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Re: DY Financial Discussion - 2020

https://finalcall.travel/no/her-star-st ... na-krisen/
In Norwegian but the pictures speak for themselves.

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Re: WOW Ceases Operations

We need to say good-bye to MOM, DAD, SIS, BRO, CAT and DOG.
That was an inventive registration routine

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Re: Airbus, Lockheed join forces to pursue U.S. military refueling orders

About buying flying tanker time, remember the RAF model: "AirTanker Services, operating as AirTanker, is a British charter airline which operates charter flights using reserve aerial refuelling aircraft. In 2008 the Ministry of Defence signed the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) contract...

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Re: Airbus considering re-branding CSeries as A200

As indicated by others, integrating the C-series in the Airbus brand makes a lot of commercial sense. What they are named does not have much relevance when looking at the past. The so-called Airbus designation system has always been a mess. We have of course the main line of designation: A300, A310...

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Re: Airbus considering re-branding CSeries as A200

As indicated by others, integrating the C-series in the Airbus brand makes a lot of commercial sense. What they are named does not have much relevance when looking at the past. The so-called Airbus designation system has always been a mess. We have of course the main line of designation: A300, A310,...

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Re: Not a good start for AW101 in Norway

Stavanger Aftenblad, the local newspaper, visited the military hangar where the damaged AW101 is stored. The journalist met the project leader for army equipment, Lieutenant-Colonel Bård Galåen, who told him the following: - The final accident report will be issued before summer, - The cause of the ...

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Re: France govt abandons the Notre Dame des Landes Airport project

Locals voted in favor of building it through a referendum. There are 180 court rulings backing the referedum. Both Macron and Philippe said these decisions should be respected. Now that they are in office they don't stick to their word. To be accurate, it was a "consultation" (a public op...

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Re: Not a good start for AW101 in Norway

Quite strange reply from the accident leading investigator, Håkon Sitre, to a Norwegian paper's interview today (Stavanger Aftenblad): He first states that no technical fault has been found so far. As the journalist comments that if it's not technical, it must be human, the answer is that it is too ...

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Re: Not a good start for AW101 in Norway

While the accident investigation team is at work, a member of the Norwegian parliament (Jenny Klinge, deputy head of justice committee) asked the government if it had or would considered cancelling the order altogether, Question based on the potential risk for crews for a long period before the acci...

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Re: Argentina buys 5 Super Etendards

Not quite surprising considering that Argentina was in 1981 the only export customer of the Super-Étendard (14 units).
They were quite satisfied by the performances of the ac during the Falklands/Malvinas war (Exocet hits on the HMS Shieffield and MV Atlantic Conveyor).

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Re: Not a good start for AW101 in Norway

Other AW101 roll over accidents: 2014.10.12 : One of Denmark’s AgustaWestland AW101 transport helicopters has been damaged in a landing incident in Afghanistan, the nation’s defence ministry has confirmed. An aircraft operating from Mazar-e-Sharif air base ended up on its side after a landing incide...

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Re: Not a good start for AW101 in Norway

Considering that the undercarriage has not collapsed or been retracted by mistake, and that there was no gale side wind at the time, one can only speculate about a faulty pilot's command inducing lift and bank. It seems. A helicopter, particularly of that size and weight, does not simply tip-over o...

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Re: French airlines at the dawn of a big bang

What about French Blue. Not the size and might of Level, but a French long-haul low cost carrier anyway.
Limited to PUJ, PPT, RUN and SFO from ORY for the time being.

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Re: Not a good start for AW101 in Norway

Considering that the undercarriage has not collapsed or been retracted by mistake, and that there was no gale side wind at the time, one can only speculate about a faulty pilot's command inducing lift and bank. It seems. A helicopter, particularly of that size and weight, does not simply tip-over on...

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Re: Airbus repaints very first A320, will join museum

Does it now look identical to an A320-100 (for the most part) because all of the wingtip devices are gone? A320 MSN 0001 is an A320-100. It was originally a-110, modified to a -130 to test the IAE 4500, then a -131 with the IAE 4500-A5. Being a test bed, a lot of small modifications were made over ...

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Dassault F1s for the US

The French DOD has cleared the sale of 63 FAF Dassault F1s the ATAC in the US. This subsidiary of Textron will use these fighters to compete for the contract of the USAF requiring aircraft posing as enemies to train their own pilots. The F1s which were withdrawn for service 3 years ago, will undergo...

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Re: French general accused of using fighter jet for weekend commutes to Provence

According to the French press, the general was found guilty by two inquiries (government and army). He was the second in command of the French AF, with the prospect to become number one. He has now been assigned to a much less glamorous position, aide to the chief of the French AF. It is meant to be...

