Re: Fictional Airline Company Name

Yeah, it seems like whether it's in the movies or in fictional novels the airline name is important. Some fictional airlines like "Trans Global Airlines" from Airport sound legitimate and real. Likewise Trans United Airlines from the novel MayDay. I know in most cases the audience could ca...

Re: Fictional Airline Company Name

Thanks for your input appreciate it. Yeah, the name has an earlier feel to it, not one that might fit a large established carrier. Perhaps the '30s era to 1950s.

Fictional Airline Company Name

Hi all, I've been mulling on whether to write a fictional airline themed story. The problem of course has always been (other than free time which I seem to have now) a good name for an airline company. The one name that keeps popping up in my head since 2009 is Intrepid Airlines. Yay or nay? Would I...

Re: US F15 intercepting Iran's Mahan Air A300 resulted in several injuries

Mahan flight crew could've panicked momentarily sending the plane into a sudden maneuver. Saying this was a deliberate act by the U.S. pilot is pure nonsense.

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

I wonder if there was another target that was legitimate in the area at the time. KAL007 was shot down on a night when there were two US Boeing RC-135s (iirc) in the area at a time and MH17 was shot down when the Ukrainian rebels were trying to shoot down a Ukrainian transport plane. Given the tens...

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

I assume there were no warnings to commercial aviation issued by the Iranian or Ukrainian govt's in the hours leading up to the shootdown?

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

".@cbsnews: US officials are confident Ukrainian Flt 752 was shot down by Iran. US intelligence picked up signals of the radar being turned on & satellite detected infrared blips of 2 missile launches, probably SA-15s, followed shortly by another infrared blip of an explosion." https:...

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

Pudelhund wrote:

Why would the tip of the missile be intact?

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

Given that 737s rarely spontaneously combust into a fireball, I'm still leaning toward a heat seeking missile from a MANPAD. . Indeed. My best guess is that a missile was accidentally fired at a plane which was an hour late. Flying at 8,000 ft the missileer mistakenly thought the aircraft was an en...

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

AeroplaneFreak wrote:

Does anyone have a list of incidents where fire led to a commercial aircraft falling out of the sky within minutes?

Re: Reports of Ukrainian 737 Crash in Tehran,Iran

I take it this plane spent the night on the ground in Tehran?

Re: LH new livery to be ‘revised’ after only three weeks

Yellow is an iconic element to LH since the 50s. To remove it entirely from the brand was a big mistake. This foul up reminds me of the New Coke fiasco back in '85. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Blank Aircraft Templates Profiles

Hello All,

I'm looking for blank profile artwork of the following commercial aircraft for some custom artwork:

IL-62, IL-62M
IL-18
TU-134A
TU-154B

Does anyone know of a good resource to download blank profiles to use as a template?

Thanks.

Re: Trump considering options for Syria retaliation!

Assad is controlled by Iran. I have no doubt the Iranians approved of the Sarin strike as well as all the other chemical strikes carried out by the SAA. The airfield is said to house Iranian Hezbollah and IRGC assets.

Re: CTS Heavy Snow Delays - Chinese Pax Riot

The Japanese were probably shaking their heads at the rioting Chinese thinking, "What barbarians."

Re: Stewardess who survived 30,000ft fall in 1972 dies

The bomb that brought down the DC-9 was put aboard by Croat terrorists who were retaliating for their failed Spring '71 "movement" Yugoslavia.

Re: Russian military plane "Disappears from Radar"

video is told to be from sochi beach cameras no idea if true left upper corner kinda light flash ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE2BRieTgr8 other cam other distance of object (or other focal lengh) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-K52HANHZE Interesting video. Bomb, missile strike, or possible...

Re: Russian Plane "Disappears from Radar"

A crash shortly after take-off to a place in a war zone. An act of terrorism? Someone wanting to pay Russia back after Aleppo?

RE: Che Guevara - Hero Or...?

Che was a thug period end of story. He got what he deserved.

RE: Potus To Make First State Visit To Hiroshima 5/27

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/TheSonntag" class="quote" target="_blank">TheSonntag</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>deliberate bombing of civilian Targe...

RE: 747 Classics At British Airways

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/vv701" class="quote" target="_blank">vv701</a> (<a href="#43" class="quote">Reply 43</a>):<br/><i>The main early problem that BOAC avoided becau...

RE: What Were Your First 747 Series Flights?

747-100: National Airlines, <acronym title="Miami - International (Wilcox Field / 36th Street / Pan American Field) (MIA / KMIA), USA - Florida">MIA</acronym>-<acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>, 1972 B747SP: Pan Am, <acronym title="New York - John F. Kenned...

RE: 747 Classics At British Airways

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Viscount724" class="quote" target="_blank">Viscount724</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i>That pilots' dispute really hurt <...

RE: Egypt Air 804 Paris-Cairo Missing Part 3

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Tangowhisky" class="quote" target="_blank">Tangowhisky</a> (<a href="#33" class="quote">Reply 33</a>):<br/><i>Not that I would want to get into ...

