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- Fri Jul 17, 2020 2:51 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: BA fleet parking thread
- Replies: 523
- Views: 124170
Re: Updated: BA fleet parking, will retire 747 fleet
BA have served DEN for years with the 747, and I have flown BA DEN-LHR often, with the 747. With what type will BA serve DEN from now on? According to Airline Route announcement On Jun 27th BA will go to a 777-200 on the LHR-DEN route Any idea when the DEN-LHR service will resume, or is that still ...
Jump to post- Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:21 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Denver Aviation Thread - 2020
- Replies: 446
- Views: 82979
Re: Denver Aviation Thread - 2020
Since BA have announced the immediate retirement of their entire 747 fleet, and BA have historically served DEN with the 747, with what type will BA serve DEN going forward? Could it be the 777, 787, or A350? All my BA flights (DEN and otherwise) have been on the 747 (I haven't flown on any other ty...
Jump to post- Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:09 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: BA fleet parking thread
- Replies: 523
- Views: 124170
Re: Updated: BA fleet parking, will retire 747 fleet
BA have served DEN for years with the 747, and I have flown BA DEN-LHR often, with the 747. With what type will BA serve DEN from now on?
Jump to post- Wed Jun 17, 2020 5:37 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: TWA Transatlantic Drawdown Time Line
- Replies: 106
- Views: 11631
Re: TWA Transatlantic Drawdown Time Line
In 1994, I flew TWA 904 JFK-MAD. I think I remember the flight continued on to BCN. Is that correct? I came back from MAD-JFK on TWA 903. Did that flight start at BCN, then stop in MAD for the onward flight to JFK?
SmithAir747
- Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:26 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2020
- Replies: 232
- Views: 20550
A more detailed look at FWA's Project Gateway (as they now call the expansion project for the terminal, apron, parking, new solar farm, etc.), with videos, documents, and architectural impressions:
https://fwairport.com/project-gateway
SmithAir747
- Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:33 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2020
- Replies: 232
- Views: 20550
Re: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2020
FWA is moving forward with its planned terminal expansion and other projects, now that the project has been awarded to Michael Kinder and Sons (MKS) and Flintco to plan, design, and build the expansion projects. https://fwairport.com/news/fort-wayne-international-airport-moves-forward-on-47.3-millio...
Jump to post- Tue Feb 18, 2020 6:17 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Disney raises prices to over $200 for a single day ticket!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2495
Re: Disney raises prices to over $200 for a single day ticket!
I hear so often of single adults around my age (I'm in my mid-40s now, no spring chicken) going and visiting DL or DW on their own, and some of them suggest I try it on my own. I've never gone during my whole life. It might be a once in a lifetime experience for me, but it's so expensive. That doesn...
Jump to post- Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:02 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Cruise Ship / Ocean Liner Thread - 2020
- Replies: 692
- Views: 77216
Re: Cruise Ship / Ocean Liner Thread - 2020
My cruise coming up in a fortnight is Star Trek: The Cruise IV (1-8 March 2020). Star Trek: The Cruise, inaugurated in 2017, is a full-ship charter theme cruise for Trekkies, officially licensed by CBS, Paramount, and other entities associated with Star Trek. This cruise, a floating Star Trek conven...
Jump to post- Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:18 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Mr.Rogers Neighborhood
- Replies: 8
- Views: 808
Re: Mr.Rogers Neighborhood
I grew up watching Mr. Rogers.
Did you know that PIT's terminal has (or has had) a small memorial to him in one of the concourses? I saw it when heading out to LGW on USAirways in 2004. I don't know if the memorial is still there or not.
SmithAir747
- Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:24 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Cruise Ship Thread - 2019
- Replies: 136
- Views: 22038
Re: Cruise Ship Thread 2019
A couple of years ago, I read somewhere about a cruise line having workshops available on how to make or mix your own wine to bottle and take home. I can't remember which cruise line or ship it was though. Do any of you remember this? Which cruise line/ship was this offered on? SmithAir747 I finall...
