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RE: Your Longest FS Flights.

BKK-JFK Thai 790, A340-500, all the way online on Vatsim

Cheers

Salz

[Edited 2005-07-27 17:03:31]

s.p.a.s.

RE: New KLM A330-200 Pic With Engines Mounted

I'm not very fond of Airbus A330s but this one is really nice.

Do our Dutch friends have an idea about the name policy KLM will use with the A330 fleet?

Cheers

Salz

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Is It Permitted, A Married Couple To Fly The A/C?

Varig has a couple flying the 777. He is on the left seat, she on the right.

Never heard about any problems...

Cheers

Salz

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RE: A Photog Who Has To Be Honored(Carlos A.Morillo D)

Sam, <TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=95% style="border-top: 1pt #28455E solid;border-right: 1pt #1B2E3F solid;border-bottom: 1pt #1B2E3F solid;border-left: 1pt #28455E solid;table-layout:fixed;border-spacing:0;padding:0;border-collapse: collapse;" bgcolor=#1E3951><tr><td><font size=2 face="ARIAL,...

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RE: White To Receive L1011 Tristar

Hi Rob,

IIRC White is the new marketing name adopted by Yes.

Cheers

Salz

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RE: Tom Cruise With A Short Temper. (video)

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RE: LOT 767-300ER In Star Alliance C/S

Indeed SP-LPE is former PP-VOK, confirmed by c/n. Also note it is a -341ER. 41 is Varig's Boeing code.

Cheers

Salz

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s.p.a.s.

RE: New Upload Queue Limits

This is a good move... New screeners are also a good move, but, one must take in account that maybe a.net should better train the (new)screeners concearning non-digital images (ie. slide and print scans).. The image output from a digital camera is very different from a scanned slide or print, and sc...

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RE: REQ: Red Colours Aerolineas Argentinas Fokker 28

As I mentioned yesterday... Here's the image: <a href="http://images.fotopic.net/y8pm54.jpg" target=_blank><img src="http://images.fotopic.net/y8pm54.jpg" width=650 height=441 alt="http://images.fotopic.net/y8pm54.jpg" border=0></a> Any guess? <acronym title="Tirana - Rinas International (Mother The...

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REQ: Red Colours Aerolineas Argentinas Fokker 28

Hi folks, Trying to find some help here... I just came across a slide of an Aerolineas Argentinas Fokker 28 (LV-LZN) which happens to have a red cheatline (similar to Martinar o/c) and the old logo (double-A) also in red. Any of the old timers/Argentinians here could shed some light on why/when etc?...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Is This AC's New EMB175? (Real Picture?)

EMBQA beat me on this one...

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RE: Is This AC's New EMB175? (Real Picture?)

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RE: Saudi Arabian Airlines Orders 15 Embraer 170s

AlitaliaMD11, First, thanks for plugging one of my photos of XJA <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/spin.gif" alt="spin" border=0> Well, maybe this image will satisfy your (and others) imagination: <a href="http://images.fotopic.net/y8gzn8.jpg" target=_blank><img src="http://images....

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RE: Tire Smoke Photo

This one made the database today: <center><a href="/open.file/770231/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/770231/M/" target="_blank">View Medium <IMG SRC="/photos/small/1/3/2/770231.jpg" ALT="Click here for bigge...

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RE: Aerolineas Argentinas' EZE-LIM-EZE (via LIM) 1990s

Midnight from where LanPeru? I took this flight back in 1997 and we left <acronym title="Buenos Aires - Ministro Pistarini (Ezeiza) (EZE / SAEZ), Argentina">EZE</acronym> around mid-morning. My particular routing was <acronym title="Sao Paulo - Guarulhos International (Cumbica) (GRU / SBGR), Brazil"...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: The New TAP Portugal: Unveilled

One word: hideous

filler
filler
fiiler

RS

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RE: Varig Log Acquiring 2 MD-11Fs

Hardi, From what I heard, they (V-Log) have plans to keep two DC10s (VMT and VQY) the 727-200s and possibly lease some (1 to 3) 757F. The 757 is still on plan and might not come to fruition. 727-100s to leave the fleet anytime soon. Let's see what happens now that VaspEX might leave an empty marketi...

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RE: Varig Log Acquiring 2 MD-11Fs

PPVRA, I confirm that both MD11s are ex-KE birds. The first one arrived a few weeks ago and is at <acronym title="Rio de Janeiro - Galeao International (Antonio Carlos Jobim) (GIG / SBGL), Brazil">GIG</acronym>. HL-7372 (tbr. <acronym title="Philippine Airlines">PR</acronym>-<acronym title="La Grand...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Goodbye For VASP... We Will Miss You!

