Joe Patroni needs to tap that Metroliner on the belly and say "nice goin' sweetheart..."
And the pilot should definitely send a thank-you note to Mr. Swearingen...
During the 1980s, Boeing also researched a rear-engined pusher propfan airliner they called the 7J7. They never actually built a prototype. Unlinke this McDonnell-Douglas prototype, the Boeing model would have been a small twin-aisle widebody.
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/LAXintl" class="quote" target="_blank">LAXintl</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>The survey was brought to you by the Teamste...
Jump to postIt really depends on your definition of "large." The answers might differ depending on whether you measure size in terms of length, wingspan, or maximum takeoff weight. In 1984, fourth LONGEST cargo/passenger aircraft in service would have been the DC-8-60/-70 stretch models, at 187 feet long. That'...
Jump to postThe article says he "risked the lives of all 130 passengers and flight crew ..."
A bit overly sensationalistic, even for the overly-sensationalistic media!
GSO's parallel runway. For most of its life, <acronym title="Greensboro - Piedmont Triad International (GSO / KGSO), USA - North Carolina">GSO</acronym> was perfectly happy with one main runway and a perpendicular crossing runway. Then, about 15 years ago, FedEx decided to build a hub there. FedEx w...
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Jump to postIf they really build it, would there be any other airports in the world with SIX parallel runways?!?
How many simultaneous approaches would that layout be able to handle?
The Ethiopian 961 ditching actually happened in shallow coastal waters, not the deep ocean... and it also would have gone a lot better if the hijackers hadn't been fistfighting with the captain at the last minute while he was trying to bring the plane in.
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/DTWPurserBoy" class="quote" target="_blank">DTWPurserBoy</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>Turkey sandwich is a good deal w...
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Jump to postAssuming that the two aircraft were on fairly direct flight paths to their destination at the time of the collision, they would have made contact almost head-on. At that angle, how could a 737-800 wing make contact with a Hawker in a way that would be serious enough to disable the crew but slight en...
Jump to postCorrect. When a tire blows, it BLOWS, with force. You'd be able to see the ripped rubber in the picture, and the flat tires would look much worse than they actually do. This definitely looks more like a slow plug deflation for safety.
Jump to postI concur with everything above. Whenever a family member of mine does any flying, I like to track their takeoffs and landings online while also simultaneously listening to their aircraft's ATC communications on <a href="http://www.liveatc.net." target="_blank">www.liveatc.net.</a> I assume the ATC f...
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/JetBuddy" class="quote" target="_blank">JetBuddy</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>it looks to be for designs a fair bit sm...
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/freqflyerNYC" class="quote" target="_blank">freqflyerNYC</a> (<a href="#207" class="quote">Reply 207</a>):<br/><i>3. Cameras should be present i...
Jump to postMany schools in the USA take a week of break during mid February, late February, or March. Lots of families with kids probably plan Disney trips during their break week. That may help explain the upgauging.
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/gregorygoodwin" class="quote" target="_blank">gregorygoodwin</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>The number two engine is not e...
Jump to postWhen I saw the title, I flashed back to those "saddle" seats we've been hearing about for a few years. That's about the only type of seat that could get you far enough below 30 inches of pitch to matter. .
Jump to postI assume cargo aircraft weren't counted in the survey. If they had been, I'm sure Memphis (MEM) would have been at or near the top.
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/bennett123" class="quote" target="_blank">bennett123</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i> Was the tasing necessary then? Why ...
Jump to postBrilliant idea!
I assume they slide the pipes through the emergency passenger door in the rear pressure bulkhead. The little door must be positioned just high enough to allow the pipes to slide through parallel with the fuselage.
There are lots of theoretical boarding/deplaning studies and models published on the Internet. Here's one from Boeing that includes a brief discussion of one-door vs. two-door deplaning on the 757-300. <a href="http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_01/textonly/t01txt.html" target="_blan...
Jump to postI used to live on the South Side of Chicago for years just before Meigs was destroyed. I was always amazed by how deserted the airport looked. There were relatively few aircraft operations, which I found so strange considering the airport was within EASY walking distance of one of America's biggest ...
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/Dalmd88" class="quote" target="_blank">Dalmd88</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>The Dayton Airshow does have a private trade...
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Jump to postSeriously, I never cease to be amazed by the Airliners.net community.
No matter how difficult or obscure the question, there's always someone who knows the answer.
I wonder if UA sent each of the passengers a bill for unloading their bags. Unlike Southwest, bags don't fly free!
