Re: 2024 F1 Season News and Discussion Thread

I guess in the absence of regular in-season testing like 20+ years ago, we’ll never know how Ricciardo properly compares to Verstappen in a Red Bull when we take the RB’s limitations and inferiority into consideration. They saw something in the tyre tests that made them give him the RB seat but in ...

Re: IL-76 carrying Ukrainian POWs down in Russia

Looking at the pictures, no sign of clothing or personal possessions. Is there any evidence that POW's were on that plane?. And no bodies. I would think that if the Russian's version of the story is true, that they would have released (leaked) photos of the crash site showing bodies (or body bags) ...

Re: IL-76 possibly carrying Ukrainian POWs down in Russia

Asked in the other thread, but here it's more appropriate. As a matter of principle, what are the rules of war here? Is bringing POW's to an exchange point, unannounced, by a military aircraft through contested airspace, compliant with rules of war, or is it perfidy in warfare? There is a duty of c...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

Wouldn't you just turn the radar off for a little bit? Can a HARM reacquire a radar after it has been turned off, especially if it moves? A HARM can hit a stationary radar that is turned off, but would think a moving one is a no-go. No, there are no acknowledged examples of a AGM-88 hitting a movin...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

Photo's popping up of a rather shredded Ilyushin tail. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1746905053300969793 Patriot might be possible but would mean Ukraine would have had to move one very close to the front lines which seems very doubtful. My money is on friendly fire which is very possib...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

Russian A-50 (RF-50601) and IL-22M (RF-75106) More intrigue. Operational wize, shooting down these planes could mean a larger operation is involved. :scratchchin: Taking out the eyes and ears of an opponent is prelude to kicking him in the balls. bt Rus internet chatter strongly suggests these were...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

Word spreading on X of a Russian A-50 (RF-50601) and IL-22M (RF-75106) being shot down over the Sea of Azov. Another source claims to have a radio conversation between the IL-22M and Anapa airport with a report of serious damage. Time will tell if true... https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1...

Re: Takeoff flap settings of wide bodies vs narrow bodies

Change your thinking a bit from drag to lift. All that extra surface coming down generates extra lift that helps the take off. Now the 777 and 747 families are much much heavier and also more powerful than the 737 and so can use the extra flap to generate more lift. There are a lof of calculations &...

Re: GTA 6 coming soon!

Correction, the first trailer is coming soon

Single player could be interesting but Rockstar & multiplayer is dead to me. Too many hackers ruining it for others and the lack of any assistance from Rockstar support puts the final nail into the coffin.

Re: JetBlue on Tail at JFK

Do widebodies tip as easily as narrowbodies? I always hear 737s tipping, but I haven't heard tipping on a 777 or A380. Not that easy but if you screw up the order of things enough... I've only once came across a near fully extended nose gear strut on the 747 freighter which was as much to my surpri...

Re: Air Cargo Discussion - 2023

I didn’t know where to put this, but it’s capacity related (and thus sort of fleet related.) Is cargo ‘interlining’ a thing? I just watched 6 AKE cans with FedEx numbers and markings come off an AA 787 HNL-DFW. I know that the specifics for these 6 cans may not be known, but would that be a regular...

Re: AMS putting a limit on international passenger traffic through the airport

Chances for another series of strikes are increasing at AMS https://nltimes.nl/2023/04/19/labor-actions-looming-among-schiphols-baggage-passenger-handlers Meanwhile all aircraft handlers except KLM experience staffing issues due to staff leaviing their job. Some rumours sugggest they leave for KLM ...

Re: AMS to introduce a night curfew and ban private jets

A lot of noise (pun intended) about a lot of things that have not been fleshed out yet legally & where it's questionable if a lot of it is even going to be possible. You'd hope senior airport management will have done their due diligence before firing off a broadside in the media like this but i...

Re: Sloths die on parked aircraft

I’ve never seen a NOTOC for live animals at any of the carriers I’ve flown for, unsure others. Should normally be reported to the crew on the NOTOC as other special load with a loading position & temperature advisory. Honestly curious to know how your carriers have handled this and made sure yo...

Re: Sloths die on parked aircraft

QR staff and their ground handling agent in LGG have dropped the ball here big time. Both would have received loading information from the previous station and both would have been aware of what was onboard even if that remains in transit onboard the aircraft and is not destined for LGG itself. Even...

Re: Yeti Airlines AT75 crash in Nepal

Avherald reporting the cabin video is fake? Per the top comment in the comments section, referring to point 1, There are currently two fake videos making the rounds: 1) The "onboard" passenger video claimed to have been streamed live. This was another flight until the point the video sudd...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Civil Aviation Related *Discussion* Thread

In other Russian aviation news, passengers from Magan had a breezy flight when the rear cargo door of their AN-26 opened up in flight. News from multiple sources online but i can't seem to find the airline involved. Link with video taken onboard: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11614685/Ter...

