Here is a link to the official accident report by the Portugese authorities. <a href="http://www.gpiaa-portugal-report.com/" target=_blank>http://www.gpiaa-portugal-report.com/</a> There are some interesting automation and human factors issues that arise from this accident. I have added two excerpts...
Jump to postI was able to see the contrails on a 757 once. I was in the last row on the right side and by looking back under the horizontal stabilizer I was just able to see the contrail off the right engine.
Jump to postThe 767 is the only aircraft that currently uses the LD2 container due to it's narrower fuselage compared to other widebodies. The LD2 in fact was designed just for the 767 since all other widebodies use the LD3. You can however load LD2 containers on a an airplane that normally takes LD3's. You jus...
Jump to postI have no problem with the <acronym title="Taipei - Sung Shan (TSA / RCSS), Taiwan">TSA</acronym> per se but what has driven me mad the last couple of years is the inconsistency from one airport to another. My particular pet peeve has to do with taking off your shoes when you go through the checkpoi...
Jump to postThere are a couple of reasons that I am aware of in the case of the 777: <UL TYPE=1> <LI> The slide on the 777 is quite large which makes it difficult if not impossible to have the door fit in the overhead like the 767 and other aircraft types. <LI> The plug type doors on earlier Boeing aircraft wor...
Jump to postThe NASA flights you hear are most likely T-38's out of Ellington Field, Texas (<acronym title="Houston - Ellington Field (AFB) (EFD), USA - Texas">EFD</acronym>) just south of Houston which is where they have their operations in support of the Johnson Space Center. As of 10:40 EDT, there was one as...
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Jump to postYes and yes. The 767 and 777 have the APU inlet in roughly the same location and are also retractable. <br><table align=center border=0 width=500><tr><td><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/795450/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/ope...
Jump to postI believe the date in question is Saturday, March 26. I don't know the reason why it was delayed but I saw it leave the gate about one hour late, taxi to the end of the runway, then taxi back to the terminal. It was still there when I left work about 2:45 pm.
Jump to postA cargo compartment is a bin. A container or ULD (Unit Load Device) is a can.
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Jump to postI know a little about the story behind the cemetary at <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym>. When the airport was built, the area was all farmland and included the old Friendship church hence the original name of Friendship a...
Jump to postASA deactivated the logo lights on their CRJ's for maintenance reasons as MD11Engineer mentioned. They are located on the engine strut and vibration from the engine made the bulbs burn out on a regular basis.
Jump to postThe picture is from an issue of Popular Mechanics a couple of years ago. An artist took an early A380 concept drawing and used his imagination to come up with an interior layout including all the wonders Airbus was claiming would fit inside and airlines would install. I will try to find the exact is...
Jump to postFrom my experience, the 777 has the best loading system. Easy to use and intuitive. There is less pulling and pushing needed as Ha763 mentioned. OTOH, the worst plane I ever worked was the MD11. Tiny rollers, inop threshold guides, ULD locks that would crush your fingers if you were not careful, and...
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Jump to postThe CRJ200's Skywest have upgraded CF34-3B1 engines with improved hot and high performance since their flights are primarily out west. If ASA and Comair flew their CRJ's out of <acronym title="Salt Lake City - International (SLC / KSLC), USA - Utah">SLC</acronym> they would have significant performa...
Jump to postBritish Airways has a daily flight <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym>-<acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> BA228 departing at 2055. The <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> ...
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Jump to postActually, it's not on all flights. Read the following excerpt from Delta's news release. "Beginning in mid-March, Delta no longer will provide pillows on flights within the 48 contiguous states, Bermuda, Canada, and Central American and Caribbean destinations. The change is part an effort to provide...
Jump to postThe design of the terminals are of the late 1960's vintage so they were not designed with security checkpoints in mind. They kind of placed the metal detectors and x-ray machines just inside the doors with a glass partition separating it from the rest of the terminal. It makes the check in area extr...
Jump to postMy personal guess is that they used their new terminal in <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym>. It has the right look and they could of filmed it in the last few weeks between the end of construction and the grand openi...
Jump to postWell...you know the old saying about airplanes:
If it's weird, It's British. If it's ugly, It's French. If it's weird and ugly, it's Russian.
Just to give some actual numbers for today's flights. Flight DL38 <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym>-<acronym title="Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS / EHAM), Netherlands">AMS</acronym>: Checked in full with three...
Jump to postI researched the flights over the last couple of days and it seems the flight in question was DL27 on February 28 a 767-300ER. The schedule shows that it left <acronym title="Frankfurt - Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / FRF / EDDF), Germany">FRA</acronym> about three hours late and stopped in <acronym ti...
Jump to postTry www.fboweb.com and go to the flight tracker on the upper right of the home page. Enter Virgin Atlantic for the airline and 101 for the flight number. It should work.
