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RE: YAL 1 Programme

The YAL-1A proved itself effective against both solid fueled and liquid fueled missiles and was successful in shooting them down. It was cancelled so the money could be used for "other things". <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" width="15" height=...

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RE: Spirit FA's Threatening To Strike!

Keep it civil, folks.

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RE: Welcome To Our New Forum Moderators

Thank you very much for this opportunity. I look forward to serving the site and it's users.

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RE: 787-10X Formally Offered To Airlines

The 777 gear is also longer than the 787's, besides having three axles each. The 787 has relatively short gear for a wide body.

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RE: AFM: F-35 Can Supercruise

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BigJKU" class="quote" target="_blank">BigJKU</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i> I personally think the F-35 would pull of a b...

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RE: 787-10X Formally Offered To Airlines

I thought Boeing has stated that the -10 is as long as the 787 will go.

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RE: 787-10X Formally Offered To Airlines

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/VC10er" class="quote" target="_blank">VC10er</a> (<a href="#50" class="quote">Reply 50</a>):<br/><i>Also, are there any drawings or renderings o...

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RE: HNA Group May Cancel 10 A380s - Chairman

Convsersion to A350? I couldn't help but notice that the A350 order isn't mentioned in the article, only A330s and A380s.

[Edited 2012-11-09 12:00:35]

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RE: HNA Group May Cancel 10 A380s - Chairman

This sounds like political wrangling to me. I'm sure they could use the lift.

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RE: 787-10X Formally Offered To Airlines

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/RickNRoll" class="quote" target="_blank">RickNRoll</a> (<a href="#34" class="quote">Reply 34</a>):<br/><i>This half an authority ot offer partly...

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RE: 787-10X Formally Offered To Airlines

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/cosmofly" class="quote" target="_blank">cosmofly</a> (<a href="#26" class="quote">Reply 26</a>):<br/><i>and possibly 77X while A only has NEO. I...

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RE: AA First 777-300ER Delivery Delayed Till 2013.

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/bigbird" class="quote" target="_blank">bigbird</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>January 31 is also the day that they have to...

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RE: Boeing Delays 777x To Early 2020's

My take away: This all but assures that the 781 is on the horizon and that a Y3 clean sheet will be the reality going forward. I agree with those who say that the sweet spot in the wide body market will be somewhere between the current 777/A350 and 748/A388/9 sized aircraft. The 787-10 will complete...

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RE: New AA Color Scheme Confirmed...painted - Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/OB1504" class="quote" target="_blank">OB1504</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>...while the current 737 wears the Astrojet co...

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IAM Makes Push To Organize Boeing Charleston

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quote:<br/><i>NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A union representing machinists and aerospace workers took a step closer to organizing Boeing Co's South Caroli...

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RE: WestJet FA Objects To Passengers T-shirt!

In the immortal words of The Donald, "you're fired".

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RE: 787-10 EIS Moving To The Right, 777-X Up Next?

787 production is ramping up with no major hiccups and the Everett line will have plenty of experience by then. Boeing has done the smart thing and taken the engineering in-house for the components that were the problem children on the 788, in fact, making them lighter in the process. The hard work ...

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RE: Skyliner Vs. Dreamliner

Virtually every airline that operated the 747 back then had some sort of a marketing name to highlight that they operated it. The Pan Am 747s were all "Clipper" something, after sailing ships. Boeing 1969 probably felt that the 747 would sell based on it's own merits and so it didn't need a cool mar...

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RE: Why No Boeing Full Double-decker Super Jumbo

The Boeing NLA: <center><table align="center" border="0" width="650" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><a href="/uf/view.file?id=34175&filename=php5Xwchs.jpeg" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/uf/34175/middle/php5Xwchs.jpeg" width="648" height="345" border="0"/></a></...

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RE: Boeing Announces 787 Dream Tour

I can say with fair confidence that it won't be coming to MCI. Nothing to get excited about here.

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RE: Boeing's New Air Dominance Fighter Concept

Sensor and processing technology keep improving so very soon a pilot could have very good <acronym title="South African Airways">SA</acronym> without actually being in the cockpit, so it's not unreasonable to assume that a true unmanned fighter is next. The potential ability to pull 100 Gs is just t...

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RE: Is Obama Grounding JFK's Space Legacy?

Yes, B.O. effectively ended the US space program and he and his group are gleefully putting America in the back seat in all things. Luckily, not even the Bin Laden mission is likely enough to get him reelected, especially if the economy is in the shape it is now or worse.

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RE: F-35 Performance According To Test Pilots

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Ozair" class="quote" target="_blank">Ozair</a> (<a href="#44" class="quote">Reply 44</a>):<br/><i>I have no idea why the LWF competition decided...

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RE: F-35 Performance According To Test Pilots

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Ozair" class="quote" target="_blank">Ozair</a> (<a href="#27" class="quote">Reply 27</a>):<br/><i>Given that the US<acronym title="Air France">A...

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RE: F-35 Performance According To Test Pilots

The F-16 turns better than the C/D Hornet. Combine F-16 maneuverability with L.O. stuff and a powerful radar and it should be quite a jet.