Jump to postFrom the picture, it looks like he was flying a Cessna of some kind. Good job landing it in the dark.
On a side note, I wonder what might have happened if the aircraft had been fitted with a ballistic recovery system. Would you have advised him to try landing himself, or just rip the chute?
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ttailsteve" class="quote" target="_blank">ttailsteve</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>I'd be happy if fares as much as dou...
Jump to postThere's no way a 747 could make turns that sharp. The Flightaware flightpath shows the aircraft making a 180 degree turn within the width of the nearby airfield at <acronym title="Islip - Long Island MacArthur (ISP / KISP), USA - New York">ISP</acronym> (my Flightaware screen shows the runway outlin...
Jump to postThey should've auctioned the airline on Ebay. The might have gotten as much as $30 or $40 that way.
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/F9animal" class="quote" target="_blank">F9animal</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>This smells like Maxjet all over again</i>...
Jump to postI can recall back in around 1995-96, my family stayed in one of the airport hotels near <acronym title="Philadelphia - International (PHL / KPHL), USA - Pennsylvania">PHL</acronym> for a day. We had a room overlooking the runway threshold, just a few hundred yards from the fence. The soundproofing i...
Jump to postAlthough it was only mentioned briefly in the article, I find it significant that the electric motors would essentially render the tug obsolete. An airline with a significant amount of its fleet outfitted with the motors would be able to mostly eliminate the cost of buying and maintaining tugs (not ...
Jump to postI never had the opportunity to fly on a Metro, but I had the pleasure one time of ground-crewing a cargo bird when I worked as a cargo ramper at <acronym title="Greensboro - Piedmont Triad International (GSO / KGSO), USA - North Carolina">GSO</acronym> during college in the late '90s. I volunteered ...
Jump to postDoes anyone know how much structural modification work the freighter conversion required? Of course, I assume it received a proper cargo door (not like Airborne Express). But, in addition to that, did it require any structural strengthening? Given how strong Douglas overbuilt its aircraft, I would 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/richiemo" class="quote" target="_blank">richiemo</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>if only the 77W was painted in the old <...
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/gkirk" class="quote" target="_blank">gkirk</a> (<a href="#39" class="quote">Reply 39</a>):<br/><i>Is this right? </i></font></td></tr></table> N...
Jump to postN243NW is exactly correct, from a physics standpoint. It's a moment arm issue. It's not uncommon for shortened airframes to have taller tails in a line of aircraft, and vice versa. For example the A340-600 has a shorter tail than the A340-500, because of the longer fuselage, therefore a different mo...
Jump to postDuring the 80s and 90s, the European Ryder Cup team famously used to charter a Concorde top hop the pond whenever the matches were in the United States. It was always a bold statement. The press would always be there to take pictures of the players coming down the stairs, carrying flags and such. Co...
Jump to postIt would take a LONG time to freeze a human body completely solid. Even if the person was in the wheel well long enough to die from exposure, the innermost blood and guts would still be somewhat liquid and capable of bleeding out of the body, especially when the body's been cracked open by tarmac or...
Jump to postInteresting. For years, ever since the 777-300 nose sections began coming out of the factory in blue-green color, I've been wondering "what would <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> do with that?" Like it or not, it would force them to change the livery. In a few months we'll find ...
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Jump to postI'd love to know exactly what they wanted to achieve in that 727 test. What were they trying to simulate?
Regardless of what it was, I can't believe the rest of the fuselage stayed intact after the nose got ripped off so violently. That's impressive.
Those charts tell the whole story. The pilots simply didn't properly plan and execute the vertical plane of their approach (assuming their <acronym title="Moscow - Domodedovo (DME / UUDD), Russia">DME</acronym> functioned properly). They were lost without that big, fat glidescope bar in their artifi...
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/KC135TopBoom" class="quote" target="_blank">KC135TopBoom</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>Looks like Ernie's <acronym title=...
Jump to postI can definitely confirm the <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>-<acronym title="Honolulu - International / Pearl Harbor-Hickam JB (Hickam AFB) (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym> flights. I can remember flying an <acronym t...
Jump to postI find regional jet terminals to be the worst, since they're always the most active. Terminal A2 at <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">EWR</acronym>, Continental's <acronym title="Royal Jordanian">RJ</acronym> terminal, is the worst, especially on a rainy ...
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/Gulfstream650" class="quote" target="_blank">Gulfstream650</a> (<a href="#19" class="quote">Reply 19</a>):<br/><i>Here is a good video showing w...
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