Jump to post- Thu Nov 14, 2019 5:39 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Cruise Ship Thread - 2019
- Replies: 136
- Views: 22038
Re: Cruise Ship Thread 2019
A couple of years ago, I read somewhere about a cruise line having workshops available on how to make or mix your own wine to bottle and take home. I can't remember which cruise line or ship it was though. Do any of you remember this? Which cruise line/ship was this offered on?
SmithAir747
- Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:50 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Dual Citizenship - Wrong or OK?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5448
Re: Dual Citizenship - Wrong or OK?
I am a first-generation Irish American. I was born to Irish parents who came over to the USA on academic sabbatical. I was born in the USA during their temporary stay here. I was relinquished for adoption at birth and adopted by an American family. Being born to native Irish parent(s) makes me poten...
Jump to post- Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:13 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Central Park Tower Topped Out
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4023
Re: Central Park Tower Topped Out
I actually like 432 Park Avenue's design, for its minimalism and symmetry.
SmithAir747
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:08 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: What do you do for work?
- Replies: 108
- Views: 20878
Re: What do you do for work?
I am building a career in craniofacial embryology and anomalies research, whilst being involved in public engagement for awareness and acceptance of craniofacial differences (global public speaking and lecturing, media interviews, writing, other avenues). Having been born with and lived with Treache...
Jump to post- Mon Sep 30, 2019 6:09 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
- Replies: 158
- Views: 18927
Re: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
And I’m surprised no one else has noticed this, but there’s a sterile connector from the future new Gate 1 to an FIS. Me thinks that G4 wants to start Mexico from FWA in addition to SBN. Doesn’t surprise me because G4 continues to grow at both airports. I actually noticed what looks like a potentia...
Jump to post- Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:08 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
- Replies: 158
- Views: 18927
Re: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
To add to my previous post, I should note that the FWA terminal expansion is designed to increase the space between gates (along with the aforementioned addition of a gate to make a total 9 gate), or "stretch" the gates apart, to allow more ramp space for the larger aircraft that are now s...
Jump to post- Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:30 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
- Replies: 158
- Views: 18927
Re: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette says construction on the planned FWA terminal expansion could begin in 2021. This includes the addition of a new gate and new outbound luggage conveyor system, growing the building from 100,000 to 147,000 square feet. https://www.journalgazette.net/article/20190918/WEB...
Jump to post- Thu Aug 29, 2019 8:22 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Cruise Ship Thread - 2019
- Replies: 136
- Views: 22038
Re: Cruise Ship Thread 2019
Disney Cruise Line have announced the name of their new, 5th ship in the fleet:
Disney Wish
This new ship will feature Rapunzel and her long hair on the stern.
SmithAir747
- Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:47 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
- Replies: 158
- Views: 18927
This link leads to nowhere.
Is there another source for this? I haven't heard of a FWA-DEN.
SmithAir747
jetskipper wrote:
This link leads to nowhere.
Is there another source for this? I haven't heard of a FWA-DEN.
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- Tue Aug 20, 2019 6:29 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Cruise Ship Thread - 2019
- Replies: 136
- Views: 22038
Re: Cruise Ship Thread 2019
P&O's Oriana has left the fleet and gone to her new home, China's Well Star Travel Cruises.
The strange thing is the new name: Piano Land.
What's the meaning of the new name? Anything to do with pianos?
SmithAir747
- Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:27 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: AA move to T5 in LHR?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 13954
Re: AA move to T5 in LHR?
Do BA use T5A for widebodies? I seem to recall only seeing narrow bodies there. T5A is normally used for narrowbodies (with a large number of jetbridges close to each other), and the satellites (B and C) serve widebodies and narrowbodies. There are also remote stands on the T5 property. SmithAir747
Jump to post- Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:41 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: AA move to T5 in LHR?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 13954
Re: AA move to T5 in LHR?
That being said, I flew out of LHR last year back to the US, and there was no additional screening, just the same checkpoint in T3 that everyone else used, and nothing more at the gate. Has something changed recently? When I started flying between the US and LHR in the early-mid 2000s, all my US fl...
