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Just had a weird equipment change on a flight. I'm doing Montreal-Calgary mid April on a737 Max (Air Canada). Just checked and its now an A333, which Air Canada does have a domestic configuration, but this one is a longhaul with layflats up front. That's quite the change from a Max. Ideas to why they would go so large with more than a month to go? When I looked at out seats a couple weeks ago, I don't think it was anywhere near full.
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Maybe it's a positioning flight for that aircraft?
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Mar 12, 2023 18:11
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Todays AC319 was operated by an A333. They’ve also had a 789 on it as well in the past week. Doesn’t seem like it’s positioning as it’s returning to MTL.
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Mar 12, 2023 18:21
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Coincidentally, I am on an already scheduled A333 coming from bcn earlier in the day (a lovely 5+ hour layover in YUL), I wonder if it's the same AC. Not gonna complain though, I'd far rather have a lay flat for an almost five hour PM flight after a long day than the standard domestic business class seat. Just a pleasant surprise I found odd.
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Mar 12, 2023 18:45
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I haven’t worked at an airline long but I know enough to never assume any decision made was for a logical or well thought out reason.
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Mar 12, 2023 19:20
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Albany Class, yo I'm sorry, all of these are hideous
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Mar 12, 2023 19:26
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Bob A Feet posted:I haven’t worked at an airline long but I know enough to never assume any decision made was for a logical or well thought out reason. I think everyone knows but hearing it from a USMC osprey pilot really adds a lot of weight to the sentiment. 
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Mar 12, 2023 20:51
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Platystemon posted:
Maybe this is the "joke", maybe I don't understand the exercise, but when I take 230 away from 178 I get -52, not -32.
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Mar 13, 2023 07:29
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With the Australian papers on a "Australia will be at war with China in 3 years" coordinated drumbeat, today's Bombshell is how the Prime Minister's aircraft is actively avoiding China Airspace while flying India - Japan - USA. I thought everyone did this because the Chinese internal waypoints were so convoluted no-one wants to deal with and they just choose to go around them. I know when I flew Cathay Dragon, Hong Kong <-> Shanghai I skirted the coast all the way in both directions. Does any non-China-involved flight actually go through China ? Or does everyone try to avoid it unless they have to take off or land ?
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Mar 13, 2023 12:30
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You can overfly China, but zero clue to the regs or if it's a pain in the rear end. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ETD871
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Mar 13, 2023 14:29
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slidebite posted:You can overfly China, but zero clue to the regs or if it's a pain in the rear end. It's interesting how FlightAware yadda-yadda-yaddas the airplane's track over China. I imagine there aren't any ADSB receivers sending them information.
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Mar 13, 2023 17:01
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 https://twitter.com/LockheedMartin/status/1635026632032362497 "...acknowledged..."?
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Mar 13, 2023 17:57
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Nebakenezzer posted:I'm sorry, all of these are hideous No love for the Sam the Eagle brow?
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Mar 13, 2023 18:14
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pik_d posted:
I like to imagine that say Northrop Grumman has a secret squirrel faster jet that they’re subtweeting but Aurora or whatever would be LM as well. Maybe someone at Boeing was bragging about the X-37. Though you’d think the most effective shade there would be to call it cute .jpg) I mean just look at  vvv yes that’s the point. Boeing: we have the fastest, highest flying spy “plane”. LM: yeah well we had the fastest, highest flying real airplane hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Mar 13, 2023 |
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Mar 13, 2023 18:26
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hobbesmaster posted:I like to imagine that say Northrop Grumman has a secret squirrel faster jet that they’re subtweeting but Aurora or whatever would be LM as well. Pretty sure X37 isn't an "air-breathing jet", but rather a rocket plane that uses separate oxidizer tanks, for whatever definition of "sure" covers what the public can know about largely classified spaceplane (it doesn't look like it has air intakes, at least).
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Mar 13, 2023 18:43
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hobbesmaster posted:
oops  uwu *orbits your defense satellites*
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Mar 13, 2023 18:58
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So is the Aurora “real” in any knowable context by the public at large or just conjecture?
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Mar 14, 2023 00:49
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Nice try, Xi.
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Warbird posted:So is the Aurora “real” in any knowable context by the public at large or just conjecture? Yes, comrade, here in America we all drive them to work every day. Because we are so rich and capitalism is so great.
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Mar 14, 2023 00:57
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pik_d posted:
I thought the A-12 was acknowledged to be faster than the SR-71
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Mar 14, 2023 01:05
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Official speed records are all phrased as “speed over a recognized course” (ie New York to Paris) and the SR-71 and A-12 each hold a couple iirc
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Mar 14, 2023 01:15
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Safety Dance posted:I thought the A-12 was acknowledged to be faster than the SR-71 Official aviation speed records are a funny thing. They have to be “official” and witnessed so a completely secret project can’t hold one. Even then it’s an average speed over a course. If you look up the declassified flight manual Mne is 3.2 but really the limit is engine inlet temperature. The A-12 was lighter but engine inlet temp would still be an issue. Still, if for whatever reason the temperature was still low the A-12 could probably fly faster?
