If nothing else, the situation begs one overwhelming question: Why issue a landing clearance when the runway is still occupied by a stationary aircraft? Everyone who’s sat in a cockpit or tower knows that pilots will, from time to time, call “fully ready” when they’re not really there yet with the p...
Jump to postA mainline carrier plowing an A350 or 787 a soul destroying 7300 nautical miles due west over the Pacific, carrying low-yielding tourists to the Australian version of Benidorm, seems like a sure fire way of flushing buckets of money down the drain. Singapore is just 2 hours away . . . . . .
Jump to postTaylor Swift is an icon of auto-tune. Her voice is almost non-existent and she can’t sing live. A squeaking, asthma ridden, hamster would be able to out-voice her. I get that she’s pleasing to the eye, kind to her fans and probably animals too. Everything about her reminds me of the red-headed one f...
Jump to postDenmark is, more or less, on a path to disarm their most powerful battalion and send the best of their equipment to Ukraine. Not large numbers, obviously, but they’re talking about sending all of the 19 Caesar howitzers they’re due to receive from France (sending brand new equipment they’ve never us...
Jump to postLet me get this straight: The AG from a territory whose main reason for existing is to provide a haven for tax evasion, money laundering and other dodgy banking practices, is suing a bank in another country for dodgy banking practices.
Priceless.
... and SAS are regularly operating an LR on the CPH-IAD service which, at 3.540NM great circle, is almost 600NM longer than DCA-DUB. An XLR could probably do LGA-ATH on a good day, but realistically all of Europe east thereof is within reach from New York and Washington. Yes but LGA and DCA only h...
Jump to post... and SAS are regularly operating an LR on the CPH-IAD service which, at 3.540NM great circle, is almost 600NM longer than DCA-DUB.
An XLR could probably do LGA-ATH on a good day, but realistically all of Europe east thereof is within reach from New York and Washington.
One of the best, if not the best, WC final I’ve ever seen. Edge of the seat match, and as in all good fairy tales the right team on the day won in the end.
Congratulations Argentina, a truly deserved World Champion!
If they extend the belly fairing modifying the aero isn't that back to the starting line in terms of certification? Did Boeing go back to the starting line when they put new wings on the 737, creating the NG? Did they go back to the starting line when they fitted said new wings with 2 meter tall wi...
Jump to postIt might be worth taking the time to raise two points of order: Clearing snow off ramps, runways and manoeuvring areas is the responsibility of the airport operator. So is the provisioning of real estate, e.g. de-icing pads and associated taxiways. De- and anti-icing of aeroplanes is the responsibil...
Jump to postWhat a display by Portugal, and what a sorry state Switzerland found themselves in. As the only remaining representative of the Iberian peninsula, they have moved way up the favourite ranks and presents a very serious challenge to the Cup. The commentator made an interesting observation when the cro...
Jump to postSpain out that's a chock Indeed, and at the chance of offending some, that is the biggest upset of the tournament so far. Nobody saw Morocco going through to the final 8, and Spain was one of the favourites, albeit not the top favourite, to take home the Cup. Well done Morocco, always loved an unde...
Jump to postWell, Japan lost in a Penalty shootout...but how is it "upset of the tournament" when Japan already defeated Germany AND Spain (but somehow lose to Costa Rica)? Croatia is not bad but they're also getting old. And if not for Japan forgetting how to take Penalty kicks :(. Saudi > Argentina...
Jump to postWhen I say it is coming home, I say so as we gifted Football to the world. Home is the birthplace of the beautiful game. Not that I genuinely think England will win. But if we beat France, who knows. As has been mentioned upthread, England did not invent the game. Secondly, you’re saying it because...
Jump to postAnother day full of no surprises at all, and two matches which utterly failed to raise the blood pressure. France is starting to look frighteningly good, with Mbappe heading straight for player of the tournament and team for the title. England was mainly meh and won a clear victory on a pretty weak ...
Jump to postAntonioMartin wrote:B777LRF wrote:Shaving Ryan’s Privates .
Saving Private Ryan?