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Re: New Airline in Belgium: Air Belgium

Naming your airlines "Air country name" or "Nationality Airlines" was fine in the days of state-sponsored flag carriers, and some have grown valuable brands since then, but for a startup it sounds stale IMO. It worked for Norwegian - although they did not use the word "Air&...

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Re: A330MRTT Orders, Production And Testing

First automatic refueling connection. On March 21st, the flying MRTT testbed EC-HLA connected automatically 6 times to a Portuguese F-16. Airbus embarked in the development of automatic refueling connection in 2015. The functionality (image processing and automatic piloting of the boom) will be inte...

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Dassault Mirage IVA joins Yorkshire Air Museum

How strange facts of life can be. At the time the UK formally request to enter negotiations to leave the EU, a Dassault Mirage IVA (no. 45/BR) is transported from Châteaudun AB (France) to the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington (UK). It is reported that it took 11 years of negotiations for this happy...

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Re: RE: Painting Logos On Belly: Not A US Thing?

What about Delta? Their logo and name are painted on the belly of the A330s.
And add Transavia to the list

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Re: Metroliner crash at Luqa, Malta

What was this aircraft dong in Malta? A US-registered airframe with 2 EO/IR turrets under the rear fuselage, French military personnel. Libya related? According to French news, the ac was leased by a company in Luxembourg, CAE Aviation, and operated for the French DGSE (Direction Générale de la Séc...

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Re: Airbus A320NEO Production Thread - Part 11

Frontier finally takes delivery of its first A320neo. Frontier Airlines, headquarters in Denver, Colorado (U.S.), took delivery today of its first A320neo. Frontier is the first U.S. airline to receive an A320neo with CFM engines, and the aircraft is the first of 80 A320neo Family aircraft the low-...

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Re: Pictures of Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine US presidential/vice presidential election campaign aircraft

I'm wondering why she does not fly an Airbus...

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Re: Airbus to deliver their 10,000th aircraft!

Can anyone recommend a good book on the history of Airbus - a warts'n'all one? Would love to learn more.. I would suggest to start by reading the history part of the Airbus website, it's free: http://www.airbus.com/company/history/the-narrative/ Otherwise the books about Airbus history are quite th...

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Re: Airbus to deliver their 10,000th aircraft!

Here are two extracts from Airbus' own history telling. It shows that the early years were not always easy ones: "...For 18 months from December 1975 Airbus entered into what became known as its “black period” when virtually no deals were struck and the number of “whitetails” – aircraft built b...

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Cost cutting at Airbus

Tom Enders surprised many with his letter to employees indicating that the company was considering cutting jobs. The reasons are many, costs overrun on the A300M, penalties for late deliveries due to lack of seats or engines, poor sales performance of the A380 leading to production cut,.... A re-str...

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Re: Aircraft Cleaning: Where to wet wash

Look here: http://corporate.airfrance.com/en/press ... ew-exteri/ and here (sorry in French): http://www.aero.uuds.com/actu/press/08- ... retien.pdf and about BAw http://fr.googlesightseeing.com/2009/02 ... ur-avions/ Hydroblaster https://www.hydroblaster.com/AircraftWashingSystems.htm Immaculate fl...

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Re: A330 - Why So Popular for Short Haul In Asia And Rare Elsewhere?

As it was replied earlier, frequency and capacity are the two parameters an airline must balance. There are two historical failures in introducing twin-aisle planes in Europe. One was Air Inter, the former French domestic airline, later merged into Air France more due to political reasons than anyth...

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Re: SAS old equipment questions...

In addition to the valuable information already provided, here are some details about the A300s:: MSN 079 A300 B2-320 LN-RCA del. 17 Jan 1980, modified to B4-120 standard in early 1983, transferred to Scanair on 25 Mar 1983 still LN-RCA, then Conair as OY-CNA on 24 Oct 1987, then Premiair in Jan 199...

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Re: A Noratlas back in service

Sorry, I can't find where on their website it mentions that event? Do you have a more accurate link? The initial French link was to show pictures of the actual ac and info about the people taking care of her. For the news, here is the link (in French): http://www.air-cosmos.com/un-noratlas-r ... -m...

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A Noratlas back in service

A 60-year old Noratlas (no. 105), maintained by an association at Marignane ("Le Noratlas de Provence"), was called back by the French AF for 3 days to provide transport to young para-troopers in need of practice. Not sure if all the soldiers have appreciated the large "60 years"...

