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Re: STL air service discussion - 2018

BCal used to fly into St. Louis back in the 80s before they merged with British.

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RE: Passenger Removed From Flight Du Weight Limitation

This is why airlines using their own metal with full sized airliners is better than using the RJs....

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RE: G4 Plane Makes 4 Emergency Landings In 6 Wks

Perhaps we havent learned our lessons from Valujet....

I know that I as a travel agent I am kind of backed into a corner by clients wanting to book Allegiant out of either Rockford, Moline or Peoria. They hate Chicago. Not sure what I should do.

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RE: 1969- LGA-BOS-LGA -Northeast Airlines And AA

Love the shots with the Northeast Airlines FH-227s in them!!
From what I can tell, I think the 227 that is arrving looks to be N374NE....

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RE: Northeast Yellow Bird 880 Cabin

The B&W photo posted by Zippyjet is indeed a Northeast <acronym title="Futura International Airlines (Spain)">FH</acronym>-227C!! Out of the six <acronym title="Futura International Airlines (Spain)">FH</acronym>-227Cs that Delta inherited from Northeast, only two of them saw any active service ...

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Fairchild FH-227 Video

Hello, Im still looking for ANY video footage that anyone might have of any Fairchild <acronym title="Futura International Airlines (Spain)">FH</acronym>-227 video footage. Beyond the scant hints of clips that I have found on Youtube, Im having a heck of a time finding footage of this aircraft. Idea...

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RE: The Demise Of The Beech 1900 In The US

Actually, The whole reason for the upgrade in commuter airliners that carry between 10-30 from Part 135 to 121 was because in April of 1997, Great Lakes Airlines was found in violation by the FAA of allowing maintenance by non authorized/certified personnel and/or not complying with certain maintena...

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RE: Actual T/O Weight A Mystery?

At the small commuter I used to work for, Propheter Aviation, we flew Cessna 402s and later Chieftains into and out of OHare. We ALWAYS had to ask our passengers their actual weight. The planes were really too small to allow anything bigger than a purse to be carried onboard. Aircraft seating less t...

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RE: How To Find Out What Aircraft Number You'll Be

Thanks!!!!

I have been trying to find that website for a while.....Its too bad that it doesnt go back any further than that....like back into the 1980s....

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RE: BAC-111 Startup Sounds!

The 200 series that I flew on was a former original Braniff machine, flew on it as Braniff number 2 in 1989......It was tail number N1543... Im sure that all the Speys on all the BACs sound the same with the air raid siren sounds....Its just that the 200 series plane that I flew on on that day didnt...

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Looking For FH-227 Pictures At Local Airports.

Hello, I am looking for pictures that anyone might have of any Fairchild Hiller <acronym title="Futura International Airlines (Spain)">FH</acronym>-227 aircraft at your local airports or even the hubs of the airlines that flew the <acronym title="Futura International Airlines (Spain)">FH</acronym>-2...

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RE: Scheduled Operations Under Part 135

Im not so sure that I trust a single engine <acronym title="Air Fiji and Continental Airways (Russian Federation)">PC</acronym>-12 or Cessna Caravan as an airliner for long distances.... I know that Air Choice One uses them into and out of OHare flying to/from Burlington, Iowa and Decatur, Il. as we...

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RE: Scheduled Operations Under Part 135

Cape Air's entire Cessna 402 operation is Part 135...... I believe that the rules were changed in 1997 when Great Lakes Airlines mechanics were not performing proper maintenance on some of its Brasilia's because at that time any aircraft seating 30 seats or less was covered under Part 135. That sent...

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RE: Calculation Of Airport Minimum Connection Time

Unfortunately, Delta at Atlanta is one of the biggest offenders of scheduling 35 min connections. Air Tran occasionally tries the pull off the same crap.... United does that with their Express flights over in Terminal 2/Concourse E to Terminal 1 ConcourseB/C....Its just nuts... Sometimes you dont ha...

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Calculation Of Airport Minimum Connection Times?

I have been a travel agent for twenty-one years and for the life of me, I can never understand why airlines construct online connections at their major hubs for sometimes as little as thirty-five minutes between flights....Heck if you are sitting in the back of the bus, it can take that long to get ...

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RE: Rotating Beacons - Different Configs?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/stratosphere" class="quote" target="_blank">stratosphere</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>For the short time I worked at the...

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RE: CF6-6 Engine On DC-10... Why The Weird Cone?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/kiwiandrew" class="quote" target="_blank">kiwiandrew</a> (<a href="#23" class="quote">Reply 23</a>):<br/><i>Was this only on the number 2 engine...

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RE: Can Prop Airplanes Reverse Under Their Own Power?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/474218" class="quote" target="_blank">474218</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>It has nothing to do with the engine type. I...

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RE: Startup Business Models You Think Will Work

Thats why relying on mega hubs lorded over by mega carriers is not the way to go...
You have to create your own niche......offer an alternative to the Hub and Spoke....more linear in operation that bypasses the need for a major hub....

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RE: Startup Business Models You Think Will Work

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/thegreatRDU" class="quote" target="_blank">thegreatRDU</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>-An under 50 seat regional tu...

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RE: Aircraft Lookielikies

This thread was named Lookielikies....

The planes are supposed to look alike, am I correct?

One could list a picture of the basic DC3 and the Russian built Li-2...those certainly qualify as look alikes.

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RE: Aircraft Lookielikies

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DiamondFlyer" class="quote" target="_blank">DiamondFlyer</a> (<a href="#50" class="quote">Reply 50</a>):<br/><i>As far as I know, the Fairchild ...

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RE: Aircraft Lookielikies

I have a few Look A Likes.....Take a peek.... <br/><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/photo/TAT---Transport/Fairchild-F-27J/1049397/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/photo/TAT---Transport/Fairchild-F-27J/1049397/M/" target="_blank">View Medium...

