The "Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles" Youtube channel demolishes the claims about the Lancaster being suited or seriously considered for taking the A-bomb to Japan. Factors included range, speed, altitude, survivability, and safety, including the need to arm & disarm the weapon in fli...
Jump to postThe upper deck outboard passengers have practically no foot room, and lack space to put a purse or backpack under the seat ahead. That passenger with green pants can't even sit with legs upright.
Jump to postde Havilland Comet C.2: max cruise 480 mph (=417 kts) at 40,000 ft. Max stage length with 44 passengers 2500 miles (=2172 naut mi).
Source: Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-1958 by Owen Thetford.
Wikipedia says Comet 3 and 4 cruised at 450 kt.
I remember seeing the World Trade Center towers out the window of an airliner taxiing at EWR, so it seems counterintuitive to not consider EWR as an NYC-area airport.
Jump to postI was on a 4-3 Trident ZRH-LHR in 1974. Yes, it certainly did feel crowded, and the 4 side looked like a sea of seats. Fortunately, I was on the 3 side.
Jump to postThis is Winston Churchill's Commando, from Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-1958, by Owen Thetford. I finally broke down and got a Flickr account just for this post.
From my recollection of the discussions on this forum around the time the A380 (or A3XX) was gestating, Airbus was fed up with Boeing selling package deals of 747s and other types; and they felt Boeing was able to cross-subsidize the smaller planes with excess profits from the 747, which had no dire...
Jump to postI was on a 727 departing LAX that seemed to take off simply by running out of runway extending out into the ocean.
Jump to postRoche (Hoffmann-La Roche) chartered an IL-62 last week to fly medicine to Iran.
Source: internal webcast
In years past, I worked for the manufacturer of those microwave scanners, and I can tell you that there is nothing in them that could figure out a person's race. Sex is an input variable, to select one of two catalogs of feature patterns to use for target detection. It's a statistical pattern recogn...
Jump to postmjoelnir wrote:Yellowstone project Y1, Y2 and Y3. Y2 with first the Sonic Cruiser, never launched, but morphed into the 787.
It looks like a modern descendant of the Hurel-Dubois HD.31.
Jump to postFrom the article linked in the OP: [quote]Eight people were hospitalized as of 4 p.m., according to Chuuk State Hospital Chief Nurse Irene Nero. Nero said all the patients are males and four of them will need to be evacuated because of head injuries, spinal cord injuries and hip fractures. ... There...
Jump to postThe new Boeing Sky interior is substantially better than previous 737 interiors. It allows for much more room above the aisle and middle seats when the overhead bin is closed. It is possible to stand up in front of the aisle seat when the bin is closed. Shorter adults and children could stand in fr...
Jump to postNot much weight is on the nose gear, so not much braking power would be available. But if it were, it would reduce stability- the reason planes switched to tricycle gear in the first place.
Jump to postfmrCapCadet, the percentage must be nonzero. The one time I was on a DC-8, the captain pulled us out of the queue for the runway, ran some tests on a taxiway, then taxied back to the gate and cancelled the flight. He said the flaps would not fully extend, and while that wasn't a big enough problem t...
Jump to postI flew in a rear-facing seat of a Sabreliner, and I was indeed hanging by my seat belt on climbout. I don't think many people will like it, especially those traveling with lap children.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NWAROOSTER" class="quote" target="_blank">NWAROOSTER</a> (<a href="#53" class="quote">Reply 53</a>):<br/><i>Good night Mrs. Calahan…….</i></font...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/johns624" class="quote" target="_blank">johns624</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>Four--USS Lexington- Corpus Christi, Texas...
Jump to postCurtiss - Wright X-19 of 1963. The prototype crashed, so maybe the problems cited above were not solved.
Jump to postIs this the same Donald Trump who flew around in his own 727 long after the airlines retired them in favor of quieter models?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/iahmark" class="quote" target="_blank">iahmark</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i>A They should put a fuselage plug(s) –mayb...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/802flyguy" class="quote" target="_blank">802flyguy</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>Most readers will know that the o...
