I believe the chances of a SIA 777/A340 swap style purchase at CX are slim. Those types of deals come once in a long while and I think we may have seen the one example of it happening with SIA. CX's fleet planning is so entrenched in keeping a level of independence and broadness of choice to it that...
Jump to postCX is quite frankly hungry for any sort of widebody aircraft it can get that fits into it's fleet, especially for regional lift capability. It would be a good move for them to get the MAS 777s if this pans out. Look at the lengths they went to to get the prototype 777 and converted to their specs? I...
Jump to postI've experienced one "Great" quake and a Major Quake so far in my lifetime: Those being the August 8, 1993 Guam Earthquake measuring 8.2, distance from epicenter: 30 miles. My Toyota Tercel was dancing off the pavement. I lost a mirror that crashed on the bedframe and came close to slashing the wate...
Jump to postKaiTak is correct, CAL got a very good deal from GE and they went with it. CAL historically has been a very loyal PW customer since it's foundation in 1959. Off the side, I'm very interested to see who will get the A330 engine order, which BTW is expected to be firmed up and rumors say they may add ...
Jump to postPanAm DC-10 You're most welcome! My -main- point in exposing Corporate Welfare on the US side is because -many- have this notion that it 'doesnt exist' there. Which then leads some to deduce some sort of Crusade-like fairytale battle of 'good-versus-evil' must commence. (Wagnerian music strumming in...
Jump to postSure! To begin with the Citizens for Tax Justice just published an -incredible- report detailing a study of over 250 US corporations in the 1990s exposing which ones did and did not pay income taxes. The extract is in HTML, the full report is in PDF Adobe format. It -will- make your blood boil. Thei...
Jump to postWidebody wrote: ------------------------------- Understood Gerardo, though respect comes from having a good knowledge of aircraft and manufacturers so that the good points (and bad points) of each aircraft and company can be appreciated, and not basing opinion on locations.......much of the lack of...
Jump to postDeltaSFO The term 'AirSpam' fits you because the 'nutritional nature' the posts you have uttered in this thread amount to the same variety offered by the realworld pork meat product -loaded with fat and cholesterol- In other words: fraudulent rhetorical nothingness. You took great liberties to smear...
Jump to postAirSpam The only nerve you touched is the woeful attempt at fraud to portray yourself as someone 'learned expert' with regards to think-tanks and resources and then slam a respected source in a defamatory manner. There's absolutely NO, Zero truth in your statements whatsoever and you pass yourself o...
Jump to postAirSpamSFO There you go again dismissing information sources you couldnt even dream of challenging. I suppose -you- are more 'qualified' in doing the research than they. What's comical is instead of looking at facts, you generalize with totally inaccurate information. Could you -try- to look up the ...
Jump to postBTW..the passwords to open the two Zip files:
erling2
This opens the PDF files covering Taipei Chiang Kai Shek Intl Airport.
Regards
MAC
Iahnol I will forward to you the links to download the aerodrome diagrams of TPE to understand what I think happened. <a href="http://www.dalnet.se/sasfss/Secure/rctpial.zip" target=_blank>http://www.dalnet.se/sasfss/Secure/rctpial.zip</a> <a href="http://www.dalnet.se/sasfss/Secure/rctpasir.zip" ta...
Jump to postI am absolutely flummoxed why the SIA pilot purportedly taxied onto 5R and 'throttled up'.. What was the reaction by the CAL pilots that reportedly saw this transpire? Did they alert ATC? I would have been screaming into my mike!!!! Did ATC have a clear view of what was going on in the conditions? W...
Jump to postThis picture was just posted to the China Times website. Speculation is beginning to surface that the aircraft departed on runway 5R (23L), which is a 'backup runway' parallel to the 900m longer 5L/23L. <a href="http://www.chinatimes.com.tw/photo/0129.htm" target=_blank>http://www.chinatimes.com.tw/...
Jump to postDoner Kebab..or better yet Adana Kebab. You can always get pizza. (G) Turkish food is a big favorite of mine. Very good and filling, yet I believe it's quite 'healthy' fare. Try Adana Kebab if that's offered too, Adana Kebab is a BBQ'd mixture of ground lamb and beef with, small peppers, parsley and...
Jump to postCPDC10-30 wrote: ------------------------------- Shinseki, your harsh words are ringing truer and truer with each post: <i> Do you honestly care about the homeless? </i> Um, yes and I am pretty sure that most people here do. They at least deserve a hand up from a terrible situation. That comment was...
