Here's your answer. N905NN is the new lightning bolt Heritage jet. I'm not sure if there will be a post 1968 scheme in the Heritage fleet plan.
https://airlinegeeks.com/2017/06/05/pho ... g-737-800/
Southwest originally planned to operate three ex-American Lockheed Electras but the three year delay from the Braniff/Texas International lawsuit allowed them to obtain three white tail 737-200s.
They were not originally ordered by Southwest.
Fed Ex didn't start with "old Lear Jets". They started with factory fresh Fan Jet Falcons custom configured by Dassault for Fed Ex.
Jump to postI've done it twice in the last few years, both times on a Saturday in a 321. You fly the 22 ILS to about 1100-1200 feet and turn right into a left downwind leg for 13. On the second one I kept the base leg just west of the shoreline; you end up rolling out on final about 400-500 feet above the water...
Jump to postOPF is a very busy GA airport. When I worked line service, it was a very popular destination or origin for flights from us. Buy your line of reasoning, all GA airports should probably close since they only serve "a few rich people". The reality is that separate GA airports serve an import...
Jump to postWow, this is great. I had NO IDEA that the DC-10 and L-1011 were needed at Laguardia! I don't ever recall them being there for some reason? Did the perimeter rule exist back then out of LAG? I really thought it was LH that pushed the 747-8i through, and then being the only airline to really follow ...
Jump to postMetrojet had pax transfers to mainline US Airways. All employees were from mainline, for pilots it was a bid position at a lower pay scale. Agents, FAs, MX and ramp made normal mainline rates. For me, it was an escape from years of being a reserve 737-200 Capt in CLT to a senior block holder slot in...
Jump to postNational was first to fly jets (727-100) into Key West in 1968 when the Electra was retired. That's almost 50 years ago! Eastern also ran 727-100s a few years. Both airlines only went to MIA so performance was not an issue.
Jump to postNorth American/Rockwell Sabreliner biz jet had a simple, but effective, auto deploy mechanism for the leading edge slats. Springs. Slats controlled by aerodynamic load and not by the pilot. The An-2 had a similar system - 5 decades back! The Sabreliner also goes five decades back - first flight 195...
Jump to postOne exception to the "re-launched airline names never succeed" mantra...Frontier.
The original lasted from 1950 to 1986, and today's Frontier has managed to last 20 years plus.
American Airlines Flight 1 has been NYC - LA since since at least 1937 first flown by DC-3s with multiple stops across the country. The first non-stop between IDL-LAX begin with piston powered DC-7s in 1953. Flight 1 has crashed at least three times with no survivors, the last being March 1, 1962 wh...
Jump to postThe United belly loading doors were unique to UAL. Standard DC-8 configuration for all models was cargo doors on the the right side.
Jump to postAloha and United had a very close relationship as codeshare partners for a number of years. I remember Aloha's route map even featuring United in their inflight magazine and on the website. Additionally, United has a long history of serving the Hawaiian Islands spanning back to statehood with heavy...
Jump to postDC-3, absolutely. And that could be me - I was a DC-3 captain for Air Miami/Shawnee Airlines in the late 1970s!
Other operators then - Air Sunshine, PBA, Florida Airlines and Pro-Air. All operating scheduled passenger services around Florida and the Bahamas.
Russ Farris
Here's another example I thought of - a German BAC 1-11 that had dual engine failure and attempted an emergency landing on an autobahn back in 1971. 22 fatalities, 99 survivors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panintern ... Flight_112
The pilots will do the best they can. Either land at the airport, or find an alternate landing location. Airlines have occasionally landed on major highways in developed countries (usually due to a significant malfunction). There are too many unknowns to say for sure. Can you give any examples of a...
Jump to post[quote="2175301"]The pilots will do the best they can. Either land at the airport, or find an alternate landing location. Airlines have occasionally landed on major highways in developed countries (usually due to a significant malfunction). There are too many unknowns to say for sure. Can ...
Jump to postWell, wherever it is, this is a wonderful shot! I rode on Frontier Convair 580s as a kid - I wanted to be an airline pilot and loved every minute on those vibrating prop-jets!
Russ Farris
Quick update. I am a little off on my dates above, and forgot that the MSP-MDW Stratocruiser consolidation didn't come until later, and that in 1957 they still had the 377 on the continuing service all the way to SEA, which spread the fleet out. But more relevant to this conversation, once the Elec...
Jump to postI'm the first to admit I was wrong on this one guys! Flying RC models since I was 16 and a career as an airline pilot with 25,000 hours obviously didn't depend on my knowledge of aeronautical engineering!
Jump to postYou can fly most airplanes in the vertical axis with just trim. I think you mean lateral axis if you're talking about pitch (elevator) control. I think you meant longitudinal axis... Vertical axis (yaw)- controlled by rudder Lateral axis (roll) - controlled by aileron Longitudinal axis (pitch) - co...
