Re: F1 - 2021 Season

Wow, what a race and what a controversial end :o The first lap did stump me a little, whilst Max did dive, he made the corner ok, whilst Hamilton sort of left the door open for him. So I can understand Red Bull anger around that. However that ending leaves a bitter taste in the mouth, Masi genuinely...

Re: F1 - 2021 Season

Really looking forward to seeing how the different tyre strategies work out with the Red Bulls on the softs and Mercedes on the mediums. As a newbie, the fact that so much depends on tires is one of the most unsatisfying aspects of motor sports. Millions of dollars spent on wind tunnels, aerodynami...

Re: F1 - 2021 Season

Really looking forward to seeing how the different tyre strategies work out with the Red Bulls on the softs and Mercedes on the mediums.

Re: F1 - 2021 Season

marcelh wrote:

legoguy wrote:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RachelBrookesTV/status/1467625114560708608

I don’t see the word “testing”

Re: F1 - 2021 Season

10 second penalty to Max for break testing Hamilton. Retains P2 position. FIA are doing a great job of engineering a showdown for next week.

Re: F1 - 2021 Season

Verstappen summoned to the stewards for potentially failing to slow for double waved yellow flags. Bottas and Sainz summoned for possible single waved yellow flag infringements. In the past, failing to slow for double waved yellows incurs a 5 place grid penalty, and failing to slow for single waved ...

Re: Paris Air Show 2019: Airbus News and Orders Thread

They're also upsizing 10 320NEOs to standard 321NEOs. The 321 has definitely been the star of PAS19. I agree wholeheartedly. How many orders/commitments/conversions did the A321 and its derivatives land this week? I'd love to know Rgds I've had a go at answering my own question, counting conversion...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

Reduce airspeed... By reducing the airspeed, wouldn't they also lose altitude which isn't ideal at 5000 ft in a mountainous area? Regarding the manual trim, when they tried to adjust manually in the over speed situation, would the manual trim wheel even rotate? Or will it rotate but have zero effect?

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

Can somebody correct me if any of this is wrong... From following things so far, after the initial MCAS activation the pilots were able to hit the cut off switches as per the checklist and were able to get the aircraft to a roughly level flight at 5000 ft above the ground. However at this point, the...

Re: Ethiopian Airlines 737MAX crashes enroute to Nairobi

If the pilots were experiencing issues with airspeed during and right after departure, could they have raised the flaps earlier than normal in order to place the aircraft into an above stall speed state of flight?

Re: Reduction of 787 deferred production cost slows.

So in layman's terms, what does this all mean? At this current point in time of the Boeing 787 timeline, Boeing have designed, tested, built and delivered 702 787's so far and lost $24,251 million in doing so? However, painting it all as doom and gloom would be wrong as the remaining aircraft ordere...

Re: Virgin A340-600 (G-VWIN) flew to the scrappers last month but Virgin has bought it back!

Hard to beat a dependable Airbus Quad when it comes for filling in for unreliable 787s. It sure does. Even though it has nothing to do with the 787’s reliablility... RR can’t sedm to get their act together. And the A346s uses Trents...and it may be more reliable engine than the 1000 but still not a...

Re: Why has Boeing ceded the 777-200 / 300 replacement to Airbus ?

I couldn't agree more. The A350-800 had 182 orders in the middle of 2008. The A358 got officially cancelled in September 2014. Airlines had to swap their order to either A359 or A330. I do not consider them new orders as most of them were placed in 2008. They do not represent current demand on that...

Re: Number of 777's produced will soon pass number of 747's produced

A fantastic achievement for Boeing. Both the 747 and 777 achieved amazing sales and both should be celebrated by all aviation fans alike. The 747 was the Queen of the skies for years and revolutionised air travel as we known it and is probably one of the most recognisable planes in the public eye. A...

Re: Identify this aircraft type (is it an A330?)

Highly likely a Lufthansa A330 IMHO. The white winglets rules out it being a Turkish Airlines A330. The grey belly in front of the wings along with the narrower grey belly aft of the wings screams Lufthansa to me along with the white horizontal stabilisers. Hard to tell however the engines seem to b...