Jump to postShinseki wrote: ------------------------------- I don't support "camps" for the homeless thank you, but throwing money at the problem hasn't helped matters in the past. Do you honestly care about the homeless? ------------------------------- Yeah in fact I do, because I have a soul. If we dont take...
Jump to postTo correct myself, it's more around $3 billion a year, drop the zero. $1.8 billion in military and $1.2 billion in direct economic assistance. They dont need it. If a country has the technology to defend itself with such technology, they dont need the aid. The following article makes interesting con...
Jump to postRoss Perot's Reform Party fizzled on large part because it's organization killed itself. Jesse Ventura couldnt wait to bail out it was so dysfunctional. All the money Perot could ever pump into it couldnt save it. Now it's led by a right-wing nut. I see them off the map after this election. The Gree...
Jump to postYou wouldnt by chance support some sort of system of "camps" for homeless and other 'undesirable people' would you? Ergo using that same logic, if they are useless and nonproductive, not worthy of welfare or support and corporations -are-, then what is the next 'Darwinian' step in this process?
Jump to postYou truly mean that you support a -socialist- framework of state sponsorship of industries at the expense of people? And you like it that way? Do you feel that it's 'correct' in giving tax money to a trans-national corporation (quite capable of handling it's own mind you) operating as a supposedlty ...
Jump to postShinseki wrote: ------------------------------- I'm not really interested in lowering our quality of health care to the likes of England, Canada, etc. If you feel there are people out there deserving of health care, feel free to pay for it out of your own pocket. While the anti-corporate jingoism ma...
Jump to postShinseki You are clearly comfortable with the status quo and dont want change. You'd rather boot-lick Corporate America for time eternal and attack progressive thought. The tangent going off on Thoreau and why a publisher chooses whom he publishes with was an attempt at comedy though. Are you runnin...
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747-451 wrote:
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Israel, so what?
$30 Billion a year average elicits a "So what"?
Does $30 billion a year to a -nuclear armed- country seem a bit much? It does to me.
MAC
Here's an outstanding online resource that has exposed how 250 US corporations have gotten away with -NOT- paying income taxes. When you factor in the knowledge of $65-$110 billion in Corporate Welfare to many of these same companies (paid for on the backs of the middle class and poor mind you..)......
Jump to postFirst: To send a message to the corrupt two party system. I'm tired of the corrupt system of corporations buying influence and power in Washington. Over 22000 lobbyists make a 'career' out of lobbying polticians there. Even Steve Forbes announced on a telecast speech on CSPAN this week that he woul...
Jump to postYeah, I figured it was probably the EC model. The beauty of the Herk and other Lockheed models is the adaptability these airplanes have. The C-141 can be used in many roles in addition to it's primary airlift role. Special ops being some of them. Although back in the 80s this was just beginning to b...
Jump to postWell.. Actually this question has been visited many times before in the past. I'll never forget the aftermath of the PA/KLM 747 collision at Tenerife. I was 10 years old when that happened and I remember watching the scenes of that tragedy on the news. The inevitable question of "Why"? Even more chi...
Jump to postPat If memory serves me correct, JAL suffered a horrendous tragedy in 1985 with a 747SR in Japan that caused all sorts of grief to the people involved, familes, company, Boeing, etc. Thanks to a screwed up repair job. More than 500 perished. As for safety and evacuation: If the aircraft is well plan...
Jump to postI should have said...-Starboard- wheelbay side..it's the right side..not left..(G)
Jump to postThe C141 brakes would routinely 'heat up' it seemed. Firetrucks always heading out to the ERCC wait area on the long NE/SW runway at WRI. I remember several times seeing a slight orangish glow from that on the wheel hubs. Comforting eh? (G) Particularly with the wheel bays so close to the refuelling...
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I look forward to seeing what you post later on after the local. (BTW, They actually have a budget to do that these days? (G) Ahh..a 'Pet rock' bird..the wonderfuly world of hot brakes...
MAC
Galaxy5 wrote: ------------------------------- the royal malasian airforce has what? no one has the c-17 except the u.s. and as for the britts getting C-17 that deal fell through so it wont happen. yes the c-5 is getting a new engine its the GE CF6-80c2 rated at 60k thrust and derated to 50k thrust...
