Can someone just refresh me on why the numbering system has to start at 800 or 900? Remember the 737-300, 400, and 500? The -500 was the shortest. If they decide to make an A350 larger/longer than the -1000, why not call it the -700 and just get on with it. What's next, the A380-2500?
Jump to postAm I the only one who seems to think their fleet is evenly split between the silver-squares and white/bright colors scheme as is? Now they'll have 3 running around. No one will know they're the same airline.
Jump to postA couple things - I have worked as a ramper in the US, and I don't know how much similarity there is between that and Spain, but... YES, the rampers watch the wings. Aaaaand...so what? They stand there and watch the wing. If it gets too close to something, there is ***nothing*** they can do. What ar...
Jump to postTo the best of my knowledge, this is all that the FARs have to say about cargo carriage. As long as it meets these requirements, I see no reason for which a Combi should be problematic: §91.525 Carriage of cargo. (a) No pilot in command may permit cargo to be carried in any airplane unless— (1) It i...
Jump to postFreeway interchanges often have huge (several acres) of open, nicely-maintained grassy areas. For a plane of this size, I'd say this was the perfect choice. Whether there were better options available is something we couldn't know without a very exact view of the plane's flight path and altitude at ...
Jump to postOn Boeings, the fueler can manually choose which tanks the fuel goes into. The 777 and 747 will regulate fuel flow so that one wing doesn't get too heavy, but on a 737, for example, since fuel is going into one side of the plane, one side will fill up much more quickly than the other, and an imbalan...
Jump to postThere's no way this is a fuel dump. Firstly, the overflow valves are much farther out on the wing. The illusion here is of fluid spraying almost directly behind the wing. That's very inaccurate. Secondly, that plane appears to be in a "line up and wait" (position and hold) for takeoff scenario, on t...
Jump to postWell, I don't know about Canada, but if you fly in the U.S., with the utter disrespect we have for blue-collar workers, the minimal wages they're paid, the hysterical rushes they're put in, and the general lack of quality describing their work culture, I can state with utter confidence after years o...
Jump to postThis discussion of economics is fascinating. If you had to commute to work every day and had a reliable, well-paying, full-time job, would you be willing to finance a reliable, newer car that gets 35+ mpg? If you only occasionally needed to haul some junk around your farm and didn't plan to go on an...
Jump to postHow is this still a matter of confusion? That map only shows ONE ping - the one indicated by the massive, red circle. There's only one ping shown. That's it; it's that simple. Really.
Jump to postI agree with Snowjob; even if the pilots purposefully flew the thing off into the middle of the night, surely some passenger at some point would have said, "This seems a bit fishy" and tried to make a phone call. . .
Jump to postOccam's razor appears to be misunderstood, here. The philosophy suggests that the conclusion regarding an unknown which involves the fewest assumptions is the preferable one (albeit not necessarily the correct one). So, let's consider what that means, here. We know worryingly little, for certain. Un...
Jump to postAnd here we all thought you had to fly first class on an Emirates A380 for the full shampoo-and-conditioner experience aloft.
Jump to postYeah, this is overkill for today. The temperatures for today are declining slowly from about 25 (F) this morning to 0 (F) around midnight (and they rarely have flights going out after 10pm anyway). The brutal temperatures are forecast for Monday, not today. The snow is light and dry, and is meant to...
Jump to postOne foot of snow is apparently too much to stomach. United Airlines has cancelled <acronym title="Albenga (Villanova d'Albenga) (- Clemente Panero) (ALL / LIMG), Italy">ALL</acronym> United Express flights across all carriers out of O'Hare today. There were 365 flights scheduled, of which only 6 are...
Jump to postJayunited, Remind me of why, exactly, United should be paying you anything after you retire? The only reason I can think of would be that it was in a contract (i.e. there is no logical, moral, or ethical obligation). If that's the case (which it is) then whatever's in the contract is what they go by...
Jump to postAccording to the current ATIS at O'Hare:
"Arrivals expect vectors ILS runway 28 Center approach"...
and then, twenty seconds later, in the NOTAMs section:
"Runway 10 Center - 28 Center closed".
