Companies don't have much to stand on currently to make it mandatory to have a vaccine. All of the vaccines are currently only approved for emergency use. They are considered experimental. Even the US military can not mandate that emergency use vaccines are required. I highly doubt that even when t...
Jump to postThe problem I see is that it is under "emergency use authorization" and hasn't been fully cleared by the governing authorities around the world. It will be at least another year before that would change. This is also why it can't (shouldn't) be mandated for children. And considering the r...
Jump to postIt's unsettling to see the anti vax weirdos jeopardize us reaching herd immunity. To think it could mutate and nail our kids or something like that. The majority of people want the vaccine and also want to return to normal life. Anybody not on board should be pushed aside. I don't know about you gu...
Jump to postThe problem I see is that it is under "emergency use authorization" and hasn't been fully cleared by the governing authorities around the world. It will be at least another year before that would change. This is also why it can't (shouldn't) be mandated for children. And considering the ri...
Jump to postI get a gender reveal party but why would anyone go that far to just reveal a gender.. Lol people these days... I don’t “get a gender reveal party.” We had 3 miscarriages, 1 normal and 1 very complicated pregnancy and the idea that you throw a huge party so early in a pregnancy before you know how ...
Jump to postI meant to say "worth a listen" as it's an old radio drama. Back in the days of DC-7s and Electras.
Jump to postJust listened to the 65 year old radio episode listed above. It’s available for download on SiriusXM in the Frank Lovejoy birthday block. It was a very detailed drama regarding an ATC (Rockford IL) and his efforts to talk down a lost GA pilot through clouds and fog. I was wondering how accurate it w...
Jump to postIf it’s just bubbling and flowing, it’s not going to impact aviation other than increasing helicopter traffic to go look at it.
Jump to postI don’t see anything wrong with renaming an airport to honor a fantastic local politician... Yeah, all we need to do now is find said politician... Well yeah, the problem is that what does “local” mean? Vegas is an international airport meant to welcome many, and whatever Reid did for Nevada, he wa...
Jump to postwjcandee wrote:My favorite photo is this one from the Wall Street Journal: https://images.wsj.net/im-302062?width=1260&size=1.5
The smart money invests in improvements in bad times so that they are ready for good times. Most wasteful US agencies instead wait until things are already overtaxed, then take forever to expand, reducing capacity while doing construction, only to end up with a result that is quickly out of date aft...
Jump to postWashington State has used Boeing as a cash cow, while the pols simultaneously use them as a whipping boy. High taxes, burdensome regulation, etc. There are other alternatives, and Boeing has been slowly moving stuff out for years. Agreed. There are far better alternatives. Not to mention how WA Sta...
Jump to postWhere will all this hydrogen needed come from? From "clean" nuclear energy? We can produce hydrogen directly by simply splitting water, in a process known as electrolysis, but it’s been prohibitively expensive in large part because it requires a lot of electricity. As the price of solar a...
Jump to postThere is no evidence Covid is seasonal, like the flu. That actually bodes well long term because it is becoming clear that 3-4% total tested positive in a region is enough to bring Covid to flu like levels on an annualized basis. "distancing on airplanes will have to end" Maybe. Since the ...
Jump to postWhat is really different in the passenger experience from an -800 and a -8? 99,999% of the customers have no idea what kind of plane they are on and the 737 is the same inside from almost every perspective. The difference is in economics if the fix works and the plane is certified to fly. It’s the ...
Jump to postWhat is really different in the passenger experience from an -800 and a -8? 99,999% of the customers have no idea what kind of plane they are on and the 737 is the same inside from almost every perspective. The difference is in economics if the fix works and the plane is certified to fly. It’s the ...
Jump to postStopping construction can be expensive if your permits expire. Your project needs new approvals, codes may have changed requiring rework, materials meant to be covered are exposed for too long leading to degradation, etc.
Jump to postI think consolidation was always a long term given, although I expected it not to be considered for another 5-10 years. I also expected that the NMA/797 would take over one of the production lines at the Everett Plant. With that being delayed and sent back to study in 2019 that may be a long way ou...
Jump to postkalvado wrote:killer headline, combining few recent ones:
Airline denies boarding to a 3-year-old autistic NAVY SEAL!
The fix to much of the above is for the airline to sell or hand out good quality KN95 masks. Two issues with that are, that people are still going to take off their masks to eat and drink, wear masks incorrectly and children (effective carriers) will still not wear masks. So in other words masks wi...
Jump to postThe whole mask thing on aeroplanes is quite stupid. Everybody takes off their mask to eat or drink (then if there is COVID it'll spread). I've flown 3 times during the pandemic and children don't wear masks at all, most people have their noses sticking out, cloth masks don't work at all and N95 mas...
Jump to postIf anyone believes encountering an asymptomatic 3-year old child is the big risk they face when flying, to the point that we ban perfectly healthy children from public life even though some places require them to wear a mask and others don’t, it’s a very sad world you want to live in. The idea that ...
Jump to post3 year olds won’t wear the masks anyway. Try to make one.
And considering some states its 8 and over or 6 and over, the 3 and over is the most draconian version of the mask rule.
And the mask orders clearly exempt non-ill people with a disability preventing them from wearing one.
Is anyone sick? I mean, they say the people were there for days because... they weren’t ill. For people under 50, Covid and Flu track similarly for actual illness, and in terms of severe illness, flu is worse in those under 30. To develop herd immunity (which seems to be a verifiable thing with Covi...
