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photo captains says one of them has its tail cut off already.
Photo © Szabolcs Kelemen
Byebye, old ladies.
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Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 3): It sounds to me like they are being scrapped. |
Quoting AmricanShamrok (Reply 4): There have been a lot of unplanned tech stops with these OY birds over the last year or two. Regardless I'll miss seeing them and their smokey takeoffs at SNN - looks like the 757s/767s/777s will become more regular here now. |
Quoting Giancavia (Reply 6): Year by year my interest in aviation gets dumbed down just that little bit more. No more noisy smokeys around, Hardly any Russian types fly to the UK.. Boring Boeing/Airbus Boeing/Airbus ZzzzZZzzzz |
Quoting na (Reply 7): and more an more zzzzzzzzztwinjetszzzzzzzzzzzz777szzzzzzzzA330szzzzzzzz. Goodbye diversity, welcome to uniformity. I dont care for noisy smokey as such, and the DC-10s maybe old, but they were stylish and distinctive were our slick modern future 330777350 world means flying boredom. |
Quoting catdaddy63 (Reply 11): N270AX is in process of dismantling |
Quoting SEPilot (Reply 10): Aircraft can be designed in many ways, but with the money involved efficiency is paramount, and the most efficient design that fulfills all relevant requirements is the tube with wings twinjet with engines on the wings. Every other design that has been built has been shown to have significant drawbacks that cost efficiency, and hence have been abandoned. With your personal car you can afford inefficiency if you want (I just traded a car that got 32+ MPH consistently for one that gets about 24 because I liked it better-but it's my money and I can afford it); but airlines do not have that luxury. The difference amounts to millions of dollars per year; buying planes because you like their looks is a pretty sure way to end up bankrupt. |
Quoting Giancavia (Reply 15): You are correct however I am simply looking from an enthusiast point of view and its getting really boring. |
Quoting catdaddy63 (Reply 11): N603AX seems to have escaped her fate, she was gone yesterday when I flew out of TUL. |
Quoting PSU.DTW.SCE (Reply 13): Were any of these former NW DC-10s? |
Quoting catdaddy63 (Reply 11): N603AX seems to have escaped her fate, she was gone yesterday when I flew out of TUL. They hadn't painted over her titles when I saw her on the Omni ramp a couple of weeks ago. |
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Quoting SEPilot (Reply 16): The only plane in current production that I consider ugly is the A380 |
Quoting na (Reply 22): disproportioned 777-300 |
Quoting catdaddy63 (Reply 11): N603AX seems to have escaped her fate, she was gone yesterday when I flew out of TUL. They hadn't painted over her titles when I saw her on the Omni ramp a couple of weeks ago. N270AX is in process of dismantling, N720AX met her sad fate last month. Sad to see these old birds on the chopping block, but enevitable in this economy. |
Quoting davs5032 (Reply 24): I'm sorry but I've gotta ask (I swear this isn't an A/B thing): What about the 77W is dis-proportionate? It's not overly-stretched, at least not in comparison to the A346. Also, I don't exactly see it as non-distinctive or boring given its massive engines, which were (and still are) unique in size to any other civilian jets.... I guess I just don't get it |
Quoting SEPilot (Reply 10): The difference amounts to millions of dollars per year; buying planes because you like their looks is a pretty sure way to end up bankrupt. |
Quoting na (Reply 25): The thin long tailfin, the even keel that abruptly curves upwards way to much at the back, to me the 773 just is an eyesore. |
Quoting na (Reply 25): and I dont think I´ll welcome the coming A350 btw, so its not an anti-B thing for me at all. |
Quoting canyonblue17 (Reply 31): I just watched a smokey B722 take off a few minutes ago from PBI. It was a Kalitta Charters aircraft bound for Lexington. It brings the horses in and out during polo season here in Palm Beach. Hate to see it leave.....love to watch it go!!!! |
Quoting United_fan (Reply 34): How about the Omni -10 stored @ BWI for a while? |
Quoting mayor (Reply 29): Quoting n471wn (Reply 28): there is one 200 currently available that has been in long term storage at Wallops Island Airport for non-payment of work performed---it was just acquired by Bank of Utah who would love to sell or lease it... I think they got their first two from Air India. |
Quoting bennett123 (Reply 41): I did not realise that the BWI DC10 still existed. |
Quoting n126dl (Reply 43): Last time I was in ATL (last month) N522AX was on the north ramp at ATL next to the area where DL does RONs over New Year's, followed by N270AX the next morning--is that a normal parking spot for Omni aircraft or might they have ben there on their way out to TUL? |
Quoting na (Reply 25): But, hey, I´ll be a retiree when that sad day will come... |
Quoting N14AZ (Reply 46): Hmm, I was actually planning to start again planespotting when becoming a retiree. But you maybe right, at that time it will be more exciting to become an ornithologist... |
Quoting na (Reply 25): Well, yes, but since when isnt it true that the 748I and A380 do offer better economics, use less fuel per pax than every twinjet except the 787. |