Jump to postJust to add to the discussion: I was at <acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Malton) (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario">YYZ</acronym> two years ago parked along the perimeter at the end of 24L watching planes land with several other people when a police car drove up and parked acr...
Jump to postI am a huge fan of the show and this installment looks like a good one. It combines two of my favorite pastimes, aviations and travel. I like these teams better than the last group which seemed to have too many "beautiful people". I am sorry to see the two <acronym title="Shandong Airlines (China)">...
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Jump to postI remember seeing a picture of the gate area just before departure a while ago. It might be the same one that Dtwclipper is referring to. I believe it was taken in what is now Delta's terminal 2 in <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK<...
Jump to postDelta has also made a decision recently about US<acronym title="Ukraine International Airlines">PS</acronym> mail. Here is an excerpt from a recent memo issued about two weeks ago. <b>U.S. MAIL CHANGES Today, we have made a strategic business decision to cease carrying domestic transfer mail. This m...
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Jump to postI have only been to <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> a couple of times most recently about a month ago. It is far from being a dump but I agree that some of the terminals are in dire need of renovations. What I see as the Achilles heel of the ...
Jump to postHere is a link to 747SP info. There seems to be about 17 active <acronym title="SATA Air Azores (Portugal)">SP</acronym>'s with several in storage. Looking at the list, it appears that the 747SP is popular with several Middle Eastern governments as a VIP transport. <a href="http://www.planemad.net/P...
Jump to postThe reason for the large canoe fairings on the regular 747 and other aircraft is that it covers the complex linkage for the triple slotted flaps which are composed of several different pieces. The 747SP has only single slotted flaps which require a simpler and therefore smaller mechanism. There is s...
Jump to post<b>Perhaps he is talking about the overhead panel. The overhead panel is very similar to a classic. Rumor is that the engineers at Boeing wanted to design it to be similar to the 777, but Southwest resisted that design to maintain commonality with the classics.</b> I heard something similar to this ...
Jump to postAtlanta has two sets of parallel runways with a fifth runway under construction to the south of the current airfield complex. The north runways are designated <acronym title="Grand Air (Philippines)">8L</acronym>/26R and 8R/26L. The south runways are designated <acronym title="Colgan Air (USA)">9L</...
Jump to postHere is a listing of the charters out of <acronym title="Daytona Beach - International (Regional) (DAB / KDAB), USA - Florida">DAB</acronym> on Monday February 7: 9801/07FEB DEPT ARRIVAL SHIP <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Ge...
Jump to postJust to add my $0.02, just because <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> is not going to spend money to upgrade the airport to accommodate the A380, it does not mean that they do not have some plans stuck in a...
Jump to postUnder the new schedule, <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> is losing their two 767's a day but getting an MD90 round trip to <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL)...
Jump to postHere are some of my favorites: -The trailing edge flap rotary actuator on 757's. It makes a pretty loud whine when it turns, especially if you are sitting right behind the wing. -Engine start of a PW2037 equipped 757 from the ramp. You can clearly hear the <acronym title="America West Airlines (USA)...
Jump to postI know that the number 8 is lucky in Chinese culture. I wonder if changing the name and announcing the order on the same day are directly related. Any Feng Shui experts out there? <img src="/discussions/graphics/wink.gif" ALT="Big grin"> On the other hand, I am glad they are finally calling it...
Jump to postBruce, Iberia's 747's are named after Spanish writers or novelists. Here is a listing: <acronym title="Anglo Cargo (United Kingdom)">EC</acronym>-DIA Tirso de Molina <acronym title="Anglo Cargo (United Kingdom)">EC</acronym>-DIB Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes, writer of Don Quijote) <acronym title="...
Jump to postI happen to like airline food. Of course I happen to work for an airline and I am not a picky eater by any means. I am disappointed that there is virtually no meal service on any U.S. airlines nowadays and that trend has spread to Europe and other parts of the world. I have also noticed that the por...
Jump to postI worked for <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> in <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> four years ago when the Ravens went to the Super Bowl. They chartered an international 767-300ER for the team and a 767-...
Jump to postThe A380 will fly, there is no doubt about that. The real question is will it meet it's performance and reliability guarantees and will enough units be built to cover the costs of the program. Flight testing and initial operator experience will answer the first question but it will take 5-10 years t...
Jump to postB777fan According to my sources, the peak production year for the 747 was 1971 when 80 aircraft were built for an average rate of just under seven a month. This was with two production lines going full speed. Production tailed off sharply from 1973 on due to completion of initial orders and the oil ...
Jump to postLeskova To answer your question, <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> uses a 2-2-2 configuration for BusinessElite in their 777's and 767's. The 777 is far more comfortable because of the extra space. The seats are 2-3 inches wider and the seat pitch is about 3-4 inches more compared ...
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