Jump to postThere’s no such thing as a plane that is “too clean”. That philosophy has killed this industry. If it applies to airliners it would follow that it applies to every other facet of our lives... and that’s an impossible standard. Most of us lived prior to this pandemic, and will live to the next one. ...
Jump to postLooks about the same as the 772. One knock against the 773 is they kept the door spacing which makes placing premium seating awkward.
Jump to postYou can say a lot about the MD-11 (And trust me I can add plenty from a planning side) but it does a heck of a job in the cargo world. Capacity is massive and the wingspan keeps it in gateways that might lose a parking spot should you put a 747-8 or 777 in there. This is a biggie that people forget...
Jump to postIt’s true, the 757 was never a 727 replacement other than when the 727 was used for field performance. The 757 was the non-ER replacement for the 707 and the 767 was the TATL/hawaii replacement for the 707. Also competitor to DC10. The early 727Adv wasn’t ready for replacement for over a decade from...
Jump to postOr you just do what any Pilot should be capable of - push the control column forward. Don't tell me we're back to the refrain of "It was all the fault of those foreign pilots! Nothing wrong with the plane at all!" :sarcastic: I don't think he said that. He was saying that if MCAS is disab...
Jump to postNon-refundable deposits could be a thing. Hotels do this for no shows.
Jump to postPA flew the SP JFK-SFO-HKG-SIN, which I took as a kid, both directions with the family. We also took the Sikorsky flight EWR-JFK to connect to JFK. So 1 hr, then change aircraft, 5.5 hours to SFO, refuel and wait in PA Clipper Club for 2 hours, 13 hours to HKG, deplane, go through security with film...
Jump to postI'm starting to suspect false positive tests in a lot of these asymptomatic cases. It doesn't make sense for a virus to have absolutely no symptoms in so many people but be serious and kill others. Yes, it does. Most virus related deaths come from the body’s reaction to the virus. Many people have ...
Jump to postIt was always surprising to me that the GTF was the engine that earned a bad reputation. The LEAP is the version pushing the temps, pressures and material science to gain efficiency where the GTF used the reduction gearset on a more traditional design. Pratt managed to screw up a relatively basic s...
Jump to postWere CFM56 that reliable in the DC8 version when they were new? Or are we comparing them to the very mature version we know from the A320 and 737NG?
Jump to postIf the aircraft had to fly through a known icing condition, and the exposed rudder cables are encased in layers of ice.... It certainly could have caused some safety issues, methinks. That was my thought. Any time you lose a fairing, you lose either an aero element or a cover to something that shou...
Jump to postSome genius will find out how to lay down a lattice of light carbon fibre or aluminium support rods and beams for the floor and the planes will become attractive for Freight. I'd guess they'll put in some sort of internal lift from floor to floor so that fewer expensive cargo doors are needed. Putt...
Jump to postRevelation wrote:Similar report via Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/willhorton ... 990e7d6424
Seems like CV19 is being pretty hard on the world's 77E population.
It will be very interesting to see how many A380's will return to service in the next year or so. Who would have thought that the replacement for the A380 would be an A350? Have a great day, Many many people here on A.net, that’s who. The A380 prioritizes mass passengers over cargo. Boeing saw this...
Jump to postCoroner's report was released and shows everyone died of blunt force trauma. So pilot didn’t have anything in autopsy that would scream incapacitation, though it might not be easy to determine if there was something medical that caused him to lose control.
Jump to postI wondered about something like that. Not sure if enough business pax are going to be available.
Jump to postConsidering the original 777 has been flying my entire adult life, it’s not surprising the retirement would be accelerated. The 77L was bought for specific missions at DL that other more efficient aircraft can now cover. As a passenger, I’ve never liked DLs 777 product. So won’t miss it. The Delta ...
Jump to postConsidering the original 777 has been flying my entire adult life, it’s not surprising the retirement would be accelerated.
The 77L was bought for specific missions at DL that other more efficient aircraft can now cover.
As a passenger, I’ve never liked DLs 777 product. So won’t miss it.
What United is seeming to be saying is that the flight was booked with middle seats empty, then they took the group of 25 medical professionals for free and basically filled up all the seats. Which begs the question, why won't they let you book your own family with the middle seat, when they will th...
Jump to postI guess OP wants airlines to either have shop at the spot market daily, or signed price fixed quantity fixed contracts for the future with obligations to pay that price and take that fuel no matter what.
Jump to postAt most airports putting this corridor downstairs would bisect a whole mess of support spaces that then couldn’t connect to each other without staff going over or under the corridor. It instead perches over departures so it only takes up space within the high atrium space of the departure level. It ...
Jump to postArion640 wrote:As buffet says:
Be greedy when others are fearful.
Must of had a good enough price on these frames!
the 767-400 wingspan is 14 ft longer than the 767-300 so there might some issues for the integrators with parking. That might have been why FedEx nor UPS didn't order them in 2011. A folding wing 767X might be the answer. The 767-400 has a raked wingtip extension. There may be a way to get a more e...
Jump to postThe only problem may be: when has Boeing produced the last 767-400? 2002? 2003? Do they even have the tooling to build that -400 wingbox and wing? If I remember correctly they canceled the 767-400 production long ago. The last commercial delivery was in 2002 with Continental Airlines. One additiona...
Jump to postThe 767 needs new engines, some wing tweaks and some fuselage length adjustments. It's controls have been updated over time for various versions. The 757 fuselage is great other than possibly adjusting the lengths of the 2 versions. It needs a new wing and engines and better controls. The upside is ...
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