Re: Serbia negotiating the purchase of a dozen Rafale fighters with Dassault

Seems like yesterday my brother was working as a trauma surgeon in Sarajevo with Serbs taking potshots at him. It was the French peacekeepers that kept the Serbs at bay.

Times change I suppose.

Re: 30 years ago today: the A321 flew for the first time.

One day within the last 2 weeks, A321 flights from a US mid continent hub to the west coast (~1850ish miles) were payload restricted/pax limited. This is a common occurrence. That may have something to do with the need to carry extra fuel due to crappy weather hitting the West Coast for the last mo...

Re: 30 years ago today: the A321 flew for the first time.

What was the range of the first A321-100. The -100 was 2300nm and the -200 started out at 2650nm I would like to offer that those numbers are a little bit optimistic imho. Airbus marketing numbers. I wouldn't say so. I flew early build 321s with 89t mtow on sector lengths approaching 6 hours. That ...

Re: Avianca Bids Farewell To Its Passenger Airbus A330

very versatile and capable airplane :checkmark: Bang on. Best performing twin out of hot high like Bogota and Sanaa. Also an incredible aircraft for the likes of Emirates to open up new markets. EK network planners would use it to test markets and when established up-gauge to the 772/773. Was my fa...

Re: Airbus A350 Production/Deliveries - 2023

Latest movement for 24 February 2023: MSN 596 Turkish Airlines A359 F-WZHJ/TC-LGH, delivered TLS->IST. #1 in February…#2 in 2023…#522 total: https://aibfamily.flights/A350/596 Speaking recently to a former colleague now at TK, apparently all their 350s are plated at 280t MTOW with 195t zfw. Solid 6...

Re: Half a million workers protesting in UK

The junior doctors have only just been balloted and I suspect they too will vote yes. Post graduation, the aforementioned younger brother who is a med student is planning on completing his F1-F2 training and then leaving for Australia. As are a lot of his friends. I don't blame them in the slightes...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Arguably, from Yeltsin onwards, the Russian leadership, civilian and military, has been rotten to the core. What's happening in Ukraine isn't without precedent. It's happened in Abkhazia, Ossetia/Georgia, the Balkans, Chechnya and elsewhere. At the heart of it is an Orthodox ethno-religious psyche t...

Re: Car oil change intervals

I co-own a car workshop with my brother who manages it. I think most of the manufacturers recommend 10k miles for oil service in the UK. He gets 200 litre drums of Castrol: 0w-20 for Japanese/Hybrid stuff and 5w-30 for pretty much everything else. I'm actually surprised to read more a-netters don't ...

Re: Report: AI to order 435 single aisle and 70 widebody aircraft

More A320 than A321 is quite unusual nowadays A lot of India's regional airport infrastructure requires upgrading by way of runway and apron strength,terminal capacity etc. The 321/739 are also in a higher ARFF category. Added to that, from what I'm told, the DGCA is quite strict in aerodome licenc...

Re: Journalist Who Broke U.S. Torture at Abu Ghraib Claims U.S. Blew Up Nord Stream

Biden isn't the pushover people think he is and he's always been a pro-action do what I say I will do sort of guy. Russia was still exporting gas to Germany almost entirely through said pipelines up to the point of sabotage. Those revenues were keeping Russia going. On the balance of probabilities t...

Re: Half a million workers protesting in UK

Yep. Apologies if this sent us down a bit of a rabbit hole. Thanks for the chuckle though. After criticising me for using the angle of "a manufacturing and process man" you then went on to do exactly that ... e.g. the time to discharge (a metric used by medical teams and bed/site managers...

Re: Mitsubishi SpaceJet — News and Discussion Thread

Shame really.

The Mitsubishi cars I've had in the past have always been quite good.

Re: Half a million workers protesting in UK

Seeing as how you asked the question, the answers can easily be found .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita Ok, its Wiki, but it has some really interesting stats in it. "We know we spend less than them" actually results in us being so...

Re: ETOPS In Flight Shutdown Statistics

A sample value of one isn't very valuable. I remember reading some information that Boeing provided that for a similar level of engine technology a twin was ~5% more efficient than a quad. Sorry, I don't have a link. It is widely accepted in the industry that twins are inherently more efficient tha...

Re: Engine Derates and top-of-climb power

Another consideration in the use of derate during climb is exposure to atmospheric contaminants. If you're flying in heavily polluted areas then it probably isn't wise to use a greater derate prolonging your time down low. The newer engines, especially the Trent 1000, seem to be more vulnerable to p...

Re: Engine Derates and top-of-climb power

From what I have heard, the A340 engines would regularly overtemp EGT if it was hot and/or high, and require thrust reduction. :) Nope, not regular at all. We would have had a NTC in the front of the tech log if the engine was having high egts. Compressor washers helped a lot. Our engineering divis...

Re: Egypt Air incident from 2021

There's not many airlines I actively avoid for fear of safety, but MS is definitely one of them. Just too many incidents involving incompetence or outright treachery, especially for a carrier that size. Sad, because I freakin' love going to CAI, and it'd make it a whole lot easier to get elsewhere ...

Re: Egypt Air incident from 2021