Jump to postAs for planes designed around engines, I believe the 757 is an exception to that case. It was developed alongside the 767 and inherited that programs engines.
That's incorrect. The 757 was designed initially for the RB-211 and the 767 for the CF-6.
Here ya go! Scroll on down the page.
http://www.spiritsofansett.com/history/ ... nvair.html
Nikita Kruschev's 1959 visit was on a TU-114 large turbo prop, not the TU-104. The Tu-104 was on a Canada - U.S. visit in 1958, dropping off the Russian ambassasdor at Baltimore.; two different events
Jump to postOn the Boeings I've flown 727, 737-200/300/400, 757 and 767 - no. And negative on the DC-8, DC-10 and Fokker F28.
Russ Farris
wn676 is almost correct - it's 100 degrees F, not 86 degrees. The only places we do this regularly are PHX and LAS.
Russ Farris
I actually have some insight here. National started service to Key West in 1944 during World War II at the behest of the US Navy, which had a submarine base there. The 18 passenger Lockheed Lodestar was the only aircraft National flew until the introduction of the DC-4 in 1946. Key West was a Navy t...
Jump to postActor William Shatner saw a strange beast destroying the number 2 engine on a DC-6B flight back in the early 1960s and shot it, saving everyone on board. 20 years later, Actor John Lithgow was on a Trans Global 707 and saw a different creature doing the same thing to an engine. He took a gun from a ...
Jump to postYes, I forget the operator but piston 340/440s fly freight everyday OPF (Miami) to the Bahamas.
Jump to postSince you guys asked...here's a list current to about 10 years ago.
http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/Safety_I ... -ways.html
Most people today don't realize it, but almost all airline training and check rides were performed in actual airplanes until the late 1980s, not in the very rudimentary simulators of the day. I know Ontario and Mojave were used in the LA basin for pilot training, and I'm guessing this AA DC-6 at VNY...
Jump to postPower to get in and out of smaller fields, more than 2 engines for flying over ocean, they have a niche with clients that will pay extra for that which is not available from competitors. Exactly. It also provides redundancy that allows for takeoffs if a part is out. For example, if an air bleed val...
Jump to postAA has over 50 A 320s, not 4. All the early America West are retired the oldest 320 on the property I believe is a 1998 delivery, but I don't have access to the fleet list right now.
Jump to postThe BAC 1-11 was officialy retired august 4, 1989...the day before the PI merger.
Jump to postAs I said, since 1987 - this included NW 255 that year. While low fatality accidents, I should have remembered DL 1288 and DL 1141. DL 1086 had no fatalities. The NW ground collision I also left off because of the low fatality rate. And as noted many times on this website, accidents by contract carr...
Jump to postIf I'm not mistaken, G4 hasn't had any fatal accidents. Where as DL, with NW added, is looking at over 1000 deaths due to accidents. Good point. It makes doclightning's so-called "calculation" look invalid, irrelevant, and downright silly. Bringing up Delta and Northwest fatalities back t...
Jump to postDelta has had less than 300 passenger fatalities since it's founding in 1927. Northwest, which was considerably smaller than Delta for most its history was around 600. Neither carrier had a major accident for 20 years prior to the merger.
Jump to postDefinitely a JT3D turbofan 707, not a straight turbojet. All of American's 707/720s were converted from turbojets to turbofans by 1962.
Let's see - airport obviously out in the boondocks and served by both American and TWA in 1966. IAD is my educated guess.
Cessna did this as far back as the 1950s. The 170 and 195 floatplane prototypes were produced at the Pawnee factory and took off from a flat bed, then proceeded to a nearby lake for water testing. On return they landed on the grass next to the runway.
Jump to postHere's the most complete list of United named aircraft I think you will find.
http://www.aeromoe.com/fleets/ua2.html
Yes, they were all early air mail pilots who flew for Varney Air Lines, Pacific Air Transport and Boeing Air Transport, which became United in the early 1930s . Most of them finished their careers in the Jet Age flying the DC-8. From open cockpit fabric biplanes to 600 mph jetliners in a little over...
Jump to postThis is the kind of thread Airliners used to have, thanks Timz for consistently posting this information. My contribution: 1958 was the first time more passengers crossed the Atlantic by air - displacing the mighty ocean liners forever for long distance transportation. And this was still the prop era!
Jump to postThanks, how could I forget about Graceland? The NASA gate gate was unknown to me, though.
Jump to postI believe is the also current the owner of the 880/990 type certificates. Other than the Swissair 990 in Basel and the forward fuselage/cockpit of 880 C/N 1 at the Delta Museum in <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson Int (The William B Hartsfield / Municipal / Candler Field) (ATL / KATL), US...
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