Hardi,

Regarding VASP A300s, since many years only two were airworthy and one was scrapped at Congonhas (for spares).

Both airworthy planes were not flying since a few months.

Rgds

Renato

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s.p.a.s.

Varig, Iberia And The 757

Hi, Yesterday another Varig 757 had problems in flight, this time, <acronym title="Jet Aviation Business Jets (Switzerland)">PP</acronym>-VTT between <acronym title="Sao Paulo - Guarulhos International (Cumbica) (GRU / SBGR), Brazil">GRU</acronym> and <acronym title="Manaus - Eduardo Gomes (MAO / SB...

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RE: GRU Upgrades One Step Closer!

Regarding the runway, From latest reports I read and heard at the airport, they changed their mind and now the plans call for a runway much longer than originally planed, with 4200m (13780ft) and will be numbered 08/26. Yes, T1 and <acronym title="Lotus Air (Egypt) and Thai Air Cargo">T2</acronym> w...

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RE: GRU Upgrades One Step Closer!

PPVRA, The building behind the <acronym title="Varig Brasil and Varig (Brazil)">RG</acronym> 777 is the remains from a planned VASP maintenance facility. They begun the work but in the middle of it, VASP had no money to continue the building. And there it remains. On a side note, all the airport is ...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: GRU Upgrades One Step Closer!

Regarding runway's correct location, please refer to this :

http://www.jetsite.com.br/fotos/GRU.jpg

Cheers

RS

[Edited 2005-01-21 16:42:54]

[Edited 2005-01-21 16:43:55]

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s.p.a.s.

RE: A380 Rollout (Pic)

JFKAUA,

Wow... It went from bad to worse with his revised nose!

It somehow reminds me from the nose of the first genertion Hercules (C-130A/B IIRC) without the radome...

Cheers

RS

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Latest On Avianca's New B763 Livery!

RCS763av

Here is a photo of it:

Click on the thumbnail for a bigger image...

IMHO: boring

Cheers

Renato

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s.p.a.s.

RE: From A300-B2/B4 To A300-600/600R Numbering

DeltaWings,

There is also a A300B2(4)-200FF, FF stands for Forward Facing (Crew). Not many were build, though.

Rgds

Renato

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s.p.a.s.

RE: From A300-B2/B4 To A300-600/600R Numbering

Mel,

Please note that the correct version name of the A300-600 is indeed A300B4-600/-600R

Rgds

RS

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Strange Charters Argentina-Brazil By Aerosur

Argentina,

It is a well known fact that Argentinians like to spend the summer months upnorth in Brazil. Florianopolis is a very good example (some Argentinians even have houses down there) and from a few years the NE region began to be discovered, so to say.

Gran saludos

RS

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s.p.a.s.

Photo Count...

Hi folks...

Today the photo DB is boosting 710.000+ photos...and we are just a few hours from 2005.. So what do you think will be the database size in one year?

Over 1.400.000?
Less than 1.400.000?

Cheers

Renato

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Air Madrid Drops GIG

The funny part on it is that a few years ago Rio de Janeiro gvmt and Infraero started some marketing campaing to bring more and more airlines to <acronym title="Rio de Janeiro - Galeao International (Antonio Carlos Jobim) (GIG / SBGL), Brazil">GIG</acronym>, as the aiport was (and still is) sub-util...

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RE: Air Madrid Drops GIG

Hardi, Tell you something mate, DAC stands for Departamento de Aviação Civil (Civil Aviation Dep.) BUT among all people who have to deal with it, specially pilots, flight dispatchers, etc, it is better know as Dificulta Atrapalha e Complica, or, Difficults, Confuses and Complicates.. Fancy that... C...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Very Long Takeoff!

What we see on this photos is most probably a field limited take-off, in this cases, a long run can be expected, and off course, V1 is/was not 5 seconds before lift-off. Off course, a wind change or maybe a higher temperature then expected could have led to a performance degradation. Scary, neverthe...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: N379P Used To Haul Captured Terrorist Suspects.

Another topic covering this issue is here:

https://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/1879292/

with photos... seems that they already changed the N# again..

Cheers

RS

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s.p.a.s.

