Re: Air Tanzania A223 Mid-Cabin Windows

There's definitely some sort of film on many areas of the fuselage. What looks like peeling paint at the rear seems to me to be wrinkled film. Also, the joint between the wing to body skirt under the overwing door is covered.

Re: Water leak that affected 787 electronics prompts FAA call for inspections

Reading the AD, this issue could easily be a result of improper maintenance and not a factory issue.

That being said, the Boeing designers might have missed a failure analysis for these fittings and where the water would end up. Equipment bays should be safe from water leaks like this.

Re: Boom Supersonic new configuration.

The GE F414 is hands down the best option. It would have the highest "supercruise" speed of all engines currently in production. Four of them would allow an aircraft this size to easily cruise supersonic without afterburner. The F414 has an extremely low bypass ratio. It is effectively a ...

Re: Question about brake and rudder pedals.

There are no cables and pulleys going to the rudder actuators, but the two sets of pedals are still mechanically connected just like on Boeing. So if one set moves, so does the other. Stronger foot wins. :) And since rudder and trim wheel were the last stage of fallback in case of FBW failure on ea...

Re: Last time the largest aircraft in production was a twin?

What about the Curtiss C-46?

Re: What did well in 2008?

A little bit of a tangent:

I was working at a helicopter manufacturer at the time. We ended up with many white tails during that recession. Often, it was not the buyer who wanted to pull back from the contract, but the buyer's bank (or other source of credit) that went under, forcing them to cancel.

Re: Question about Saudia flight 163

I've known about this incident and actually saw the burned out plane as my flight into Riyadh when I moved there was only few days later. I've seen articles and videos about it, but never heard the transcript of the CVR. That's crazy the way they handled it. It sounded like the cabin crew were bette...

Re: Airbus A220 Production/Delivery Thread - 2022

Apparently ITA’s A220s will enter service in this simplified white livery because no painting slots could be found at short notice. Makes sense to start operations as quickly as possible and then repaint them at the next available opportunity. That would seem odd considering that most all other YMX...

Re: Airbus A220 Production/Delivery Thread - 2022

August being slow is not surprising considering the last 2 weeks of July and the first week of August, the Mirabel production line has its annual shutdown. The place turns into a real ghost town, but it means I get to park real close to the door!

Re: FAA Considering Ruling to add 2nd Flight Deck Barrier

Oh great... More weight. What's next? Reinforcing the cabin side of the lav1, too - so you can't break through the lav wall and knock out the pilot sitting there or what? Perhaps they should just put the door between the fwd lav and the galley and be done with it. IIRC SQ had a door there on their ...

Re: My son is asking: AC 811 LIS-YYZ diversion to YUL on May 14

Thanks. I'll get the update to my son!

Re: My son is asking: AC 811 LIS-YYZ diversion to YUL on May 14

Why would a low pressure on green require a rollout of the fire crews who were apparently interested in the brake temps? Does a low green mess up the braking performance? Or does the pilot have to brake harder with the low pressure?

My son is asking: AC 811 LIS-YYZ diversion to YUL on May 14

My son was spotting planes on Flightradar24 yesterday and noticed AC811 diverted to Montreal. It was met with several ground vehicles on the runway and appeared to have been towed to the terminal. It was on the runway for 15-20 minutes. This morning, the outbound AC810 from Toronto to Lisbon has bee...

Re: Delta Airlines shipping mistake kills millions of bees

To all the logistics people and airline cargo dispatchers out there: Shouldn't have this cargo be labeled highly perishable to reduce the risk of a situation like this? Sounds like a communications error to me. If Delta was not made aware of the nature of the cargo, they shouldn't be blamed too hard.

Re: Are the Pratt & Whitney GTF reliability issues fixed now?

I've heard little but good regarding the gearboxes since this thing began. I remember from many years ago them announcing they were getting 99% efficiency instead of the 98% they'd planned, which doesn't sound like much better from one direction But from another angle, it means only half the ineffi...

Re: VIDEO: landing gear from roll to retraction, from inside bay

On this video you can see the right gear doesn't seal fully as you can see a bit if light. How much drag and especially noise does this make? Obviously not enough to change the design (that would be a huge change) I noticed that too. It can't be the spec as designed so I'm guessing it's some bits t...

Re: 737-200 flight

Try moving to Montreal

Between Air Inuit, Chronos, Nolinor (usually out their YMX base) & Canadian North, you're sure to hear the screech overhead.

With hearing the -200's overhead here, you can really hear how much more quiet engines have gotten over the decades.

Re: Air Baltic A223 - Both engines automatically shutdown on touchdown

I am curious, if you have both engines out, wouldn't that mean hydraulics and electrical power source are lost as well? How long does the hydraulic accumulator and the on-board battery last, while actively using brakes and nose wheel steering? Or does APU automatically comes on on a CS300? The brak...

Re: Airbus A220 Sales Campaign Thread - 2021

I've read the same quote that aerolimani mentions, that the CS300 was the base model and the CS100 is a shrink. I've also read that the CS500 already exists in various CAD software at Bombardier. Maybe one of the reasons they haven't sold any A220-300 160 seat variants is that they'd rather sell a ...