RE: Egypt Air 804 Paris-Cairo Missing Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/acelanzarote" class="quote" target="_blank">acelanzarote</a> (<a href="#70" class="quote">Reply 70</a>):<br/><i>whats to say the bomb was not pu...

RE: Egypt Air 804 Paris-Cairo Missing Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CANPILOT" class="quote" target="_blank">CANPILOT</a> (<a href="#61" class="quote">Reply 61</a>):<br/><i>Why plant it on a Egypt Air A320 with on...

RE: Egypt Air 804 Paris-Cairo Missing Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/TheCommodore" class="quote" target="_blank">TheCommodore</a> (<a href="#54" class="quote">Reply 54</a>):<br/><i>And I just heard that there were...

RE: Egypt Air 804 Paris-Cairo Missing Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CANPILOT" class="quote" target="_blank">CANPILOT</a> (<a href="#44" class="quote">Reply 44</a>):<br/><i>Why is their aviation guy Richard Quest ...

RE: Egypt Air 804 Paris-Cairo Missing Part 2

No doubt the French are going to question every airport worker employed at CDG for not only Egyptair but every airline.

RE: Airlines And "Buyers Remorse"?

Egyptair and it's IL-62s and TU-154Bs from the Soviet Union were so poor that they made a permanent switch to Boeing by 1973.

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 3

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/joejosh999" class="quote" target="_blank">joejosh999</a> (<a href="#249" class="quote">Reply 249</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table b...

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 3

If you lose the entire tail suddenly during cruise the plane is likely to pitch up or down suddenly. At that point the outer portions of the wings are going to snap off along with the engines. Yet when you look at the main crash site, the wings are intact and the engines deposited not far away.

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 3

Does anyone have information regarding the piece of wreckage along with a passenger found some miles from the main crash site?

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 3

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Braniff747SP" class="quote" target="_blank">Braniff747SP</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>This is undeniably true, but I'd a...

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LandSweetLand" class="quote" target="_blank">LandSweetLand</a> (<a href="#322" class="quote">Reply 322</a>):<br/><i>As far as the actual debris....

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DDR" class="quote" target="_blank">DDR</a> (<a href="#316" class="quote">Reply 316</a>):<br/><i>Does anyone think that in the photos taken from ...

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/spacecadet" class="quote" target="_blank">spacecadet</a> (<a href="#135" class="quote">Reply 135</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table b...

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/wstakl" class="quote" target="_blank">wstakl</a> (<a href="#132" class="quote">Reply 132</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table border="0...

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/aryonoco" class="quote" target="_blank">aryonoco</a> (<a href="#127" class="quote">Reply 127</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table borde...

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/F9Animal" class="quote" target="_blank">F9Animal</a> (<a href="#119" class="quote">Reply 119</a>):<br/><i>Whatever it takes. I can tell you this...

RE: Kolavia A321 Crashes In Sinai / Egypt - Part 2

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SAS++A340" class="quote" target="_blank">SAS A340</a> (<a href="#117" class="quote">Reply 117</a>):<br/><i> Don´t you refuele from the airport y...

Kolavia A321 crashes in Sinai / Egypt - Part 1

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Qatara340" class="quote" target="_blank">Qatara340</a> (<a href="#61" class="quote">Reply 61</a>):<br/><i>Egyptian authorities seem to say in Tw...

Kolavia A321 crashes in Sinai / Egypt - Part 1

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/pugman211" class="quote" target="_blank">pugman211</a> (<a href="#52" class="quote">Reply 52</a>):<br/><i>But what could cause a climb and then ...

Kolavia A321 crashes in Sinai / Egypt - Part 1

I seriously hope this wasn't an act of terrorism in retaliation for Russia's Syria involvement.

RE: To MIA And TLH: AA 319/E75/ten-day-old 738

Interesting report. I was wondering why anyone would want to fly to <acronym title="Tallahassee - Regional (TLH / KTLH), USA - Florida">TLH</acronym> for the hell of it. The airport has been a white elephant for years. <acronym title="Tallahassee - Regional (TLH / KTLH), USA - Florida">TLH</acronym>...

RE: Continental Hawaii-Mainland 1969

All of <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym>'s early 747 flights to <acronym title="Honolulu - International / Pearl Harbor-Hickam JB (Hickam AFB) (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym> originated in Chicago <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KOR...

RE: Hillary's Server & Thumbdrive Taken By The F.B.I.

Hillary is finished.

RE: Calais Migrant Crisis

Where are these migrants going to find work? There aren't jobs for these people. East Europe has unemployment issues, France is practically bankrupt and the UK is on financial thin ice as well.

RE: Continental Hawaii-Mainland 1969

They had Kona/Hilo-<acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> LAX-Hilo flights with 707s 1969, 70, and 71. One 707 collided with a small Cessna on a night approach to <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acron...