Jump to postWell, you see, once upon a time Boeing built the B-29. Then they changed the engines and tail and produced the B-50. From there, they added an upper bubble to the fuselage and produced the 367, which flew as the C-97, but also as an airliner. Then, with a few changes to the fuselage, wings, engines,...
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Jump to postI wonder why the RSO didn't destroy it when it faltered, so as to burn it in the air to the degree possible rather than having it all fall back onto the pad.
Jump to postThe Spacex and Boeing capsules themselves are to be reusable. But the CST-100's service module will be jettisoned and burned on re-entry, losing the propulsion and life support systems in it. Dragon will lose its trunk, but that is less of a loss because propulsion and life support are in the capsule.
Jump to postWhat does ETOPS330 have to do with the RAT reliability? If it comes to the point of actually needing the RAT to get down safely, isn't its failure just as bad 100nm from the nearest runway as 5 hours away?
Jump to postNASA mixed up the paperwork when they switched back from the worm to the meatball logo, and painted the wrong names on Atlantis and Endeavour. The two shuttles flew under the wrong names for years. Now they will have to straighten things out by swapping them between museums. <a href="http://www.spac...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CXB77L" class="quote" target="_blank">CXB77L</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i>Quoting BoeingVista (Reply 24): Another clas...
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A horseman holds the reins.
These people want to rein in helicopter noise.
How is Boeing's patented raked wingtip fundamentally different from the wingtip of Dornier's TNT (Tragflaeche Neuer Technologie) used on the DO-228?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Stitch" class="quote" target="_blank">Stitch</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>In other news, The Seattle Times reports tha...
Jump to postLockheed named several early planes for stars: * Altair, Electra, Lodestar (=Polaris), Sirius, Vega and then used constellations or asterisms: * Orion, Hercules, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, and the generic Constellation atmospheric phenomena: * Lightning, Chain Lightning, Shooting Star "Star" combini...
Jump to postHmm, the Wikipedia article on the Viking is quite entertaining. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quote:<br/><i>To speed development the aircraft used the wing and undercarriage design from the Wellington...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NAV20" class="quote" target="_blank">NAV20</a> (<a href="#27" class="quote">Reply 27</a>):<br/><i>Discussions between the [Brabazon] committee a...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/slcdeltarumd11" class="quote" target="_blank">slcdeltarumd11</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>Delta has been really good t...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/VC10er" class="quote" target="_blank">VC10er</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>Just a 737 question: Why does the 737 have t...
Jump to postThanks for posting the story! I imagine it must have gotten some play in the US press. I wasn't around at the time, but remember reading about it as a boy. But not in anything like this detail. Note that the Turtle didn't have the <acronym title="Madrid - Barajas (MAD / LEMD), Spain">MAD</acronym> b...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/autothrust" class="quote" target="_blank">autothrust</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>I'm really wondering about the Arian...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/autothrust" class="quote" target="_blank">autothrust</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>Good question specially because it i...
Jump to postSpacex shows how they think Falcon Heavy stacks up to the competition at http://www.spacex.com/falcon_heavy.php .
Jump to postThe max performance figures you list for Atlas V apply to the Atlas Heavy, a proposed variant with 2 Common Core Boosters strapped to the sides of the central <acronym title="Upland - Cable (CCB), USA - California">CCB</acronym>, in the manner of Delta <acronym title="Fuijan Airlines (China)">IV</ac...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/VC10er" class="quote" target="_blank">VC10er</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i>When I see Smisek wax on about how amazing e...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/yendig" class="quote" target="_blank">yendig</a> (<a href="#41" class="quote">Reply 41</a>):<br/><i>How about calling the new 777 the 'Emirates'...
Jump to postWell, what has me wondering in that same article is the suggestion that there was a blockage in the helium line or valves, that went away after repeated cycling of the valves. So why were they so confident that the problem could not reappear?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/zanl188" class="quote" target="_blank">zanl188</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i> Some nice launch video from SpaceX. </i><...
Jump to postAn interesting read. Thank you. I'll look forward to reading your future installments. (So in case of a lack of further response, don't take it as a sign of lack of interest or readership).
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/cornutt" class="quote" target="_blank">cornutt</a> (<a href="#20" class="quote">Reply 20</a>):<br/><i>Would anyone here be interested in seeing ...
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