Beech19 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 936 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 9986 times:
Your thread title is very misleading. I assumed you were talking about the Boeing 748 (747-8).
Never had seen a BAe 748 and never will. Looked it up... EEK... ::runaway::
MEA-707 From Netherlands, joined Nov 1999, 4125 posts, RR: 37 Reply 2, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 9961 times:
Quoting Beech19 (Reply 1): Your thread title is very misleading. I assumed you were talking about the Boeing 748 (747-8).
We propliner fans think all the threads talking about the Boeing 748 are misleading, as we hoped they were about good old budgie, the Avro/HS 748.
Indeed the European days are numbered. The aircraft soldiers on at modest scale in Canada, Honduras, Ecuador, South Africa and a few other countries for a few more years.
[Edited 2006-10-16 23:39:47]
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Thomasphoto60 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 3727 posts, RR: 25 Reply 3, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 9963 times:
Quoting Beech19 (Reply 1): Your thread title is very misleading. I assumed you were talking about the Boeing 748 (747-8).
Art From Lebanon, joined Feb 2005, 2979 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 9796 times:
Quoting Thomasphoto60 (Reply 3): Quoting Beech19 (Reply 1):
Your thread title is very misleading. I assumed you were talking about the Boeing 748 (747-8).
Well, how would you refer to an aircraft marketed, sold and operated under the name 748? Not that I would refer to it as a 748. To me, it's a HS748 or a Bae748.
By the same token, I would not refer to the the large thing with 4 engines as a 748. To me, it's a Boeing 747-800 or a B748.
Atmx2000 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 4576 posts, RR: 39 Reply 8, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 9750 times:
Quoting Art (Reply 6): By the same token, I would not refer to the the large thing with 4 engines as a 748. To me, it's a Boeing 747-800 or a B748.
OK, this is a pet peeve of mine. One shouldn't prefix Boeing model numbers with B. By that convention one would have to refer to the A380 as the AA380.
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ClassicLover From Ireland, joined Mar 2004, 4528 posts, RR: 25 Reply 9, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 9719 times:
Quoting Art (Reply 6): By the same token, I would not refer to the the large thing with 4 engines as a 748. To me, it's a Boeing 747-800 or a B748.
Yeah I agree, it's a 747-800... what I'm curious about is the 787-10... will a QF one be the 787-1038? I miss proper designation sequences!
Quoting Beech19 (Reply 1): Never had seen a BAe 748 and never will. Looked it up... EEK... ::runaway::
I knew you would get responses like that. It kills me that people go running around after the latest thing and yet don't know bugger all about aviation history.
Quoting DHHornet (Thread starter): Westair Sweden are just operating a few. Is this nearly the end of the Avro/H.S/BAe 748 in Europe?
Could be! Times are changing... or is that, time is passing?
I do quite enjoy a spot of flying - more so when it's not in Economy!
Beech19 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 936 posts, RR: 4 Reply 11, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 9625 times:
Quoting Art (Reply 6): Well, how would you refer to an aircraft marketed, sold and operated under the name 748? Not that I would refer to it as a 748. To me, it's a HS748 or a Bae748.
I would refer to it as a BAe748, because thats what it is.
Quoting ClassicLover (Reply 9): It kills me that people go running around after the latest thing and yet don't know bugger all about aviation history.
Oh i'm sorry... considering those aircraft have NEVER been flown in this part of the world and i have no interest in commercial prop-jobs doesn't mean i know nothing about aviation history.
What is the first aircraft that comes to mind when i say Boeing 717?
I'll tell ya if you don't know... but you obviously know everything about aviation history.
This is the same reason why when i see a thread saying 748 i assumed it was about a Boeing 747-8.
DHHornet From United Kingdom, joined May 2006, 252 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 9591 times:
Quoting Beech19 (Reply 11): This is the same reason why when i see a thread saying 748 i assumed it was about a Boeing 747-8.
Bloody hell!
Original was put in the title because of this sort of idiot reply and comment. I was only asking about the Budgie and it's future in Europe.
If you are interested. I call it the H.S 748 as most were sold under that banner.
ClassicLover From Ireland, joined Mar 2004, 4528 posts, RR: 25 Reply 13, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 9562 times:
Quoting Beech19 (Reply 11): What is the first aircraft that comes to mind when i say Boeing 717?
The tanker, baby.
Quoting Beech19 (Reply 11): Oh i'm sorry... considering those aircraft have NEVER been flown in this part of the world and i have no interest in commercial prop-jobs doesn't mean i know nothing about aviation history.
There's no excuse. It never flew in the part of the world I am from either (Australia) and yet somehow it went into my memory.
I do quite enjoy a spot of flying - more so when it's not in Economy!
DHHornet From United Kingdom, joined May 2006, 252 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 9539 times:
Quoting ClassicLover (Reply 13): Quoting Beech19 (Reply 11):
Oh i'm sorry... considering those aircraft have NEVER been flown in this part of the world and i have no interest in commercial prop-jobs doesn't mean i know nothing about aviation history
A place called Canada is on the same bit of the world as the US of A!
