Re: Boeing 777-300ERSF Freighter News and Discussion - 2023

1st flight

https://twitter.com/ILAerospaceIAI/status/1639184577703952387

Due for delivery to Kalitta in second half of this year apparently.

Re: Airbus A321XLR Development / Testing / Production - 2023

The XLR's inside flaps are larger and have more steps that can be selected by the crew. There's more than 1-2-3-Full? Yes, a kind of intermediate setting 1.5, 2.5, ect. controlled by the fms and optimized for better second segment climb. Like on the A350. So setting takeoff flaps 1 is not the same ...

Re: Number of sims in a major airline

At my airline, only the captain taxis the plane. Some of our planes have tillers on both sides, but it's strictly forbidden. Even on landing, it's prohibited for the F/O to leave the runway centerline, so they aren't allowed to take a high-speed taxiway, it must be the captain. At LH it's also only...

Re: Airbus A321XLR Development / Testing / Production - 2023

keesje wrote:

The XLR's inside flaps are larger and have more steps that can be selected by the crew.

Re: 747 classic flap speed

Anyone who has flown across several airlines isn’t surprised how the very dame plane is operated vastly different. In the old days, a lot was in the whim or experiences of the Chief Pilots. When an airline writes their manuals and differs from the OEM procedure there’s a review by the OEM, answer b...

Re: 30 Years of Airbus A340 Operations

The model I actually flew most was the A340-500 including SIN-EWR in Y [...] Takeoff from EWR on return to SIN was the notorious climb due to curvature of the earth. It took 45min to reach cruising altitude... Are you sure? The A345 have the RR Trents which have 4×90kN more power than the A343's CF...

Re: Airbus A321XLR Development / Testing / Production - 2023

Here are some of the changes being implemented on the XLR some of which are news to me. https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/stories/2023-03-proving-the-a321xlrs-airspace-cabin-design-in-flight Cool! I find those to be most interesting: Lower cabin altitude of 6000ft (at 33kft cruise). Sounds mainly ...

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

It simply makes no sense to keep running a global hub in a small city as FRA without much -if any- O/D traffic on much of its long haul routes, especially not with the highest cost airline of the entire group now that there's ample choice from within. Since you choose to ignore the train connection...

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

If the Lufthansa GROUP would be run less German centric and be truely metal neutral, it would basically strip naked Lufthansa airlines in FRA and move most of its long haul flights to the cheaper, more natural hubs in the periferal group bases, and grow MUC. Lufthansa airlines has by far the highes...

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

Spohr is a hypocrite because now in 2023 with LH deeply unprofitable, it still continually gets new widebody aircraft deliveries and orders. And LH aircraft are getting brand new and expensive cabin retrofits. I think LH should be put into austerity measures, too. While I don't disagree ("we'r...

Re: LH group orders 10 A350-1000, 5 A30-900, and 7 B787-9

Those ols SN birds were replaced by group ox ex SQ machines few years ago. The question then again arises why does LH need to operate 3 different aircraft types catering to the same segment ie 748/351/779? Exactly; Swiss will also have 3 WB types with the 330, 350 and 777 (maybe the 340s will still...

Re: UA 777 close call at Maui

Xl0hr: I think if you hear the whole story of that flight, you'll realize that the most likely outcome would have been the retrieval of the airframe from the bottom of the Pacific, had they not had a good bit of luck as to timing and myriad other factors, and the crew not made a series of decisions...

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

Swiss has five A340-300 to replace first and so does Edelweiss by the way. And those we can expect will be replaced by A359 (LX) and B789 (WK) as soon as possible. I‘d rather expect A359 for both LX and WK. The WK CEO has already mentioned his preference towards the bus in a recent interview. Jep p...

Re: UA 777 close call at Maui

"It worked very well for the UA1175 crew as well, natural airmanship notwithstanding." Yeah, maybe. Certainly all part of the mix, but 1175 lived probably more because they had THREE 777 guys in the cockpit that day, and bc Chris Benham was a glider pilot who really enjoys thinking about ...