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Mar 14, 2023 01:16
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Apparently the speed in the Brian Shul story about getting shot at over Libya was ~M3.38 for a brief time. Also, the SR-71's true speed is classified for propaganda reasons as much as anything else - the Blackbird was stealthy for its time, but I'm sure the Chinese, North Koreans, Russians, and Vietnamese all have archives of what their top ground speed readouts were on them.
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Mar 14, 2023 01:25
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Apparently the speed in the Brian Shul story about getting shot at over Libya was ~M3.38 for a brief time. Note that the highest mach instruments read is not necessarily the “fastest speed”. And even then if the number a pilot/RSO saw exceeded Mne and whatever the “real” standard procedures were they probably just didn’t say anything like in that stall story.
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Mar 14, 2023 01:32
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Warbird posted:So is the Aurora “real” in any knowable context by the public at large or just conjecture? Anyone who knows for sure won't say and anyone who says for sure won't know.
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Mar 14, 2023 01:46
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Just add it to War Thunder and the answer will come out soon enough.
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Mar 14, 2023 02:13
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Apparently the speed in the Brian Shul story about getting shot at over Libya was ~M3.38 for a brief time. The earliest genesis of the blackbird was actually CIA asking Lockheed what it would take to design a stealth aircraft and Kelly Johnson et al going “welllll, we can do x and y and z to get the signature way down, but really the best defense would be speed + altitude.” Some aspects of the program ended up having internal Lockheed project number 2001 because Kelly Johnson was confident that it would be totally immune to interception until that year. Blackbird ended up having a radar cross section of about 10 sq m fwiw
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Mar 14, 2023 04:31
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Warbird posted:So is the Aurora “real” in any knowable context by the public at large or just conjecture? Aurora is totally real. It was the code name for the program to develop what became the B-2. In 1985 the name was accidentally included in a Pentagon budget and leaked to the media, and aviation nuts made their best guesses as to what it could be. They associated it with reports of black triangular aircraft flying around Nevada, and assumed it was an advanced successor to the SR-71, the only well-known black triangular aircraft at the time. 3 years later the F-117 and B-2 would both be publicly revealed, and the black triangles suddenly made sense and everything fell into place for those paying attention. But the popular myth of Aurora as a hypersonic reconnaissance plane never totally went away.
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Mar 14, 2023 09:38
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Getting unnecessarily annoyed at using the tag "RealTopGun" to describe a plane that has nothing to do with TOPGUN.
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Mar 14, 2023 10:28
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"Aurora in flight" from C&C Generals is burned into my brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fZekJ3Bujc&t=28s
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Mar 14, 2023 14:15
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Warbird posted:So is the Aurora “real” in any knowable context by the public at large or just conjecture? are hvha and hypersonic glide test systems real? yeah and there's a bunch that have been manufactured in public production for years
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Mar 14, 2023 14:44
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Oh for sure, and I don’t really expect anything concrete until it gets added to War Thunder and someone wants to prove a point. It was always weird to me seeing it in the version of Jane’s USAF or whatever a million years ago so I didn’t know if it was some open secret or something to that tune.
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Mar 14, 2023 15:19
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After aviation week flew a Cessna over the B-2 reveal they seemed to get a bit full of themselves in the early 90s:
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Safety Dance posted:I thought the A-12 was acknowledged to be faster than the SR-71 Ok here are the official blackbird FAI records (I had forgot it was actually a Kedlock aircraft that did the A-12 ones too) “YF-12A records” posted:Absolute altitude: 80,257.86 ft “SR-71 records” posted:Sept 1974, tail no 61-17972 (Preserved @ Udvar-Hazy)
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hobbesmaster posted:After aviation week flew a Cessna over the B-2 reveal they seemed to get a bit full of themselves in the early 90s: Ah yeah, like when they misheard some Pentagon dude talking about a "Tier Three" program, all of a sudden the Northrop TR-3 was the new hotness for a couple years. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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quote:video https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/14/russian-fighter-jet-collides-us-drone-black-sea-crash
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Mar 15, 2023 00:46
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Lmao what is the environmentally sound way to operate a Su-27
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Mar 15, 2023 02:31
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Spending your fuel budget of vodka and not flying.
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Germanwings: Environmentally Unsound HAZMAT Disposal
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Xenoborg posted:Spending your fuel budget of vodka and not flying. Hmm Su-27 internal fuel capacity = 11975 l * .778 usd / l jet-a price = $9316.55 Russian standard vodka is… $15 / l, let’s say? So not counting drop tanks or liquor taxes you’re looking at ~620 l of vodka per full-range Su-27 flight not taken According to this brewery 30,000 lbs of potatoes yields 450 l of vodka, so 620 l would take about 41100 lbs of potato, which is maybe a little more than the yield of a mature acre of potato crop land per growing season according to cursory research This study says 251 kg CO2 eq./t potato harvested so 41100 lbs = 20.55 t = 5158 kg C02 emissions per Su-27-flight-vodka-potato-equivalent 
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