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Arson Daily posted:Any one know if a certain Georgia based or several Kansas based aircraft manufacturers have joined in the sanctions? Are yak-50's now in high demand by Russia's 1%? The Yak-50 was always in high demand in my heart. 
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Nebakenezzer posted:It's slowly dawning on me that so many lockouts are happening with Russian aviation that they are gonna loose the ability to fly airplanes not only out of Russia, but inside Russia as well, unless the types they fly are Russian-produced. You might want to hang on to those An-2s, guys... Mentour Pilot just did a video on this and he gave Sukhoi Superjet as an example. It is Russian made airliner and even the engines are Russian made, but still the "hot parts" of the engine come from Safran. The END of Russian Aviation!? | Mentour NOW!
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St_Ides posted:Besides the programming language, when I used to use Sabre, occasionally you’d see the raw text version of the flight info and it was an option to make it a non-smoking flight. Are there any countries that still have smoking flights? I've never actually thought about it.
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Cat Hatter posted:Are there any countries that still have smoking flights? I've never actually thought about it. Supposedly Cubana was the last airline to have them, but nixed them in 2014.
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I am not a lawyer, and my lawyer friends are fuzzy on this, but I think under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act and the Cape Town Treaty the lessors could be made whole with the frozen assets of the Central Bank of Russia, which are worth hundreds of billions of dollars and located in New York.
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I understand similar too. The Russians don't have a ton to bargain with here.
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They'll probably call the leasing companies Nazis, claim they have nuclear weapons, and try to bomb Ireland, since that's obviously working so well in Ukraine.
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azflyboy posted:They'll probably call the leasing companies Nazis, claim they have nuclear weapons, and try to bomb Ireland, since that's obviously working so well in Ukraine. Please don’t give them any ideas they might give you a field commission and get you to lead the Russian Air Force.
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Based on the satellite images of airports they’ve hit with long range weapons if they aim Dublin they’ll hit London.
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hobbesmaster posted:Based on the satellite images of airports they’ve hit with long range weapons if they aim Dublin they’ll hit London. Now you’re giving the Irish ideas!!
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priznat posted:Please don’t give them any ideas they might give you a field commission and get you to lead the Russian Air Force. Rumor has it that the VDV is looking for fresh talent.
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Do we know if any foreign flagged carriers have ac stuck in Russia?
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hobbesmaster posted:Based on the satellite images of airports they’ve hit with long range weapons if they aim Dublin they’ll hit London. I Aim for the Stars (But Sometimes I Hit London)
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Cat Hatter posted:Are there any countries that still have smoking flights? I've never actually thought about it. Aloha Airlines Flight 243
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~Coxy posted:Aloha Airlines Flight 243 
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Cat Hatter posted:Are there any countries that still have smoking flights? I've never actually thought about it. Air Koryo probably does.
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Midjack posted:Air Koryo probably does. Was non smoking when I flew on Air Koryo in 2007 Edit: do not go to North Korea Cat Hassler fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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Cat Hassler posted:Was non smoking when I flew on Air Koryo in 2007 
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Clearer pictures, it is melted in half. A few of the engines might be salvageable, given that one wing looks 'okay' and the hangar door for the factory with the unfinished airframe inside has been hit by an explosive and is partially burnt, who knows what the condition is inside. https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1499644729276960772 
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Related: somebody's trying out for the MSM, trying to dream up the best maximally doomist take: https://twitter.com/ozaed/status/1499698115242348545
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gently caress are the ruskies back there again  Yeah it's the doomiest take but some stuff legitimately couldn't be moved quickly any other way, that's a serious issue.
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They cleaned up all the destroyed Russian trucks before filming that Russian news video https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1499348790033240065?t=FUOvZ2iBa7gc-Kumxj4lCw&s=19 Sadly the plane was parked in the middle of combat
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mobby_6kl posted:gently caress are the ruskies back there again I feel like if 1980s USSR could build it someone could make a similar capability aircraft today but lol at what Boeing or Airbus would poo poo out.
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Midjack posted:I feel like if 1980s USSR could build it someone could make a similar capability aircraft today but lol at what Boeing or Airbus would poo poo out. The only reason the An-225 existed was to transport Buran. If Buran hadn’t happened, Antonov wouldn’t have built the -225. Any use of the prototype after that was simply taking advantage of an existing asset. The financial incentive to have an outsize/heavyweight airlift capacity like that simply isn’t sufficient to build a bespoke aircraft, so if Antonov can’t complete the remaining incomplete An-225 airframe that’s probably that, unfortunately.
