Seems 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...
Jump to postThe B-2 fulfilled (and to an extent still does) an essential role for the US: being able to penetrate enemy air defences and deliver nuclear weapons as part of nuclear deterrence. The B-52, which it was supposed to replace, couldn't do that anymore thanks to advances in radar and missiles; neither c...
Jump to postredflyer wrote:ranold76 wrote:The silence all around on this is deafening.
Agree. Hasn't been any relevant news in the media since around April 20.
Since this might get lost in the CivAv thread: Boeing booked a big loss for the T-7A project in 1Q22. https://leehamnews.com/2022/04/27/boeing-delays-777x-first-delivery-delayed-until-2025/ Boeing Defense recorded [...] $367 million in charges on its T-7 Red Hawk trainer program. ... Supply costs, t...
Jump to postAny plans for a new airborne observatory? Or has the James Webb replaced that role? No, at least not a heavier-than-air observatory. I'm pretty sad about the decision, even though it's been talked about for some time now. SOFIA is a unique capability that is only partially replaced by JWST or NGRST...
Jump to postCrew was pretty wobbly on exiting the spacecraft. Was the crew able to use ISS exercise equipment during their “bonus” days? And how much physical training did they get prior to their launch? 15 days in space shouldn't lead to that much muscle atrophy but if you weren't super fit beforehand, combin...
Jump to postSu-34 caught flat-spinning into the ground. https://youtu.be/8vQa_mywq8k
It's still unclear whether a technical malfunction, operator error or combat damage caused this loss.
Claims surfaced that a TB-2 was found crashed / shot down in Russia with possible links to recent explosions in Bryansk. On the other hand, Ukrainian reports deny that any of their equipment crossed into Russia and warn of possible false-flag propaganda. https://twitter.com/theragex/status/151858659...
Jump to postBecause of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, OneWeb is moving all future launches to Falcon 9. Seems like that SpaceX's ability to reuse broomsticks is paying off. https://oneweb.net/resources/oneweb-resume-satellite-launches-through-agreement-spacex More that OneWeb was scheduled to launch on Soyuz...
Jump to postUkrainian An-26 crashed today, apparently due to hitting a utility tower or electrical power line. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oHqi7G5Msj8
Might be the same aircraft: https://postimg.cc/4myGLqNQ
People on twitter reporting that 1 of the 3 crew died.
ITAR regulations only covers arms coming and going out if the US. Unless the C-390 have components that goes thu he US. ITAR regulations do not apply. If India runs afoul of the US to a point where sanctions gets involved, then there'll be lots more issues than just the C-390. All AH-64 fuselages a...
Jump to postThere was a report that Dassault has started negotiations and that the Serbs want a type that can fire the Strom Shadow air to air missile which has a range of 300km. Minor correction, the Storm Shadow is a cruise missile. A2A I assume Serbia would want the Meteor. Both weapons can be equipped on e...
Jump to postCurious in recent years how many recovered data recorders were fully or partially un readable and the nature of accidents where this is the case. In the era of digital recorders, I can't think of a case where data wasn't recoverable. And that includes airliners intentionally flown directly into the...
Jump to postThey may be wanting to reduce speculation, which was rampant in the last two weeks. The SJ-182 investigation from January 2021 has still released no data, even though it's been fully recovered for about a year. Not sure what you mean by "no data". The crash was on 9 Jan 21, the preliminar...
Jump to postWith the appearance of Russian heavy bombers in the fight over eastern Ukraine, are they out of range for the E-3s that are flying right along the border on the western side? Nice pic in the link provided, of the tracks NATO surveillance aircraft have been flying. Eastern Ukraine is out of range. U...
Jump to postThat always wondered me is that (subjectively I must admit) on a lot of Russian air bases you see a lot of aircraft like fighters or bombers lined up. I would have thought they would mostly be in hangars (well the fighters at least). As if you compare it to air bases in the UK, Germany etc you'd be...
Jump to postIf you need more range you use a C-17. Exactly. Or you send a tanker with them, or ask an ally to provide an A400M or C-2. Unless you're the USCG or similar niche applications where range is more important than payload, but you can't afford dedicated long-range aircraft. Nobody's going to invest lo...