[Edited 2011-05-22 23:10:59]

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RE: Aircraft Used In The Assault On Osama Bin Laden

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/faro" class="quote" target="_blank">faro</a> (<a href="#67" class="quote">Reply 67</a>):<br/><i>So we have a new black project aircraft! What su...

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RE: Aircraft Used In The Assault On Osama Bin Laden

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mham001" class="quote" target="_blank">mham001</a> (<a href="#79" class="quote">Reply 79</a>):<br/><i>Supposedly a Chinook was brought in as the...

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RE: Aircraft Used In The Assault On Osama Bin Laden

Isn't it safe to assume that no Chinooks were involved if they were using this new stealth chopper? I mean, the Chinook is a lot of things but it ain't stealthy.

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RE: Aircraft Used In The Assault On Osama Bin Laden

I found a pic of what it might look like compared to a conventional Blackhawk: <a href="http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=155135&d=1304520018" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=155135&d=1304520018" width=...

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DC-10 Rudder

Because the #2 engine transited straight through the vertical stab, the DC-10 seemed to lack rudder when compared to other aircraft. Did/does this make it sluggish in the yaw axis? The Tristar seemed to mitigate this somewhat by placing the intake above the fuselage but the engine in the rear of the...

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Mag 8.9 Earthquake In Japan

Fox is reporting 8.9, ocean has pulled back.

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RE: Official KC-X Tanker Bid Thread.

The designation is KC-46A.

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RE: Chinese Ship Killing Ballistic Missle

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/faro" class="quote" target="_blank">faro</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>Where from? Couple of cents still lying about so...

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RE: Chinese Ship Killing Ballistic Missle

FUND ABL, problem solved.

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RE: Big Airports That Don't Get A Major Aircraft T

MCI, three terminals, 90 gates and almost no wide body traffic. There's the occasional sports charter and the FedEx <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-11s, but that's about it. Wide body traffic was an every day thing in the 70s, lots of DC-10s and L1011s and even the occasional TWA 747, b...

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RE: F-35 Detects Missile Launch 1200kms Away

There is no question that the US holds a significant lead in sensor technology and while I agree with most of your points about how it could be used, this one's a little far-fetched: <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" col...

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RE: New Justification For F-22?

The sinking of a CVN would result in our throwing everything we have at them short of nukes, and they do not want that at this time.

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RE: Canada Commits To F-35

CF-22. Canada is the first line of defense if someone comes over the pole.

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RE: Boeing To Offer NewGen 767-based Refueling Tanker‎

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RE: Vladimir Putin; "T-50 Is Superior To F-22"

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/pylon101" class="quote" target="_blank">pylon101</a> (<a href="#33" class="quote">Reply 33</a>):<br/><i>Historically direct US-RUS fighting was ...

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RE: New Airforce One... Finally!

Seriously, this is the VIP transport, "green" isn't even a concern for the US<acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> on this one. The only statement they're trying make with it, and the F-22s often in escort, is "leave this one alone". About as close as they'll get to a "green" concern is how far i...

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RE: Why Didn't Boeing Extend The 747 Upper Deck?

The idea has come up more than once. In fact, there was even a model created with two decks all the way to the tail but I can't even find a picture of it anymore. My understanding is that not only would it have required a complete wing/box redesign, but even with the new wing there'd have been a hug...

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RE: F-35 Costs About To Soar, Says Pentagon

Kill this pig, build more F-22s for US<acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym>, more <acronym title="Safair (South Africa)">FA</acronym>-18E/F/G for the Marines and Navy and call it a day. I agree with UH60, this is simply ridiculous. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><t...

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RE: New Airforce One... Finally!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/playloud" class="quote" target="_blank">playloud</a> (<a href="#138" class="quote">Reply 138</a>):<br/><i>However, I don't really understand why...

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RE: New Airforce One... Finally!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Pygmalion" class="quote" target="_blank">Pygmalion</a> (<a href="#119" class="quote">Reply 119</a>):<br/><i>lets be clear though... even if Obam...

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RE: New Airforce One... Finally!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KC135TopBoom" class="quote" target="_blank">KC135TopBoom</a> (<a href="#115" class="quote">Reply 115</a>):<br/><i>Let's not go there, he overspe...

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RE: New Airforce One... Finally!

The idea of replacing the <acronym title="Servivensa (Venezuela)">VC</acronym>-25s has been in the works since before the 2008 election. Obama back-burnered it in a (largely successful) attempt to appear tough on spending. I'd imagine someone in the US<acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> was fin...

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RE: Bill Maher's Advice To Democrats, "Keep Going"!

I dropped HBO because I got sick of having politics thrown in my face in general. I pay for movie channels to get movies, not politics. When I want politics I'll tune in CNN or Fox. I'm not paying to have someone else's "in your face" agenda constantly in my face. <img src="http://cdn-www.airl...

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RE: Bill Maher's Advice To Democrats, "Keep Going"!

Bill Maher is considered the to be an extreme left fringe element in the US and such is his reletively small audience.

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RE: New Airforce One... Finally!

Any "production" AL-1A Airborne Laser frames will be 748s, as will any future Presidential fleet.

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