My thoughts remain the same as the Dao in ORD. As a passenger, you may have a right to compensation for being denied boarding, but you do not have a right to that seat. Dao ought to be cited by the FAA, not awarded by a civil lawsuit as the result of irresponsible journalism and a general lack of un...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rc135x" class="quote" target="_blank">rc135x</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i> Another sad story of crew inexperience leadin...
Jump to postI like the idea of a VIP C-17, one that preferably can carry his own Beast as well.
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Jump to postOught to reduce the budget of the 89th AW just as well.
Jump to postFrom what I have heard from a couple of <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> pilots when asked about the next time we might see them hiring again, they said <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> may have upwards of 200 to 300 more pilots than they will need over th...
Jump to postI say Congress begin by reducing the budget for the 89thAW, it's absolutely pathetic when POTUS flies to LAS for a 30 minute speech he otherwise could have recorded from the White House.
Jump to postLarge, open, flat areas sound like a good place for tanks. US should offer a Marine Expeditionary Unit, and there probably would be one there already alongside the French if Barry didn't get re-elected.
Jump to postSadly it won't be the first time Israel let's Western technology reach China. You do realize the greatest setback right now on the new Chinese fighter jets are the engines? Coincidence? I don't think so.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ThePointblank" class="quote" target="_blank">ThePointblank</a> (<a href="#60" class="quote">Reply 60</a>):<br/><i>Also, crew sizes have shrunk; ...
Jump to postHere are some of the questions that you will have to ask yourself. Are doing it because you love to fly, or is it just another way of making a living? Are you willing to go to where the work is? Could be overseas (ex. Emirates or Cathay Pacific,) or the opposite end of the country. Are you willing t...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Zkpilot" class="quote" target="_blank">Zkpilot</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>But yes the nuclear issue is important to Au...
Jump to postI don't see where a G-V or Global Express would not have served the Mexican President just fine. Does Mexico President really make a lot of worldwide trips? Do they carry a lot of staff, or security? Mexico's interests would seemingly be more confined to the Western hemisphere, are they really much ...
Jump to postA recent article I read about stealth, how just in the last ten years it has become less of an advantage than what it used to be. New ways of using existing detection equipment, combined with new technologies in detection equipment, make for less and less of an overall advantage. As of yet, I've yet...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KiwiRob" class="quote" target="_blank">KiwiRob</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i> You need to speak to some real Iraqis not t...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KiwiRob" class="quote" target="_blank">KiwiRob</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Why should Iraq buy from America, the averag...
Jump to postI'll tell you one thing for certain, the pilots causing all of these flights to be cancelled does nothing productive and only hurts everyone at the company. I had a flight cancelled from <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold-Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MS...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KC135TopBoom" class="quote" target="_blank">KC135TopBoom</a> (<a href="#20" class="quote">Reply 20</a>):<br/><i>If that is all, then it is a bar...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/kanban" class="quote" target="_blank">kanban</a> (<a href="#30" class="quote">Reply 30</a>):<br/><i>seems to me there was quite a bit of ill fee...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/bikerthai" class="quote" target="_blank">bikerthai</a> (<a href="#20" class="quote">Reply 20</a>):<br/><i>Boeing is not guaranteed of being prim...
Jump to postWhile I would expect the t-50 to close the gap on the F-22, I do not expect it to fully compare. However, at 2.5x times the price, one might find it difficult to justify an F-22 over the T-50. India is going to takeover the British for the 2nd most powerful military in the world with they way they a...
Jump to postThe Osprey's interior dimensions are considered unfavorable for POTUS use; fine for the press corps, just not the POTUS. The US<acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> is open to any and all serious bidders, even if they don't go with Boeing as the prime. And keep in mind, the <acronym title="Serviv...
Jump to postHow often does the Mexican president travel, or rather need to travel? A new 787 seems like overkill, a new 767 could probably be had relatively cheap as far as new aircraft are concerned. Better yet, a new CS300 to go along with the support Bombardier has shown to Mexico would be a perfect aircraft...
Jump to postA handful of 757's will be rebuilt for a variety of second-life purposes such as cargo, business, and various other special mission platforms. It may drink gas a little more than the forthcoming generation of efficient aircraft, but it's got power to spare that the 739 doesn't, and it's a robust air...
Jump to postGood deed and no need to publicize it, someone will get it out there soon. No need for UA to talk about it, they can let others spread the news.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rfields5421" class="quote" target="_blank">rfields5421</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>Now with less than 50 Russian attack...
Jump to postThey have shown artists conceptions of such a vehicle for years in popular science and what not, but the fact of the matter is that the V-22 has not even proven it can replace the H-46 as of yet, and with the new <acronym title="Bemidji Airlines (USA)">CH</acronym>-53K it will likely be the US Army'...
