Does anyone remember an NTSB CVR transcript where an <acronym title="Safair (South Africa)">FA</acronym> (I think male) came into the flight deck while boarding, offered the crew refreshments, and talked about a recipe for some sort of "rooty tooty fruity" beverage, with like a mix Diet Coke, Sprite...
Jump to postAha, I finally dug up an old thread on this topic: First Non Stop Flight Over The Pacific: <a href="http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/2969374">http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/2969374</a> Lots of speculation but it does indeed look...
Jump to postWhich were the first direct (nonstop) flights from <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> and <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> to destinations like <acronym title="Tokyo - Haneda Internation...
Jump to postHeya.. I'm in the <acronym title="Oklahoma City - Will Rogers World (OKC / KOKC), USA - Oklahoma">OKC</acronym> area, but the only spotting I've done was at <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>. After <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - Inter...
Jump to postI have some DoD 1982 plates & enroute charts for around the world. I think there probably isn't a chance in hell I'll be able to scan all of them as I'm not going to scan 2000 pages with a flatbed scanner, but maybe when I have time in July I'll start a thread in July taking requests for specifi...
Jump to postI'm about to offload a bunch of old 1960s-1980s aeronautical publications later this year. However I'm feeling that some of this stuff is historical and that I should make some sort of effort to preserve it in a digital form. The majority of it is Air Force terminal publications from around the worl...
Jump to postLater this summer I'm finally resigning myself to liquidating some stacks of old aeronautical charts and approach plates I've collected over the years. So I figured I'd scan some of the more interesting ones and share them. As someone who grew up around <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - Internat...
Jump to postI was looking at some B-1B pictures on the Internet and wondered if B-1Bs, B-52s, <acronym title="Carpatian Air Transport (Hungary)">KC</acronym>-135s, <acronym title="Carpatian Air Transport (Hungary)">KC</acronym>-10s, or the like have ever deployed to South America or Africa, or made an emergency...
Jump to postThanks all, I am enjoying ths thread. Some first class insights. I do wonder if given the economic problems in Russia (unless petroleum is offsetting that) that Russian leaders might say "why should we pay for the cost overuns and delays when the US is doing that for us." On the other hand if they a...
Jump to postCould Russia buy the F-35 if there was definitely the political will for them to do so? If not does it boil down simply to technology transfer issues, or would it be because of Western Europe flipping out once they found out about a deal? Obviously Russia has the veneer of a democratic aystem but I'...
Jump to postI was reading the NTSB report about the <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> 757 overrun at <acronym title="Jackson - Jackson Hole (JAC / KJAC), USA - Wyoming">JAC</acronym> on 12/29/2010 and got to wondering what ultimately happens to crewmembers involved in accidents where investi...
Jump to postInteresting note -- a stock DC-8 Series 40 managed to get up to FL520 during the famous test flight where it briefly went supersonic. It would be interesting to know how that was done.. I presume it was very light and those last thousand feet must have taken an eternity. It would be interesting to k...
Jump to postLikewise I'm curious if anyone has access to info on Capitol Airlines and Trans International charters in the late 1970s. I assume all that info went into the dumpsters 30 years ago. More recently how about BGR-FFD, American Trans Air L-1011 on 1994-05-30. I saw spotters photographing the landing at...
Jump to postThanks all... great information. It makes a lot more sense now. Speaking about obscure approaches it's interesting to see some of the "Hi-TACAN" approach plates to military bases in the older FLIPs. Most of those start out at around FL150. I guess those were kind of like an embryonic version of STAR...
Jump to postI'm a bit confused about VOR approaches depicted as in this diagram. <img src="http://i.imgur.com/02WFV.gif" width="516" height="792" border="0"/> I've never understood these approaches. It seems to imply that you start over the <acronym title="Sacramento - Executive (Municipal) (SAC / KSAC), USA - ...
Jump to postI've followed the topic of passive radar off and on for several years. For those who don't know what it is, it's where you have a radio receiver that listens for the radar sweep and transponders from aircraft being pinged, and on its own it composes what the ATC radars are seeing right there on your...
Jump to postThanks all, these are great observations. I have a better appreciation now for how complicated it might have been for investigators to get engine settings from the CVR back in the old days.
Jump to postI've read a lot of dicussion about the buzzsaw noise that large, high-bypass turbofans create when they reaxh full power, particularly with the widebodies and of course the C-5. One thing that has puzzled me is the audio frequency of the buzzsaw, which I recall was about 20-30 Hz when I loaded it in...
Jump to postWhat we really need is for some innovative company to break SBS's monopoly (SBS is a passive radar system; there's no reason these can't be available for $100 a piece) and get the things networked.
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/c5load" class="quote" target="_blank">c5load</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>When we come in on the C-5 from an inte...
Jump to postThere's a large area of showers and storms moving into <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>... probably some concerns about a diversion or equipment stuck at <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</ac...
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/Aloha717200" class="quote" target="_blank">Aloha717200</a> (<a href="#27" class="quote">Reply 27</a>):<br/><i>I've got quite a ways to go to fin...
Jump to postIn addition to the Google cache, you can also get some of the fills here: <a href="http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.departedflights.com">http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.departedflights.com</a> I can sympathize with the website owner, though... several years ago I ran a rather ...
