Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed

President Zelensky estimates the cost of a new Mriya at $800 Million, to be built with Western parts rather than trying to source and use Soviet-era parts: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/800m-needed-to-build-a-new-an-225-mriya-cargo-jet-zelensky-says/ar-AAXD9DK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=412a09f3...

Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed

President Zelensky estimates the cost of a new Mriya at $800 Million, to be built with Western parts rather than trying to source and use Soviet-era parts: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/800m-needed-to-build-a-new-an-225-mriya-cargo-jet-zelensky-says/ar-AAXD9DK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=412a09f3...

Re: Should passengers report possible maintenance issues to crew

Not so hilarious now is it? Yeah. Still hilarious. Because "after the accident", all sorts of people think they saw all sorts of things. Not that they're making it up, but rather that the mind does funny things. In virtually any plane crash, there will be people on the ground who will swe...

Re: Should passengers report possible maintenance issues to crew

This thread is hilarious. I imagine that some observations from knowledgeable observers, like one or two above, merited attention. But the chances of an average passenger correctly identifying a maintenance issue that isn't completely-obvious, or, worse yet, a misconfiguration (OMG, No Flaps!!! Oh,...

Re: RIP Alitalia, hello "ITA" (Italia Trasporto Aereo)

The question was answered in my previous post, you are obviously not familiar with how things work in the EU so let me put in more simple terms: they have much more say in how the EU is run and what goes on. In even simpler terms it means that AZ will be protected even more than before. Member stat...

Re: Possible COVID-19 infection at Boeing Everett plant.

Working in healthcare myself, and being around sick people all day long, I am not a little bit more scared today than I was last year (neither fo me nor for the people around me, they are safe), and you should not be either. Then you should know the capability of the health care system is limited. ...

Re: Possible COVID-19 infection at Boeing Everett plant.

2 % dying is not a small thing, but in perspective, there are a lot more people dying for other things (that we have health care for) and yet media do not go ballistic on those. You do realize that with 2% dying in a year, the average age would be 50! No, not a lot more people are dying of other ca...

Re: Possible COVID-19 infection at Boeing Everett plant.

Love the way people talk as if (perhaps) two per cent of the global population dying is no big thing. Or that we should all relax because as long as you're younger and have no existing conditions, you'll be fine. Quite apart from the fact that that's been proven wrong, I'd just suggest we pause and...

Re: Possible COVID-19 infection at Boeing Everett plant.

Remember when Swine Flu was supposed to decimate the world? From April 2009 to Feb 2010, 55 million Americans got it, 250,000 were hospitalized and over 10,000 died. We did not cancel March Madness, comic con, music festivals, drop our Disney plans, hole ourselves up in the house , so on and so for...

Re: Airbus - blended wing aircraft code name Maveric

The main downside with this design from a passenger perspective could be during turns, side passengers are far from the center axis. Bingo. Along with evac - and of course pressurising the thing. But if the latter two can be worked around with design, the first is intrinsic to the concept. How do y...

Re: Video - Flying the A320

A quick question, if by any chance you used or use flight sim, How good are FSLabs 320 on P3d and / or Flight Factor 320 on X-Plane? Nice video btw, keep em coming! I used to have a copy of FSX and the FSLabs A320 was pretty darn close to the real thing. I now use X-Plane 11 because the flight mode...

Re: Video - Flying the A320

A quick question, if by any chance you used or use flight sim, How good are FSLabs 320 on P3d and / or Flight Factor 320 on X-Plane?

Nice video btw, keep em coming!

Re: Alitalia bankruptcy and selling process discussion thread

It's a strong statement for a company that has been around for 56 years... Well I paid for 38 years of Alitalia (and probably die before Alitalia will), and they are not alive on merits...and just because they are "old" does not make it good nor shows any skill, just bad managment from po...

Re: Alitalia bankruptcy and selling process discussion thread

In 5 to 10 years from now Air Italy will be the country's number one airline. Alitalia might even ceased to exist! Would not count on Air Italy being operative in 10 years...they are losing money and bleeding like Alitalia. It's pretty much where Alitalia is. https://www.videolina.it/articolo/tg/20...

Re: Saudi man "accidentally" buys 2x A350?

I really doubt you can pick interior of such plane by phone...