Re: Canada to back Pratt & Whitney turboprop hybrid engine technology -sources

What hasn't been mentioned in the discussion here is how much the aerospace industry in Montreal needed a jumpstart. Along with PWC, Bell Helicopter is getting a boost. There is a tremendous aerospace engineering talent pool in Montreal, but we haven't had any big programmes since the Global 7000. F...

Re: Gulf Air A321 engine fire upon landing at Kuwait

Gulf Air flight GF215 from Bahrain to Kuwait, operates by an A321. One of the engines was on fire upon landing. All 7 crew members and 62 passengers were evacuated safely. Landing was entirely normal, aircraft vacated the runway without any distress, received taxi clearance, taxied and about 2 minu...

Re: Attempted Cockpit Breach on DL386

blacksoviet wrote:

Are Delta’s narrowbody cockpit doors bulletproof?

Re: Porter Airlines extends operations restart date

Why is Canada taking so long to reopen? Canada, especially Ontario and Quebec, were hit hard by the third wave. The third wave was, in part, fueled by relaxation of restrictions (and adherence to them). I think the governments are being extra paranoid now. The economy, overall, is doing OK even wit...

Re: Why WN does not fly to Canada --

This will be my first comment in one of these "why does airline X not fly to Y" discussions. Maybe they don't want to? We can discuss economics, logistics, market all day, but ultimately it's the airline's decision. If a lack of competition was the only reason we have high airfares in Cana...

Re: Chrono Aviation To Add ex-Air Transat 738 to Fleet

I hope this isn't the beginning of the end of Transat.

Re: Boeing's 737 Max has new problem that will require electrical inspection

The statement of the media (This change was executed in such a way that it did not provide a complete electrical grounding path to the unit) seems to conflict with the statement of Boeing (inspections are needed to verify “that a sufficient ground path exists” for this control unit). I'd read that ...

Re: Air Canada to get federal aid

I hope the feds left some cake for the other airlines. AC isn't the only one that got hurt with the COVID pandemic.

Though, to be fair, it has been nice not having a Porter Q400 fly overhead at home every 45 minutes or so (spoken with sarcasm, of course).

Re: Air Canada News And Discussion Thread - 2021

The other thing to think about is that there's a lot less political baggage if the Quebec government offers financial assistance to AT vs AC. Don't forget the current premier of Quebec is a former board member of AT. I hope AT survives, they're a decent operation and the pent up demand for travel sh...

Re: FUN VIDEO: super-dusty gravel landing in a 73S

billsalton92 wrote:

9252fly wrote:

Anyone able to determine which airport and airline si in the video? Cool to watch, had a chance years ago to fly on a 732 combi that was used to fly into remote unpaved airstrips, unfortunately the milk-run I was on did not include one.

Nolinor

Re: A321XLR’s rear fuel tank demands special fire-protection conditions

We put heated floors on a biz jets:

Get the fire rating between the tank and the floor and fix the cold feet issue on the cabin side instead.

Re: Southwest maybe considering an Airbus order

Question for the Boeing experts: Just how much commonality is there between the different 737 models that Southwest use? And compared to the A220, which essentially has identical systems on both the -100 & -300? I would say at least 90% of the system components share the same part number betwee...

Re: Southwest maybe considering an Airbus order

Question for the Boeing experts: Just how much commonality is there between the different 737 models that Southwest use? And compared to the A220, which essentially has identical systems on both the -100 & -300? I would say at least 90% of the system components share the same part number between...

Re: PW4000 powered B777 Fleet Groundings

Total guess on my part, but I'm betting the inability to douse that fire (and pending investigations as to what may have prevented it), is playing a big part in this sudden rush to ground. ....imagine if that had occurred in an ETOPS diversion, and they'd had to fly like that for 2.5hrs+ I'd say th...

Re: UA328 engine explosion at DEN

My question from the video from on board: why is there still flame? Unless the video is from before the pilots ran the checklist, I would assume the fuel cutoff would have been activated. For those out there more familiar with the engine: are we seeing the flames coming from the fuel manifold or did...

Re: Air Canada News And Discussion Thread - 2021

Since we moved the discussion onto paint, AC registered their first A220-300 in honor of Calvin Rovinescu:

https://simpleflying.com/air-canada-ceo-retirement-airbus-a220/

Re: DL 717 slides off taxiway @ PIT

DLASFlyer wrote:

Is it a write off?

Re: Official: End of the line for Learjet

It's sad to see how they lost their heading. It has been some long descent. Who was responsible for this mess? They did build good, solid aircraft and had a global customer base. Once they were even close to tie up with Boeing. I am glad the CSeries survived with Airbus. I liked how they beefed up ...

Re: Official: End of the line for Learjet

What is the correct way to pronounce Bombardier? I've heard three ways. Bombar-deer (similar to the person that drops the bomb in a bomber) Bombar-dee-ay Bomb-bar-jay (like in the news report) It's French. You don't pronounce the last R: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHgF4-S0_y8 Thanks, sounds li...

Official: End of the line for Learjet

Not a big surprise, but Bombardier is finally ending Learjet production this year: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bombardier-cutting-1-600-jobs-ending-learjet-production-1.1562348 IMHO, the Lear85 fiasco was the biggest nail in the coffin not only for Learjet, but ultimately Bombardier as a whole. Had ...

Re: Air Canada Vanguard belly landing 1960’s Montreal YUL