Re: Bypassing sanctions, Iran received 4 A340-300 over the Xmas weekend

So you have 4 A340-300 in storage at JNB for 3 years; frames that in most cases have little resale value or do not command commercial interest at all, except in very few cases such as Iran or Venezuela. All of a sudden, they get readied for departure, registered in a country that could hardly affor...

Re: Russian FAB Bomb M62.

ANZUS340 wrote:

Thanks for the information. I will try and find the Janes material. Do you know if the OFAB 500 M62 is different from the FAB 500 M62?

Re: Long Covid/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Your mileage may vary. I've read a lot about the different issues that long Covid can bring but fortunately only have 2 cases of significant fatigue in my social circle. One still struggling with it almost 14 months after getting Covid, on bad days barely having any energy left to get out of the hou...

Re: Russian FAB Bomb M62.

I have been attempting to find as much information as possible about the Russian FAB bomb family. From what I understand so far with the M62 variants these are not modular like the American MK-80 series. They come with the tail section welded to the bomb body. A guidance kit cannot be added to them...

Re: The future of attack helicopters????

The Mi-8 must be a pretty tough bird - would have thought the tail rotor would have been knock out immediately. It took a hit in the area of the exhaust under the rotor so the tail rotor was the least of their problems. Speaking of helo survivability - have you seen this video of a Mi-8 shoot down ...

Re: SU-25 Pilot Ejects With Helmet Mounted Camera

An SU-25 pilot ejected from his damaged aircraft at low altitude at the last minute, recording from his helmet mounted GoPro. This has popped up 3 days agon on several Twitter accounts covering the war in Ukraine. It's a Russian SU-25. Clipped a powerline which cut the vertical stabilizer and video...

Re: The future of attack helicopters????

Like all things on the battlefield everything has its place. The modern attack helicopter certainly has a role to play. The issue here is that the Russian military hardly coordinate the operations of its military branches so that each, left to its own devices, becomes more vulnerable and ultimately ...

Re: Dutch government to permanently further reduce AMS movement cap

It may help this A.net discussion, if we look at some real data for AMS. POINT 1 > May 2022 was a pretty average operating month for the airport. The Winter sees less traffic, the peak summer sees more traffic. In May 2022 AMS saw 38.420 commercial air transport movements, times 12x months this wou...

Re: Lufthansa lost its 5 star rating

Having seen a Skytrax audit done up close i have from that point on never valued it for more than the paper it was written on. The amount of bending over backwards for the auditor was beyond belief and to an extent that an average flying pasenger would likely never get to experience unless perhaps y...

Re: Dutch government to permanently further reduce AMS movement cap

We should perhaps also take a look at AMS in its last pre-COVID year 2019 I'll echo what CrimsonNL already pointed out in his reply #48, exceeding 500.000 flights in AMS seems unrealistic in any case. I have been in AMS for over 15 years & the last summers before Covid were getting crazy to the...

Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed

What's surprising is the amount of bullet holes everywhere. The tail section of the 225 has bullet holes all over it. All the other aircraft that seemed to be intact are filled with bullet holes, including the AN-22 and AN-124 in the hangar. Obviously I understand it's a warzone but what is the pur...

Re: P&O Ferries sack 800 UK staff with a video call.

Sad to hear & particularly nasty way to treat staff. I've frequently travelled between Rotterdam & Hull prior to Covid and while they were nice trips i've seen prices increase while accommodations became cheaper to a point where it wasn't quite so enjoyable as it used to be. But i will say i...

Re: Civil aviation in Ukraine during heightened tension from Russia

Things will get interesting fast. In Dutch media there are reports that the advice is to stay at least 185km away from Belarus & Ukrainian airspace due to Russian military operations.

Re: Any Military Aviation Movement / Activity On The Ukrainian Border?

Would be good to now have an analysis of the factors / reasons why some folks said no military action would take place.... https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60454795 Because in reality no one is really interested to go into an armed conflict ? I'm sure there will be many financial sanction...

Re: Stowaway found alive at AMS after African flight.

With respect to the EE bay. The EE bay sees the same air as the lower lobe cargo hold. The equipment has draw thru cooling, so it gets air from the upper deck or the cargo bay. If the stowaway got in to the bay, then it would have been while the plane is on the ground. The intention would also get ...

Re: Stowaway found alive at AMS after African flight.

I suppose they mean that the stowaway was able to enter the 747 through this hatch shown here. https://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-China/Boeing-747-4J6/296960 Does anyone know if that is a standard feature or do operators have to specifically order it? I recall once seeing a 747 parked on a remote ...