Jump to postIs the Reno Air Races basically just one big circle a few miles in diameter? I don't know much about it, and I'm not finding anything written on the race course itself, but that's the impression I'm getting from the livestream feed posted above since I'm seeing a couple of planes clearly making repe...
Jump to postHmm... early 1992 I was on a <acronym title="American Trans Air (USA)">TZ</acronym> 727-100 from TNX to <acronym title="Las Vegas - Nellis AFB (LSV / KLSV), USA - Nevada">LSV</acronym> (military charter). Only seconds after takeoff the crew chopped power and we levelled off, and I noticed a few atte...
Jump to postSo which positions in a cabin are considered desirable, from the spectrum of single-class domestic all the way up to mixed-class international? I can see first-class being the obvious choice for an international flight, but maybe the tradeoff is having to supply a much higher level of service, frequ...
Jump to postThe receiving end of inflight refueling. I was on a C-5 being refueled inflight to a deployed location, riding in the passenger compartment, and the lack of windows and constant control inputs were a horrible experience. I did not get sick, though I felt a bit queasy after 15 minutes of this... with...
Jump to postLast week I flew <acronym title="Oklahoma City - Will Rogers World (OKC / KOKC), USA - Oklahoma">OKC</acronym>-<acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym>-<acronym title="Newburgh - Stewart International (AFB) (SWF ...
Jump to postHoly cow... six feet thick. To extend a 200 ft wide runway just 1 ft, that's 44 cu yd, or about $4400 last time I checked the price of concrete, not counting rebar and labor. Of course I'm sure that the airport gets hefty discounts because of the volume.
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/mozart" class="quote" target="_blank">mozart</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>(oops, sorry, none of them in the US as the ...
Jump to postOne theme I have been noticing consistently is that many of the small and medium airports here in the US had much better air service back in the 1970s through 1990s. Off the top of my head I know some small airports in the south that got regular DC-9 and 737 service around 1979, then a couple of dec...
Jump to postBack in 1979 I remember being on a <acronym title="Tirana - Rinas International (Mother Theresa) (TIA / LATI), Albania">TIA</acronym> DC-8-63 UAM-<acronym title="Clark Field - Diosdado Macapagal International (CRK / RPLC), Philippines">CRK</acronym> that poured on reverse thrust from somewhere below...
Jump to postMy question is how ATC controllers know callsigns of unusual airlines. Obviously this is not a big deal if all you're dealing with is United, Eagle Flight, and Speedbirds, but what if you have an An-225 coming in, which I assume shows as something like ADB1681 on the radar. Does the controller 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/jgarrido" class="quote" target="_blank">jgarrido</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Any idea what they were trying to do in th...
Jump to post1970s, but boy... excellent site:
Trans International: http://www.poochiepals.com/TIA.htm
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/f4wso" class="quote" target="_blank">f4wso</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>an occaisional 727 overflying the MOA by several...
Jump to postOne question I've always had is how fighter pilots know to stay within certain designated airspace areas. For example say a couple of F-16s are engaged in a mock battle on the Nellis Range, and after 20 minutes of dogfighting they end up straying just 15 miles west into J92 and one of the planes acc...
Jump to postBack about a year ago there was <a href="http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/258749/">this</a> thread on the old Soviet planes, which were often built really high up off the tarmac for propeller clearance. It seems that cabin heights and door sill heights are not published co...
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/contrails15" class="quote" target="_blank">contrails15</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>I've asked a couple pilots that fly ...
Jump to postI'd be curious whether the Bolivian airlines require this too, or if their pilots are deemed to be accustomed to the altitude.
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/fr8mech" class="quote" target="_blank">fr8mech</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>The exception is the body gear on the jumbo....
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/HaveBlue" class="quote" target="_blank">HaveBlue</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>One day, high above Arizona, we wer...
Jump to postThe SR-71 has a max airspeed limit of 450 kt (equivalent airspeed) and design limit speed of 500 kt. At sea level that will be roughly equivalent to ground speed.
Jump to postWhich commercial aircraft models tend to be difficult to slow down during descent? Are there any interesting anecdotes or observations about descents vs. speed, particularly from crewmembers? Do you have problems trying not to bust altitude/speed restrictions on a STAR? I know the FMS often does all...
Jump to postI recall one night on AA in November 1996 we were at FL390 on a leg from the AEX to FZT VOR into DFW. I've been all over Texas and know the layout of cities like a map, and that's just what I was seeing with it being a particularly clear autumn night with city lights painting out the location of eve...
Jump to postI'm actually wondering how they get the logos, shapes, and polygons painted so precisely... do they spray against plastic stencils? I can't even picture how a painter decides exactly where to hold the stencil and at what angle. If I was given a 777 to paint, I'd take an <acronym title="Louis Trichar...
Jump to postI would rank Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field as the best in the DFW area. Very extensive exhibit with something for everyone, and they have oddball things like a boardable nose of a 737 (cockpit behind glass) an entire SR-71 simulator system (cockpit behind glass) but still a strange enough...
Jump to postExcellent -- thanks, sovietjet... I forgot to dig into the earlier B-52 versions, and hadn't seen that DC-8 flyby either.
Jump to postAre there any YouTube videos or audio recordings anywhere that depict pretty clearly what the old TURBOJET powered 707s, CV880s, and DC8s sounded like? Note that I am talking about the turbojet models that were common in the early 1960s, not turbofans. I suppose it's possible to just look for fighte...
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