What a bunch of nonsense. Always amazing how many people have money to burn in the airline space, particularly when you try to turn it into an ESG space. Fools and their money and all. Let's mark this and revisit in two years. See how that valuation looks then.
Jump to postN390CM, following that test flight mentioned by Stretch8 above, appears headed northeast over Greece at 40,000 feet, presumably going to SNN. Been at TLV since 8/12/21, or just over 9 months. IAI was getting them done in 6 months pre-Covid. CAM currently has 5 others at TLV, and 3 at ILN and one at ...
Jump to postNot just a revocation, an EMERGENCY Revocation. https://www.scribd.com/document/5738821 ... from_embed
Jump to postIf it had gone as planned, would the video viewers say "wow, how cool"? Hmmm. I think that, as it was done, it merits a "wow, how cool!". And it came pretty-close to functioning as designed; they just hadn't tested the autopilot aircraft for stability without the safety pilot, w...
Jump to postOkay, so let's shift gears and look at Northern Air Cargo's 4 767s. Might have been cheaper to call up the Peruvians to run OB2059P for them for a few days, but maybe their pilot contract doesn't permit that. Or maybe there's something seasonal going on where they really need all the lift of the 76...
Jump to postAs DLNZ and others have pointed out, National's doing a fair bit of hauling sparklers to Poland for our Ukrainian friends. Just noticed what is likely another load turning around over Newfoundland, Northwest of Gander, and heading back. About 2:20 into the flight from DOV. Clearly not a landing at ...
Jump to postAs DLNZ and others have pointed out, National's doing a fair bit of hauling sparklers to Poland for our Ukrainian friends. Just noticed what is likely another load turning around over Newfoundland, Northwest of Gander, and heading back. About 2:20 into the flight from DOV. Clearly not a landing at t...
Jump to postI thought that one is permitted to speak in the native language of the country involved, particularly in an emergency. (If only the AA guys in Cali had spoken to the controller in Spanish, there likely never would have been an accident.) Give it a rest, guys. There was a go-round. Probably fighting...
Jump to postLooks a little like the original Midway Airlines route network post their Air Florida acquisition. Not completely, and many of the cities are obvious, but it brings back a very warm time for me in the mod-80s Flew them to STT, even. Fun times!
Jump to postThe FAA checklist for a stunt like this should basically consist of “if this goes wrong, is there any chance of someone who’s unwilling or otherwise uninvolved being injured or killed? If the aircraft or jumpers splat themselves on the ground, your responsible for it” That's swell and all, but the ...
Jump to postI think the impending recession, brought on by high fuel prices and rising interest rates as the result of certain policies, is going to take the gloss off a lot of this, as well as other things in aviation.
Jump to postOkay, so let's shift gears and look at Northern Air Cargo's 4 767s. For the uninitiated, NAC dry-leases 4 763s from CAM. They operate two under the Aloha Air Cargo flag (but they're really NAC) from West Coast to Hawaii, and two from MIA to the Caribbean and Central America. N399CM in Aloha Air Carg...
Jump to postCorrect. The fleet is to take packages off of FedEx and UPS (and now FedEx is totally gone) planes and trucks, and put them into Amazon's then-already-existing truck line-haul/last-mile network, then to be delivered by USPS and Ontrack, now largely to be delivered by Amazon's growing organic final-m...
Jump to postOne of the nitwits involved was the guy who jumped out of a plane at 25000 feet without a parachute and used his body to maneuver himself to be able to land on a net on the ground that he could barely see from the air. Experienced skydiver. Actually on the board of one of the skydiver associations. ...
Jump to postafcjets wrote:Over 15 posts so far and no idea what this is about.
GDavis003 -- great find! Looks like it's still in one piece.
Jump to postJuan Browne has a good short piece on this debacle. The FAA denial letter couldn't be any clearer. When asked by the FAA what public interest would be served by granting the requested exemption to the rule requiring a pilot be in an aircraft at all times, one of the clowns said words to the effect o...
Jump to postF9Animal wrote:KCaviator wrote:Blows my mind that these billion-dollar sports teams use shady charter companies.
Definitely not shady. They have a pretty good safety record.
Blows my mind that these billion-dollar sports teams use shady charter companies. I'm not sure I would call this a shady operator. 40+ aircraft, they have been doing sports and military charters for over 20 years. What makes you think this operator is any less reliable than any other large American...
Jump to postDoes anyone know for sure if the New England Patriots ended their relationship with Eastern? Did the Arizona Cardinals sign up with them also? I think the Pats thing is over, at least that's the rumor. The Cards are going to stay with their current provider, according to our friend MO11, who knows ...
Jump to postWGN's 744 N356KD is done with heavy maint at TPE and looks to be doing a revenue run ex-HKG.
But the "newest" one, N452SN, is still broken in ANC, now for 10+ days.
Meanwhile, National's 919CA is on its way to Poland from Travis AFB, presumably with more sparklers.
Is the Sequoia conversion dead? I read the article below which talks about NAIR WORX, which is the engineering academics who Sequoia was gonna use. Now says some other company will own the STC. https://www.flightglobal.com/mro/niar-werx-to-name-customers-for-cargo-converted-777-300er-as-project-adva...
Jump to postLooks like N1612T, which has been in MEX for conversion since 1/25/21 (over a year), is finally getting near delivery back to Amazon as a converted aircraft. This is one of the Amazon-owned, ex-DL, ones. Seems like it will be going to ATI.
