I seem to recall, several years ago, a spate of incidents where A320 engine cowls became unlatched in flight. There was no hue and cry at that time about Airbus aircraft. As I remember it, there were cowl latches under the engines that may have required reclining on the ground to fasten. This will ...
Jump to postPlease stop calling it an elevator. its a stabiliser, with attached elevator.
Jump to postWhy change the name. It was called Meacham when I did my A and P there.
Jump to postThe 757 was incredible, you could park it on the ramp in Las Vegas unpowered for hours in the summertime, cabin temperatures would go over 150F Get on the aircraft, start the APU, turn on the packs you could cool it down to 75F in 20 minutes Until I flew that aircraft I’d never experienced one you ...
Jump to postWas it common to strip the paint for a D check. I have never seen it. We sent our aircraft to a paint shop for painting, we did the D checks at home. Two separate inputs.
And is there a D check on a B748? I thought they had all gone by now.
If its a big problem, time bizjets had combustion heaters. Like my car does.
Jump to postAt ARN when SAS operated MD80 and F28 it was policy to taxy in with APU off. But when they changed to B737-600 for domestic, the policy changed due to the engine intake being close to the GPU plug. But the airport authority had made APU useage prohibited on arrival, and during the turnround. Then ou...
Jump to postIn 1980 I was working for Gulf Air in Bahrain as an Licenced Engineer, mostly on the Tristar. We used to change RB211s very often, mostly boroscope failures of the HP turbine. So I ran newly overhauled engines nearly every week on the aircraft. We had an small engine shop that replaced the 04 (HP) m...
Jump to postThe problem - hydrogen burns too quickly. As in, way too quickly. Best put, right now my car with a full tank of gas gas gets say 400 miles in range. If that gas were hydrogen, it would be about 15-20 miles in range. We need some new terms here. Like what is gas gas?. Is this American petrol? (gaso...
Jump to postThey don't have to paint the aircraft, the colours are added later.
There is a video on Youtube showing how they made a British Airways advert full of aircraft, which looked totally different in the ad.
I flew on an Air Jamaica DC8.. London to Kingston.
Just an observation. There are a lot of doors on the aircraft, passenger, cargo, and equipment. We don't raise work orders to open and close doors. They are opened and closed all the time. This plug could have been a door. Lots of 737s have doors here. Perhaps the guy that opened the door just plain...
Jump to postIs this Boeing engineering the same ones who designed an engine anti-ice system that can melt its housing because they didn't put in the proper interlocks to prevent it from being used when there isn't ice? As I understand it from posts in Tech-Ops, the Engine Anti-Ice system for (at least Boeing) ...
Jump to postHere at ARN there are no marshallers, all gates have safedock. There are no wing walkers, except for the Delta and United arrivals, when a B757 arrives on a B747 gate, and wing walkers are used. Can't be a union requirement, must be airline policy.
Jump to postI believe that the reason for the four wheels on one axle, and the rotating leg, was to fit into the undercarriage bay. The Trident wing was very thin, and even at the root had no space for the leg. The wheels ended up in the fuselage.
Jump to postI spent the first five years of my working life on the Trident as an LAE with BEA, and then BA. Amazing aircraft with all the engines, hydraulics, APU and air systems behind the Rear Pressure bulkhead. There was a queue to get into the rear equipment bay on nights!! The autopilot system was in a hug...
Jump to postThe NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy gave a presser late yesterday. Basically, they still aren't sure what the root cause of this was. And she raised a new issue that is under consideration...a very scary scenario for Boeing and the airlines... they will be looking at the possibility of fuselage flexing...
Jump to postOne other advantage of specialized de-ice pads is that usually they are set up with drainage systems that recover excess glycol. The fluid can be recycled and reused, which brings both cost savings and environmental benefits. Usually airports that de-ice at the gate just let the fluid sit on the ra...
Jump to postplanemanofnz wrote:BA planning to add more seats to/densify its E190 fleet - does anyone have any more details?
https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/ ... e190-fleet
All posters with their correct me if I am wrong about door stops. Next time you fly look at the entry door to the airliner. You can see the stop pads and the stop bolts, one set on the frame, and one set on the door. Watch as the door is closed. Airbus, B787 B777 the door closes then moves down to e...
Jump to postSelf locking nuts are best used in applications where they are designed to be tightened and then not loosened (or at least not many times). If you used self locking nuts in this application, the nuts would need to be tracked individually to know when they needed replacement. If you unscrew a self l...
Jump to postThere are plug doors. The cargo door on the B737 is a plug door, as is the Equipment bay door under the fuselage. They open inward, and are held in place by air pressure. Then non-plug doors. A320 cargo doors are hinged at the top and latched at the base. Air pressure trys to open them all the time....
Jump to postCan I just say that there are four bolts with castellated nuts and cotter pins holding the plug closed. If the two lower bolts were fitted without nuts and pins, they would stay where they are. The bolts go through a spring loaded tube. This spring would keep the bolts in place by shear force, no nu...
Jump to postIn the Wichita factory, the door panel should not be cut if the airline option does not require an exit door. If the airline option calls for an exit door, then proceed to cut and install the exit door accordingly. It's as simple as that! Cutting a door hole and later patching and bolting it, if th...
Jump to postRegarding the near impossibility of a regular door to blow away from a pressurized aircraft. I know this has been asked before, but the thread is hundreds of posts long. Would it be possible to design and build that cover in the same way a regular door would be? as in plugging harder due to cabin p...
Jump to postI understand there’s lots of confusion and people saying different things. A lot of it seems to just be semantics. But it is definitely not the case that the plug is bigger than the opening like doors are. At the risk of adding confusion, this isn't really true. The door plug is larger than the ope...