RE: News Article On Secret CIA Terror Transfer Flights

Nice report mate... I wonder what they meant with that, though "The airplane is a Gulfstream V turbojet". Turbojet?? Ok ok... sorry for being picky <img border=0 src="/discussions/graphics/biggrin.gif" ALT="Big grin"> A quick search here provided me the following: <center><f...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Do Many Carriers Fly Africa - South America

TAAG 737s in Brazil... VEM - Varig Engenharia e Manutenção (sort of Varig Technik) has a long standing contract to overhaul TAAGs 737s and this is normally made at their Porto Alegre (<acronym title="Porto Alegre - Salgado Filho (POA / SBPA), Brazil">POA</acronym>) facilities. Most of the flights ar...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Really Strange DME Arc Approach

XXXX10,

Look at the right side, the runway is between radials 060 and 068, close to the +/- 181 obstacle...

Weird procedure indeed, not my choice on a wet and cloudy night

Cheers

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s.p.a.s.

RE: F-22 Raptor Crashes At Nellis AFB

Gerhard,

According to another forum, it was 00-4014 c/n 4014 assigned to the 422nd TES.

Gruesse

Renato

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s.p.a.s.

RE: First GOL Flight To EZE Today!

Ezeiza, Expect the first flight to be made with this particular airplane: <center><a href="/open.file/738886/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/738886/M/" target="_blank">View Medium <IMG SRC="/photos/small/6/8...

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RE: Avianca New Image Approved

It will go back to a red band, that starts thick at the front of the fuselage, thinning out towards the tail.

Sort of AeroMexico it seems?

Any news about when it will be unveiled?

Cheers

Renato

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RE: Rule Change: Half-naked Woman

Errrr Sir Branson, mind to send the gals away for a while? Wanna make a photo for A.net <g> Seriously now, Tamsin, point taken... Maybe the <acronym title="Virgin Atlantic Airways (United Kingdom)">VS</acronym> photo could have been seen as a odd case photo.. The girls were there, no way to remove t...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Rule Change: Half-naked Woman

The girl is not a gratuitous and irrelevant addition to the photo, which I'm afraid Hooters Restaurant Waitresses and Bikini Girls standing on wings most certainly are. hun? The bikini girls mentioned are, just by chance, together with the airline owner and CEO (which is well know for his ...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Rule Change: Half-naked Woman

Javibi,

But I understand the photographers' frustration when having their popular shots removed, we all love hits!

I think the root problem here is by far not the hits matters, but the way all this situation was (mis)handled by the site owner...

Saludos

RS

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RE: Rule Change: Half-naked Woman

I hardly post here, and I´m hardly a well known name or something like that.. But, I have to agree with Brian, and Derek who also had a photo removed. We all understand that the site is yours Johan, but, let´s not forget that it is nothing without the photographers. So if I have a nice site, with a ...

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RE: Branson Predicts Future Growth For Virgin Atlantic

I tend to agree AF022.. Indeed Rio is mainly a leisure destination which is already served thrice per week (via <acronym title="Sao Paulo - Guarulhos International (Cumbica) (GRU / SBGR), Brazil">GRU</acronym>) by <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym>. OTOH, I have a good friend who works wi...

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RE: Airline Crashed Twice In One Day, Crashes Again

TAM (JJ) lost two Fokker 100s on the same day, on different locations and due different reasons... <acronym title="West Air Sweden and Capital Cargo International Airlines (USA)">PT</acronym>-MQH and <acronym title="West Air Sweden and Capital Cargo International Airlines (USA)">PT</acronym>-MRL wer...

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Has Anyone Seen This Plane?

ZXV,

As far as my files go, this plane is still stored somewhere, most probably outside Argentina.

Gran saludos

RS

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Fokker 50´s In Middle / South America

At one time TAM, Rio Sul and Nordeste operated the Fokker 50s. Now just OceanAir has them (3 units) and rumour has it that they might increase the fleet next year, along with some Fokker 100s.

Cheers

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Looking For Status Of Some DC-10s

According to some online resources, F-GTLY is indeed still parked at Jose Marti Airport (HAV)

Cheers

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s.p.a.s.

RE: Acronym Airline Names...Pronounced...?

Normally acronyms are spoken as words here in Brazil, whenever it is possible, when not, like with KLM, we speak the letters ie. Cá-Éle-Ême... This way, very few people speak TAM as Te-A-Eme, "tam" being the usual form. To imagine de sound, take the word "damp" and remove the "p" and replace the "d"...

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RE: IB340-600 Emergency Landing In LIS

Hardi, Tks! (will be in <acronym title="London - City (LCY / EGLC), United Kingdom">LCY</acronym> for a week...so no posts) no posts hun? Thanks god!!! (hahahaha) <img src="/discussions/graphics/nut.gif" ALT="Nuts"> <img src="/discussions/graphics/nut.gif" ALT="Nuts"> <img...

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