Re: Five Word Story - 2024

reruns of bad television shows

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Nasty

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Awakened

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that must be wound-up regularly

Re: The word "unalive"

I guess the Monty Python dead parrot sketch needs an update.

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Apnea

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Sleep

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Gummy

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takeover

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River

Re: WN3695 hit object departing DEN, causing engine damage

theAviationGeek wrote:

Standby for the media cowling for a grounding of the 737 fleet.

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Dance

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Hudson

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Kia

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think is a Calder DC-8

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Dialect

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Colloquialism

Tail Numbers same as Radio Callsigns?

I've not seen this addressed in any of the A-net fora, so, here goes: American-registered aircraft, at least back when I was a private pilot, had the radio station license being the same as the tail number. American callsigns range from AA-AL (I think), K, N, and W. American planes have N then numbe...

Re: Five Word Story - 2024

that I see colors and stuff

Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

I have some quite old fashioned views. There should not be a single "Director" or "Vice President" or any other pretty-title person in charge of actually building the planes who has not himself spent time getting their hands dirty on a shop floor. That getting dirty doesn't neces...

Re: The end of GE

Wonder if they're going to get a new logo. You read my mind; I was about to post on the same subject. That, like the former RCA logo, is a landmark of sorts. RCA changed from the lovely old logo with the lightning bolt - known the world over - to the three letters "styled" in the manner o...

Re: Five Word Story - 2024

making me say, "wow, mannnn..."

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but came to my senses

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actual value to today's society

Re: Engine body moves around crankshaft?

mga707 wrote:

AA737-823 wrote:

The so-called "rotary radial."
Because what you really want is a giant metal gyroscope out front!

Spewing castor oil (lubricant) all over you, the pilot!

Re: Five Word Story - 2024

Is your only bragging right

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to whom such things matter

Re: Car-buying as a life milestone: share your stories

KIA had a deservedly terrible quality reputation when they first came to the US but if you look at the current data they are quite good, and my mom has had no major issues in the five years she's had it. I'm presently running a Kia Sorento hybrid, top trim level. I like how it drives, and it is put...

Re: Could Air France's A380s fly again?

Probably Bristol Brabazon would qualify, however I wonder whether it was a failure of marketing, rather than product itself. From what I have read in various other places, the Bristol Brabazon was designed for an era when the Royals, the very wealthy, or government VIPs were the only ones flying lo...

Re: Galaxy S24 Ultra or Pixel 8 Pro?

To Revelation: I have tried several Samsung phones over the last decade or so, and the bloat were alone. Annoyed me greatly. I was also subject to a lot of pop-ups, and even video advertisements playing at me at random times. I've had some people tell me that I'm crazy, or that it might be something...

Re: Galaxy S24 Ultra or Pixel 8 Pro?

GSMArena has an article that compares the S24 Ultra with the Pixel 8 Pro. The Samsung is the clear winner but the Pixel has its appeal. The appeal is simple: Samsung's software story is pretty lame compared to Pixel. I learn this time and time again whenever I have to help my mom with her Samsung p...

Re: Word Game - 2024

Upsetting

Re: What aircraft have you flown transpacific?

Douglas DC-8 Flying Tigers in 1977, Travis AFB to Kadena AFB via Anchorage and an AFB in Japan but forgot where. Douglas DC-8 Flying Tigers in 1979, Kadena AFB to LAX (!) via same base in Japan but forgot where, Anchorage, and Travis. 777 LAX - TPE, TPE - LAX, EVA several times 767 of some flavor, D...

Re: Boeing 767 Freighter Production / Deliveries - 2024

seabosdca wrote:

1330 767s built to date, breaking down as follows:

128 767-200
121 767-200ER (note: this group includes KC-767s produced for foreign military use)
104 767-300
583 767-300ER
38 767-400ER
253 767-300F
103 767-2C/KC-46

Re: Boeing 767 Freighter Production / Deliveries - 2024

I have no knowledge on how to find out the answer to this question, so, here goes: how many 767s have been built in various forms? Passenger, freight, tanker, etc. Just a ballpark figure is fine, but I wonder. From my perspective as a passenger, it is one of the finest planes ever made. Nothing whiz...

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Annoying

Re: Boeing announces Board and Management Changes

kalvado wrote:

swapcv wrote:

Bring Back Alan Mulally!

Bring Back BiIl Boeing!

Re: Could Air France's A380s fly again?

kjeld0d wrote:

Yoan0185 wrote:

Ziyulu wrote:

Imagine all the airports who had to install A380 gates, realign runways and taxiways. All that infrastructure is not cheap.

Indeed. Crazy.

yet another Great European White Elephant!

Re: Widebodies with ‘human rated’ lower galley elevators flying today ?

I was in the Navy, on leave and going out west to visit family. I noticed the elevators, and in those great times before Karens and overdone security, I was put in one of the elevators and sent below-decks to see the galley operation on an L-1011. It was of course fascinating to me, being the tech g...

Re: What aircraft have you flown transactlatic?

Boeing 707 with British Caledonian

A330 with Delta

B747 with British Airways

Re: Ryanair's MoL - warming to Airbus ?

I’m sure this is just MOL putting more pressure on Boeing. I’ll believe a MOL order for Airbuses when I see it. It does however highlight that he’s now having to lay in the bed he made. If my memory serves me correctly, he has a history of asking Airbus to quote to play prices off Boeing, and never...

Re: Word Game - 2024

Ignored

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one can spend vast sums

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Confine

Re: Car-buying as a life milestone: share your stories

My first car was a cast-off 1961 Volvo PV544 I received for high school graduation. Thanks to my father's business partner it had been through a few wrecks, but it was straight and drove fine. I managed to crash it myself in 1968 (young driver, wet road). So, it had to be replaced. I ended up with a...

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Lies

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Woodchopper's

Re: Boeing’s Troubles

I realise this might be an extremely dumb question but with a simple explanation, why doesn't the US government step in to help the commercial division like, like funding a new airliner for example. Is Boeing commercial just not that useful for US to bother having? It's not the responsibility of th...

Re: Five Word Story - 2024

ate far too much asparagus

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Teeth