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The Locator posted:The British Airways non-stop from Phoenix to London has been a 747 ever single time I've seen it in Phoenix. Flew BA SEA to LHR in 2010 and again in 2012 and in both cases it was one of their -400s.
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This was from LHR to SFO non-stop. That was without question the greatest relief of my life - getting the gently caress out of the UK and back home.
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One last 747 post even if we're on page 749; I once worked briefly with a dude in his fifties who was being expedited to some client in the US to put out a major fire. As in, he had to go NOW NOW NOW. He ended up on business class on a 747, and had the entire upper floor and two FAs to himself all the way across the Atlantic. Pretty baller.
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When I originally arrived in the US, my flight got cancelled from Heathrow. Then it for some reason was almost instantly resumed roughly 30 minutes later. In the end I ended up on that plane with four other people total. We had roughly two and half flight attendants each. It was the best flight of my life easily. We were allowed to sit anywhere and eat a lot.
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bolind posted:He ended up on business class on a 747, and had the entire upper floor and two FAs to himself all the way across the Atlantic. Pretty baller. I got to fly from Heathrow to LA in the upper deck of a 747 a decade ago. It was pretty cool.
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I knew a guy who claimed that the USAF flew him on an SR‐71 to Alaska to fix a critical (and of course top secret) problem. It’s the tallest tale I’ve ever heard, but at least it’s baller.
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Vahakyla posted:Not in Japan, the Japanese Aviation Authority is a public organization in Japan with tenured employees. Dunno what it's like for ATCs but for almost every federal job it's impossible to fire someone once they've completed their probationary period too.
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drgitlin posted:Dunno what it's like for ATCs but for almost every federal job it's impossible to fire someone once they've completed their probationary period too. It's not impossible, it's just very, very hard. Sometimes it seems like they promote incompetency, because they can't fire them.
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MrYenko posted:It's not impossible, it's just very, very hard. There's a lot truth to that in federal jobs. Promote them out of spots and into positions that, while offer a pay raise and better title, they can't get anyone killed. Long term, it's just easier, and it's gamble they'll leave and do something else. Platystemon posted:I knew a guy who claimed that the USAF flew him on an SR‐71 to Alaska to fix a critical (and of course top secret) problem. If you're going to lie, go all out.
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Tide posted:If you're going to lie, go all out. My uncle who works for Nintendo (its a front) grabs rides on the X-37 when stuff breaks.
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Emirates' latest stunt was using an A380 as a flying theater for the premiere of a movie about air travel. https://vimeo.com/122946715
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Having an ADS-B antenna set up in my office has turned out to be awesome. Just tracked a bombardier twinjet going 500 kts at 49,000 feet 
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The Ferret King posted:I don't see it identified specifically in any of the last 3 years of ATSAP (our safety reporting system) bulletins. Wow that was informative. It turns out not to be a big deal, just a center manager that got hot apparently. Like I said I've never been given a hard time about missing a handoff before but that might have been because I spent most of my time flying between 2200-0500 back then.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I got to fly from Heathrow to LA in the upper deck of a 747 a decade ago. It was pretty cool. Virgin's 747's on the LHR-JFK route used to have (don't know if they still do) some regular economy class seating on the upper deck. If you were quick on the self-assigned seating you could just grab one - and of course I did, both ways. Very quiet and generally chill up there, really good for economy class.
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Platystemon posted:I knew a guy who claimed that the USAF flew him on an SR‐71 to Alaska to fix a critical (and of course top secret) problem.  That puts the usual GreenBeretAirborneRangerSniper to shame.
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I worked with an ex Canadian navy guy who claimed to have faked up orders and borrowed an F-14 for a joyride to the Caribbean with an American buddy. For some reason, I don't mind being bullshitted if the bullshitter is going balls out.
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FrozenVent posted:I worked with an ex Canadian navy guy who claimed to have faked up orders and borrowed an F-14 for a joyride to the Caribbean with an American buddy. That kind of poo poo did actually happen in the 50s/60s at least. Though... Hmmm really old pilots are perhaps more likely to bullshit.
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FrozenVent posted:For some reason, I don't mind being bullshitted if the bullshitter is going balls out. There's a special place in hell for people who make up stories that aren't even good.
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hobbesmaster posted:That kind of poo poo did actually happen in the 50s/60s at least. It used to be easier to justify jaunts. Nowadays it's a tremendous pain in the rear end. I don't believe for one minute guys would just hop in a jet and go cross country without jumping through some hoops first, ie to get it to count towards training (Oh hey, boss, there are some F-somethingorother guys 1500 miles away looking for some DACT. You think me and Maverick over there could take a TDY until Monday? Great, thanks!).
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I'm pretty sure I flew on an Air Canada one almost 20 years ago. I didn't realize they weren't operating them anymore. I think Air Canada had 747-400s for a bit but retired them. I'm not sure what their biggest airliner is now. A330? 777?
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According to Wikipedia they have 777-200 & -300 models. No A380. They also have some 787-8s and 22 787-9s on order.
