here:
http://tinyurl.com/byz5wm2
I find myself wondering what determines whether the sidewalls are bare aluminum girders or not?
Would it be possible to use these on gravel runways? Is it easier to certify for that with the engines on the tail?
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