Re: CNN reporting all flights from the United States to China have either been canceled or suspended

I guess CNN needed to pull in some extra clicks & mentioned the Olympic Winter games in one breath as the general Chinese policy to start denying flights from countries if too many infected passengers have arrived in a given timeframe. CX out of HKG to other countries was already hit earlier, as...

Re: Aviastar TU204 freighter catches fire in Hangzhou

Heavierthanair wrote:

8 crew on a TU 204 ? Would that be the pilots, a navigator and a flight engineer plus backup for each?

Re: Avaition Gate 777..?

Possibly former Air Zimbabwe Z-RGM ?

Re: Ex-Alitalia flight attendants strip off uniforms in protest

While AZ may now be called ITA nothing much has changed & in essence it's the same company in every other sense, just a bit lighter on aircraft & staff. Seeing almost everything continuing as it was and yourself being out on the street is going to be weird for anyone. With issues over their ...

Re: SPOILERS James Bond No Time To Die Discussion

I have to say that I'm kinda satisfied that the movie is underperforming at the box office ,although mostly due COVID. I haven't really seen anything about the performance so far but that would just be more saddening. So much potential & writers and producers have let it go to waste. I would ha...

Re: SPOILERS James Bond No Time To Die Discussion

Having watched it today i can't say i see the need for any more fuss about who should be the next Bond or what a new Bond should look like. James Bond is dead & with him the named franchise is essentially finished too. Sure the producers can launch a new character but the book on James Bond is c...

Re: US military bases in Afghanistan after drawdown?

The Aircraft left behind dont look so sofesticated to create panic though. They aren't. They're just talking points in domestic partisan politics. There's not scary about M4s, Humvees, Blackhawks, etc. Unless you're with the last hold outs against the Taliban in Panjshir vally where Ahmad Massoud i...

Re: If an airliner is too heavy for takeoff due to conditions, how is it lightened? Remove pax? cargo?

Completely forgot to mention packs off, but I think of it more as a "standard" option since it goes right in the calculation and there's no need to coordinate with anyone. :) Different companies, different strokes. It was never a standard inclusion in our flightplan but was a part of the ...

Re: If an airliner is too heavy for takeoff due to conditions, how is it lightened? Remove pax? cargo?

There are several possibilities before you remove payload. If limited by runway or weather conditions another trick on the B747/B777 is to turn off the (airconditioning) packs before take off which slightly improves the take off performance. The packs would be turned on again a bit further on in th...

Re: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!

I'd say everyone is hitting a spectacular set of circumstances. First of all, Taliban have set roadblocks & checkpoints throughout the city which in itself is a risk for anyone heading to the airport & is hindering traffic. Together with a set curfew of 21:00 or 22:00 to 04:00 getting to the...

Re: SKY NEWS - Kabul Falls: Commercial Aircraft Evacuation Charter Watch Thread

I can't imagine any commercial charter operation will last very long. The Afghan government seems about ready to hand over control of Kabul to the Taliban who are already in a few parts of the city. Doubt insurers would cover commercial operations in such uncertain security circumstances unless gove...

Re: All about containers

Do you know if this is possible for other airlines? A few months ago I purchased two former VS AKE containers and I'd love to know where they had flown during their operational life. They are fiberglass models with an aluminium base, and will be seeing out their retirement as storage for our firewo...

Re: Jet Airways 77W VT-JEW at AMS

9W had an engineer on site who did periodic checks with some KLM support during the court case over VT-JEW but this engineer eventually returned to India in the weeks were the company was in no man's land and payments were no longer forthcoming. KLM hasn't touched it since save for a few occasions w...

Re: Garuda Indonesia Orders Four A330-800neos

If we assume the A338 lands with 5t of fuel To be honest, that seems very optimistic and would be not very much above final reserve fuel. Add in fuel for an alternate airport & contingency fuel, maybe add some for holding & taxi and it's easy to sit above 10-12 tons upon arrival & that ...

Re: F-14 - 50th Anniversary First Flight

Very cool photo on the front page today: 6325619 I had no idea that any F-14s were painted like this in U.S. service. Going back there was another one, the 80th ordered Iranian F-14 (BuNo 160378) never made it to Iran as the revolution swept through the country before it could be delivered. The air...

Re: SLM new 777 and ETOPS

Doesnt KL still has one more 747 in its backyard? Why not offer that one? At least that one has a bonafide ETOPS. Maintenance might become tricky, yes but im sure some KL engineers would like to help keeping that bird in the sky as long as possible. Fun fact, it's been done 20 years before when Sur...

Re: Mysterious airline called Aztec

They don't limit themselves as they cleary also offer charters & cargo charters on their website. Out of the U.S. the HAE group is pushing their name & prefixes for cargo charter services. The website i have given is Aztec's and if you check their cargo / worldwide subpage they too refer to ...