Jump to postThe USAF is invested into the C-32 airframe for multiple decades to come. Trust me, the 89th doesn't care about fuel economy.
Jump to postCould be the excuse NATO and/or the West was looking for to enforce a no-fly zone over Syria, so their cowardly air force stops bombing their own population. Of course, in order to enforce a no-fly zone one has to first eliminate their air defense system. <img src="http://media.defenseindustrydaily....
Jump to postThe argument is that the Ford class carrier will save money over a 50 year period with some of it's new efficiencies and less required manpower. This is a helluva big guesstimate at best. The fact of the matter is with modern cruise missiles, we would rather benefit from more Nimitz and than any new...
Jump to postIt's expense is first and foremost unjustifiable. It along with the F-35B could very well run the Marines out of budget. You can't replace $10m <acronym title="Bemidji Airlines (USA)">CH</acronym>-46's with $70m+engines V-22's, $50k HUMMVE's with $500k MRAPs, or $25m F-18's and <acronym title="Avian...
Jump to postHow about the USS FunnyMoney? How can we spend $40B+ developing the Ford class carrier to replace the Nimitz class, when for that price we could have just bought 5 more Nimitz class carriers? Ford class doesn't do anything the Nimitz for all practical purposes cannot. <acronym title="Lahr (LHA / EDT...
Jump to postThe F-35B, much like the V-22, has been a stubborn "wheezy pig" borne from chimerical aspirations and utter financial irresponsibility, by the US Marine Corps. How can uber expensive V-22's and F-35B's replace <acronym title="Bemidji Airlines (USA)">CH</acronym>-46 and F/A-18's acquired as low cost ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/bikerthai" class="quote" target="_blank">bikerthai</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>When you need to operate high in the Him...
Jump to postIndia has less love for China than does the US, that I am sure. But the V-22 is just cost prohibitive. If you can get over it's exorbitant initial price, (which is more than an F-15 Strike Eagle,) what really kills the premise of buying even a small fleet of Ospreys are its operating expenses that m...
Jump to postBoeing has a whole program for updating DC-10 pits to MD-11 standards, the USAF should farm it out to FedEx via Boeing.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/dlednicer" class="quote" target="_blank">dlednicer</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>Its a little more complicated than tha...
Jump to postThat's an awesome story. Here's a pic on the official State of Hawaii's website of O-2's sitting on the ramp at Hickam as they were transitioning over to Vietnam. <a href="http://hawaii.gov/hawaiiaviation/aviation-photos/1960-1969/hickam-air-force-base/1967%20Cessna%20O-2A%2002.jpg" target="_blank">...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mffoda" class="quote" target="_blank">mffoda</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>India decided to buy <acronym title="Ai...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ThePointblank" class="quote" target="_blank">ThePointblank</a> (<a href="#30" class="quote">Reply 30</a>):<br/><i>F-35 will get 6 AIM-120 carria...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Powerslide" class="quote" target="_blank">Powerslide</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i>Wrong. The JSF can carry 6 internal ...
Jump to postAccording to current philosophy of the IDF, all Japan needs is a BVR AAM truck, and an AESA powered Super Hornet is not only the best bang for the buck, it's better than the JSF in that role. <a href="http://attach.high-g.net/attachments/amraam-dvic409.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http:...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ThePointblank" class="quote" target="_blank">ThePointblank</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>And regarding the V-22's exhau...
Jump to postAs a leisure traveler I might choose <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> over another if the price is less or the particular O&D is where I want to go, but I would still dislike the boarding process. But as a business traveler I would not even consider <acronym title="Southwes...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ThePointblank" class="quote" target="_blank">ThePointblank</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>It was never a problem. The Na...
Jump to postSo did they solve the problem of the F-35B burning a hole in the deck? I know the enlisted the help of DARPA on that and you can tell they have something additional down on the deck, some sort of coating. What I really want to know is on the new <acronym title="Lahr (LHA / EDTL), Germany">LHA</acron...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PC12Fan" class="quote" target="_blank">PC12Fan</a> (<a href="#55" class="quote">Reply 55</a>):<br/><i>Or a.k.a. Sikorski. </i></font></td></tr><...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/bikerthai" class="quote" target="_blank">bikerthai</a> (<a href="#38" class="quote">Reply 38</a>):<br/><i>You can make more headway if you assem...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/bikerthai" class="quote" target="_blank">bikerthai</a> (<a href="#30" class="quote">Reply 30</a>):<br/><i>That, my friend is much harder to do n...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/kanban" class="quote" target="_blank">kanban</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i>They were unique even before final assembly,...
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