Jump to post- Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:27 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Carnival Fantasy-class ships
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2513
Re: Carnival Fantasy-class ships
My first cruise in my life was on Carnival Fascination. In June 2001, Fascination was doing a 3-night itinerary Miami to Nassau. Currently Fascination does 5-7 day cruises out of San Juan and Barbados into the eastern and southern Caribbean. Fascination has had some changes over the years, including...
Jump to post- Tue May 28, 2019 6:23 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: AA191 40 Year Anniversary coming up
- Replies: 155
- Views: 21838
Re: AA191 40 Year Anniversary coming up
In the late 1980s there was a TV advertisement for TIME LIFE Books series "Mysteries of the Unknown" (a series of books dealing with ESP, UFOs, and other mysteries.). In the first segment of the commercial, there is a man who is about to board a flight in Chicago but has an eerie feeling o...
Jump to post- Wed May 22, 2019 9:43 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Why do people believe the Earth is flat?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 7612
Re: Why do people believe the Earth is flat?
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1765569 ... globe-pub/SmithAir747
The University of Sussex's own Flat Earth Society will host an event at The Globe pub in Brighton (UK):
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1765569 ... globe-pub/
SmithAir747
- Thu May 02, 2019 7:12 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Pan Am 747 Cabin Era Article #5 | Final Era: One Last Effort at Capturing the Market by Following Trends (1987-1991)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8317
Re: Pan Am 747 Cabin Era Article #5 | Final Era: One Last Effort at Capturing the Market by Following Trends (1987-1991)
What configuration and cabin era was N739PA (Clipper Maid of the Seas) in at the time of the ill-fated PA103 flight? (It still had the blue cheatline and black Pan Am titles when it crashed.)
SmithAir747
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 5:40 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Star Wars Episode IX--The Rise of Skywalker: The end of the Skywalker saga
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1957
Star Wars Episode IX--The Rise of Skywalker: The end of the Skywalker saga
The final installment of the main Star Wars saga is coming on 20 December 2019 in the USA. The full title, Star Wars: Episode IX--The Rise of Skywalker, was revealed today along with the film's first official teaser trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoGwf-vOEYM This film will be the penultima...
Jump to post- Mon Apr 01, 2019 7:20 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Best and Worst film adaptation of a book
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5540
Re: Best and Worst film adaptation of a book
The Sum of All Fears: The movie is so different from the book particularly in its setting. In the book, the improvised nuclear weapon is detonated during the Super Bowl in the stadium in Denver, by East German and Palestinian terrorists. In the film, the bomb is detonated at a football game in Balti...
Jump to post- Thu Mar 28, 2019 9:56 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Why Are Bus Boardings so Common in Europe and so Rare in the USA?
- Replies: 188
- Views: 26603
Re: Why Are Bus Boardings so Common in Europe and so Rare in the USA?
At JFK, TWA used mobile lounges to transfer passengers between their two terminals--TWA Domestic (T6) and TWA International (T5, the Eero Saarinen masterpiece TWA Flight Center). On March 26, 1994, after getting off my TWA DC-9 from IND at T6, I was transferred in one of these mobile lounges from a ...
Jump to post- Tue Mar 19, 2019 7:06 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Regional Props VS Regional Jets
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7268
Re: Regional Props VS Regional Jets
I still wish Turbo Prop Aircraft like the Q400 had counter - rotating propellers. I assume you mean contra-rotating propellers, like those on the Tu-95 Bear bomber and its airliner derivative, the Tu-114? Contra-rotating propellers are 2 propellers mounted one ahead of the other on the same shaft d...
Jump to post- Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:32 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Confirmed: British Airways to paint 4 aircraft in retro livery
- Replies: 671
- Views: 143673
Re: Confirmed: British Airways to paint 4 aircraft in retro livery
I hope next time I fly to London from Denver that I get on one of the heritage 747s. I need to go to the UK and Netherlands between 11 and 22 June and will most likely take the BA 747 LHR-DEN return. My fingers are crossed that I end up on one of the retros.