How can this be?
Delta 812 from Atlanta ended up in Indianapolis, and 5939 (Mercury? one of the Delta Connection carriers) from <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym> had to pay a visit to Grand Rapids, Michigan. My favorite was US Airways 758 which left the gate just as th...
Jump to postThe accident seems to have taken place about a third of a mile due east of the Runway 36 threshhold. Perhaps he had an engine failure on takeoff or while doing touch-and-gos and on climbout decided to turn around... never a good idea... In any event, it's surely not a coincidence that this happened ...
Jump to postA very small (but apparently heavily fueled) plane has crashed near Bolingbrook's Clow Int'l Airport... <a href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/09/25/plane-crashes-in-bolingbrook/" target="_blank">http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/09/25/plane-crashes-in-bolingbrook/</a> <a href="http://abclocal.go....
Jump to postWhat O'Hare needs is GATES. Since the invasion of the RJs, things have gotten ridiculous. Every day, planes - mostly RJs - pile up in the holding pads and Penalty Box. When it gets really bad, they start lining them up on the taxiways. Some days, United Express flights will experience double-dipper ...
Jump to postI've been trying to research this and coming up with very little. I'm wondering whether anyone has any insight as to whether the pay difference that is described as existing between men and women in other fields also makes its way into aviation, and in particular into piloting. The frame of referenc...
Jump to postAccording to the production list maintained by the All Things 787 blog, the first three 787-9s are destined for The Boeing Company. What do they need three of these for? While testing is obviously important, it wouldn't seem that there would be any significant systems differences between the -8 and ...
Jump to postRegardless of what happened, in the first photo in the opening post, the aircraft appears to be in quite good shape. There is no evidence of collapsed gear, and the engines don't seem to have made contact with the ground despite the sharp bevel in the terrain.
Jump to postI don't mean to wax political, but does the West (er, US) think they're going to pave the way for good relations through this sort of action? Why don't we sell them our modern jetliners and provide them air service the same as anyone else, so as to build bridges?
Jump to postAt what I can only describe as "random" (and therefore not very helpful to you) times, they fly one or two into ORD on Saturdays. Always nice to see a real airplane mixed in with the dozens of A321s...
Jump to postEek. I guess I am a rare optimist. I'd book a flight on a 787 tomorrow, if I had the need to go where they're going. But that's not what this forum is about - I don't feel the design was rushed. New things have bugs that need working out, and I don't feel that the bugs in the 787 warrant aversion.
Jump to postPerhaps I'm an optimist, but here's what I think... The 777 flew for 14 or 15 years before its first crash, and 18 years before its first fatal accident, albeit not related to the aircraft itself as far as we know. Boeing has demonstrated possession of the wherewithal to build great airliners that g...
Jump to postYeah, not racist, just incredibly poor taste. Other than the unfortunate circumstances of this occasion, it's no different than when an Australian prank <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> show (I don't remember the name) bought tickets for a flight and then failed to show up just...
Jump to posthivue, are there any areas left where RVSM is not enforced?
Jump to postI'm often astounded by the number of aircraft parked while airlines continue to order new and manufacturers continue to build them. As freighters go, the 747 is quite a good aircraft in general, but it seems that airlines can save a TON of money by buying up a BCF instead of something new, so that -...
Jump to postSo, is there anywhere to get a summary of the total orders? Flightglobal has some nice infographics which really aren't very informative. Like, a list... Ryanair 175 737-800, Qatar 9 777-300ER, and so on?
Jump to post727lover, well yeah I'd feel the same way - namely: not at all. I'd be dead! Can you imagine how obnoxious it would be if someone wanted to put in a shopping mall and my lonely little grave was in their way? Who cares?! I'm dead!
Jump to postSo, 10L/28R is the longest east-west runway. In the image it is still marked as 10/28; it was officially renamed on May 2. 10C/28C is the one that appears mostly complete. 10R/28L will be built in the long, east-west area south of the cargo ramps. Its east threshold will be towards the north end of ...
