General aviation/airplane news and chat

[T & P]

I would happily live in one of these...

The people who live inside airplanes

It's the ultimate passion project for aviation fans: buying a plane and converting it into your own private home. Meet the people living the dream in their Boeing 727, McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and DC-9.

edition.cnn.com

 

[bcuster]

 

[T & P]

I wonder if the Boeing and Airbus sales teams were put in adjacent suites. Cue people putting glasses against the wall to see if they could hear what the competition was offering

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Oh, so you have come across the scale modelling community before then?

Spoiler: 747 tweet

Operation Solomon. Took off with 1086 passengers from ADD, landed TLV with 1088.

 

[spitfire]

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Operation Solomon. Took off with 1086 passengers from ADD, landed TLV with 1088.

Aaah. That makes sense then. Thanks.

 

[spitfire]

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Operation Solomon. Took off with 1086 passengers from ADD, landed TLV with 1088.

What would be a typical load, for context?

 

[spitfire]

Operation Solomon. Took off with 1086 passengers from ADD, landed TLV with 1088.

Hang on a fucking minute.

Where did the extra 2 come from?

Stowaways or babies?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

What would be a typical load, for context?

JAL used it in all eco configuration with ~600 passengers for some domestic flights, JL123 was one and had 520 casualties.

With typical first, biz, eco config, ~350.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Hang on a fucking minute.

Where did the extra 2 come from?

Stowaways or babies?

Babies!

 

[spitfire]

Babies!

Awww bless.

 

[HAL9000]

Not read this web page, just copied this quote...

As I cross the west coast of Florida near Ft. Meyers, a major airline route, ATC denies the descent request from Delta flight number 1366, an Airbus. “Unable your request, traffic your one o’clock, climbing through your altitude, a WW II fighter” There is a pause and the airliner pilot replies: “Say the type aircraft?”. Miami Center responds, “Ah, it’s a North American P-51 military fighter”. A long pause follows during which I spot the airliner’s contrails off my right wing. The pilot replies:” Oh, way cool!”. I am trying to imagine cruising in the Airbus cockpit at FL390 and being told that a WW II prop fighter is climbing through my altitude!

Flight Levels - Community Feature: Doug Matthews P-51 Mustang Record Setting

 

[porp]

The second sentence of that tweet. I had to read it several times, still not sure what it means. I am mildly curious as to what a coastal Indian curry might be, but not so curious as to follow the link.

 

[T & P]

As we’re talking 747s this evening, has anyone stayed at the Jumbo hotel at Stockholm airport (which I only discovered today through the link I posted a few posts up)? Looks ace

Google Travel

www.google.com

 

[bcuster]

 

[A380]

So I brought a 7th of this yesterday….

 

[spitfire]

So I brought a 7th of this yesterday….

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Oh that's so cool.

Does this photo show how much runway it needs to take off? Just needs enough avgas to get up and then floats on thermals for a week?

 

[spitfire]

Oh that's so cool.

Does this photo show how much runway it needs to take off? Just needs enough avgas to get up and then floats on thermals for a week?

Also do you need any ballast?

 

[A380]

Oh that's so cool.

Does this photo show how much runway it needs to take off? Just needs enough avgas to get up and then floats on thermals for a week?

In theory; but probably not with me flying it though..

 

[bcuster]

a great combo: Rolls Royce & the "BUFF":

 

[T & P]

a great combo: Rolls Royce & the "BUFF":

Ah, I was wondering why was RR suddenly building new low bypass engines...

If only you could fit them under the wings, I recknon a pair of the GE9X engines that will power the new Boeing 777-X would do the job just fine

 

[Dogsauce]

Hydrogen-powered flight developments:

Pioneering Moses Lake flight uses hydrogen to power regional airplane

A plane retrofitted by startup Universal Hydrogen made two passes around a Central Washington airfield in a bid to prove hydrogen-powered aviation is viable.

www.seattletimes.com

As ever, storage is an issue, but I could see something like this being very viable for the short hop flights in Scottish islands for example. Plus they could manufacturer it from wind-generated electricity up there to be more sustainable.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I’ve just checked in for a helicopter flight (I’m working offshore for the next couple of weeks) at an airport I’ve not used for a couple of years. There is a new safety regulation…I’ve had to take my Bluetooth earphones out of the charger case…put the charger case in my pocket and the earpieces in the checked bag
They never X-ray stuff coming the other way, so you know it’s just being enforced on outbound flights. Oh, and I have to wear a mask . We had masks come back for a few months but for normal flights they gave up at the start of this month.

I’d love the job of inventing arcane regulations to make the travel experience a little more shit. Where do I apply?

 

[T & P]

I've never heard of the Bluetooth earphones one before... What a bizarre rule

 

[spitfire]

It's the battery in the charger isn't it? If it goes off in the hold everyone dies but if it goes off in your pocket you get a bad burn and the plane fills with noxious smoke but will be manageable.

Just had a quick google and found this.

 

[bcuster]

Can aviation ever be sustainable?

As a growing number of passengers are once again taking to the skies, a viable path towards climate-friendly innovations in air travel is filled with challenges

www.cntraveller.com

 

[T & P]

Can aviation ever be sustainable?

As a growing number of passengers are once again taking to the skies, a viable path towards climate-friendly innovations in air travel is filled with challenges

www.cntraveller.com

Whereas I don’t deny air travel in its present form is far from environmentally friendly, such navel-gazing articles are both over-simplistic and pointless. Countless activities or industrial processes are and will remain environmentally unfriendly for the foreseeable future. But that doesn’t mean we should cut it out altogether.

A greater degree of moderation and a drive to encourage less usage of environmentally inefficient activities is absolutely fine by me. I’m fully on board with initiatives such as those recently introduced by the French government to ban domestic flights on routes that their high speed trains can cover in under four hours.

But, some people (luckily mostly constrained to the fringes of internet forums) regularly argue that nobody should be allowed to fly even occasionally. That’s utter bullshit of course, and an hypocritical position to hold the moment you scratch them and examine their own life choices.

There’s no single activity undertaken by ordinary people that’s so devastatingly damaging to the environment that they should banned from doing. Reduce? Sure. Eliminate? No, not really.

So by all means, try to encourage or dissuade people by whichever carrot or stick economic initiatives from taking superfluous flights that could be achieved by land travel within a reasonable time frame. But screw any proclamations that people should refrain from ever taking even the odd leisure flight a couple of times per year. Ditto a total ban on anything else, from driving a motor vehicle to eating meat.

 

[petee]

 

[Winot]

That’s still there in the revamped terminal.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

^^^^It's a hotel, with a pool overlooking the aircraft on JFK's apron.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Also Idlewild, name changed to JFK after his death, airport names can change, but it's vanishingly rare that their three letter code does, IDL did change to JFK though.

ORD is Chicago O'Hare, the ORD is down to its old name, Orchard Field...