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RE: Trijet For Y3?

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MrFord

RE: Help Me Rebut This Anti-Aviation Editorial

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RE: Pan Am First Pass Flight Over North Pole

That's my pleasure <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" alt="Smile"> I really enjoy seeing those old videos, it really shows how much work was involved for flights that we take for granted now ! They didn't have the chance to be able to get an instant position report from a GPS, ...

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MrFord

Pan Am First Pass Flight Over North Pole

While browsing YouTube, I found that gem, hope you'll enjoy that ! <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VxoVm2BAR28"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VxoVm2BAR28" type="application/x-shockwave...

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MrFord

RE: What Do These Remarks Mean For LGA

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MrFord

RE: How Much Fuel Does Your Car Burn?

1999 Ford Contour SVT, V6 2.5L HO, 5-spd, 200hp
About 35-38 MPG (imp) on the highway @ 80mph

Still great, but my Topaz was getting over 40MPG with the 3.0L V6 !

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MrFord

RE: Recompression: A320 Worse Than Others?

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RE: Tips For An Aspiring Mechanic

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RE: Tips For An Aspiring Mechanic

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MrFord

RE: Props With APU's.

The Gulfstream G-159 have an APU too. <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/1140176/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/1140176/M/" target="_blank">View Medium<br><IMG SRC="/photos/small/6/7/1/1140176.jpg" alt="Click here fo...

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MrFord

RE: Boeing Wiper Park Position

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RE: Longest B-1900 Passenger Flight

While not in regular passenger service, I used to dispatch chartered BE10 (King Air A100) <acronym title="Rouyn-Noranda (YUY / CYUY), Canada - Quebec">YUY</acronym> (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec)-<acronym title="Kuujjuaq (Fort Chimo) (YVP / CYVP), Canada - Quebec">YVP</acronym> (Fort Chimo, Northern Quebec...

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RE: Single-color Nacelles: 30,000 Gal Per Year Saving

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RE: El Al 4X-AXH And 4X-ELS Status's?

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MrFord

RE: Your First Car

My first one was a 1992 Ford Tempo. 2 doors, 2.3L, manual, bought in 2001, liked the car, but then after 2 years, I found the Topaz, which was in much better shape. Basically the same car, but with a 140hp V6, 5-speed. <center><table align=center BORDER=0 width=650 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 STYLE=...

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MrFord

RE: Wierd Flight Path - Picture

It's a CR2. It couldn't achieve the required minimum climb gradient <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" alt="Wink"> Can be a tracker glitch, I guess ! 1601 <acronym title="Air China">CA</acronym> : Welcome aboard folks, this is your Capt'n speaking, me and my co-pi... ohh sh*t ! ...

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MrFord

RE: Early Model B707s-how Water Inj. Worked

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MrFord

RE: Turboprops Rule!

Newer turboprops are great, but anything sporting Darts scores better <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/smile.gif" alt="Smile"> Here's what I got to jumpseat, and that I see every day from my windows at work : <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a ...

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MrFord

RE: Who Works In The Airline Industry?

Dispatch for Propair at YUY base since October, working with BE10 and G159.

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MrFord

RE: Driving On The I-5...plane Crashes Next To Me!

Normally, you'll aim for 65mph for a Flaps 40 landing in a 172. 80mph would be for a Flaps 10 landing, and 100mph would be the cruise speed, normally not someting you want at 100' AGL with a negative V/S reading

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MrFord

RE: About Photo #926198

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RE: Pan Am 747s

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RE: Little French Lesson

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Little French Lesson

Did anybody saw that little comment on the side of DJG ? <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/1008255/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/1008255/M/" target="_blank">View Medium<br><IMG SRC="/photos/small/5/5/2/1008255.jpg"...

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MrFord

RE: Beech 1900: Nose Gear Collapse But Save Props?

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RE: North Cariboo Air Obtains First DH8-100

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MrFord

RE: North Cariboo Air Obtains First DH8-100

Where North Cariboo based ?

What kind of route do they fly ?

Etienne

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MrFord

RE: What Is The Function Of "prop Sync"?

That particular sound is also found on tail-mounted jet, ala DC-9 and ERJ-145, at least from experience. When you get to have that JT8-D right beside you, it can become pretty annoying at take-off power, or during taxi, when they emit that howling sound <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/...

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MrFord

RE: DVD Ground School Courses

Do any of you know if they make such DVD's for Canadian pilots ?

Or maybe the FAA regulations are similar enough to those of Transport Canada, so I could use Sporty's or King's DVD ?
I'll probably take the ground school anyway, but study more can't hurt I guess !

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MrFord

RE: Shortest Scheduled 757

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First 737 Eyebrows Suppression Retrofit?

I'm probably not the only one who noticed that, but on this picture : <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/810070/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/810070/M/" target="_blank">View Medium<br><IMG SRC="/photos/small/0/7/0/8...

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MrFord

RE: Why No Tail Antenna On 707-100B Originals?

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MrFord

RE: Career Question

I'm sorry to break the flow of the discussion with my question, but I think it's the right place to ask it. I'm currently checking to start my PPL soon, and I was reading here about the regional airlines schools down in the US, that looks very interesting. I live in Canada (Québec) and I currently h...