Jump to postI didn't see in all this whether there was a consensus on the original <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> 757 <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym> question, but one of them is rolling around out there right now (didn't catch th...
Jump to postCan I just say, I sincerely hope that when I'm dead, my survivors have the good sense to realize that it won't make any difference to me in the slightest whether I'm relocated to make way for an airport. Moreover, I really don't enjoy the notion of being a posthumous troublemaker. I see nothing resp...
Jump to postYeah, if that poor 787 sat there any longer, it was going to start leaving impressions in the pavement. 10C/28C is supposed to open in October. I imagine with the way the FAA is, it'll be structurally complete quite a while before that, with lots of ILS testing and midnight flyovers, etc., to make s...
Jump to postI don't know whether anyone else is interested, but I've been waiting for quite a while to see if Google Maps and the like will update their satellite photography of KORD, and they finally have. The semi-permanent state of the northeast cargo/GA ramp is now shown, as is a fairly accurate photo of mo...
Jump to postI'm almost certain they would never let a 747 pass between the B and C concourses. I've never seen anything larger than a 763 sneaking through there. Concourse C directly abuts taxiway A, though, and the shortest route from the International Terminal (5) to anywhere in C is to take twy A or B around...
Jump to postThe <acronym title="EVA Air (Taiwan)">BR</acronym> 747-400 that clipped the E-145's tail last summer happened because the Eagle jet was parking at G-20 and had stopped with its empennage hanging out over twy A. Those gates (G-20, G-21, F-14...) are NOT well positioned at all. To quote the <acronym t...
Jump to postLooks like someone caught the typo. No more frogs at O'Hare <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/> KORD 122333Z 15004G16KT 8SM <acronym title="Air Transat (Canada)">TS</acronym> SCT010 SCT025 BKN036CB OVC130 21/19 A...
Jump to postA) They evacuated ZAU?! That's gonna leave a mark...
B) Do they ever do circling approaches to O'Hare? Elgin sure has fun lining them up straight as an arrow a loooooong way out. Midway might be a bigger issue. Those guys definitely make some sharp turns after the runway's in sight...
Freezing fog pops up from time to time, but not when it's this warm. That's just FZFG. I think as steex said, it has to be a "typo", as I can't find any indication of <acronym title="Farmingdale - Republic (FRG / KFRG), USA - New York">FRG</acronym> actually meaning anything anywhere. The current TA...
Jump to postI wondered about that; thought perhaps it meant "frontal growth". How can there be a typo in an automated report? (Maybe that's why it has a $ at the end!)
Jump to postHere's a current METAR from O'Hare, and for the life of me I can't find anywhere on ye olde Internets what the "<acronym title="Farmingdale - Republic (FRG / KFRG), USA - New York">FRG</acronym>" stands for. Anyone know? KORD 122220Z 07013G16KT 10SM -TSRA SCT060CB BKN075 BKN095 OVC180 22/18 A2970 RM...
Jump to postGoing back to EaglePower83's first reply, having ExpressJet (et al.) operating thousands of these flights does not help. At KORD, it is not uncommon throughout the entire day to have 4 or 5 aircraft on the ground waiting for gates to open up. Some of these are very short flights - SkyWest 5311, <acr...
Jump to postRecall that originally, Boeing wanted the -8I to be shorter than the final version (shorter than the -8F), scarcely larger than the -400. This is surprising. I would have thought a product better suited to competing with the A380 and less subject to internal undermining from the 77W would have made ...
Jump to postWhat a load of rubbish. The woman doesn't deserve a dime. The guy should be dealt with, sure (through mental aid if possible, and through whatever the justice system feels is appropriate in any case) and if it can be demonstrated that the woman has suffered emotional trauma, I suppose the airline sh...
Jump to postGlobally, 7500 is the code for hijacking, 7600 is the code for lost two-way radio communication (obviously not loss of all communication), and 7700 is the code for emergency. In the U.S., a flight with lost communications would continue on its most recent ATC clearance if in IMC, and if no clearance...
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