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There's no question that someone could build another An-225 today. The A380 is nearly as large and heavy. The problem is that there appears to be a world market for about one cargo plane that large, so no company is going to tool up and make one just because. Like most of the world's greatest achievements, the An-225 only happened because it was a government project (in that case, carrying the Buran orbiter) without a profit motive. e: beaten
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This thing* can only be moved by that plane! * thing was designed specifically to be moved by that plane, which is cheap compared to the alternatives
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MrYenko posted:The only reason the An-225 existed was to transport Buran. If Buran hadn’t happened, Antonov wouldn’t have built the -225. Any use of the prototype after that was simply taking advantage of an existing asset. The financial incentive to have an outsize/heavyweight airlift capacity like that simply isn’t sufficient to build a bespoke aircraft, so if Antonov can’t complete the remaining incomplete An-225 airframe that’s probably that, unfortunately. I'm a bit more optimistic because the An-225 became a symbol of Ukrainian pride. Considering Antonov is working on a successor to the An-124, and China bought the rights to produce the An-124/225 for *their* space program, and the 225 was a cheap and cheerful expansion... Like as far as airframes like this go, chances for rebuilding are good in one form or another.
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Nebakenezzer posted:I'm a bit more optimistic because the An-225 became a symbol of Ukrainian pride. Considering Antonov is working on a successor to the An-124, and China bought the rights to produce the An-124/225 for *their* space program, and the 225 was a cheap and cheerful expansion... I agree to all of the above, with the caveat that it probably depends on the survival/condition of the second incomplete airframe.
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Why was the An-225 so big? From what I can tell, it could lift a bunch more than the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft but the Buran was lighter than the Space Shuttle? Also, now that the An-225 is no more, could the Stratolaunch pick up some of the slack if it ever progresses beyond test flights, or does the Weird poo poo the Antonov used to carry have dimensions that wouldn't fit?
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I don't think the Stratolaunch has any notable internal cargo capacity, so unless they invent some big pod that it carries on its belly, it's not all that useful for general purpose carriage. The An-225 was made the size it is because the An-124 wasn't big enough. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Sagebrush posted:I don't think the Stratolaunch has any notable internal cargo capacity, so unless they invent some big pod that it carries on its belly, it's not all that useful for general purpose carriage. They'd have to completely re-engineer Stratolaunch as while it was designed to take *off* with a big loving rocket between the fuselages, I'm pretty sure the gear wasn't designed to *land* with that same big loving rocket still attached to the airframe.
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Cat Hatter posted:Why was the An-225 so big? From what I can tell, it could lift a bunch more than the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft but the Buran was lighter than the Space Shuttle? The Soviets needed an airplane that could transport bulky components for their space program, including (but not limited to) their shuttle. It's why the An-225 had a different tail and no rear cargo ramp: its greatest lift capability was with loads it could carry externally. Previously they modified the Myasishchev M-4 bomber,, the VM-T: 
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Platystemon posted:snip Back during the Cold War, were there ever any instances of planes going down/missing on routes over the Arctic like that? Can't think of any offhand aside from the one KAL 707 that took the wrong heading and got shot down.
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Platystemon posted:<snip> Anchorage is back, baby!
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Glorious people's soviet dildo, size medium
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MrYenko posted:The only reason the An-225 existed was to transport Buran. If Buran hadn’t happened, Antonov wouldn’t have built the -225. Any use of the prototype after that was simply taking advantage of an existing asset. The financial incentive to have an outsize/heavyweight airlift capacity like that simply isn’t sufficient to build a bespoke aircraft, so if Antonov can’t complete the remaining incomplete An-225 airframe that’s probably that, unfortunately. "Americans just used a 747" And it's still cheaper because they don't have to pay Vova now?
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Reported Fuel Shortage In Moscow Prompts Korean Air To Cancel Flights Rationing jet fuel in your capital less than two weeks into a war is not great.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:They'd have to completely re-engineer Stratolaunch as while it was designed to take *off* with a big loving rocket between the fuselages, I'm pretty sure the gear wasn't designed to *land* with that same big loving rocket still attached to the airframe. Think about that for a second. You think they'd design it with no abort capability? Sounds like a lot of expensive ditched payloads.
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