Concorde. There will likely never be another one in my lifetime.
Jump to postI see our policy morphing into what the Israelis do. A shadow war with strong intelligence gathering, striking at anytime, in any conditions, and leaving the enemy with no effective counter-measures. We are an open society, who refuses to do adequate vetting on the vast majority of immigrants from ...
Jump to postOne could argue that this new "no boots on the ground" is what America was successful doing for a brief period back in early 2002. Around 100 Special Forces acting mainly as forward air controllers accomplished our "mission" - deny bin Laden freedom of movement and operation. Sh...
Jump to postThere's a reason they've survived this long in the most competitive markets in the country. They were facing lackluster competition from lazy legacy carriers like USAir, while having a good product that appealed to travelers from aspirational middle class to business class. Additionally, B6 got all...
Jump to postThanks for posting. Interesting read for anyone following the recent developments. Article validates the need to re-engine of the BUFF, order new F-15EX and long range strike drones. Or it validates the need for a coherent strategy. The tools or talent for killing people has never really been in do...
Jump to postAs sad as it is to say, B6 actually can learn a little bit from NK. NK somehow managed to get their OTP numbers into very respectable levels while also maintaining their cost control. Someone in JetBlue leadership should eat a humble pie and learn from what NK did. You are absolutely right. What NK...
Jump to postThere are no 773F's in service yet, the MD11s and 744s are aging rapidly and the -8 is going out of production soon. So it would appear that a huge competition between the 350F (which is basically the same size as a 773F) is in place. In the past, the competition has generally favored converted fre...
Jump to postIf Airbus really needs 1 single order for 50 aircraft to launch then there will never be an A350F. I don't understand why this misinterpretation of the initial news keeps on coming back in this thread. Obviously Airbus does want orders for 50 to launch, but they rather have several customers instea...
Jump to postExpansion of NATO up to Russian boarders in the 1990's and early 2000's, when the reason for NATO's reason to exist was no longer there and there being no threat from Russia is more than reason enough to consider NATO a threat to Russian security. Do the Estonians, Georgians, Ukrainians, et. .al no...
Jump to postWondering why a crew can't just fly the airplane? Circling approaches aren't a big deal. If that's actually what happened, there's 0 excuse for stalling an otherwise perfectly good jet. How many circling approaches do you have in a supercritical wing with no LEDs in mountainous terrain? At any oper...
Jump to postWhich is exactly what happened to an OO flight that diverted to one of the Colorado towns just the other day. There were no rooms and the entire crew slept on the plane until the next morning. I hope they went to hotel and got rest or they were in violation of 91.3 by any reading of the document. h...
Jump to postDon't understand why they didn't just do the RNAV approach to 11 if they needed the length, which would have avoided the need for the circling approach which apparently induced the stall. Wondering why a crew can't just fly the airplane? Circling approaches aren't a big deal. If that's actually wha...
Jump to postI love how members can rationalize anything on here. "crew shouldn't expect hotels to be booked for them, I have to book and pay for hotels at my job" "crew shouldn't expect hotels to be available when it isn't the airlines fault" "crews are being unreasonable to expect a h...
Jump to postI travel a fair amount and I have to book/pay for my own flight and hotel and then claim. Doesn’t bother me - I get the loyalty points from both for my leisure trips. When this has been offered to companies, they generally prefer the lower contract lodging rates, vs. any other arrangements. Frankly...
Jump to postThere's a big difference between: 1. We don't have reservations for any of you. 2. We are oversold. 3. Having to wait in a long line for a room. (Really, at some point, who hasn't?) 4. Having to wait on hold for AA lodging support. These issues conveniently get conflated in a grievance. Laughable. ...
Jump to postIn the long run, a modern nuclear force is much cheaper to maintain against NATO, the likely enemy. It would be much more costly to equip and feed conventional forces the size of the USSR's to be able to oppose the combined numbers of NATO forces. On the other hand, if we have 1000+ nuclear warhead...