Re: Fate of Singapore´s 9V-SWB?

I think most (if not all) of that repair was actually paid for by Rolls Royce; not only was it their engine that malfunctioned (and their manufacturing flaw), but IIRC that was a time-on-wing leased engine as well. What's Rolls Royce got to do with it? 9V-SWB is a 777-300ER with General Electric GE...

Re: Irish 10/16 - Summertime and the flying is easy ...

Ryanair cancels DUB-LIS flight at last minute: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/ ... -1.2770866 This seems like a case study in poor customer service and downright incompetence by FR. The airline cancelled a flight to LIS earlier today (Saturday, 27th) and initially told pax that they were on...

RE: F1 -- Spanish GP

A touch call however I can see the point of view that it was a driving incident but I do feel Rosberg has to shoulder the majority of the blame. Hamilton saw the gap, and went for it. Given the speed differential he had, once he had aimed at the gap as he was entitled to do, he had to be fully commi...

RE: Severe Vignetting - What To Do?

Phil, the Canon 5D mk iii has in camera vignetting correction, it's hidden somewhere in the menu, and is only applied to Jpeg's so this would most likely help you. I shoot the same equipment but as I shot RAW, I use Adobe Camera Raw to deal with the vignetting automatically so it's never an issue. O...

RE: 12 Shot Dead In Paris Terrorist Attack - Part 2

BBC reporting that at least 4 hostages killed in the Eastern France situation.

RE: QR Pits A350 Against The A380's Future

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rotating14" class="quote" target="_blank">rotating14</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>How can a plane that has yet to have...

RE: Compression Issues

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Smoketrails" class="quote" target="_blank">Smoketrails</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i> and lastly checking for nois...

RE: A330neo - Is It A Rush Job?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Boeing778X" class="quote" target="_blank">Boeing778X</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>A330neo Launched: July 2014 EIS: 2016<...

RE: F1 2014 - Monaco Grand Prix

Well that was entertaining despite being deprived of the last lap. Rosberg's little incident doesn't quite look 100%, it's hard to tell. However the fact he started to reverse back on to track (by his own admission) is a bit suspicious, along with his over the top celebrations back in Parc Ferme. Th...

RE: Spotting At Kingsford Smith

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/korpenko" class="quote" target="_blank">korpenko</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>Yes, the red letters on the right side of ...

RE: A Bunch Of 'soft' Rejections....

On a side note, is that Tower Hill (Shep's Hill) at <acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia - New South Wales">SYD</acronym>? Having never been there, I see the fence is quite high there, is it easy enough to nail shots without the fence covering the g...

RE: Spotting At Kingsford Smith

Some nice images, I take it the car park is directly behind Rydges Hotel? No issues with security at all?

RE: Nuclear Security Summit In Amsterdam

Nice blog! Unfortunately, like the others, I fear it will be a total clampdown during the week the events on. :/

RE: New Nikon AF-S Nikkor 80-400 Autofocus Issues

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/AlexC" class="quote" target="_blank">AlexC</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>I'm no expert, but I think that I've read somewh...

RE: New Nikon AF-S Nikkor 80-400 Autofocus Issues

I have the Nikon D800 and the <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym>-S 80-400mm so in a similar boat equipment wise to you. I'm still getting used to the lens myself. The <acronym title="TACV C Verde Airlines">VR</acronym> is fantastic for photographing stationary objects, I can shoot at 400mm at ...

RE: Bahrain Royal Flight Vvip B767 - Airbus Windows?

Judging by the early images of this airframe, the window holes were simply plugged by Boeing during construction. LH Technik likely removed the plugs and installed the standard 767 windows.

RE: Details On New High-density (86 Seat) Q400

Is the removal of the forward cargo hold (Hold 5) the only main change? The current Dash 8 Q400's are nose heavy enough as it is especially with a full passenger load with few bags flying in the rear holds. I can't image a few extra seats in the front helping the matter much. Are they considering mo...

RE: Norwegian Use HiFly Again Due To Problem W 787

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KarelXWB" class="quote" target="_blank">KarelXWB</a> (<a href="#39" class="quote">Reply 39</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> This particul...

RE: 6D Or D600 For A Planespotter?

