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FuturePastNow posted:if one of those engines explodes, it's gonna take out a rudder something tells me that the clever people at airbus have probably thought of this
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:something tells me that the clever people at airbus have probably thought of this One would hope but it didn’t work for Douglas... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 As an aside “You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?” has to be a top 5 all time radio call
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Inacio posted:just have them in a tube as usual except no windows LCD windows, we have the technology
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I feel like bigass blended wing concepts like that have existed nonstop since my first memories as a child but have never come to anything resembling fruition.
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mlmp08 posted:I feel like bigass blended wing concepts like that have existed nonstop since my first memories as a child but have never come to anything resembling fruition. As soon as Ryanair gets the flying public totally reaccustomed to airstairs, the gate problem is a non-issue.
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hobbesmaster posted:One would hope but it didn’t work for Douglas... quote:GPWS: "Whoop whoop pull up. Whoop whoop pull up. Whoop whoop pull up." The pilots made it out alive, but jesus loving christ that’s a terrifying thing to imagine.
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If the fuel savings are big enough they'll stuff passengers into any monstrosity imaginable won't they?
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eggyolk posted:If the fuel savings are big enough they'll stuff passengers into any monstrosity imaginable won't they? There doesn’t seem to be much evidence one way or another. If 737 max orders continue maybe but then some companies will need new air frames now and can’t wait for airbus’s now long queue.
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Feb 11, 2020 22:48
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gently caress restarting the 757 bring back the mad dog
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:gently caress restarting the 757 bring back the mad dog I'm sorry I only heard "stretch the E-jet until it needs a tail wheel"
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Feb 11, 2020 23:02
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CRJ-1800 which is two -900 fuselages side by side Call me, Bombardier
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priznat posted:CRJ-1800 which is two -900 fuselages side by side I've built this in KSP. If you do it right you can keep adding fuselages and wings. I got up to 6 fuselages and it was still controllable.
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Source4Leko posted:I've built this in KSP. If you do it right you can keep adding fuselages and wings. I got up to 6 fuselages and it was still controllable. I am so looking forward to KSP2, looks awesome.
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priznat posted:CRJ-1800 which is two -900 fuselages side by side Bombardier probably doesn't have enough cash in the bank these days to pay the phone bill for a recording telling you to call Mitsubishi.
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hobbesmaster posted:Bombardier probably doesn't have enough cash in the bank these days to pay the phone bill for a recording telling you to call Mitsubishi. Bombardier’s loss is Embraer’s gain! Introducing the E390
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priznat posted:CRJ-1800 which is two -900 fuselages side by side crj-1100: what if the crj-1000 but longer the crj-1000 is one of the most unnatural looking planes
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:crj-1100: what if the crj-1000 but longer 
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eggyolk posted:If the fuel savings are big enough they'll stuff passengers into any monstrosity imaginable won't they? If the ticket savings are big enough people will cram themselves onto any monstrosity Honestly unless your legs are too long or you have sinus/ENT pressure issues or something specific, flying long haul is no bother. If you offered people: - free beer and mixer drinks for 12 hours - free films that are not long out of the cinema and also classic tv shows - or bring your own tablet/laptop - unlimited free snacks - also your boss can't phone you or email you even if they want to demand you do something urgently by tomorrow - Oh and you end up on holiday somewhere then it's really not that bad a way to spend a day, regardless of if you're at hoke or in the air. Except for the experience at the departing airport, I quite like flying simplefish fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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simplefish posted:If the ticket savings are big enough people will cram themselves onto any monstrosity Do you fly biz/first class or something? Flying across the country with a 250lb dude on on side and sick toddler behind me is the worst and about average for my luck.
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Preferred or extra leg room economy seats any airline status gets is usually a solid filter.
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I arrive at the airport in good time and ask nicely and always get an aisle seat? Or if it's free I select when I check in online. Babies on planes suck but they suck regarless of what the plane is. And long haul, this is. Short haul is shitter by default, especially as I fly low cost, but those are short enough that I can suck it up and read a book in my own little world. The airport part is exactly as poo poo though for even less flight time which does irritate me more. I am also describing travel outside the US, many Americans have told me how poo poo their airlines are before and they sound like cross-country Greyhound with extra TSA bullshit at the start. The worst flight I've taken was Air Transat because it's the only one that was over 3 hours and didn't have seatback entertainment or free booze and you had to pay for an in flight meal. But then the Flight Attendant was getting poo poo from everyone (flight had been massively delayed) and I sympathised/mutually bitched about things/people being poo poo with him in French and he unexpectedly and quietly brought me over a cup of something later, which brightened me up a bit. Positive human interaction and someone agreeing things are a bit poo poo does that. simplefish fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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dude euro airlines invented low cost bullshit granted Americans perfected it because we own that way, but economy intra-Europe sucks
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priznat posted:CRJ-1800 which is two -900 fuselages side by side The only correct answer for this plan is the SSJ-100, it'd have great foul weather performance, bet it could even land in a Typhoon.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:dude euro airlines invented low cost bullshit Yeah, I agree. Like I said I was mostly talking about long haul.
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I love flying European airlines transatlantic, but I'd take any major US airline, including our low cost carriers, over the European budget carriers 7 days a week and twice on Sunday.
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Elviscat posted:The only correct answer for this plan is the SSJ-100, it'd have great foul weather performance, bet it could even land in a Typhoon. 
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See? Plenty of room!
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Mortabis posted:I love flying European airlines transatlantic, but I'd take any major US airline, including our low cost carriers, over the European budget carriers 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. simplefish posted:Yeah, I agree. Like I said I was mostly talking about long haul. i dunno, economy on KLM, Airfrance, Lufthansa, Virgin, Alitalia et al is basically the same or worse hard product. catering might be slightly better. it's certainly a greyhound bus experience.
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Mortabis posted:I love flying European airlines transatlantic, but I'd take any major US airline, including our low cost carriers, over the European budget carriers 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. Same. The only time I really found myself being annoyed by American domestic flights was realizing that even in 2020 on a long-ish flight from CONUS to Hawaii, the domestic airliner didn't even have a USB port, much less seatback entertainment. Additionally, even if you wanted to buy one of the meals, they ran out of everything except bagged nuts almost immediately. This annoyance was somewhat lessened by the knowledge that when we landed, we'd be on vacation in Hawaii. And on the return flight, it was overnight redeye, so entertainment wasn't a big deal.
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Pictured: a cool Airbus project. Also a blended wing model for some reason.
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WTF is going on with the wing/engine mounting angles?
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Platystemon posted:WTF is going on with the wing/engine mounting angles? those are actually huge surveillance binoculars
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Jonny Nox posted:Pictured: a cool Airbus project. Why do we need a new 146?
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Because Airbus hasn't bought BAe yet.
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~Coxy posted:Why do we need a new 146? Because only having low wing twin jets at airports is boring.
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hobbesmaster posted:Because only having low wing twin jets at airports is boring. Bring back the Dornier 328!
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canard pusher pax jet when
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Because Airbus hasn't bought BAe yet. The Airbus-BAe merger was attempted and aborted. The reasons why it failed the first time are still around.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Bring back the Dornier 328!
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