Beech19 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 936 posts, RR: 4 Reply 16, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 9515 times:
Quoting DHHornet (Reply 12): I call it the H.S 748 as most were sold under that banner.
You may call it whatever you wish. It is what it is. lol
If you are interested... the Boeing 717-100 was the proper designation for the airframe used for building KC-135 Stratotankers as they are shorter and have a thinner(oval) fuselage than the 707(circular) counterparts used in the AWACS and JSTARS ect.
They renamed the MD-95 to the 717-200 in honor of the old frame.
Most often, the first thing people would think of when they saw 717 is the MD-95 thingy.
But in my circle since my dad flew on -135's for almost 30 years i think of that when i hear 717 first.
Just like you guys think of the BAe748 and i think of the Boeing 747-8 (being 2 miles from the main plant).
Its all relavant. Obviously i wasn't the only one who assumed you were talking about the 747-8. We were just among the fiew who actually posted.
PS- The pic that DHHornet posted does make it look very graceful. No disrespect.
TristarSteve From Sweden, joined Nov 2005, 3713 posts, RR: 34 Reply 24, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 14 hours ago) and read 8940 times:
The HS 748 is alive and well at ARN. West Air fly the post in and out every night. There is usually one parked on the Southern Cargo ramp all day. When I get to work at 0520 in the morning I usually drive past the last post flight taxying out for departure. We get loads of ATP here as well.
25 DHHornet: Make the most of it. Now Emerald are gone. I really have missed the things when I do night shift at BRS. Not so long ago a DC-3 would pick-up the odd
26 AirbusA6: If you call the ATP a 748NG, then it's got a few more years to go! Having said that, ATPs are thin on the ground, as not many were sold...
27 Baroque: And a little to the NNW, Bouraq flew them on CGK Bandung, Bandung Yogya, Surabaya to Ujung Pandang. They had a problem with climb and descent rates i
28 ZRHnerd: Congratulations, you've just made me laugh
29 BigOrange: That's the trouble with yanks, they don't know anything about an aircraft if it was never operated in their skies Are there any passenger 748's (the
30 CPairDC10: This will be a shame as a kid a long long time ago a freind of the family was a supervisor at good old Woodford where the old bird used to built i wa
31 EI321: Not really. In fact there is no such thing as a Boeing aircraft known officially as a '748', wheras '748' is indeed the official name of the Hawker S
32 Asturias: You are joking, of course. Regardless, I always write B741 for the Boeing 747-100, because I can't be bothered with the long form. I doubt many can b
34 AirTran717: Someone mentioned a tanker??? No. The Boeing 717 was designed as the MD-95, also known as the DC-9/MD80/90 series aircraft. Are you thinking of the B
35 TristarSteve: 63 were built and West Air Sweden own 28 of them. 23 of these are in operation but the airline has just done a deal and bought the last remaining fiv
36 DHHornet: Amazing 28! Are the aircraft for just themselves, or will they be converting some of them then leasing or selling them off?
37 AirTran717: And if we keep in the spirit of the thread, the Boeing 717-200 is really known as the B712... and that was typed right on the dispatch paperwork the c
39 SJUSXM: i like it although ive always heard the Saab 340 referred to as SF3
40 AirbusA6: I bet they were cheap too! Almost as good a freighter as the equivalent ATR or Dash8, but at a fraction of the price - the MD11 of the prop world
41 Patroni: Firstair still uses them as combi aircraft on some routes, I flew with them from YFB to YXP in November 2004. The forward part of the cabin is the ca
42 YWGjets: I love the sight and sound of the MO HS748s coming in low over my house from up north. I hope they're around for many more years. View Large View Medi
43 DHHornet: And not forgetting the rare Indian built AEW Hindusta Aeronautics HAL 748... More info/pics @ http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_533.shtml
44 Beech19: Wow... i think the you guys are taking this way to personally. No one said it was a bad plane or didn't exist. We just said (considering how much the
45 StealthZ: The thread title was "original 748" hardly that misleading, Beech18 it is entirely possible that you may have started a thread titled "original 717" I
46 YWGjets: If you have no interest in props, why do you choose Beech19 as your username?
47 DHHornet: Bang on matey! If you must know. I get bored reading about bloody Boeings and Buses! But if that's your bag fair enough! My thread title: The End Of
48 MBJ2000: Does anyone know how many of these great planes have been built in total?
50 DHHornet: Have a plane insted of a pond! Cory Rousell's restoration project http://www.ruudleeuw.com/others-hs748-rousell.htm Nice one.
51 9252fly: I never found the thread title misleading in anyway whatsoever. I'm pleased that an aircraft such as the HS748 gets some attention,considering the imp
52 Scouseflyer: Emirates with the A380 That's one of the whackiest planes I've ever seen - how does it fly with that huge antena on the top
53 DHHornet: Wa*kiest? Like a flying house brick with all that drag ?
54 Beech19: Well my good sir as you may know to get ones pilot license you must start with props before you can move on to multi engine, jets, ect. I started tak
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