I suspect going through M=1.0 would still require an afterburner. I don't think any plane today can accelerate supersonic on turbojet/turbofan with no afterburn. Supersonic cruise without an afterburner is the general goal. Most modern fighter jets can accelerate to supersonic speeds without afterb...
Jump to postbpatus297 wrote:No, nothing in my body is even remotely close to a fetus.
However, rape and incest aside, the women had a part in the actions that made the fetus. I don't know what to say other than mother nature is cruel. But again, it's not like people don't know you can get pregnant from sex. See, this is the kind of argument that shows that it's not about the fetus b...
Jump to postThis just pushed the issue back to the states. I think a women and black man voted for this too. And several states have already stated that, by God, they will ban such infidel acts. The fact that some women are in favor of this act doesn't change that it fundamentally opresses women. For any reaso...
Jump to postAn odd choice. With virtually the same arguments, we get one case where the federal constitution overrules the states, and another where the states may do as they please. We are now in the weird situation where the right of poor people to firearms is considered essential, while the right of poor peo...
Jump to postWHO holds emergency meeting and will consider declaring Monkeypox a "public health emergency of international concern." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-world-health-organization-monkeypox-global-health-emergency/ Why wasn't it before now? I'm sure many in certain African countries are wo...
Jump to postMalfunctioning Russian SAM captured from 3 different angles: https://twitter.com/PierreDBorrelli/status/1540186078023487489 Missile made a sharp turn immediately after launch and hit the ground somewhat close to the launcher. Judging from the smoke trails, this was the 3rd missile launched in quick ...
Jump to postThe politics of this is worrying. When the Ukraine war is settled it likely will involve side negotiations with the EU, UK and US. It is in their interest to entice Russia into some sort of settlement. What settlement are you expecting? Relationships between Russia and the West will remain sour for...
Jump to postYou won’t see a dollar amount publicized because of the current environment and the fact that it is a former Aeroflot slot that is being ceded because SU can no longer fly to London due to sanctions/overflight restrictions. JetBlue doesn’t want to give impression they are giving money to SU, LHR do...
Jump to postLabQuest wrote:Who's at risk for this?
First CH-47F could be delivered as early as 2026 if the contract is signed by Q1 2023, says Boeing. All German Chinooks are planned to be variant F, block II, probably the same the US Army is getting. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/31389-germany-first-chinook-deliveries General maintenance will ...
Jump to postPer Tim Clark at the ILA air show in Berlin today, Emirates is planning to return their entire A380 fleet to service ASAP. Crew training is underway but remains a bottleneck. https://www.handelsblatt.com/dpa/wirtschaft-emirates-a380-schnell-wieder-in-die-luft-bringen-ber-im-fokus/28444988.html [Germ...
Jump to postYes, the private sector aims for efficiency by attempting to match production capacity to demand. Are you suggesting that manufacturers build extra idle factories as a contingency plan if one goes down? They had better build it near an existing facility, or how would they staff it? I suppose govern...
Jump to postSo the reason why there was a shortage in the first place was......and how did the government let it get to a shortage before they acted. If the nation of the USA was in a real formula shortage a couple C-17's would not be enough, one would have expected to see trailer trucks crossing the borders o...
Jump to postI am a supporter of smaller government, the private sector has always been more efficient, there are ups and downs, and if governments pay more attention to protective rule / regulations / laws the system would work much better. The tear down of financial pillars in the early 2000's generated lots ...
Jump to postThere’s 400 million petroleum powered vehicles in the US, using petroleum isn’t going away any time soon, certainly not in the lifetime of more refineries—not before 2060. Realistically, petroleum is here to stay for a very long time. It's not going away but the industry is expected to start shrink...
Jump to postWhile first-world countries complain about price hikes for fuel and food that leave less money to spend on other products, less wealthy countries like Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Egypt are facing massive shortages. Sri Lanka only has enough fuel for about five more days, minister says Sri Lanka's fuel st...