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Re: Helicopter Crashed In Norway, 13 Persons On Board

The Norwegian accident investigation team has released a preliminary report. The cause of the accident is confirmed to be metal fatigue in the gear which broke in several pieces. The cracks initiated in the inside of the gear and therefore no metal particles could be detected before the accident. Th...

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Re: World oldest charter airline?

What about Sterling Airways? Wiki: "Sterling Airlines traces its history back to 1962, when Eilif Krogager, founder of Danish travel agency Tjæreborg (today part of MyTravel Group), started the charter airline Sterling Airways with two Douglas DC-6B bought from Swissair, in order to better serv...

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RE: Egypt Air 804 Paris-Cairo Missing Part 5

A bit more on naval means deployed on site. "Le Gouvernement français, avec la collaboration du Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses, a mandaté la société française Alseamar pour participer à la localisation des enregistreurs de vol (dits « boîtes noires »). Le 26 mai 2016, un ingénieur et deux technicie...

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RE: Egypt Air 804 Paris-Cairo Missing Part 5

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rbrunner" class="quote" target="_blank">rbrunner</a> (<a href="#83" class="quote">Reply 83</a>):<br/><i>When is the French <acronym title="Rosto...

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RE: Egypt Air 804 Paris-Cairo Missing Part 5

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/cat3appr50" class="quote" target="_blank">cat3appr50</a> (<a href="#52" class="quote">Reply 52</a>):<br/><i>What manned subs, <acronym title="Ro...

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RE: Egypt Air 804 Paris-Cairo Missing Part 4

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/apfpilot" class="quote" target="_blank">apfpilot</a> (<a href="#198" class="quote">Reply 198</a>):<br/><i>If anyone is interested this is the sh...

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RE: Helicopter Crashed In Norway, 13 Persons On Board

According to the latest news from the Norvegian investigating team, this accident is different from the 2012 one.
The axle did not break. But they do not say where the separation occured.
The rotor detached without any warning of any sort if they are to believe the voice recorder.

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RE: Helicopter Crashed In Norway, 13 Persons On Board

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/flyingturtle" class="quote" target="_blank">flyingturtle</a> (<a href="#38" class="quote">Reply 38</a>):<br/><i>so that the gearbox and the engi...

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RE: Helicopter Crashed In Norway, 13 Persons On Board

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/flyingturtle" class="quote" target="_blank">flyingturtle</a> (<a href="#36" class="quote">Reply 36</a>):<br/><i>I googled around for accidents w...

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RE: Helicopter Crashed In Norway, 13 Persons On Board

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SASDC8" class="quote" target="_blank">SASDC8</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>Actually the helicopter was returing to Bergen...

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RE: Ten Year Old A346 To Be Scrapped

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Planesmart" class="quote" target="_blank">Planesmart</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>Quoting AirbusA6 (Reply 5): I can't ...

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RE: Helicopter Crashed In Norway, 13 Persons On Board

The helicopter which took off from Bergen, crashed on land, on a small island, Turøy, before flying over the sea.

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RE: Airbus Major Problems With A320neo, A350 And A400M

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CARST" class="quote" target="_blank">CARST</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>And apparently Airbus failed to control their su...

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RE: First Swiss CS100 Scheduled Service

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SR380" class="quote" target="_blank">SR380</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>BTW Swissair (SR) si long gone.. Swiss (LX) is...

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First Swiss CS100 Scheduled Service

Spotters mark the date: Swissair will put their first CS100 on <acronym title="Zurich (- Kloten) (ZRH / LSZH), Switzerland">ZRH</acronym>-<acronym title="Paris - Charles de Gaulle (Roissy) (CDG / LFPG), France">CDG</acronym> July 15th. Manchester, Prague and Budapest will be the following destinatio...

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RE: 777, 787, 797,...and Then?

Thank you to all for indulging in a somewhat silly discussion. So the main ideas seem to be: - 7A7,...and eventually 7福7 (thanks LH748) - 800,... (funny 888-888 from hilram) - 1007 - 7107 - the same again with a letter, an acronym (NG, MAX,...) or a mark number (II, I<acronym title="Business Air (Un...

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777, 787, 797,...and Then?

I write a completely useless post, but just for the fun of it as the week-end comes. Useless because the subject has been beaten to death already in 2000, 2007, 2008 and 2010. But hei, that's 6 years ago. Which way Boeing will possibly go after the 797? Restart the whole sequence from 7007? Or somet...

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RE: Las Vegas Sands' A340-500 Now Painted

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/columba" class="quote" target="_blank">columba</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>Must be the first A340 with a N-Registrati...

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