Re: AA 787 lightning strike damage

From a layman's perspective: this extensive damage makes me wonder how the same lightning strike to a 787's wing (that does not feature the copper foil anymore) would have played out.
Any insights? How would all that energy dissipate?

Re: L1011 minutiae - Pneumatics

As related in some other threads, the L1011 was a technical masterpiece. I'm not sure if anyone is interested, but here goes. On almost every engine/airplane pneumatic system in the industry right now, there are two bleeds in the engine. Essentially holes in the compressor case that allow air to sp...

Re: AS: two tail strikes w/in 5 mins. prompts departure halt

- The A350 has a takeoff acceleration monitoring system which measures acceleration rate on takeoff. It gives an ECAM warning if the sensed acceleration is not in line with what is expected given the input weights and speeds. Wow. What a machine. And see above why I'm convinced that's a good develo...

Re: Lufthansa Group News and Discussion - 2023

ben7x wrote:

It’s possible that the 5 787s they recently took also get the new seats eventually. Would be 80 in total. Or, as you say, further A350s…

Re: AS: two tail strikes w/in 5 mins. prompts departure halt

"Garbage In, Garbage Out" is still true, of course, but modern aircraft tend to have automated gross error checking features. Of course. However it sounds like here it was "proper data in, garbage machine, garbage out." but I agree with you that garbage machine is less likely (w...

Re: Pressurisation of different plane types

I recall seeing somewhere that despite the A380 technically being "older gen", it is pressurized lower than the 8000ft on other older gen aircraft (777, A330 etc), can anyone confirm? It was the swap from Aluminum to Composite in the fuselage that allowed the move to 6000 feet on the cabi...

Re: Airbus A321XLR Development / Testing / Production - 2023

Is there anything known about the extra lining of the RCT? Is that gonna solve EASA's concerns? No real reason it shouldn't, as similar was used to rectify similar regulatory concerns over the RCT in the A340-500. Thanks! I thought "it's a whole different regulatory landscape out there" m...

Re: AS: two tail strikes w/in 5 mins. prompts departure halt

The probability of a human screwing up a calculation is higher than a computer. Well we're still in the age where computers just do what a human told them to do... I guess that's whath appened here. But of course, with a well designed process, software development and testing should lead to a nicel...

Re: Airbus A321XLR Development / Testing / Production - 2023

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Re: Latest 787 Problem

So I asked that in the deleted thread and was too slow to check what you guys thought. Now that this thread is drifting off topic too it's the perfect time to ask again :spin: (Don't get me wrong, I do love me my "with an approach speed of 180 kn and the mandatory go around after one bounce the...

Re: Electric Auto Dolly

Cool! They should develop self driving busses too. Just spent nearly as much time at FRA waiting for busses as it took flying here from VIE..

Re: Airbus Freighter (A330F/A350F) Discussion - 2023

If Airbus does an A330neo freighter would it be much more expensive to offer both the A338 & A339? I don't think there will be much cost in developing both - the engines and pax versions are already certified. They can incorporate the front landing gear of the A332F as well. They will just need...

Re: Airbus Freighter (A330F/A350F) Discussion - 2023

Would Airbus base a 330neoF on the 338 or 339, or a bespoke length? The only question is should it be based on the A338 or the A339.. Wasn't Faury (or someone important at A) on the record saying basing the 330F on the 332 was a mistake? In light of the A333's added capabilities and bulk cargo grow...

Re: MOM aircraft discussion - 100t to 200t MTOW

How many 330NEOs did DL not order because JetBlue is flying to LHR? That's a strawman argument. Economically, there is substitution. Students learn that in microeconomics 101. Just because JetBlue is small relative to DL's Atlantic JV doesn't mean there's no effect. Imagine WIZZ, Ryanair, EasyJet, ...

Re: MOM aircraft discussion - 100t to 200t MTOW

You beat me to it. This is a weird convo unless we’re talking about an airline that actually ordered the XLR, and even then we can only hypothesize that they “would” have ordered the 330 as opposed to another aircraft or nothing. As I replied above: "The existence of the XLR on new point to po...

Re: Airbus Freighter (A330F/A350F) Discussion - 2023