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Jump to postThe airstairs are an aftermarket option for the 757, they fold up into the cabin of the aircraft then slide sideways into the wardrobe just aft of the L1 door. On the two aircraft that I have worked on that have these stairs installed, also have an electrically operated E and E bay door and ladder t...
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Jump to postYup thats right, the first 767 for YLW, and yes its on its way to KFC
Jump to postThere is a 767 on its way to Kelowna right now, you can track it from this link <a href="http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N767AT" target=_blank>http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N767AT</a> It should be landing around 1:45pm. I won't be able to be there but hopefully someone can make it down there...
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Jump to postYes I'm an AME with flightcraft. The Air Tanzania bird you saw was an ex-delta a/c that was being given a c-check and prepared for the lease to Air Tanzania, theres another ex-delta bird that has been done up for Air Tanzania and is sitting in the hangar waiting to leave. The ANA <acronym title="Bit...
Jump to postYup I work at the airport, you probably can guess who I work for. Good Luck with your pilot training.
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Jump to postThe incident happened between a Westjet 737 and a Jazz CRJ. Westjet was taxing out of the gate and clipped the Horizontal Stab of the CRJ. The 737 did not sustain any damage other than some scratched paint on the winglet, after a inspection was carried out the A/C left <acronym title="Kelowna (YLW /...
Jump to post<i>Harmony Airways (<acronym title="Harmony Airways (Canada)">HQ</acronym>/HMY) Applies for Fiji and Australia ---has applied to the <acronym title="Catania - Fontanarossa (Filippo Eredia) (CTA / LICC), Italy">CTA</acronym> for permission to operate a scheduled international passenger service betwee...
Jump to postKelowna Flightcraft currently has 13 727-200's and 3 Convair 580's in the Purolator Fleet.
Jump to postOn the AEI 727 cargo door installation, the door entirely built from inside the a/c. The fuselage is strengthened as required and structure added. And finally once all the work is complete the sheet metals guys cut around the strengthened area and voila you now have a cargo door in your a/c. Technic...
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Jump to postIt would be very easy to switch over to -15 or -17 engines from a maintenance standpoint, all you would need is a couple engines and some new EGT gauges for the cockpit. The hard part would be on the flight ops side as they would have to modify their manuals and paperwork to reflect the higher power...
Jump to postOnly 3 A/C will be getting winglets this Fall, The remaining 7 will get the mod done in early 2007. The Next A/C should be leaving YLW about Oct.8, as the a/c are scheduled in for only 14 days to complete the winglet install.
[Edited 2006-09-26 18:43:41]
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Jump to postUp until about 3 months ago we used to always unload our 727 and <acronym title="Cargolux (Luxembourg) and Air Chathams (New Zealand)">CV</acronym>-580 freighters in <acronym title="Kelowna (YLW / CYLW), Canada - British Columbia">YLW</acronym> with a forklift and pallet. The company couldnt justify...
Jump to postKelowna Flightcraft operates 12 727-200's and 4 <acronym title="Cargolux (Luxembourg) and Air Chathams (New Zealand)">CV</acronym>-580's for purolator. Barry Lapointe who own's <acronym title="Air Botnia (Finland)">KF</acronym> owns 5% of Purolator and sits on their board of directors, Canada Post o...
Jump to postYes Dallas has come and gone, and the 757 on the ramp does not belong to Air Astana, it belongs to Fun Air, they just haven't painted it yet. I can't give you a list but keep your eyes open for the next few months in <acronym title="Kelowna (YLW / CYLW), Canada - British Columbia">YLW</acronym> you ...
Jump to postWe had an new apprentice that liked to play practical jokes on everyone, but he was always on guard waiting for someone to finally get him back. Finally one day he and a licensed mech got sent out to another airport about 1.5hrs drive away to go rescue one of our a/c there that wouldn't start, well ...
Jump to postOn Line I carry around my flashlight, flip-flop snap-on screwdriver, pen, <acronym title="Acapulco - General Juan N. Alvarez International (ACA / MMAA), Mexico">ACA</acronym> Stamp, ear plugs, and a rag hanging out of the old back pocket. Also I usually have a tool bag with at the basics sitting in ...
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Jump to postI had a good scare this winter, we had just finished towing an aircraft, and parked it infornt of the hangar doors. At this hangar the ramp is sloped quite heavily towards the hangar doors. We chocked the a/c and set the brakes, i grabbed the front of the towbar and pulled the pin from the tug, as t...
Jump to postFrom what I have been led to believe, EPR will tell you how well your engine is running (ie: that your compressor is dirty, or is the engine compressing the air the required amount) where as N1 will only tell you how fast the compressor is turning.
Jump to postHeres some pictures I found that I think will help, In the first picture is the front end of one of these so called "lift-trucks", the second picture is one of the trucks picking up an a/c in the water. If you head to the south side of <acronym title="Vancouver - International (YVR / CYVR), Canada -...
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Jump to postBack when I was at tech school, one of the training aircraft, on which we would learn to rig flight controls, had messages scribbled on the sidewalls of the "hell hole" from every student who had worked on that aircraft at the school. All the messages where dated and signed by each person, Some of t...
Jump to postI think it was going to be powered by IAE V2500's. I can't remember who was going to do the mod, but I'm pretty sure it was V2500's powering it.
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Jump to posta few of us at work had these stickers made up for our toolboxes that say
"Last week I couldn't spell engineer and nows i are one"
There are some very valid points brought up here, but remember the way things work when city governments are involved, if the say they are gonna extend the runway dont expect to see it in action for at least another two years. If the runway was extended I'm sure it would be to the south so that the ...
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Jump to postLast year there was an <acronym title="Avialeasing Aviation Co. (Uzbekistan)">AD</acronym> that came out (at least i think it was an <acronym title="Avialeasing Aviation Co. (Uzbekistan)">AD</acronym>), that required us to pull all the windows in our 727-100F's and replace them with plugs. The plugs...
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Jump to postYou got it MX757, the 727 was the first aircraft to come with an APU.
OK next question, on factory original 727-100's what does the "APU" light on the FE's annunciator panel indicate???
Heres one for you guys,
Which commercial aircraft was the first to come with an apu from the factory???
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Jump to postThe First Video was filmed in Kelowna, B.C.. The a/c had just finished having its winglets installed and that was the first flight for that a/c after the work was accomplished, right after the flyby the a/c departed for <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS...
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