Jump to postI haven't seen this talked about much, I think I saw one post mention it briefly. In the NTSB B roll video starting at 01:42, you can see the investigators check a different row where it appears the supplemental oxygen bags didn't fall down and are taking photos of it, and looking up into the compa...
Jump to postYou can see the row number in this photo, it blew out at Row 26, definitely the plugged exit. Waiting to see a photo from outside of the plane. https://twitter.com/Kyrinker/status/1743470896638300339 Looks like the bolts are still in place at the attaching points in that photo. What you can see the...
Jump to postShame. I have been to ORD with SAS once a year for 5 years, each time bringing one or more dogs back to Sweden. SAS are very good with pet dogs. You can leave them at check in at ORD, and collect them at baggage claim at ARN. No one else provides this service, and I dont fancy negotiating with CPH T...
Jump to postThis isn't really that difficult: 1) Passing security You can buy a ticket online, under any name, and then check-in on your phone. With that boarding pass you will pass straight thru security. Not with SAS. Going to USA from Scandinavia you cannot check in on line. You must go to the USA desk to a...
Jump to postYes, but at the samme time ARN-ORD is cancelled, and CPH-ORD and CPH-IAD reduced to 7x to 6x weekly
I used to work as a technician on the ramp, turning around shorthaul aircraft. When we had cloth seats, I was changing wet seat covers every day. We had boxes full of them. You couldn't wash them as they needed to be fire resistant, and we never had the correct part number. Then, 30 years ago we cha...
Jump to postOften when the F.O. would do his or her walk around especially on an originator they would inform the Captain to Deice if needed. Yes on a small low wing aircraft. How does the FO inspect the wing on a B787? Our deice agent here has an inspection truck. They will go out and inform the crew if deici...
Jump to postI never flew as a child, no one I knew in England in the 1950/60s did. But at the age of 14 in 1964 my first flight was on 31 Apr 1964 in a RAF Wessex XR516 at Kenley airfield near Biggin Hill. Just a circuit and back. First flight in an aircraft was also RAF, 4 months later, in a Handley Page Hasti...
Jump to post889091 wrote:How do they de-ice for the return trip?
Depends what he means by broken. You could have damaged blades. Erosion on the leading edge, or maybe small nicks on the trailing edge. Then you would boroscope the engine every 25hrs to check propogation. But a broken blade, and it would be hard to get the engine started. And if a blade is broken, ...
Jump to postTo further clarify (or simplify maybe?), while TXL (and to a lesser extent THF) served as the West Berlin gateways, SXF served as the airport to the Capital city of East Germany, and was were Interflug was headquartered . Was TXL always bigger than THF? My first visit to Berlin was in 1972 on a BEA...
Jump to postThe only new aircraft ever acquired by Dan-Air prior to its financial reconstruction in 1991 were s pair of 732's that were allocated to TXL services. They were I believe the only 732's for airline use that were delivered with supplementary fuel ranks in the hold. This permitted non stop services t...
Jump to postFOD. But if the HP6 was good, then the rest of the compressors were probably OK.
Jump to postI used to boroscope RB211 on the wing every night at Gulf Air. There is a special tool that turns the first stage IP compressor. You have to first open the VIGVs , then you can see the IP1 compressor blades through the fan. The tool is a long stick with some nylon bumpers on the end, and you twist i...
Jump to postI find it hard to believe that dispatch didn't phone-patch them to MX control and that MX control didn't ask them to verify no CB's were popped, which is why I find it improbable but possible that this was similar to LOT. I used to work MX control for Fedex its been years since I did but we had no ...
Jump to postThe vagueness of the articles about “falsely certified” makes my spidey-sense tweek. Where did the parts come from? Where could you find cheap plane parts in this day and age? Could be something as simple as forging a yellow tag, or just not bothering with one. . I once worked for an airline in Eur...
Jump to postThe BA A320-100 had 149 seats. Out of ARN regularly for many years and I remember that with a full pax load they often reached max zero fuel weight. Take off weight was not a problem for the 2 hr flight, but offloading bags happened. Our aircraft also had a fwd airstair at L1, and had old fashioned ...
Jump to postI worked for a flight attendant years ago, including on the 747. We were instructed during training to NEVER open any exists over the wing and (of course) to never, ever attempt to exit on the wing. I find this quite shocking coming from trained flight attendants. Sometimes the desire to be on TikT...
Jump to postAnd BA domestic flights have the callsign Shuttle. 50 years ago BA ran a domestic true shuttle, turn up and fly, The callsign persists
Jump to postDear all, Fun fact - There is actually a possibility to interchange engines of the type GE CF6-80C2 between the 747-400 and the 767-300ER. This can be useful if you have both aircraft in your fleet and you want to use the freshest, most reliable engines on the 767 before "finishing" them ...
Jump to postI used to work at Stockholm ARN, and many years ago I was Maintenance for TWA. Every month the station staff asked how much fuel we would use. Never understood why there was this question. jetmatt777 explains it. How complicated to be a fuel buyer for an airline In the USA. Here at ARN the fuel farm...
Jump to postWhy is it not possible for ATC in Las Vegas to hold aircraft at the gate until it is time to start taxying for take off? I thought that the days of hour long taxy queues were long gone. Most airports here issue start up times based on a runway take off time to avoid long lines of aircraft running en...
Jump to postStockholm ARN and Oslo are both supplied by train to an offloading siding just outside the airport.
Jump to postRudenko wrote:
A lot of the people at BA have Stockholm syndrome.