General aviation/airplane news and chat

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I’m flying tomorrow on a checks itinerary 787 - cheers for that petee

Nah, totally shocking stuff, the plea deal Boeing struck after the two 737 crashes were in themselves criminal, a ton of execs should be spending the rest of their lives eating porridge, but all that happened was the stock price took a slight wobble.

 

[Elpenor]

posted for info, i don;t have the experrtise to comment.

Suicide Mission

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

prospect.org

Companies run by accountants for shareholders don’t care about the end users

And they may have assassinated the whistle blower?

 

[petee]

 

[petee]

 

[T & P]

Further on the subject of check-in upgrades, IB offered me a £49 one-way business upgrade to my flight to Madrid tomorrow, which is the lowest price short of a free one I’ve ever seen.

The Iberia app was having some hiccups this morning processing the upgrade, so I tried upgrading the flight through my BA account instead, and the cheeky cunts wanted £153 for it. Bearing in mind the flight is operated by Iberia and they are the same airline group, that’s taking the piss Luckily the IB app sorted itself out a bit later and I was able to grab the cheaper upgrade.

 

[T & P]

In other aviation news, I see that in a heartwarming show of newly-found friendship between both BA and Virgin, a couple of their planes tenderly bumped fists as they passed each other at LHR today

Heathrow: British Airways and Virgin Atlantic planes collide

A British Airways plane waiting to take off was clipped by a Virgin Atlantic aircraft.

www.bbc.co.uk

Someone at the towing contractors involved is going to get the hairdryer treatment come Monday morning, I fear…

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Further on the subject of check-in upgrades, IB offered me a £49 one-way business upgrade to my flight to Madrid tomorrow, which is the lowest price short of a free one I’ve ever seen.

The Iberia app was having some hiccups this morning processing the upgrade, so I tried upgrading the flight through my BA account instead, and the cheeky cunts wanted £153 for it. Bearing in mind the flight is operated by Iberia and they are the same airline group, that’s taking the piss Luckily the IB app sorted itself out a bit later and I was able to grab the cheaper upgrade.

You flying from terminal three? Try the Cathay Pacific lounge, an IB biz ticket will get you in there.

 

[T & P]

You flying from terminal three? Try the Cathay Pacific lounge, an IB biz ticket will get you in there.

Thanks. T5 so no joy but good to know

 

[A380]

 

[T & P]

Bahnhof Strasse How acquainted with the airline DAT? I’m flying BA back to London and I’m fairly impressed with the legroom of the A321 I am sitting on, which is is owned/ operated by ’DAT’ on behalf of BA. At least 32in legroom in economy, if not more. Undoubtedly roomier than the Buses both BA and IB operate on the Madrid route.

What I find amusing is that a few days after I booked my flight, BA felt it necessary to inform me my return flight to London would now be operated by DAT on behalf of of BA, rather than by BA. And even offered me to change flights if this was a problem.

Unless DAT’s FAs are known to fling monkey shit at passengers’ faces during the flight, I fail to the need to tell me about it. Pushing back now, I’ll tell you in two hours if there was anything worth worrying about…

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Mostly BA’s wet leasing is with decent airlines, have been using Finnair the past two year who are much nicer than BA. They have used Air Belgium for some long haul shit, they are terrible and if you had paid full fare business for it you would be incredibly pissed off.

Don’t know anything about DAT, when you mentioned the I thought they were Angola’s terrible airline! But for an intra-European flight they will be fine…

 

[Ted Bunting]

I have a number of punters who have asked us to make notes in their traveller profiles that they will not fly on the Max 8. Of course there's 100's of them flying every day without incident, but...

They’re safe until they aren’t

It’s good news Boeing are in a duopoly and Airbus are sold out of narrowbodies for several years, because if there were other options available now

Embraer are properly knocking at the door. In fact I have flown on a few recently and they took a massive - long held - contract out from under the nose of Lockheed Martin in December.

 

[petee]

 

[pseudonarcissus]

That’s scary…I guess it explains the websites that allow you to book only non-Boeing planes.

I’m annoyed tonight..I tried to book some tickets for a trip to Europe. The website froze at the payment page. I tried again and the price went up USD2k. I wish I had a decent travel agent

I guess I call TAP in the morning and if the price isn’t reasonable we’ll go via Paris

 

[petee]

 

[spitfire]

And that, kids, is how I got my name.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

That’s scary…I guess it explains the websites that allow you to book only non-Boeing planes.

Yesterday and last night done BQU-SVD-BGI on a DHC-6. BGI-YYZ on a Boeing 787-800 and YYZ-LHR on a Boeing 777-300. Scariest bit by fucking miles was the Uber from LHR-Chez Mois, really fucking scary....

 

[nick]

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Old Space shuttle being put out to stud?

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Yesterday and last night done BQU-SVD-BGI on a DHC-6. BGI-YYZ on a Boeing 787-800 and YYZ-LHR on a Boeing 777-300. Scariest bit by fucking miles was the Uber from LHR-Chez Mois, really fucking scary....

first world problems! I've changed planes in SVD before and had a long enough layover to get breakfast at the Cobblestones Inn.

I finally got my flights for September after 4 calls to TAP. it looks like their website can't come with 2 step authorisation of cards...if was getting hung up with "verified by visa" but went through on a Mastercard...but that sent 2 emails saying there was a payment problem and they were going to cancel it.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[bcuster]

 

[T & P]

I don't know about others but I can't even function in early the morning until I've had six A380s...

 

[bcuster]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The plane Zelensky will use to transport Putin to The Hague…

 

[bcuster]

Underwater version of SR 71

 

[Chz]

Underwater version of SR 71

That is not the first thing that came to mind. But I am a bit juvenile for someone about to start their 6th decade.

 

[existentialist]

I don't know about others but I can't even function in early the morning until I've had six A380s...

Callout. Bin, bang, bong.

 

[T & P]

Any pioneer pilots who achieved any significant landmarks or firsts in aviation are rightly recognised and revered. But I don’t recall ever reading about the first pilots to fly through solid cloud systems, which has always felt to me as one of the most daunting things novice pilots will face even today, never mind back in the early days of flying.

It must have been terrifying as fuck flying all but blind through large cloud formations the in pre-radar days with next to no reliable instrumentation. And whereas the first jet engines would have been tested rigorously for water ingestion, I wouldn’t have wanted to be the first pilot to fly through thick cloud formations on engines designed to ignite air ingested from the outside, when you are slicing through dense concentrations atmosphere consisting mostly of ice crystals

 

[bcuster]

Can't see a thing. Definition of "on a wing and a prayer..."

 

[Chz]

I considered this for the Massive Helicopter thread, but it's just one helicopter out of three things and I think it has a wider audience than the niche thread.

Check Out This Marine CH-53K Carrying An F-35C While Refueling From A KC-130T

The new CH-53K is the most powerful helicopter in the Pentagon's inventory and it provides a critical long-range, heavy-lift capability.

www.twz.com

That's a US Marine King Stallion, doing mid-air refueling from a KC-130, while carrying an F-35C strapped to the bottom of it. Some impressive flying.