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RE: Do Maddogs Really Pollute?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PWM2TXLHopper" class="quote" target="_blank">PWM2TXLHopper</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i> Before hushkits came around, I ...

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RE: Stretch DC-8 Fuselage Flex

I saw this happen from the last seat in an MD-80 taxiing out for takeoff at SFO....

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RE: I Am In The Following Documentary

Thanks, I appreciate it....I am quite nervous about it...It should be cool tho....

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RE: I Am In The Following Documentary

It will appear on the History Channel....

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I Am In The Following Documentary

Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that <acronym title="Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS / EHAM), Netherlands">AMS</acronym> Pictures of Dallas Texas contacted me last year at this time for help with a Documentary they were planning to produce about the Uruguayan Air Force <acronym title="Futura I...

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RE: Can You Hear An Aircraft At Cruise?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/HangarRat" class="quote" target="_blank">HangarRat</a> (<a href="#30" class="quote">Reply 30</a>):<br/><i>When I was a kid, I lived about seven ...

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RE: The ERJ - Why Does It Constantly Rock?

I dont think all the responses understand what the original poster is trying to ask.... Ive been on a few EMB-145 flights and I too noticed this as well... Its not the side to side yawing or pitching up or down, He is referring to the very slight but constant rocking or banking of the wings back and...

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RE: Was The Fokker F.27 Ever Weight Restricted?

Interesting, I guess I had never heard that the Fokker F.27-500 had too many weight issues like the FH-227 did...Altho I have never talked at length with any pilots of the Fokker F.27-500 series. Obviously because of my interest in the 227... Thanks for your thoughts on the subject!! Cheers, Access-...

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RE: Can You Hear An Aircraft At Cruise?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/MSPNWA" class="quote" target="_blank">MSPNWA</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>But what's even more fun is being outside at...

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Was The Fokker F.27 Ever Weight Restricted?

Okay, I have a question.... As I am very familiar with the Fairchild F-27 and the Fairchild Hiller FH-227 and their tendancy to be weight restrictive at times..Was the Fokker F.27 of any series, 100 thru 500 ever weight restricted due to high altitude or hot temps? I know all of both heritage were e...

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RE: Fairchild FH-227/F-27 Radios

Yeah, Im aware that the <acronym title="Futura International Airlines (Spain)">FH</acronym>-227 is quite different from the Fokker.....I have my website dedicated to the <acronym title="Futura International Airlines (Spain)">FH</acronym>-227. Heres the link: <a href="http://fh227.rwy34.com" target=_...

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RE: Fairchild FH-227/F-27 Radios

Actually guys, I need to know what would have been standard equipment in 1972.....on the FH-227....

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RE: Fairchild FH-227/F-27 Radios

Mr. 411A, What company did you fly <acronym title="Futura International Airlines (Spain)">FH</acronym>-227s for? I am quite curious...Might you have any pictures from your <acronym title="Futura International Airlines (Spain)">FH</acronym>-227 flying days? I would love to use them on my <acronym tit...

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RE: Fairchild FH-227/F-27 Radios

Thanks guys......

Ill look into that information......

Cheers, Access-Air

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Fairchild FH-227/F-27 Radios

Okay guys, I have a question to former Fairchild <acronym title="Futura International Airlines (Spain)">FH</acronym>-227 pilots......What were the brand names of the communications radios most commonly used on this plane??? I am looking to find one for a friend of mine that is looking to purchase on...

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RE: What Happened To Stol Airliners?

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RE: What Makes Engine Sounds Unique?

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RE: Water Injection Question

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RE: What Is This A320 Flap? (pic)

These are also visable on the DC10 and DC9 series...

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RE: DC-8-63 Noisiest Airliner?

Scooter, I was born in 1966....I just never made it to OHare to actually watch planes until 1983......

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RE: DC-8-63 Noisiest Airliner?

I dunno, I just expect that a jet should be loud..... Id make the trip down to Moline in the 80s and I would get all excited expecting to hear the loud DC9s of Ozark and 727s or 737s of United. It was great. I tape recorded many of them. I even tape recorded that BAC One Eleven that I spoke about pr...

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RE: The RFID-chip Madness..

Amen to that......I couldnt agree more....However, it will eventually come to pass that people will have no choice and have to be micro-chipped on their person, especially if we move to a cash-less society where by we either take the chip or cannot work, buy anything or sell things...That is more th...

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RE: DC-8-63 Noisiest Airliner?

I have also read that the DC8-63 was not only the noisiest of the subsonic jets of the time but also the most airfield demanding, fully loaded needing nearly 11,000 feet of runway. However I have see some videos where the DC8-63 gets off the ground in a short distance. The airfield claim could also ...

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RE: What Is It Like Flying On A Beech 1900D?

I have flown on many 1900Cs as well as 1900Ds and they are a great little plane.... The C Model is tight because you cannot stand up and must stoop ove to get to your seats, but the D model is full stand up unless you arelike 6 feet 5 inches tall..LOL... I have never felt unsafe or afraid to fly in ...

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RE: Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation.

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RE: Unique Cabin Smell In Days Past

Well I remember disctictly that the first time I flew on Air Wisconsin BAe146-300, N611AW the air cycling machine had this acrid smell of puke.....It was horrible....That flight took place in February 1991....In October 1993 I flew on the same tail number and the smell was still there!!!! I also rem...

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RE: No Gear Up Right After Taking Off?

I have a question.... Why is it that it seems like an Airbus A330 or 340 or ever the smalelr Busses seem to have a very slow retraction speed almost like they fighting being retracted....I have noticed tho ona Boeing or McDoug or Lockheed or any other type the gear retraction is very quick.... I als...

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