Jump to postThe C-130 payload-range curve is pretty good already, suitable for TATL, Europe to the Middle East or even NZ to Antarctica. If you need even more range, you can add external fuel tanks. It's nearly perfect as a tactical (intra-theater) airlifter and can still do the occasional longer mission. Much ...
Jump to posthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_Fleet Losing one of three active cruisers worldwide cannot be a point of pride for the Russians. The Russian navy also has 1 active Kirov-class cruiser (+1 in refit). The last cruiser to be sunk in combat was the ARA General Belgrano, 40 years ago. Not a club...
Jump to postI suppose the only thing really going for A340 is the ridiculously low purchase cost. I imagine they can't give away an A346, yet it could potentially carry 85t over 6000nm. I suppose a $110 a barrel oil price wouldn't help either. I think the A346 would make for a decent P2F freighter (it has plen...
Jump to postIn that same period, crashes that occurred in flight because of someone breaking into the cockpit and deliberately crashing the plane (NOT counting hijackings where the plane landed afterwards and was destroyed and death resulted on the ground for other reasons), since 1980: PSA 1771 AA 77 (9/11) A...
Jump to postAs someone else pointed out, there's definitely a market from Germany to Florida in the winter as well, and I believe I remember hearing pre-COVID-19 that there was a decent amount of military traffic on this particular route, which presumably wouldn't be seasonal. On the one hand, there definitely...
Jump to postAnother point made in the article is that the control tower could apparently hear what was transpiring in the cockpit at the last moments. Again, a highly suspect claim which is yet to be substantiated. Any transmission between aircraft and tower is broadcast to all receivers in the area. Other pil...
Jump to postA number of Ukrainian Il-76 that were unable to depart Melitopol in time have been destroyed on the ground, after Russian forces captured the airport. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1510993794912636929 Some others have been flown to Poland early in the conflict. https://twitter.com/Gerjon...
Jump to postClearly this is a step in the right direction. Either follow the rules or get kicked out. Nobody wants to be stuck in a tube with abusive passengers, terrorists or any other people who endanger the health, safety and happiness of their fellow travellers. Imagine being forced to sit next to someone f...
Jump to postIf you’re doing it for one, you should do it for all or the implications are far reaching. More than just slapping it on and shipping it out. How difficult would it be to add the system to the other (already built) variants? I assume that, once it's certifiied, you only need to add a small avionics...
Jump to postI assume questions like this are one reason why Amazon booked launches with 3 different launch vehicles. There should be some clauses in the contract that allow them to cancel delayed Vulcan launches and buy more Ariane 6 launches (or vice versa).
Jump to postA friend just told me that Delta returns to Stuttgart from November 2022, I looked up and the flights are indeed bookable, unser their old flight numbers 116/117 with a 763ER. I heard that this flight got axed just as DUS, with axed I mean axed and not paused. Anyone with more insight? If this retu...
Jump to postAmazon buys 38 Vulcan launches from ULA launches for their 'Kuiper' broadband constellation, in addition to 18 Ariane 6 and 12 (+15 options) New Glenn launches from Blue Origin. https://spacenews.com/amazon-signs-multibillion-dollar-project-kuiper-launch-contracts/ That's a massive order for ULA giv...
Jump to postAmazon buys 18 Ariane 6 launches for their 'Kuiper' broadband constellation, in addition to 38 Vulcan launches from ULA and 12 (+15 options) New Glenn launches from Blue Origin. https://spacenews.com/amazon-signs-multibillion-dollar-project-kuiper-launch-contracts/ Major win for Arianespace, presuma...
Jump to postLockheed Martin claims that the weight of the AGM-183A hypersonic missile is "7000 pound class" ( https://min.news/en/military/cc53cda77005ade8df707c8776adf605.html Ultimately I think they will be able to get the size down. But not in the next 5 years. bt I see, thanks for the link. The p...
Jump to postbikerthai wrote:Not sure if they can reduce the size by 2027 to fit under the F-35. .
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