Jump to postFedEx was reportedly interested in acquiring a few civilian MD-17s for outsize cargo airlift. The market for this type of work is actually increasing, especially in the former Soviet Union and in the developing world. Oil projects, especially getting large equipment that cant be moved by surface tra...
Jump to postCome to think about 747s in manline USAF ops..That almost happened with 12 specially modified 744F's in the early 90s. Essentially, the plan was to buy them with a much-strengthened floor, bigger side cargo door. 6 would have been based at Dover AFB, Del and the other 6 at Travis AFB, CA. Primary mi...
Jump to postRay, Those TF39 engines on the C-5A/B are 'One and a half' stage engines. The forward fan assembly has a center disk and an outer disk, spinning in opposite directions. It's awesome as hell watching them start up and you can also see these inner and outer disks spin freely in opposite directions aft...
Jump to postSay have you heard of the guy who bought a JATO pack at some Army/Navy store? This happened in Arizona or New Mexico..He took off the trunk hood and mounted the JATO into the trunk well of his car. Well..this 'Ichabod Dumbass' lit it off going down the highway, lost control of course and impacted in...
Jump to postI remember working a stretched RAF C-130 transiting through McGuire on it's way to Belize. The cargo restraint system was vastly different from the USAF 463L system of netted pallets, rollers, locks, detents and 3 differing options of tiedown devices. The RAF uses a simple net system that restrains ...
Jump to postYeah that's the one, I think it's essentially a re-engined C-130H with all sorts of improvements in the cockpit, props with several more blades (swept angled?), I'm not sure if it's the standard fuselage C-130 (A through H model length) or the lengthened L-100 fuselage (as Southern Air and the RAF o...
Jump to postDesert Jets
It sounds like the EC-130H ABCCC (USC-48 Airborne Battlefield Command and Control Center Capsules (ABCCC III) model -could- be what you are seeing.
Go check their site out that you linked to me, reading the description sounds VERY similar to what you described.
MAC
The A400M would look neat in AMC colours (how about the old white and grey colors? now THAT's classy looking in my book).. But...I dont expect to see that happening (G) The USAF will probably operate the C-130 for -eternity-, but hopefully they'll get updates and upgrades of course. I've flown on th...
Jump to postBTW..the RAF will be leasing several C-17s over the next few years. --Which will be neat to see in their colours.-- I feel they will probably buy them -in addition to their A400 purchase- after they see how they work out. C-17s are a unique airplane that the RAF could use in many ways. The C-17 has ...
Jump to postNow that is different..pods on both sides of the fuselage aft of the wings? Could you snap a picture of one of those for me?, It sounds like some sort of electronic countermeasures radar platform aimed at reducing the chances of missiles hitting C-130s (in the engines from the heat they produce). Th...
Jump to postI believe at least 120 C-17s are slated to enter the USAF Air Mobility Command inventory in total, down from a high of 250-270 that was initially proposed in the late 1980s. Currently they are stationed at McChord AFB, WA and Charleston AFB, SC, with a training unit at Altus AFB, OK and an AFRES uni...
Jump to postArchie Is that the one that 'roasted up' in a hangar? I cant get over the AF 747-200F that burned up after landing in India in the last year or so. I wonder if it was the same one I worked in Turkey during the Kurdish Refugee airlift in 1991. One of the AF 747F's almost sat completely on it's ass du...
Jump to postHave you read the thread on this over at PlaneBusiness.Com? Go into the USAirways Forum and just scroll through the messages. By the looks of things the airplane may be a -strong- write off candidate, some are saying it already has been written off. The fire that was touched off warped the wing, hol...
Jump to postDash8 wrote: ------------------------------- Those are the first two good posts MAC, finally. ------------------------------- Sheesh, only two? <img src="/discussions/graphics/winkani.gif"> ------------------------ And as far as flying in the USAF. I fly to. That's not the business part of it....
Jump to postMarc says Feb 01 being decision time for LH. Originally they said no, things have taken a different course though in the few months since then. I really see things get very interesting once the short fuselage A3XX-50 starts to come into play. Yeah it is time for -both- sides to stop subsidizing thei...
Jump to postWell DLX, I enjoyed tweaking Boeing's nose so the 'scared' bit is my attempt at sardonic humor. I do see Boeing as being concerned with things over the short term (and particularly longer term) if demand for the A3XX picks up as I expect it will. Just over at Marc Shaeffer's orders site this afterno...
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