Shawshank Redemption for the best, followed by Shaving Ryan’s Privates (may have gotten the title slightly wrong) and Battle of Britain.
But the one movie I can watch over and over again is The 5th Element. Anything Luc Besson works for me, but “The 5th” is his masterpiece in my mind.
In 24 hours the teams ranked 2nd, 10th and 11th by FIFA have been eliminated at the World Cup. It’s certainly turning out to be a tournament of surprises, and apart from a minor depression caused by the exit of my country, it’s been a great spectacle and football’s all the better for it. It would be...
Jump to post[quote="sierrakilo44”](..) I think most neutrals would at heart love to see Messi hold the cup, if Argentina made it to the final.[/quote] And I think you seriously underestimate the emotions involved in football. I too like Messi, but I can’t stand the Argentinian side and never have but for a...
Jump to postThat you started by misrepresenting “Belgium” as “Brussels” didn’t really leave a good impression. Football is a game you need to be brought up with to truly appreciate it. Whilst, in general terms, a game ending 5-0 or 3-3 is usually more entertaining than a 0-0 draw, the end result is not always a...
Jump to postWell we learned a couple of things from the opening match. First is that the Qatari team is an absolute joke; not a single shot or corner kick after 95 minutes of playing. They have a goal keeper who shouldn’t be let anywhere near a football pitch, and it's all backed by supporters who left in drove...
Jump to postIt costs nothing to have it on offer, and once in a blue moon an airline will place an order. Prime example of that is Air Greenland replacing their sole -200 with a new -800. At some point in the future, it will provide the platform for a new MRTT. A Freighter is unlikely; the suffers from the same...
Jump to postI can count on two hands the number of car manufacturers who offer automatics as the only option in this part of the world, and roughly half of them are way beyond the means of “normal” people; Rolls Royce, Pagani, Koenigsegg etc. Perfectly possible to order a brand new VW GTI with a manual box too ...
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Constellation
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nothing for a while
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VC10 / Il-62
720
707
Caravelle
DC-8
757-200
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All the rest are just variations of blandness.
Gave this a good thought, and the answer is that I’m as loyal to a brand as a brand is loyal to me. Now do I have preferences? Well, yes, but nothing a good bargain or a better product can’t easily overcome. On second thought, I am rather partial to Octane 100 fuel. But whether it’s decanted from a ...
Jump to postReaching for new lows on the creepiness scale?
Jump to postWayexTDI wrote:Imma leave this right there...
I wonder what the regulations are around materials for landing gear? Obviously cardboard’s out. No cardboard derivatives. No paper, no string, no cellotape. Rubber’s out. V/F Good one :-) If you’re trying to root cause your way to an answer, you need an “is” in your “is - is not” analysis. Rules sa...
Jump to postIf anything Covid related deaths may have been over reported. If someone who had Covid died, in many countries that counted as a Covid caused death in the statistics. But in many cases Covid wasn’t the reason, or even a contributing factor. We can debate the reason why, but when a society is in lock...
Jump to postDavid Petreus was on the other day, giving his impression of what would happen if the Kremlin Madman should launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine. It was very simple, actually: NATO would annihilate every single Russian armed force they could find and identify in Ukraine and in the Black Sea, and anywh...
Jump to postNot getting more popular here, no. One of the cable channels used to broadcast a match every week, and also had two guys in a studio doing the usual talky stuff. Lasted a couple of years, but was axed due to low viewing numbers. They do broadcast the super bowl, but that’s it. I know a few people wh...
Jump to postA 789F makes a lot of sense around 70-80T of Cargo lift, with somewhere around 90% of the Volume of the A350F (36 LD3's in the Belly vs 40) (...) An 789F would only be about 1M shorter than an 777F and 36 LD3's in the belly vs 32. Lower-deck is not what really counts in the freighter world, it’s ho...
Jump to postThere’s a lot more to a foldy-wing 787F than just the foldy-wing bit, essentially the whole exercise of trading range for payload and the ability to land with a very heavy payload are the key components in making a freighter out of a passenger aircraft. This means beefing up the structure, gear and/...
