Jorge1812 From Germany, joined Apr 2004, 3141 posts, RR: 9 Posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 13812 times:
At first, please don't flame me - I know that there is no A-340 with only 2 engines in flyable condition.
Now to the story.
A friend told me he has seen a two engined Emirates Airbus with A 340-300 written on the nose at MUC. and he is absolutely sure about this. I don't thrust him so the only possibility would be a painting failure on one of the A-330's. Anyone has seen this or heard about?
Thanks for not posting coments like "There is no 340 with two engines" or "It's the new less fuel burn version"
KL808 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1573 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 13787 times:
Since the A340 and A330 have many things in common, it could have been that Emirates maintainance installed an A340 nose on an A330, which probably is just fine.
American777 From United States of America, joined Nov 2009, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 12996 times:
Quoting Jorge1812 (Thread starter): he has seen a two engined Emirates Airbus with A 340-300 written on the nose at MUC
The aircraft your friend saw must have been in maintenance and LH must have had been doing an engine change to the aircraft.
While the engines were being changed, he probably saw that it only had two engines and he probably didn't even know that the aircraft was in maintenance.
Other than that your friend just tried to give you something to worry about. I bet he is laughing at ya now where ever he is at for what he told you, which was just simply a joke.
Jorge1812 From Germany, joined Apr 2004, 3141 posts, RR: 9 Reply 9, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 12869 times:
Quoting American777 (Reply 8):
Other than that your friend just tried to give you something to worry about. I bet he is laughing at ya now where ever he is at for what he told you, which was just simply a joke.
Doubt that, he's not that intelligent to do such jokes I think, on a bad note, he really believes his 2-engined 340
Quoting American777 (Reply 8): The aircraft your friend saw must have been in maintenance and LH must have had been doing an engine change to the aircraft.
Another option which came to my mind, have to ask him if the plane was flying or "taxiing".
PHKLM From Northern Mariana Islands, joined Dec 2005, 1198 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 12793 times:
Guys I'm not supposed to tell but this is the super secret A370 that is offered to Emirates as compensation for the 380 delay. It sure looks like a 340 minus 2 engines but I can assure you it is a radical improvement over any current design. As a matter of fact it will beat the performance of the 787, 350XXLWBNGV2-Adv.
Please don't tell anyone this plane still has to go thru flight-testing and is planned to enter service in 2006, ehh, 2008, well, 2009, make that 2020 - if all goes well.
Jorge1812 From Germany, joined Apr 2004, 3141 posts, RR: 9 Reply 12, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 12553 times:
Well, almost 6 hours on Anet turned out nothing like "There is an A-330 with A-340 written on the nose flying around for weeks" turned out I guess I should take his statement there where I took the statement form the same guy about the Canon 100-400L available with twist zoom too. The Canon thing I never believed but there are small chances that the paint shop did a mistake with the decals for the EK 330.
AlexPorter From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 11923 times:
Quoting Jpax (Reply 7): believe it would have a pretty difficult time getting airborne on a typical runway with only two engines.
Maybe if it's a one-hour ferry flight, from a 16000' runway, at sea level, and it's very, very cold but dry so de-ice is turned off, and there's a 25 knot headwind on takeoff, and full thrust is used, then it could probably fly. Not legally, of course.
Johnny From Sweden, joined Jan 2008, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago) and read 11700 times:
@Jpax
@AlexPorter
It is hard to believe, i know, but all A340-versions are certified with two engines out...
Same can be said for the B747, which has a slightly better thrust/weight ratio.
Legoguy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 3301 posts, RR: 44 Reply 18, posted (6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago) and read 11646 times:
Quoting Johnny (Reply 17): but all A340-versions are certified with two engines out...
Well if the a340-300 can fly with two engines out, if the two engines were actually removed, a good amount of weight is removed, meaning lighter aircraft....
[Edited 2006-10-12 12:58:28]
Can you say 'Beer Can' without sounding like a Jamaican saying 'Bacon'?
Legoguy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 3301 posts, RR: 44 Reply 22, posted (6 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 11083 times:
Quoting Johnny (Reply 19): Time to build airplanes with the material which is part of your username - easy repairs, shrinks, stretches, additional or less engines, etc...
I will stick to what I do best That exactly how I do it. A lego a330-300 is just the a340-300 minus it's outer engines, and the inner engines are a little bit shorter.
Can you say 'Beer Can' without sounding like a Jamaican saying 'Bacon'?
Jorge1812 From Germany, joined Apr 2004, 3141 posts, RR: 9 Reply 23, posted (6 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 7864 times:
Summarizing the posts above he told rubbish - exactly what I thought but I wanted to know if there is really no 340 flying around with wrong a/c type designations.
Aeroman444 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 65 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (6 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 7608 times:
An A340 barely has enough power to get off the ground and to 28,000 ft with 4 engines. With two it would be the fastest greyhound bus in existence.
25 PlaneHunter: My neighbor once tried to tell me he flew on a "B747-400"...when I asked for the airline he answered "Hapag Lloyd". Well, then I told him it was a B73
26 Jorge1812: Check out http://www.flugstatistik.de/ you'll sure find the HF 744 Georg
27 Ferret: That's some funny stuff. That 777 would be 'tail-striking' all the time!
28 Springbok295: The A330 has an identical wing and even hardpoints within the structure where the outboard engines on the A340 would go. In theory an A330 can be con
29 Starlionblue: Agreed. Still, the 330 wing is not quite identical. It is stronger (I believe it has an extra mini spar inboard) since the outboard engines on the 34
30 787engineer: Then if one engine fails on rotation, you'd have a pretty big mess on your hands . There's a reason the A340 has 4 engines. I think this is the most
31 Tom_EDDF: I bet your friend just mixed it up. And the RR Trent on the A330-34x - while much bigger - looks damn similar to the CFM56, both featuring an exhaust
32 A380Heavy: Not to mention that the A330 instruments are all set up for just 2 engines - Ok so you could re-program the software so that the CRT displays would b
33 Brenintw: I've had that on a CX 343 leaving JNB in the middle of summer -- I think we used about all of the 4.5 km of JNB's runway, plus some before we got off
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