Jump to postAgreed - I was not impressed with our DEN-MUC / FRA-DEN this month in economy. The A359 hard product was good, but food was tasteless pasta as the only option with small portions, and the buy-on-board snack wasn't even available on the FRA-DEN flight yesterday. It's not just LH, the catering indust...
Jump to postMilitary deals - especially in this area of the world - are almost always linked to other agreements. So ordering from several countries gives access to different packages. In this case, the sale of Egyptian LNG to Italy may have played a role. In other cases, e. g. Ukraine some years ago, military ...
Jump to postCommercial drones are easily jammed as they usually use WiFi bands and aren't designed to evade jamming. GPS jammers can also help disorient the drone. Both are available commercially. I suspect that Russia, after the initial suprise, has looked at their options and started deploying some countermea...
Jump to posthttps://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacifi ... e-contract
Australia will pay US$ 584 million to formally cancel the French contract, resulting in a total cost of US$ 2.4 billion for 0 submarines.
So why has it been a disaster for others, with very competent armed forces, from NATO to Australia? Well, one problem appears to be the high degree of customization offered by NH/Airbus for both the NH-90 and the Tiger. Smaller operators with custom elements run a high risk that those features run ...
Jump to postGermany gives the feeling that they try to send only military components which takes many months preparation... Well, which comparable SAMs are being delivered by other western NATO members? Or tanks, SPAA, SPGs, IFVs ...? Most militaries only operate and maintain the minimum equipment they need, u...
Jump to postGermany is planning to procure IRIS-T SLM from manufacturer Diehl Defence and deliver them to Ukraine. These would be units that are currently in production for another customer. Delivery will take several months. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-send-iris-t-air-defence-system-ukraine-sc...
Jump to postDjlorry3 wrote:Akkording to the evening News show of German Radio station "Deutschlandradio" the price tag will be only be 4 billion Dollars.
Does the XLR feature anything different to improve fuel burn from the normal 32Q? So far it just looks like a boring upgrade with nothing too exciting. The only aerodynamic improvement is the single slotted flaps but there is added structural weight with beefing up nose and main gears plus a larger...
Jump to postAll capsules are designed to survive a water landing, though. Even those that usually land on ground, such as Soyuz or the Boeing Starliner. Only spaceplanes like Buran and the Space Shuttle would suffer serious damage if they had to ditch.
Jump to postWhy isn't there much adoption of piston diesel aircraft? Diesel and Jet A1 are similar enough that a diesel engine can be adapted to run on it, would be cheaper and wouldn't mean airports would only need to carry one type of fuel? Many small airfields don't offer Jet A1, they don't need to if there...
Jump to postWhy isn't there much adoption of piston diesel aircraft? Diesel and Jet A1 are similar enough that a diesel engine can be adapted to run on it, would be cheaper and wouldn't mean airports would only need to carry one type of fuel? Many small airfields don't offer Jet A1, they don't need to if there...
Jump to postNothing to see here, just our daily mass shooting. Please move on and hope that you're not among tomorrow's victims.
Jump to post-ATL? Maybe… but ATL to Europe is a very long time to be cooped up in a narrowbody, even if the flight could make it. Range will be the bigger issue. Shorter TATL to the UK or Spain should be possible from ATL but ATL-HAM is just under 4000nm, STR and BER are slightly further. Yes, Airbus claims th...
Jump to postSeems the Firefighting option mentionned to be explored in the Indonesia order press release last year is getting real and could be ready before the end of this year :shock: Only found this source in spanish. Hopefully will be reported in english soon... https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diario/mos...
Jump to postYou have to be careful when claiming something has been corroborated by multiple media reports. Nowadays, a lot of articles are simply re-reporting other articles (basically the same as retweeting it). You have to actually read the article to see if they got their own sources, or if they're just re...
Jump to postSo the burning question now is what does DL do once the 767 and 757s inevitably exit the fleet? Any tertiary cities in Europe would be a non-starter with the smallest widebody which would be the 332. I see them continuing to just fly the trunk routes with A350s and 339s and letting AF/KL do the res...
