Kawasaki is planning a civilian passenger/cargo version of the C-2 twin engine transport plane. High wing for good engine clearance, rear ramp for cargo. Only trouble is, I'm not sure if any of the smaller airlines that fly up north would want to pony up the cash for a brand new aircraft.
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/dvautier" class="quote" target="_blank">dvautier</a> (<a href="#311" class="quote">Reply 311</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> You have to...
Jump to postSeems like they watched the car crash scene in Demolition Man too many times. How many accidents would this help with? All the high-casualty events lately have been either at altitude or straight-in, anything that seems to fit into the parameters where foam would have time to deploy all had low/no c...
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Jump to postDon't the filters have to be tuned to the wavelength of the laser being used? You could set the glasses/window to take care of the most common green laser wavelengths, but then people will start using different green wavelengths or even red or <acronym title="Iran Air">IR</acronym> lasers. Now, if y...
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Jump to postHere is one that my Mom sent up full of kids toys for my boys when she was downsizing her house. I called and asked her when she got it, she said my Dad got it at some point on his many travels, unfortunately he passed a few years back so I can't ask him. She had 2 other ones that went to my sister ...
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/Maersk737" class="quote" target="_blank">Maersk737</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> I guess you...
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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/26point2" class="quote" target="_blank">26point2</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Not a militar...
Jump to postThanks guys for clearing that up. I understand that news organizations need to get views on page to make money, but it's too bad that they feel such embellishments are necessary to draw readers.
Jump to post<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/17/small-plane-crashes-investigation/10717427/" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ne-crashes-investigation/10717427/</a> I don't know enough about <acronym title="Garuda Indonesia">GA</acronym> to be comfortable calling ...
Jump to postI could have sworn I typed 'airliners.net' how did I end up on 'climatology.net'? There's a million websites (and even a non-aviation section on this site) to argue this stuff. If the discussion can't be kept to the matter of protecting low lying airports then maybe this thread should be locked
Jump to postMaybe that dog is the reincarnation of the banker that pooped on the UA food cart in the mid 90s
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/D+L+X" class="quote" target="_blank">D L X</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> How so, by playing hi...
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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/infiniti329" class="quote" target="_blank">infiniti329</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> This is a...
Jump to post<a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Porter+Airlines+charge+passengers+first+starting/9801353/story.html" target="_blank">http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Porter+...+first+starting/9801353/story.html</a> According to this article WestJet is also trying to give themselves the option of starting a baggag...
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Jump to postI wonder if there are names still on the list for sanction/war crime reasons from the Yugoslavian war? Either she had a relative that was hit with sanctions and she was tagged too, or someone with the same name is on the list.
Jump to postCP used to name their widebodies "Empress of XXX" following the scheme they used to name their steam ships
Jump to postAre these subcontracts done on an individual basis or are the companies hired on an as-needed basis for a calendar period? Who else runs the AN124 commercially, doesn't Antonov's cargo division?
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/pnwtraveler" class="quote" target="_blank">pnwtraveler</a> (<a href="#63" class="quote">Reply 63</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Thanks!...
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Jump to postI didn't look up <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> or <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym> fees, but here is the rate card for <acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson Internatio...
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FTV1 getting sensors installed for high speed flutter testing.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/infiniti329" class="quote" target="_blank">infiniti329</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> No use th...
Jump to postThere's a group of skydivers that rented a 727 and jumped from the back, they did it for several years. Here is a vid I found on YouTube <a href="http://youtu.be/p0p02jI4o3g" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/p0p02jI4o3g</a> Also, the 727 that Discovery Channel crashed into the Mexican desert had the ...
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/777stl" class="quote" target="_blank">777stl</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Proof of concept fo...
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Jump to postVideo: <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d20_1387706399&comments=1" target="_blank">http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d20_1387706399&comments=1</a> Article: <a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/engine-of-singapore/928234.html" target="_blank">http://www.channelnewsasia.c...
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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/infiniti329" class="quote" target="_blank">infiniti329</a> (<a href="#27" class="quote">Reply 27</a>):<br/><i>I would not quailify 15.8 % as co-...
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Jump to postLooks like the Dollar Store fire truck my son had that he jumped on, the wheels did the exact same thing. Do these trucks have full protection on the bottom or only skid plates on the vital parts? I'm wondering not so much about the grounding, but of broken parts like axles punching up into the body...
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