One downside to the D600 is the known dust spot/shutter oil splatter issue which Nikon at the moment do not seem to have an answer to, otherwise than to send it in and have them sensor clean it for you. The D600 has 7 central focus points that allow focusing at F8, whilst I believe the 6D is still l...

RE: 6D Or D600 For A Planespotter?

Interesting thread, as I am currently mulling over the option of selling all my Canon equipment (7D included) and getting a Nikon D600 + new Nikon 80-400mm. The new updated 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G <acronym title="Edelweiss Air (Switzerland)">ED</acronym> <acronym title="TACV C Verde Airlines">VR</acrony...

RE: Photography At Singapore Changi Airport (WSSS)

Thanks Wei for the information. I suppose aircraft arriving into RWY 02L in the afternoon/evening will provide me a load of new aircraft and airlines types I've not seen before, I think that's when I do most of my spotting there, after 2pm at Changi Business Park, plus the odd hour or two at the T1 ...

RE: Photography At Singapore Changi Airport (WSSS)

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/musang" class="quote" target="_blank">musang</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Cheers Doug, Changi...

RE: Photography At Singapore Changi Airport (WSSS)

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

RE: Photography At Singapore Changi Airport (WSSS)

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/je89_w" class="quote" target="_blank">je89_w</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Those are actually taken from the Crowne Plaza...

RE: Photography At Singapore Changi Airport (WSSS)

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/je89_w" class="quote" target="_blank">je89_w</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>Unfortunately, this spot is long gone and has ...

Photography At Singapore Changi Airport (WSSS)

I realise there have been several discussions in the past however there isn't really anything up to date regarding plane spotting at Changi Airport so I thought I'd try my luck and ask here for some help. How are the spotting locations at Changi Airport at this time of year? I will be visiting Singa...

Pegasus Orders A320NEO and A321NEO

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/sirtoby" class="quote" target="_blank">sirtoby</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i> Quoting legoguy (Reply 24): When all the ...

Pegasus Orders A320NEO and A321NEO

So where are the total orders standing at now for the A320 NEO series? 1654 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A320neo_orders) + whatever <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> firms up. When all the above is firmed, that must bring it close to 1800 orders for the NEO alone?

RE: Heathrow Spotting Information #2

I wouldn't recommend anyone trying to walk along the motorway, that's just asking for trouble. I've attached a quick basic stretch of the path from <acronym title="Turkmenistan Airlines">T5</acronym> to the various spotting places for RWY 09L. Basically turn right when leaving the ground level of <a...

RE: Rave Reviews For Boeings 787

According to the article, ANA is getting 20% improvement in efficiency on their long haul route. Is Frankfurt their only current long haul route with the 787? If so, what did they use previously on their <acronym title="Frankfurt am Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym> rou...

RE: EDI And DUB Spotting Transport Help

At Dublin, you can hop on the free transfer bus to the Long Term Blue car park which is located on the southside of the airport. Once at the Blue car park, you can just walk to the main entrance and walk up on to the mound on the left hand side ( google coordinates: 53°25'10.80"N 6°16'38.19"W ). You...

RE: Sigma 120-300mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM

As far as I am aware, the new Sigma 120-300mm <acronym title="Falcon Air Express (USA)">F2</acronym>.8 <acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym> has a new paint coating that doesn't flake like the coating of previous Sigma lenses and the focusing and zooming is all internal so the length remai...

RE: Sigma 120-300mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM

I'll have to admit that it'll take a lot to knock the Canon 100-400mm off its place as THE lens for most aviation photographers, my copy I just sold got me relatively sharp images to use at 400mm for 1600 pixel images. However it wasn't a perfect lens in low light conditions which I often find mysel...

Sigma 120-300mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM

Well the new <acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym> version of the Sigma 120-300mm <acronym title="Falcon Air Express (USA)">F2</acronym>.8 lens has been out now for close to two years, however there are still only a small handful of reviews out there on the web, and I only know of one A.ne...

RE: Help Identify This Aircraft!

Here's another image of the same aircraft, hope it helps a bit. The titles says "Southern" at least.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostame.../218923246/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Dave