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FuturePastNow posted:A Constellation of questionable reliability landing on Kermit Weeks' tiny grass runway: SLEEK AND ELEGANT LINES
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Dual engine out on a 787 during landing. https://simpleflying.com/ana-dual-engine-failure-on-landing/ quote:As usual, the pilots deployed the thrust reversers after touchdown to slow down the aircraft. Shortly thereafter they noticed that both Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines had shut down. At this point the crew let the aircraft roll down the runway. It came to a complete stop after 8,030 feet.
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Jan 23, 2019 04:09
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meltie posted:SLEEK AND ELEGANT LINES Fight me
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Jan 23, 2019 04:12
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drunkill posted:Dual engine out on a 787 during landing.  Well that’s something. Funding Trents. GE may be failing but gimme those GEnx fans every day.
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Jan 23, 2019 05:00
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Jealous Cow posted:
The whole Trent 1000 debacle makes me wonder how much the British government is going to pump into RR to keep them alive, especially with brexit. Or maybe specifically for the purpose of having a them succeed despite themselves in light of brexit.
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Finger Prince posted:The whole Trent 1000 debacle makes me wonder how much the British government is going to pump into RR to keep them alive, especially with brexit. Or maybe specifically for the purpose of having a them succeed despite themselves in light of brexit. Like british airways they'll probably become a spanish company or whatever.
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Jan 23, 2019 05:26
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meltie posted:SLEEK AND ELEGANT LINES Scientist baffled: History's most wrong opinion still present
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Finger Prince posted:The whole Trent 1000 debacle makes me wonder how much the British government is going to pump into RR to keep them alive, especially with brexit. Or maybe specifically for the purpose of having a them succeed despite themselves in light of brexit. Given how they've handled themselves in the last couple years, I'm pretty sure any effort by the British government to rescue Rolls-Royce again would set the company on fire and cause the entire executive staff to turn into frogs or something.
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Pidgin Englishman posted:Scientist baffled: History's most wrong opinion still present the original L-049 constellation (and its military precursor, the C-69) is an attractive, well-proportioned plane, though the triple tail is admittedly a bit weird and it would probably look better without the center fin.  the stretched versions get progressively worse looking, culminating with the L-1049 and its later proposed variants, which are big deformed flying donkey dongs 
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Jan 23, 2019 09:31
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Yes yes show us more 1049/1649 pictures to teach us how misguided we are (Don't ever stop) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taU6qu5pXBo Tsuru fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Jan 23, 2019 09:44
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drunkill posted:Dual engine out on a 787 during landing. Same icing issue as the 777 at Heathrow or mystery computer bug? Latter more likely and more scary.
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Jan 23, 2019 10:47
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Ola posted:Same icing issue as the 777 at Heathrow or mystery computer bug? Latter more likely and more scary. lovely engines. Like I'm pretty sure the only reason they're etops rated still is political pressure. (if I find out what it actually was, I'll post what I can). Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Jan 23, 2019 13:00
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Piper Malibu went down in the waters north of the Island where I live in the English Channel. This would not be huge news but a premiership footballer was on it. https://twitter.com/BBCGuernsey/status/1088062124729999360 It reeks of a grey market charter, maybe Wingly.
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Finger Prince posted:lovely engines. Like I'm pretty sure the only reason they're etops rated still is political pressure. If etops got pulled from the trents would fleets repower with GEnx? What other options are there? That would be huge for GE and finally doom RR’s aviation division.
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British engines: just as reliable on planes as they are in cars and motorcycles  Compare this to my namesake engine, which is so goddamned reliable it's specifically excepted from certain single-engine restrictions in the Canadian Air Regulations.
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Jan 23, 2019 15:26
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Some of the Trent 1000s are already limited to ETOPS-60
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Jan 23, 2019 15:32
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Imagine paying that much for brand new shiny airplanes and then, oops, turns out they're basically useless! Sorry!
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Jealous Cow posted:If etops got pulled from the trents would fleets repower with GEnx? What other options are there? Technically they could, the 787 was designed so that you could even intermix engines if you needed to. Same mounts and all that. The problem is GE wouldn't be able to build enough for the demand, and that's not even getting into contractual obligations. So the more likely scenario is Rolls making any promise they can to the regulator (who likely has a political motivation to accept those promises) to keep their certification, and making whatever promises to airlines they can to keep them sweet up to and including footing all the bills, and hoping that expense will be covered by cheap government backed loans or something (who again have political motivation to keep Rolls afloat through this brexit business).
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I am pretty sure most Trents are sold through a performance based model so yeah RR is on the hook for a lot of service work and also steep downtime penalties, and those contracts are going to be hard to break for the airlines.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I am pretty sure most Trents are sold through a performance based model so yeah RR is on the hook for a lot of service work and also steep downtime penalties, and those contracts are going to be hard to break for the airlines. Unless RR can't deliver at all.
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hobbesmaster posted:Unless RR can't deliver at all. right, but that point in time is still hundreds of millions of pounds away
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:right, but that point in time is still hundreds of millions of pounds away Which will be worth what,  in April?
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Jan 23, 2019 17:00
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Pure sex.
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Majestic even
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PhotoKirk posted:Pure sex. Inasmuch as the one on the bottom looks like an aroused version of the one on top
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Sagebrush posted:the original L-049 constellation (and its military precursor, the C-69) is an attractive, well-proportioned plane, though the triple tail is admittedly a bit weird and it would probably look better without the center fin. The long one looks better.
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computer, can I get a longer connie no, looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonger
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Jan 23, 2019 21:25
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You're all forgetting the ugliest sister.
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Ardeem posted:You're all forgetting the ugliest sister. My entire life, my image of Connies has been of an EC-121, because that's what they have at the Military Air Museum at Forbes Field. That also means, i've been inside a connie. :-)
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Lightbulb Out posted:The long one looks better. this opinion is correct
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Ardeem posted:You're all forgetting the ugliest sister. Thicc.
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vessbot posted:Doubled not halved Good god, Nitro was a terrible band.
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I grew up seeing a Super Connie @ EAA every year so I don't think anyone can convince me they're not super cool.
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PainterofCrap posted:Fight me I actually think it's a really beautiful aircraft but the quote was just too  to ignore 
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I've always liked the super connie and it has nothing to do with the fact that my grandpa flew them for TWA 
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ReelBigLizard posted:Piper Malibu went down in the waters north of the Island where I live in the English Channel. This would not be huge news but a premiership footballer was on it. His WhatsApp messages were played on the news and he was saying stuff like “I’m on a plane that sounds like it’s falling apart”. I know he’s not an expert but obvs the media are all excited about it.
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Every propeller plane sounds like it’s falling apart, to the unrefined palate.
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Youtube has been recommending me a billion short takeoff/landing videos now and I came across this one again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP-9mWqFh3c I seriously love that big ramp it has to climb before the strip.
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