Personally, I’ve never seen both VC-25s together anywhere except for pictures at Andrews AFB. However, right now, both are on the #7 holding pad at KLAS. It’s pretty cool to see them both in one place.
I don’t know where a good photo opportunity could be had from but at least you know.
I can answer from experience of landing on them that there are indeed runways, with both types of surfaces (at least in the U.S.) on the same runway. This is both at airports serving primarily smaller G.A. and ones that serve air carriers. In fact, earlier this year while flying for an air carrier I...
Jump to postDelta has always publicly thought it good business policy to make statements on current events. But why not on condemning the anarchistic child-like city within a city in their fledgling Pacific hub? And why not publicly and unequivocally defend against the defunding of police departments, the rami...
Jump to postThe numbers don't support what you're feeling. More single engine (general aviation) aircraft go down every day than multi engine. The difference often is that the multi engine accidents involve fatalities more often. Thus they have a higher profile. I believe this is was a part 135 flight so take ...
Jump to postThe numbers don't support what you're feeling. More single engine (general aviation) aircraft go down every day than multi engine. The difference often is that the multi engine accidents involve fatalities more often. Thus they have a higher profile. I believe this is was a part 135 flight so take ...
Jump to postI've noticed that most propeller small plane crash accidents are twin engine instead of one, why is this ? and it happens quite often. Something is not right with these planes. The numbers don't support what you're feeling. More single engine (general aviation) aircraft go down every day than multi...
Jump to postThis smells like the sort of thing where one carrier might have influenced legislators to write a bill that would effectively strangle a specific competitor...
Jump to postAs an ASU aviation (undergrad) alumni, I'm kind of partial to their program and speak highly of it. I've been looking at heading back for my masters through them or Purdue. Chances are, so long as you've at least taken the GRE, ASU will accept you. They also (at least used to) waive the GRE requirem...
Jump to postI'm not going to lie, this was interesting but my interest was piqued more when I saw on the map that SOFIA was flying near it:
https://www.flightradar24.com/NASA747/1eea8545
My wildly early (but in good fun) assessment is that there was an un-contained blade(s) failure which, when it exited the cowling, it caused enough of the cowling to twist into the airstream. Subsequently, this caused the cowling to further get pulled into the airstream until the entire cowling came...
Jump to postI get that Lufthansa helped to define Euro-white with a great design years and years ago but now they're just copying the same boring and drab path that everyone else has. You can be imaginative and still look incredibly classy/professional. This new design is pitiful.
Jump to postWhile a $1000 bonus is nice, it has no real effect over one's career. It can reasonably be assumed that the airline(s) will be getting a long-term financial benefit from the tax changes. As such, a much more meaningful action would be be to give raises, not one-time bonuses.
Jump to postHere's my armchair wonder/theory: - In the first video of it taking off, the aircraft-right wing hits a structure of some sort before it goes out of frame. - Damage to the wing from the structure causes a hydraulic leak. - Enough hydraulic fluid leaks out to eventually cause a loss of pressure for d...
Jump to postI'm happy to see the contrast in the forums changed, the headers for each post much smaller, but there are still some issues that are very important to me that have not yet been addressed: - Ads - Far, far too many. I have one on each side of forums posts and annoying overlaid video ads that get in ...
Jump to postWhile I certainly like the new lines and general style of the upgraded website, I find that the quick readability of it has been diminished. In order to see the caption for a photo, I have to scroll down a full screen or more. Cruising through the forums takes MUCH more scrolling. I really appreciat...
Jump to postOn a related note to flying and degrees... The FAA allows for restricted ATP certificates, that essentially reduce the number of flight hours required to exercise the privileges of an ATP, that are based on particular degrees someone has earned. Normally, 1,500 hours are required, however here is a ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/32andBelow" class="quote" target="_blank">32andBelow</a> (<a href="#101" class="quote">Reply 101</a>):<br/><i>Quoting B52overSMF (Reply 99): It'...
