Jc5280 From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 530 posts, RR: 5 Posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2128 times:
Did anyone else see this show tonight on Discovery Channel? It was fantastic except for one big thing: It is an in-depth look at the 777 and American Airlines as the dominate carrier flying this big rig. What the heck are they thinking? United was the first commercial carrier to operate the 777 and have many more of these than AA. They also profiled a retiring AA Captain which was REALLY cool....lots of flight deck shots and inside info.
N766UA From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 7993 posts, RR: 27 Reply 1, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2099 times:
I saw this show about 6 months ago or more. My bet is they tried UA but the human relations department wasn't exactly "accommodating." Good show though, I liked it.
Flyboy80 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 1856 posts, RR: 3 Reply 2, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2081 times:
This is a pretty old show I believe, there is another one which profiles a little about Continental's operation because of there former EWR-HKG route, which I don't think still exists. Anyways, the AA one, I think they did this because its "american" and they wanted the 777 to look very "American" thats the only assumption I can make about this. THe show is called "777, 21st century something" Quite interesting!
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AA777MIA From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 686 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2044 times:
If it is the same one I am thinking of, that was shot quite a while ago. Is that the program where they show the wings snap in testing phase? If so, that is a pretty old program.
Timf From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 954 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2021 times:
The guide data says it was first aired in 1999. I've seen it before, but it's on again in 15 minutes if anyone wants to see it.
MoPac From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 215 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1988 times:
Yeah, if it's the one where the flight attendant talks about the 777 causing "less (human) gas" because of cabin altitude, that's a good one. I believe it was first showed sometime before 9/11, and definitely shot before 9/11.
N751PR From United States of America, joined May 2002, 1247 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1891 times:
I only got to the ending of it but thankfully they'll be airing it again at 1AM so I got the VCR timer on for that.
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Ha763 From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 3492 posts, RR: 6 Reply 8, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1874 times:
Yes it is the same program that the FA said that less gas line.
Think about it, which makes a better story. Documenting a regular UA 777 flight or a retirement flight on AA's flagship aircraft. They probably asked all US operators of the 777 and chose AA because of the additional retirement story they could get.
Jc5280 From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 530 posts, RR: 5 Reply 9, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1779 times:
Good point. I just saw the first part again and they did mention UA. I feel better now since the Flight Attendants for AA made themselves look like AAss by dropping a first class shrimp scampi and talking about serving it!!!!
Andersjt From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 390 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1557 times:
I think this one is part of that series on Discovery Wings they call "Fasten your Seatbelts Please..." If I'm not mistaken, American had a hand in producing all of them. There is this one on the 777, which is enjoyable, especially the water cannon salute to the retiring captain on their return to DFW. The others in the series inlcude one on ground operations, flight attendant training, and the MD-11. You will notice American's prominence in all of them.
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Deltaffindfw From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 1383 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1507 times:
One question: I saw another Discovery Wings Channel show on the development of the 777. It went through design, delivery, etc and did use UA throughout. However, they stated that because of the wing size and smaller room at airports, you could fold up 22 feet of the wing on either side to fit into gates. Is that true? I have never seen that before. They made some comment about the folded wing tip as the first 777 came to IAD.
Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 58 Reply 13, posted (9 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1490 times:
The folding wing mentioned was to be an option for the 777, to make it more airport friendly......however, no airline to date has gone for this option. I think that the folding wing adds weight to the aircraft, plus an additional operational concern (ie, another thing to go wrong!).
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