Jump to postAs mentioned above, one major issue is lack of hotel availability. As in, Doha is completely and 100% sold out for the duration of the WC and has been so for many months now. This means people will have to stay over in Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and anywhere else there’s rooms available. Tha...
Jump to postNote how the fullsize L2/R2 door is no longer available on the A321LR and XLR. A natural consequence of how few airlines used the option of L2 boarding, and would gladly swap that option for more seating. So Airbus didn’t miss a thing, on the contrary they offered something as a standard feature wh...
Jump to postNo possible way that they can do Outside Air Stairs Duo Boarding Year Round in CVG. Maybe seasonal. How come, are passengers utilising CVG built differently than the rest of human kind? Plenty of airports around the world using airstairs, and airstairs only, year round - including in weather much m...
Jump to postQuite a racist and incorrect approach you have. I'll correct your mistakes though, everyone should have a chance to learn. .... Any other racism you wish to express buddy? You may wish to call it racism, I frankly couldn’t care less. I have friends who owns companies in the building industry, and f...
Jump to postYeah, no. I just finished a project in Northern Norway, had my team in Sweden earlier in Spring. I cant see Swedes or Norwegians working 53-55 hour weeks. What my team gets done in 2.5 days, it takes the Norwegian teams 1 work week. And my guys still have time to relax. Scandinavians don't know how...
Jump to postI’ve no way of verifying the veracity of this, and coming from twitter the quality is hardly given. In either case, what looks like a leaked document supposedly stating that almost 50K Russian soldiers have lost their lives in the invasion has allegedly been leaked. That’s more than the USSR lost du...
Jump to postSaab are a shareholder My eyes didn’t cheat me then; it i s a Saab 340 that’s grown a tremendous gut, have had the wings transplanted onto the roof, fit with braces and a larger horizontal tail. Certainly ain’t no runway girl, and I wonder how it’ll handle with all those heavy batteries slung way b...
Jump to postWe can go back and fort ad infinitum debating whether the legacy Soviet airliners were any good or not, but the overall picture is clear as daylight: Against the contemporary “western” alternatives, Soviet commercial airlines have severely underperformed in all but a few cases, and have never reache...
Jump to postReally, you don't think it will be -10 operators maxing out range? Not really, no. The -10 already has the range to operate US West Coast to almost all of Europe with a full load of SLF. The current version won’t quite reach SE Asia with a full pax load from Western Europe, so rather than taking th...
Jump to postCan someone tell us what 6 tons can do? 4 LD3s or one P6P/AMP loaded to maximum weight with juicy revenue generating cargo. At the cost of a slightly reduced max range, but that’s inconsequential for most of the services. Except for a few ULH ventures with the -9, using the 6 tons to carry fuel for...
Jump to postOne hopes the transition to renewables and nuclear will be accelerating at such a pace following the unpleasantness in Ukraine, that within my lifetime the world may collectively say to those middle-aged mindset countries: It’s back to pearls, camels and carpets for you lot. I’ve lived in Doha and D...
Jump to postI’ve only ever bought a new car twice, once in Denmark and once in Belgium. In both cases it was a straight forward thing, going into the dealer knowing exactly which model I wanted. In Belgium I sat down and spoke with the sales person, laying out the exact spec I wanted. As chance would have it, h...
Jump to postFor as long as I can remember, the Russian armed forces were always considered second best in the world. Turns out they’re only second best in Ukraine.
Jump to postI’ve only ever experienced a pressurisation event once, and that was as a crew member. We were climbing out of somewhere, having passed FL180 when the alarm went off. As per SOP, before anybody could reach for the QRH the skipper yelled “MASKS ON” and we all went for the quick-dons. Next step was a ...
Jump to posthttps://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/ost/privatjet-befaras-ha-stortat-i-ostersjon A Cessna Citation IISP (551) has crashed into the Baltic Sea ENE of Gotland. Took off from southern Spain at around 15:00 with destination Cologne in Germany. Was uncontactable, overflew Cologne at FL350 and continued on ...
Jump to postYou lost me at the point where Hannover was spelled incorrectly.
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