Re: DC-10 Present Day 777-200

Unless you are a family of 3 with a young child I can't see how 3-3-3 benefits anyone. It benefits the airline. You have the same 3 seat set for the middle section as the outer sections and for a long time most IFE systems could only handle 3 seats per a box. With 2-5-2 you needed 4 boxes or have t...

Re: Iran´s 4 "new" A343 found at Tehran's Mehrabad

I believe the A340 has cross qualification with the A330, and perhaps minimal requirements for cross qualification with other airbus birds like the A350 and even A32X series. It probably wasn't that tough to find them. Not to mention, when entering a new country, customs and immigration doesn't typ...

Re: Iran´s 4 "new" A343 found at Tehran's Mehrabad

I believe the A340 has cross qualification with the A330, and perhaps minimal requirements for cross qualification with other airbus birds like the A350 and even A32X series. It probably wasn't that tough to find them. Not to mention, when entering a new country, customs and immigration doesn't typi...

Re: GE, RR & PW Risk Sharing Philosophies

This is in contrast to RR, who seems to largely "go it alone" on their projects - RB211 (747, 757, 767, L1011) Trent 700 (A330), 800 (777), 500 (A340NG), 900 (A380), 1000 (787), XWB (A350). Wait, huh??? The most successful engine with RR in it, is a partnership production... and it's sold...

GE, RR & PW Risk Sharing Philosophies

I have tried to decipher the strategies I see here, and would love to get some input. Can anyone shed some light on the different philosophies of the three major engine manufacturers when it comes to risk (and by extension, profit) sharing on their projects? To provide some more specific examples, w...

Re: Will United cancel its 350 order?

People often make having dual engine sourcing out to be a far bigger deal than it actually is. Each engine type has it's benefits. For the 787, the Trent is better for mid haul routes whilst the GENX is better for longer haul ones. Given the large breadth of fleets that this rumored order is suppos...

Re: Boom Supersonic new configuration.

With American and United orders this is 100% done deal. So this is RR loss. There is no way this would not get delivered in time. These airlines doesn't play childs games. And if FAA makes a fuss of this, United can just threaten to withdraw from the states, and issue would resolve immediately. Ple...

Re: Sun country widebodies, Europe?

6070925 My worst flight ever was on one of these birds in the early 90s (1994, I think) from DFW. My parents booked a vacation package to Vegas and we wound up on Sun Country. This was before the internet, so those sort of things were common in the US those days. You also booked everything through ...

Re: Southwest Airlines Repainting Schedule

Which is all fine and dandy... I was asking what the plan was for the remaining that are still in the Canyon Blue livery? Lease returns as new MAX8's are coming in or what? This topic was briefly discussed in the WN network thread. The ones that remain in canyon blue are most likely on their way ou...

Re: Duration of 747 Hydraulic Pressure Reduction?

113312 wrote:

The answer to this is it depends upon the specific aircraft model and which surfaces.

Duration of 747 Hydraulic Pressure Reduction?

Forgive me if this is a super rookie, non-technical question to ask: I was looking at this sad picture of the last UA 744s being scrapped and started to wonder something. 6589115 I know have read somewhere in my decades on the forum that aircraft surfaces such as flaps or ailerons will begin to droo...

Re: A380 vs. 748 revisited

I thought the wing was new when the 747-400 was introduced? I understand that the wing wasn't completely new when the 747-8 was released (just relofted or reprofiled or whatever you choose to call it), but it certainly isn't the same wing as on the 747-100. Calling it 1960s technology is hogwash. Th...

Re: What happened to British Airways world cargo?

Antarius wrote:

BA World Cargo was consumed by IAG Cargo.

IAG has a lot of aircraft going to a lot of places (BA, IB, EI etc), so they utilize the belly space of pax aircraft vs operating a dedicated fleet.

Re: Fire at Fort Myers Airport

3,500 cars X what 15gal of petrol = 52,000 gallons of petrol and 14,000 tires not counting the other petroleum based materials like interiors etc. That should make a pretty good fire. Thanks. I guess I'm asking if they run that much hotter than other parts of the exhaust or engine block. They compl...

747-300 GE Engines

I had a quick question about the GE engines on the 747-300. I ran across this photo and noticed something that seemed out of place: 1179938 The GE engines on this frame appear to be the CF6 model found on the 747-400. The only other instance I am aware of seeing this engine on anthing other than a -...

Re: Boeing 777-9 first flight 24 January 2020 (weather permitting)

There she goes! Giving up...

Re: Boeing 777-9 first flight 24 January 2020 (weather permitting)

Geez, you'd think they would use a camera with a little bit of a stronger mount. Watching this, I'm gonna need a Dramamine.

Re: Boeing 777-9 first flight 24 January 2020 (weather permitting)

I'm pretty sure that was not the engine start up of the 777-9. The camera is way too far from the plane. The engine start up was most likely from other planes nearby the camera. It probably was the 767 but are you aware of how loud 777 engines are on start up? They can be heard over all the other a...

Re: How is the Boeing 747-8 a good freighter but a bad passenger craft?

As mentioned earlier the first three Classic freighters were actually built with a nose loading door ( as all factory built freighters were) but no side cargo door That was an option, all three of those airframes were retrofitted with a side cargo door later and all factory built freighters had bot...

Re: DFW Now Has The Most Domestic Destinations

I think DEN benefits from being the Southwestern hub for both UA and WN. Especially when you think about all those sun and snow destinations that are exclusively served from DEN (or at least on those carriers), the only thing that really is close is AA in PHX. When you combine that with the secondar...

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

I just hope investigators find other reasons for this crash. I had friends on that flight, heading for Canada. My condolences. I know it may be hard to believe, but it’s not actually that weird that someone would have a video of this incident. While it is very unlikely that any individual would be ...

Re: Iran Air operating 40 year old A300B2

A 'bus with a yoke! There's a throwback for ya.

Re: 737 Max Grounding the longest?

So.... is the takeaway that this is, indeed, the longest grounding of a large scale production, mainstream jetliner? The Concorde was a niche aircraft, the comet got redesigned, the 787 was only down three months and the DC-10 a mere 37 days. Sounds like the MAX is setting records in all the wrong w...

737 Max Grounding the longest?

Hello all, With the grounding of the 737 Max now running months long, does this constitute the longest time that a whole fleet has been sidelined? I know there have been groundings such as the Concorde, Comet and even recently, the 787 with the battery issue, but I am uncertain how long those lasted...

Re: Boeing 787-10 Missions in the transpacific market

Oh man, i’ve seen it all in this thread: 787-10, 78J, 78X, 781(?), 7810(??), 787-1000(???). What’s next? 787-ten-1thousand-XXX? The full name is: Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner, or Boeing 787-10. IATA and ICAO abreviations are B78X and 781, respectively. Who came up with 78J? I feel like half these codes...

Re: What does the Rumored 6T MTOW Increase for the 787-10 Mean for the A359?

Do the rumored 787-10 upgrades seriously encroach on the A 359? Is there a place for both frames as a 77E replacement? Yes. The 78X might poach off some orders on the lower end of the 77E's performance/capacity spectrum, but it could do that now , even without an increased range... it's still an ai...

Re: How Long Did It Take American to Retire the TWA Brand?

It was all very rushed by 9/11 . I insisted that they couldn’t fly this fleet of planes and sold them to Delta. "I insisted"? We're you an AA exec/fleet planner at the time? I'm sure you have great stories. I remember this era quite well. This was in my youth and my love of aviation was b...

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