Also I would think Airbus would pamper a bit more a private owner of such "scale".

Re: Rumor: American to make huge announcement

They could cancel all Max orders... that'd be huge, and going 220 / 320. One can hope!

Re: Boeing 737MAX Grounded Worldwide Q3 2019

Unfortunately there are many people who believe that the pilots are obsolved of all blame because they are dead -- that's not the way it works. As long as you even hint at any pilot blame you will be trashed. They might have made misakes, but the question might be, would they have made such mistake...

Re: Airbus Reveals Hybrid-Electric 'Bird Of Prey' Airliner Concept

I get upset when someone touts an electric vehicle as cleaner, greener, more sustainable. It depends on where the electricity comes from, and in the US at least, its mostly fossil fuels. My daily driver is a Tesla, but I have some gasoline cars too. I tell people I have three oil powered cars, and ...

Re: 737-8200?

If they eventually decides to change the marketing name or remove it, it is not because they believe people are stupid, but because the name has received so much scrutiny. When the plane flies again it will be very safe, as every little bottleneck is ironed out. It takes year to build up a brand, b...

Re: 737-8200?

This just proves they think everyone is dumb, stick a new name and people will forget. So much attention to "cover things" instead of proving that the plane is safe. If I were as dumb as they think, and flew on one of this plane, and later found out it was the same exact plane i did not s...

Re: 737-8200?

This just proves they think everyone is dumb, stick a new name and people will forget. So much attention to "cover things" instead of proving that the plane is safe. If I were as dumb as they think, and flew on one of this plane, and later found out it was the same exact plane i did not s...

Re: 737-8200?

This just proves they think everyone is dumb, stick a new name and people will forget. So much attention to "cover things" instead of proving that the plane is safe. If I were as dumb as they think, and flew on one of this plane, and later found out it was the same exact plane i did not sa...

Re: Korean Air Captain Tries to Drink Inflight, FA Who Stopped Him Demoted

Ugh. Misogyny at its worst. Why make it a political / sexual thing, how do you even know the cabin chief was a she? Damn, hope you are not as quick in bed Maybe because it was already proven ( comment #23 ) that the Cabin Chief was a she. From the article: According to the report, the flight’s capt...

Re: Should Lockheed get back into commerical aircraft?

With all this Boeing issue, one has to wonder, if Boeing was to fall down, LM could buy out the commercial division and rebrand, that means as Trump suggested you'd have a L738 (instead of B 737-8 Max). It's a win win, Boeing keep the military division, America keeps their dominand manufacturer and ...

Re: Boeing 737MAX Grounded Worldwide Q3 2019

They are responsible for the design of MCAS. are they? I doubt R-C have aerodynamics experts on the project, as such they would have little say in defining control laws. I don't believe Boeing will be sharing intimate information about plane behavior, more likely just provide specs with "need ...

Re: The Inflight Movies on Flights that Crashed

I always wondered about MH370. All passenger seats & overhead displays had the standard moving map display and all could have seen they were flying the wrong direction, for hours. Or that it was turned off, also raising questions. Specially when they were flying low. And hundreds of people had ...

Re: Boeing 737MAX Grounded Worldwide Q2 2019

Nobody is doing that as a PR stunt. Aaaaaaand mission accomplished (aka it's "impossible" hence it's false) Pulling your leg here, but still it is a possible (unlikely) scenario, after Both Boeing and FAA lost completely credibility. You make it sounds like this "extra" makes gr...

Re: Boeing 737MAX Grounded Worldwide Q2 2019

Would you be surprised if this was a PR effort staging how effective FAA is and not rubber stamping at all? The old saying is there are no stupid questions. Absolutely, the FAA is working with Boeing to find an issue that will cause a delay of weeks or months as a PR stunt. Yeah.. who would suspect...

Re: Boeing 737MAX Grounded Worldwide Q2 2019

kayik wrote:

Would you be surprised if this was a PR effort staging how effective FAA is and not rubber stamping at all?

Re: A380 was success for Airbus, says new CEO

Exactly, but for some poeple it is hard to swallow that even a failure (as in sales)can means something good for the company, go figure.... Then it leads to suggest that the same people would not consider the MAX issue is a good thing for Boeing as it refocuses them on safety. I would call those fo...