Jump to post(quoting article) “There’s a 60-foot chimney sticking out of the top of the food processing plant — no lights on it, dead center — straight across the runway. So whenever you come in, you have to fly over the top of this and drop down,” True-ish, but the approach would have her over 400ft AGL at th...
Jump to postWell, let's not be so quick about closing the airport. It does have a steep nonprecision approach to that runway, but if she hit anything, she was well-below the MDA when she did. She seems basically to have been on the centerline and if she had flown that airport as often as her family says she has...
Jump to postAmazing how much stuff coastal Southern California area is done essentially-outdoors.
Jump to postThis all goes back to the AA accident in ORD. The NTSB guy stood up in a press conference like a day later and announced that they strongly-suspected blah-blah as the cause, and it was completely-wrong. Very-embarrassing. Now they take their time, and debate lots of things internally, before render...
Jump to postThere's no incentive for the investigators to leak anything. I can't speak for the Chinese authorities, but that's not how the NTSB operates - not to mention the treaty rules governing an investigation like this. This all goes back to the AA accident in ORD. The NTSB guy stood up in a press confere...
Jump to postATA flew a lot of charters. A LOT of charters. Commercial and military. One of the things they used this jet for was to move crews to meet airplanes.
Jump to postPilot suicide may be what happened, but there are dozens of other things that could have happened. Could be a bunch of things we can think of, could be a bunch of things we CAN'T think of at the moment. Thinking of five possibilities and eliminating four to come up with a conclusion is not how any ...
Jump to postIt's not going to be pilot suicide based on anything we've seen/heard so far. If the guy left a note and they found it, then yeah. If the black boxes reveal this, then yeah. Otherwise, it's a lazy, lazy, lazy theory, promulgated by those without enough imagination to discern the actual sequence of f...
Jump to postI keep having to repeat myself over and over aging, so many people post the same articles and ask the same questions, it is obvious people just dump information onto this thread. Absolutely. I don't think we're going to get much more until the CVR/FDR are read out. Which they will be. There will be...
Jump to posthttp://sptrucking.com/ A couple of cool photos on their website. That's indeed what they specialize in.
Jump to postSo hot take right here- what if the pilots treated both engines equally, and engaged both reversers in the flight deck and advanced both throttles. As a result of the left reversers being inop, the left engine was producing high thrust instead of reverse thrust. That would’ve created a huge imbalan...
Jump to postI was finally able to dig up a few pictures of the Asia Pacific 757 (N757QM) that appears to have been in Selma, AL (SEM) for a right engine change for about a month. Thanks for the link and photos. She flew back to GUM on 4/2/22; you may have mentioned that earlier. Looking through Rick Cast Truck...
Jump to postEpoch Times is rated a questionable source due to numerous failed fact checks - according to MBFC: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-epoch-times/ The list of failed fact checks indicates spectacular willingness to produce farcical clickbait. The Epoch Times has strong connections to pro-Taiwan, an...
Jump to postSpacepope wrote:And a 757F leaves service for good today (yes, it's DHL but still counts as a freighter) https://avherald.com/h?article=4f719c2d&opt=0
So here's how I think this is going to play out. (1) They're coming in fully-coupled on automation with all 3 autopilots engaged; if they do nothing, the thing will autoland and roll out. Of course, most crews take over manually for the landing. With the low cloud deck, however, not gonna be easy to...
Jump to postThe Epoch Times, despite the Falung Gong connection, actually writes about a lot of stuff in a balanced, just-the-facts-maam way that I often find interesting to read. One is allowed to read stuff from people one disagrees with. That's why I read the New York Times. The video is based on the premise...
Jump to postThere is no reason for JetBlue to do this other than to get rid of what would be a major competitor in Frontier/Spirit.
And if they think they have difficulty maintaining service quality now, just wait.
Avherald is reporting the aircraft didn’t follow commands. It's a translation issue. "Commands de vol" is what they were saying. That means "flight controls" in English. "Les commandes de vol d'un avion englobent l'ensemble des dispositifs dans le poste de pilotage et les l...
Jump to postI thought that one is permitted to speak in the native language of the country involved, particularly in an emergency. (If only the AA guys in Cali had spoken to the controller in Spanish, there likely never would have been an accident.) Give it a rest, guys. There was a go-round. Probably fighting ...
Jump to postNK & B6 are too close in size for that to be a realistic possibility. . So were the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central System, which is where the turn -- reflecting a clash of cultures -- comes from. Ironically, the original Frontier taught the same lesson to Donald Burr of PeoplExp...
Jump to postSmacks of a real Red Team/Green Team issue in the future. Or maybe this is just WN swallowing AirTran, but with compatible aircraft types. Goal: Eliminate a competitor, pure and simple.
Jump to postContinentalEWR wrote:It's during peak season, but also a bit of a head scratcher. The existing flight hasn't been going out full....
Something quite remarkable on the WGN side, as I've just seen a photo taken from weekend, of inside the SHV hangar. It shows ship 804 (ex-LH machine which arrived years (?) ago), all but ready to fly. 3 engines, the comment from someone I know suggesting she was ready for the paint shop and then in...
Jump to postThis has been pretty-well ventilated, now. Maybe some minds have been changed, maybe not. I think the consensus is that most likely no criminal offense occurred. However, for a variety of reasons, including policy violations and general creepiness exposed, the guy is now being investigated, subject ...
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