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Godholio posted:It used to be easier to justify jaunts. Nowadays it's a tremendous pain in the rear end. I don't believe for one minute guys would just hop in a jet and go cross country without jumping through some hoops first, ie to get it to count towards training (Oh hey, boss, there are some F-somethingorother guys 1500 miles away looking for some DACT. You think me and Maverick over there could take a TDY until Monday? Great, thanks!). ROTC visit is a
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Nebakenezzer posted:I think Air Canada had 747-400s for a bit but retired them. I'm not sure what their biggest airliner is now. A330? 777? The 777-300ER is indeed the largest aircraft in their fleet. In all honesty it isn't that much smaller than a 747; in fact the 777-300ER is longer than all 747 variants other than the -8. Air Canada ordered 3 747-400 Combis in 1989, taking delivery the following year. When they merged with Canadian in 2000, they inherited Canadian's fleet of four all-passenger -400s. Both fleets were withdrawn from use in 2003, with all three Combis still in service today with other operators (two have been converted to pure freighters, while the third is in service with the Dubai Air Wing). The ex-Canadian aircraft are all stored after careers with various airlines, presumably awaiting their turn with the scrapper. MrChips fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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A bit late on the last round of Arrow posts, but I've always wondered-what's Canada's deal with ordering prototypes destroyed once they're bored of them? Seems like the only country you ever hear about going "nah we don't quite like it. chop it into tiny bits so no one will ever know". E: Or is it more of a thing because Canada hasn't really produced many aircraft, so the two or three that end up getting chopped up instead of preserved become a huge deal? Naturally Selected fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Naturally Selected posted:A bit late on the last round of Arrow posts, but I've always wondered-what's Canada's deal with ordering prototypes destroyed once they're bored of them? Seems like the only country you ever hear about going "nah we don't quite like it. chop it into tiny bits so no one will ever know". The TSR.2 would like a word with you. Basically the reason why prototypes are chopped up after an acrimonious cancellation, like the Arrow, C-102 Jetliner and many others is twofold; first, it cost money to store an aircraft, even if it's just parked on a ramp out in the middle of nowhere, and why would you store it if it probably has no future? Second is that from the perspective of the builder, they don't want a failed project lying around (especially in the days of the Cold War) and from the perspective of the former customer, they don't want the potential embarrassment of having these things lying around when the procurement program naturally goes pear-shaped; too easy for some opposition politician to score points with the loser still in existence. Could you imagine the fuss if in 1960 some Liberal MP went into Parliament with pictures of the intact fleet of Arrows while the Bomarc procurement was going horribly wrong for the Diefenbaker's government? MrChips fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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There's a pair of TSR.2's intact and on display, thankyouvermuch  Granted, it might be due to the British Craftsmanship and Attention To Detail during the scrapping process, but still.
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Naturally Selected posted:There's a pair of TSR.2's intact and on display, thankyouvermuch Neither of the survivors are complete aircraft; the only one that did fly, along with two or three other complete aircraft ended facing the most ignominious fate that can befall an aircraft; they were assigned to battle damage testing, where they were shot to bits in the name of science.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:ROTC visit is a Not anymore. Academy, though...
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Godholio posted:Not anymore. Academy, though... I'm sure they could fit you in if you wanted to buzz Riddle as well.
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Linedance posted:I wouldn't be surprised to discover the animated corpse of a Trans Canada Airlines employee still working there somewhere (probably in the depths of the underground tunnels of The Base in Montreal, though just as likely in some obscure outstation that everyone has forgotten about and AC hasn't flown to in decades). I was born in 77 and I've worked with people who's seniority date is before I was born, and they're still working. Well that didn't take loving long, lol! I just flew from Vancouver to Sydney and the service director told me he had 49 years in the company! I asked him if he remembered TCA and he said they stopped flying under that name shortly before he started working there, like a few months prior to him starting. I guess if he stated at 18 or so that would still put him at under 70. Looked pretty good for a lifetime in the air!
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 http://www.cnet.com/news/plane-flies-3000-miles-with-hole-in-its-nose/ Ok I get that the pilots couldn't actually aww the damage, but how did that not affect flight characteristics? At a minimum there should have been reduced performance at a given EPR right? Increased fuel consumption?
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Jealous Cow posted:
Probably not, or at least not enough to be noticeable. The radome is just flimsy fiberglass or other composite.
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Crap... Better up the minimum hours to be an FO again then... just to be sure.
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cnet posted:The aviation expert for 9 News, Greg Feith, said that the flight should have turned around. He said that the pilots risked structural failure around the nose of the plane. Someone oughta fire Greg, and the news team that wouldn't have even picked up on the story if it weren't for recent events.
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CharlesM posted:Greg Feith is actually a former NTSB investigator And now we know why he's a Former investigator  There's very few people out there that made the switch from doing poo poo to getting ratings on TV that are still in any way respectable. "It was probably okay since it's just a composite radome" doesn't get nearly enough clicks as "Pilots nearly destroy plane."
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Upstairs on a BA 747-400 is a very nice place to be. There's lockers for all your crap, screens if you don't want to make out with the person adjacent to you (let's be honest, if you aren't doing this, you're doing it wrong) and a fully stocked self-serve bar. Also you're above all the plebs too so there's that.
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Pimp My Choppah: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/bell-525-helicopter That doesn't look like the inside of a helicopter - it looks like the secret chamber where the Douchenati meet to discuss what everyone should buy from Hollister that month. "Tha's real burlwood, brah." BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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That's the Saoudi Special!
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Pimp My Choppah: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/bell-525-helicopter If James Bond doesn't smash a guy into that table at some point, life has no meaning.
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