Re: A380 was success for Airbus, says new CEO

Well we know it is not a success compared to the targeted sales. If their target was 200 deliveries then it would have been a huge success. I think a success is measured against the target, whatever that target is. This is getting silly now. This thread should have been done after a couple of pages...

Re: A380 was success for Airbus, says new CEO

When he says the A380 is a success, he's saying something that's false and that he knows to be false. We call that a lie. He could have said lots of true and useful things: "We learned a lot building the A380" or "The A380 was a huge technical achievement" or ... but instead he ...

Re: A380 was success for Airbus, says new CEO

The A380 in and of itself was not a commercial success, but so what? Hindsight is 20/20. With an unpredictable future, it's normal for companies to make multiple bets. Some work out better than expected, others fail. The A380 was part of Airbus's strategy to cover the full range of the market. Some...

Re: A380 was success for Airbus, says new CEO

Why do we always have to think people lie? I mean he could have said nothing, and it is not PR that counts in this case as investors sure do not buy PR, if he says it was successful for them, it was, we might not like it, it might have been a commercial failure, but it could mean a good roi in the ...

Re: A380 was success for Airbus, says new CEO

Why do we always have to think people lie? I mean he could have said nothing, and it is not PR that counts in this case as investors sure do not buy PR, if he says it was successful for them, it was, we might not like it, it might have been a commercial failure, but it could mean a good roi in the l...

Re: UA's Munoz: Will be on first 737 MAX flight, willing to change flights for customers

Do you really think that is how it works? This sounds like a flight from WorldWar2 where there were pilots, engineers, technicians, wizards, you name it on board. I can assure you, it won't be a regular flight ;) but they will sure make it look like it. You sound like you're doing the load and crew...

Re: UA's Munoz: Will be on first 737 MAX flight, willing to change flights for customers

Some people will fall for this kind o PR, and while it is nice to see a C.E.O. putting the face and his bum where is mouth is, it proves nothing. That flight will be very different from the millions of other flights, with all eyes there and the best pilots, egineers and technician on board, of cour...

Re: UA's Munoz: Will be on first 737 MAX flight, willing to change flights for customers

Considering how Airbus (in a smart way i should add) did not take advantage of the situation, it would not be smart to antagonize them. They have not taken advantage publicly, but of course that would have been seen as wildly inappropriate. Privately? Who knows....... Well I was referring to Boeing...

Re: UA's Munoz: Will be on first 737 MAX flight, willing to change flights for customers

Some people will fall for this kind o PR, and while it is nice to see a C.E.O. putting the face and his bum where is mouth is, it proves nothing. That flight will be very different from the millions of other flights, with all eyes there and the best pilots, egineers and technician on board, of cours...

Re: UA's Munoz: Will be on first 737 MAX flight, willing to change flights for customers

The best way to restore public image/safety on the max is for Boeing and even a few airlines to do a live feed of the flight. Once the public see how normal and relaxed the flight was, bingo. It will be a non event Maybe it's time to do another barrel roll like the 707 at the Paris Airshow. Not onl...

Re: Why didn't Delta keep their 747s longer?

Yep. Pretty much the same answer to almost every thread here. Its a business decision. Thats it. It might kill lots of discussion, but it is the only real answer, business do not operate in any other way, if it makes money it stays, if it doesn't it goes, if there is anything else that in the long ...

Re: Are we approaching world where there´s only twin-engined jets?

Antonov 225 and the recently launched Stratolauncher are there to stay for a little bit longer.

Re: Why didn't Delta keep their 747s longer?

Why did xyz airline not keep zyx plane? Because it did not make financial sense..... Yep. Pretty much the same answer to almost every thread here. Its a business decision. Thats it. It might kill lots of discussion, but it is the only real answer, business do not operate in any other way, if it mak...

Re: Why didn't Delta keep their 747s longer?

Why did xyz airline not keep zyx plane?
Because it did not make financial sense.....

Re: Air Italy Abandon Boeing for Airbus + More

And Boeing says..."who?". If they keep sayin who, sooner or later people will be like.. Boeing who? Losing a customer is never good, no matter how a small customer is, especially now it is bad timing for Boeing. Will boeing survive ? YES, is it smart to have a who cares attitude when losi...

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