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MrFord

RE: Going Beyond The Glass Cockpit

There's also a very important concept in regard of automates and computers. Since the beginning of the 'computer era' if I can call it that way, there's always the hype that computers could become intelligent machines that could think by themselves. While the new technology has progressed many times...

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MrFord

RE: Modern Airliners Breaking The Speed Of Sound?

Here's a link about the supersonic DC-8. <a href="http://www.dc8.org/library/supersonic/index.php" target=_blank>http://www.dc8.org/library/supersonic/index.php</a> It was indeed in a test flight. "After climbing to an altitude of 52,090 feet, the DC-8-42 series aircraft attained a maximum speed of ...

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MrFord

RE: 747-300 With CF6-80 Engines

DC10Guy, I read somewhere that those late -300 came with both -400 engines and wings. After watching numerous -100, -200 and -300 wings pics, I though I saw some type of new wing-body joint fairings on those -300, but now, I know that I was wrong <img src="/discussions/graphics/smile.gif" ALT=...

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MrFord

RE: 747-300 With CF6-80 Engines

Thanks to both of you ! I finally found a picture that clearly show the wing-body joint fairing of the -400 series, I can see the difference with olders 747. <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/731574/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a hr...

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747-300 With CF6-80 Engines

I was wondering something about those -300's for some time. I know that some of the youngest 747-300 were ordered with (or came standard from Boeing at this date ?) with -400's wings (minus winglets) and with <acronym title="Trans Asia Airways (Taiwan)">GE</acronym> CF6-80 engines in place of the -5...

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MrFord

RE: Flap Track Fairings & Wing Efficiency

Just want to add something here about clean wings. Most of the time, "single slotted" flaps (if I can call them that way) do not seems to need track fairings. I am no way an expert, but the system for those flaps are much simpler to operate than double- or triple-slotted flaps. They only have to be ...

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MrFord

RE: ATC Computers? What Operating System They Use?

I saw an article a year ago about uptime performance of different OSes and, for all you M$ haters, they got a Win2000 Server box running Web services running for a whopping 2 years and still running strong. No Service Packs, no patches, nothing, just the original Win2k installation, and it never reb...

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MrFord

RE: LCD Vs CRT

Klaus, Thanks for the clarification, I tought it was the light source that was causing most of the heat dissipation, but you're right, even black pixels in a <acronym title="Louis Trichardt (LCD / FALO / FALT), South Africa">LCD</acronym> are illuminated a bit (i.e check an open <acronym title="Loui...

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MrFord

RE: LCD Vs CRT

While this is true that LCDs heats up a lot less than CRTs (electrical voltage changes the pixel' liquid color, instead of having a lamp producing 3 colors), one problem of those flat displays are that they do not support cold very well, and they tend to "freeze". So they have to put heaters on thos...

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MrFord

RE: ATC Computers? What Operating System They Use?

I know that for NavCan, here in Canada, they use a brand new system based on Windows <acronym title="Binter Canarias (Spain)">NT</acronym>/2000 <acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym> that run on a Pentium <acronym title="Business Air (United Kingdom)">II</acronym>-class <acronym title="Air ...

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MrFord

RE: Hard Points On Airframe Question?

I guess this ship had a lot of hours or cycles in his logbook, I can't find it... already 20 years for this 757, time is going by fast !

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MrFord

RE: Flights Montreal-Tunis?

Thanks for your suggestions ! Well my mom is 52, and she'd traveled before, but not in Europe. I checked for different options on Destina.ca, and I've found that I can have a flight <acronym title="Montreal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (Dorval) (YUL / CYUL), Canada - Quebec">YUL</acronym>-...

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MrFord

Flights Montreal-Tunis?

I'm looking for a flight for my mother, who's going to Tunisia APR-22 to MAY-06. She'll be flying from Montreal-Dorval (<acronym title="Montreal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (Dorval) (YUL / CYUL), Canada - Quebec">YUL</acronym>) to Tunis (<acronym title="Tunis - Carthage (TUN), Tunisia">TU...

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MrFord

RE: Denver International.....Top Secret?

Do you know where that buried runway was located, and why (the official reason at least) it was buried ?

And on the site, they talk about a "very high-tech runway"... Apart from concrete, marks and lights, I can't see what makes that runway so special...

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MrFord

RE: US To Initiate Visit Program For All Visitors

Another reason to come visit us in Canada hehe <img src="/discussions/graphics/wink.gif" ALT="Big grin"> ! Joke apart, I think they get a little too shy from everybody in the world... When I see that in Europe, you can travel from France to Spain to Germany (I think) without even be questioned...

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MrFord

RE: Ford Five Hundred

Well I didn't know they were introducing the Five-Hundred in North-America... I hope they'll bring the 5.0 <acronym title="ATRAN Aviatrans Cargo Airlines (Russian Federation)">V8</acronym> model as seen in Australia <img src="/discussions/graphics/smile.gif" ALT="Smile"> ! I like the style, ve...

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MrFord

Vintage Aircraft Fabric

I would like to discuss with somebody, who ever has rebuilt a vintage aircraft, I have to redone mine and I am confused with the fabric process, which one is the best and why.
stits, dope, Randolph, polyfiber

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