Jump to postbikerthai wrote:If Texas was invaded 3 times in two hundred years, then it would would do the same thing, given the opportunity.
bt
Excuse me? When has any airline committed to this kind of volume up front plus options on a pure freighter of this size? It's not common. I don't see this playing out at all, albeit not impossible. Rather, I'd see 2-3 launch customers making up the total. For it to be the numbers you are talking ab...
Jump to postMy friend used to fly Navajo's and Chieftans for Ameriflight.......night flying, based in SEA. Extremely challenging IFR operations. Night ops in light twins all over the PNW? Noooooo thanks. Up until a few years ago, Great Lakes was flying 1900s with no autopilots, on scheduled operations to some ...
Jump to postYeah, from my outsider perspective, but talking with a bunch of B6 guys, there is a real leadership gap, its been an enduring issue, and its frankly not getting better. Ultimately, well run airlines are about a 1000 little things from staffing to network analysis to tech ops to marketing. Its a job ...
Jump to postDefinitely add a fuel tank. Remember, for the AEW mission, they will need to add a radar (more drag) and extra, more powerful electric generators, more fuel consumption. The extra tanks are easy to add on as they are similar to the business jet tanks and much cheaper to install than arial refueling...
Jump to postIts interesting that in a nation with an economy the size of Texas, running Catherine the Great's imperial playbook, the maintenance of modern nuclear forces is an investment center.
Jump to postI think the disappearance of light airplane check flying has made the most difficult work the freight stuff up in Alaska and Canada. Back when those folks were plying the skies in Barons and 210s with rudimentary, if even working, autopilots and nothing but dual VORs in all kinds of weather, that w...
Jump to postI had an instructor who was prior RCAF -130s who when asked said without hesitation "Lab." So, I'd say in Canada, Labrador has a good bet. Alaska and Canadian flying is challenging on its best day. In the lower 48, New Mexico has the mix of convective activity, terrain and winter weather, ...
Jump to postSo India and likely Erickson or the Israelis will do the avionics integration for various ESM in addition to a likely modified that Airbus should have done a decade ago.
I wonder if they’ll just put an aux tank in them like an ACJ or just live with the roughly 6 hours of fuel onboard.
What is really strange is that Delta Airlines operated DC-9, MD-88 and MD-90 along with the B717. Pilots checked out on the B717 (which has a cockpit very similar to the MD11/MD10), get a DC-9 Type Rating! It seems like, at least in the United States, the "type rating" is a Federal Aviati...
Jump to postLanding south at MCO was a moderate risk approach at a former employer precisely due to the requirement to cross ORL VOR and then invariably following by attacking the glide slope from above.
Jump to postFor the price of a Cirrus Jet, one could buy quarter share of a Challenger at NTT and have all the speed, range and lav service they needed. By the way, plenty of private Jets are flying internationally. Interestingly, in my hometown, the Fortune 500 company has its own flight department for compan...
Jump to postGetting an existing rear engined aircraft lighter with bigger (aka heavier) engines is much easier said then done. I’m not saying it’s likely or even probable. I’m just arguing that it was sad that Fokker was unable to get a right sized aircraft to what was an artificially manipulated market. I ten...
Jump to postLet's compare this to voting republican in CA... yeah you get it :twisted: I would tend to agree, which is why I think the US lecturing people about democracy plays well for the crowd and makes political points but is a dual edged sword. Fact is that people will often accept a high degree of autocr...
Jump to postI think Fokker’s biggest error was introducing an airplane in the F100 to the market ten years early. The F28 and F100 were better airplanes than the CRJ. Too bad that the APA was less gullible than the Delta MEC. The F100 was too big to farm out to regional airlines. It would have never achieved t...
Jump to postI think Fokker’s biggest error was introducing an airplane in the F100 to the market ten years early. The F28 and F100 were better airplanes than the CRJ. Too bad that the APA was less gullible than the Delta MEC.