Jump to postPer EgyptAir's Twitter feed: "EGYPTAIR A320 was at a height of 37.000ft, and disappeared after entering the Egyptian airspace with 10 miles." It's a little unclear exactly what they mean by that but I wonder if they meant that it had entered Egypt's airspace, traveled 10 miles, then disappeared? In ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/G-CIVP" class="quote" target="_blank">G-CIVP</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> You can read about ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Capt.Fantastic" class="quote" target="_blank">Capt.Fantastic</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i> Apparently these maneu...
Jump to postI'll second the mention that the 7th was likely the lav seat. Many-a King air (and other executive-type aircraft) have this option.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SFOA380" class="quote" target="_blank">SFOA380</a> (<a href="#29" class="quote">Reply 29</a>):<br/><i>What's particularly annoying for me (and, ...
Jump to postI'm not all that intimately familiar with <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>'s terminals, but when looking at these pictures, I feel like I'm looking at the local mall. Sure, there is some style, but certainly not impressive and it seems like it...
Jump to postWatsonville (KWVI), my home airport about 50 mins. from Santa Clara/San Jose, is also expecting a lot of traffic and are moving the regularly ramp-parked aircraft elsewhere on the field. While I have seen Gulfstreams here, I don't expect the airport to host many as the ramp area isn't really conduci...
Jump to postSplashiness: Not impressed.
Nose wheel off the runway for so long: Impressed.
One can only hope that <acronym title="Great China Airlines and Italy First">IF</acronym> Boeing were to ever make a double decker, they'd pick either the upper or lower deck for the flight deck... if only for looks. Not in between like the whale-jet. On a more serious elaboration, I would see them ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/B737900" class="quote" target="_blank">B737900</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>A fluke would have meant that they hit a w...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/2175301" class="quote" target="_blank">2175301</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i> "a slat departed the aircraft's right han...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/nitepilot79" class="quote" target="_blank">nitepilot79</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>in the company’s latest safet...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tb727" class="quote" target="_blank">tb727</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>Well, in a way, every <acronym title="Aeromexico...
Jump to postI was perusing the latest pictures and I happened to notice what looked like a VOR atop the Boeing factory paint shop at KPAE. In looking into it some more, I see that it is indeed a VOR/<acronym title="Moscow - Domodedovo (DME / UUDD), Russia">DME</acronym>. Of course I have seen various navaids in...
Jump to postIt could also be just so that the passengers can't see the usually dirty dirty workings that go on underneath the terminal building or all the rampers taking a break in the smoking area.
I don't know just how true this actually is but when I worked on the ramp I was chatting with some Skywest pilots about the EMB 120 and they were talking about how the plane isn't all that efficient. More specifically they mentioned it's thrust to lift ratio and the fact that they fly pretty high in...
Jump to postSadly, this reminds me of the time I was in San Francisco and across the street from where a guy got ran over by a similar sweeping machine on the street. VERY messy and just bad news all around. I wonder how this guy missed the machine?
Jump to postThat sucks. I remember when I worked as a fueler at <acronym title="Sacramento - International (Metropolitan) (SMF / KSMF), USA - California">SMF</acronym> I would end up chatting with some of the flight crews every once in a while. One time I was chatting with a Mesa first officer while waiting for...
Jump to postYou know, if there's Sierra Mist in the air eventually it'll form Mountain Dew.
Mountain Dewpoint?
Sorry, I had to.
I've always wondered with seats like this, what happens when the person in the aisle seat is fully reclined and the person in the window seats needs to get out to use the lav? Is there a general courtesy procedure?
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Jump to postIt was a busy day at my flight school today as I had my first solo today... And then later one of our planes went down after a bird strike. One of our instructors was up with a student in a Cessna 150 when a hawk decided it wanted to enter the cabin of the plane through the forward windshield.  ...
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Jump to postBased purely on aesthetics... I hope the 797 will resemble something along the line of the ecojet or tha KLM skinned plan from kaktusdigital.com. A new spiffy and unique design is overdue in my opinion (The 787 is a step in the right direction.). <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/wink.gi...
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Jump to postGorgeous!!!! I can't wait to at least be on the ramp under one let alone ride in one!!!
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