Jump to postInterview / article with Nicolas Ferri, Delta's manager for EMEA + India: https://www.aerotelegraph.com/delta-sieht-ueberraschend-starke-nachfrage-nach-europafluegen [German] DL expects to be at 95% of pre-COVID capacity TATL this summer, or even slightly above when including AFKL and VS codeshare f...
Jump to postThere is a noise curfew between 23:00~-06:00 at Haneda, since it's situated so close to densely-populated residential areas. (Shinagawa, Odaiba/Ariake, Kawasaki, Kamata, etc.)... C Runway became the arrival/departure runway for northerly winds, and was allowed to have up to eight departures and arr...
Jump to postName is on the ticket at the time of purchase. No need for check in to look it up. I took a flight recently where zero documentation was checked at any point at the airport, except the boarding pass (which I had printed out at home). The boarding pass had my name on it, sure, but without an ID or p...
Jump to postSo where do we go from there? Stop selling body armor so we can shoot mass shooters more easily? If the answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun then the answer to your question is that the good guy with the gun will need to start wearing body armor when he goes shopping. Well, airpo...
Jump to postThe only airports with runways that could support an A380 landing are NRT, HND, KIX and CTS; Haneda has one A380 gate (gate 107 in the international terminal) Didn't HND ban A380s due to the increased wake separation to smaller aircraft, which would cost slots? Or has that changed? Otherwise, I don...
Jump to postWe have seen very little news of the test flight program. Now, I realize that Chinese companies tend to be more secretive about such activities, or they just don't get reported in english media. Still, delivering an aircraft by end of this year would require certification within 6 months, which seem...
Jump to postOf course some Martha's Vineyard locals rat them out. I was thinking it would've actually been a Plane Spotter,. Might explain why I was asked to only take photos of planes, not of cargo. Who would've thought that those innocent looking boxes could actually contain things like motorcycles and souve...
Jump to postLufthansa says it seeks to divest the rest of its stake LSG catering unit On that topic, I had two flights with LH some weeks ago, and on both flights they didn't offer any food or drinks to buy due to "staff shortages at the caterer". Handed out a complimentary bottle of water and a smal...
Jump to postThe accident rate dropped considerably in the mid-1970s, however. There weren't as many left? They learned what the F-104G could and couldn't do, they improved engine reliability and modified maintenance procedures, swapped the ejection seats for a safer model, added overrun protection to runways, ...
Jump to postGreat news, looks like many on this board missed it. With Japan fully re-opening its borders soon, there must be lots of pent up travel demand both to and from Japan.
Jump to postDon't A400Ms carry almost twice as much fuel as the KC-130J? A400M: 50,800 kg/112,000 lbs/63,500 litres without or 62,320 kg/137,400 lbs/77,900 litres with the cargo hold tank. They do but they also burn it roughly twice as fast. Now, if you include a distance from the airfield to the operational a...
Jump to postWasn't the 156-seat A319 variant (with double overwing exits) developed and built at Easyjets request? Pretty sure they were the launch customer for this option, although other operators later chose it as well.
Jump to postOff on a tangent, since the U.S. Airforce seems to be the only service that uses the boom system why haven't they been forced to go to the system that everybody else is using? Seems silly to have them using a system that nobody else uses Considering how long the boom has been in operation, hardly a...
Jump to postHow is the endurance of a C130 tanker, btw? I assume it is considerably less compared to A400M/A330/KC10/KC135? I don't have exact numbers but it's been my impression so far that the (K)C-130 has more endurance than the A400M. It was always designed to be efficient at slow speeds, whereas the A400M...
Jump to postVideo showing a Russian helicopter getting destroyed (with crew) by a TB-2 while on the ground at Snake Island, published by the Ukrainian forces:
https://nitter.net/buch10_04/status/152 ... niV2g&s=19
And also by the way, contraception is next. Of course. It's never been about the fetus, or the potentially born children. "Just don't have sex", conservatives will say, "stay a virgin until marriage and obey your husband for the rest of your life". That's their entire motivation...
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