Jump to postI've flown both - including sitting in the back of a Lear 35 on the hump seat during a full flight. FYI you hit your head on the ceiling during bumpy flights. But you can't beat the FBO experience of no TSA, no packed waiting areas and certainly not mingling with some of the passengers that are fly...
Jump to postRealistically, stealth is opening shots of the war capacity, then its pointless as they start strapping external stores on. On top of that, the F-35s stealth is much more robust than that of the F-22, so it really will be a wash, seal the panel gaps, off to war. Stealth/LO is increasingly a require...
Jump to postYou are also right that America has not been successful in nation building (or nation stabilizing if you like). And America needs to quit trying to do it after spending billions in treasure and human life in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somali. Unlike the peaceful rebuilding like that occurred in Japan an...
Jump to postAnd that is the problem with americas "nation building" process, you can't establish democratic structures into a tribal society that lacks any sense of connection to the people even to a village 30 km away. Most rural Afghans couldn't care less who rules because they have not much to los...
Jump to postCalling West Germany or Japan an american success in nation building ist plain wrong, Germany and Japan were nation states long before. The thing achieved was a switch of government model, in Germanys case more like a return and of course disposing of genocidal governments... Leaves Korea, yeah sur...
Jump to postUA444 wrote:AaronPMI wrote:IMO the fact that the airplane involved was a first generation 747 fossil played a big part in this accident.
Also poorly maintained with old, cracked wiring.
At this point the ship has sailed. If JB had been smart (and maybe they still have the opportunity) to begin parking the E190s, and really pull down the operation to a more reasonable level. Now of course pilots won’t be happy with that because they’ll face downgrade and furlough but at least they’...
Jump to postIf this is a pilot un-commanded software issue, it’s significant.
Jump to postCovid did not kill the spaceJet, unflexible scope clause killed it. It also makes it impossible for US airlines to get the E175-E2 as it has a weight as well as a seat limit. So they are both to heavy for scope. The more regional pilots hired at Legacies, the more likely Scope will be defended like...
Jump to postHonestly I can see a cheaper single engine fighter fitting into the existing Russian concept of an air defense “complex” better any of their other super fighter concepts. The problem is the recent combat experience of the Pantsir and S-300 has been, to be charitable, very uneven. The Azeris picked a...
Jump to postThat’s too bad. As much as I’d like to think you could up engine and sell it, I bet any Antonov is a million miles from being a FAR 25 certified aircraft.
Jump to postIf they actually are delivered, a bunch of EAS routes from ORD and DEN could maybe switch to it. Other routes like ORD-PIA/SPI/AZO/LSE, IAD-CHO/RIC/MDT/ABE, and DEN-PUB/CYS/COD may fit the aircraft well. I still am pessimistic this will actually happen, but we will have to see. Well, I certainly ho...
Jump to postI think the Germans had no real choice, apparently the P3C's are worn out & a serious replacement was at least 10(?) years away from replacing the complete fleet. Even so I think A320 (&737) are heavily compromised platforms for the mission. But there simply are no alternatives. No one sees...
Jump to postMake a Dassault biz jet MPA. Why? Just buy the P-8, or if you're feeling super baller, the P-1. The investment in building a Eurocentric MPA has pretty much a less than zero business case. There are literally 50 other places in the pantheon of European defense modernization that has a better return...
Jump to postI'd be warming up my resume if a company I was working for was looking to save money on the jet by whoring it out on 135. That has been the first hint that an airplane is on the chopping block in the 91 world more times than I can count. Getting it on 135 isn't usually a quick process. First, you'll...
Jump to postI just watched this video on Colombian DC-3s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7fOct6_jJs Yeah, I saw that one. They had some mud strip in the jungle with people, animals, children, drug traffickers, prostitutes and the army running around and fighting whilst ancient planes took off and landed cont...
Jump to postWell, FLL is a special place by SFla standards
Jump to postThe rumor from friends is 60 -11s planned at Fedex with 6-10 per class new hires going MD.
Jump to post