SmithAir747
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 8:52 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Southwest get final authorization from FAA to begin Hawaii service
- Replies: 341
- Views: 46168
Re: Southwest get final authorization from FAA to begin Hawaii service
I cannot find any connecting routings or schedules from DEN to HNL via any of the California gateways. I tried random dates for a DEN-xxx-HNL trip, but no dice.
SmithAir747
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:33 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: What are your greatest accomplishments?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1107
Re: What are your greatest accomplishments?
My life with the rare craniofacial disorder Treacher Collins syndrome has led me into a career in craniofacial biological research (craniofacial embryology, developmental biology, craniofacial genetics, and 3-D imaging and morphometric analysis of craniofacial morphology). My training and career beg...
Jump to post- Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:56 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Confirmed: British Airways to paint 4 aircraft in retro livery
- Replies: 671
- Views: 143673
Re: Confirmed: British Airways to paint 4 aircraft in retro livery
Could any of the retro 747s show up here at DEN eventually?
SmithAir747
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 7:00 pm
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: "International Airport" with NO international service
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8110
Re: "International Airport" with NO international service
Fort Wayne International Airport (FWA) in Fort Wayne, IN, is another example.
SmithAir747
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 7:00 pm
- Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
- Topic: "International Airport" with NO international service
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8110
Re: "International Airport" with NO international service
Fort Wayne International Airport (FWA) in Fort Wayne, IN, is another example.
SmithAir747
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:25 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Confirmed: British Airways to paint 4 aircraft in retro livery
- Replies: 671
- Views: 143673
Re: Confirmed: British Airways to paint 4 aircraft in retro livery
Any chance one of these BA retro 747s could show up in DEN one day?
I often go to London from DEN, and I most often take the BA 747.
SmithAir747
- Thu Feb 07, 2019 10:59 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Sabbaticals
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1101
Re: Sabbaticals
I have done two sabbaticals (actually, working sabbaticals that take me away from my normal workplace to do work somewhere else). In 2010, I left UCSF for a month to work with a professor at the University of Calgary, learning 3-D craniofacial imaging and morphometrics. I was a PhD student then. In ...
Jump to post- Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:51 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Capital punishment in the US and Its future
- Replies: 192
- Views: 17783
Re: Capital punishment in the US and Its future
It seems there are 2 posters who are reincarnated from past lives as executed criminals--one executed by guillotine, the other by electric chair, who are just telling it as they experienced it. 
SmithAir747
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 3:42 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Cruise Ship Thread - 2019
- Replies: 136
- Views: 22038
Re: Cruise Ship Thread 2019
Of particular interest to solo cruisers, the Celebrity Edge has single occupancy cabins--these single staterooms are called "single staterooms with infinite veranda" (one of the class of cabins called infinite veranda staterooms). With these single staterooms, Celebrity joins Norwegian, Cu...
Jump to post- Mon Jan 28, 2019 3:26 am
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: Capital punishment in the US and Its future
- Replies: 192
- Views: 17783
Re: Capital punishment in the US and Its future
The guillotine is fast, and the condemned feels a slight burning sensation on the back of their neck. When the cocktail execution goes wrong, the condemned may be experiencing intense pain, but is not able to express it. There is anecdotal evidence, going back to the French Revolution, and through ...
Jump to post- Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:49 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
- Replies: 158
- Views: 18927
Re: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
A DL plane slid off a runway at FWA an hour or so ago, whilst taxying for departure to ATL. The 51 passengers were deplaned and taken back to the terminal, and the plane was in the process of being towed back. This is due to the runway treatment fluid being diluted by rain, making conditions icy. ht...
Jump to post- Tue Jan 22, 2019 3:55 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
- Replies: 158
- Views: 18927
Re: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2019
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/loca ... or-airportSmithAir747
FWA posts 9th straight year for increasing outbound passenger numbers, and starts planning to expand its terminal. Airport authority to commission plan to build expansion onto terminal building.
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/loca ... or-airport
SmithAir747