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I'm guessing it was go with Airbus or buy the MAXSpirit Airlines buys 100 Airbuses, 50 more options ()
A bit of a surprise, considering the tariff dispute between the US and the EU.
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Spirit's fleet is entirely Airbus already. The second maintenance line for another manufacturer's aircraft alone would've rendered that a bad investment.
But I'm really curious as to how this will turn out in the end. It could be another DC-10 story, but I think that the 24-hour news cycle will actually aid Boeing's recovery. Twenty years ago, the MAX-scandal would've stuck in people's memories for years. Nowadays, there's just too much to process for them.
But I'm really curious as to how this will turn out in the end. It could be another DC-10 story, but I think that the 24-hour news cycle will actually aid Boeing's recovery. Twenty years ago, the MAX-scandal would've stuck in people's memories for years. Nowadays, there's just too much to process for them.
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EASA certifies BelugaXL outsize cargo aircraft (
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The BelugaXL, which has a maximum range of 2,200 nautical miles with a capacity of 111,000 lbs (empty: 6,500 nmi), is now officially the aircraft with the biggest cargo hold in active service. It accomodates two fully assembled A350 wings.
How those things manage to stay airborne I'll never know.
)The BelugaXL, which has a maximum range of 2,200 nautical miles with a capacity of 111,000 lbs (empty: 6,500 nmi), is now officially the aircraft with the biggest cargo hold in active service. It accomodates two fully assembled A350 wings.
How those things manage to stay airborne I'll never know.
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Why isn't this getting more coverage than the political trench warfare in the impeachement hearings?
I'm genuinely shocked and would've never expected a company like Boeing to be that reckless. "Mistakes"? No, they just trusted everything would go well in the end, just so they didn't have to sell a few planes less. That they had let this happen in the first place is bad enough, but the fact they didn't pull the ripcord after the first crash is astonishing. They knowingly let millions of people fly in aircraft they had to know weren't safe, 157 of which are now dead.
It's like Ford's Pinto scandal had never happened.
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Well after Singapore Airlines, Air France is calling it quits on the A380.
Never liked it Anyways.
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Never liked it Anyways.
Air France Retires First Airbus A380 - SamChui.com
Earlier today, an Air France Airbus A380, registered as F-HPJB, flew from Paris to Malta after arrived from Johannesburg, preparing for retirement.
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Right now, I'm able to track two police helicopters circling the neighbourhood via their ADS-B signals over at Radarbox24. Gotta admit this comes as a surprise. Doesn't that give the bad guys a massive advantage?
Have you ever been on one? Smoothest flight experience I've ever head.
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Normally they shouldn`t appear as they have asked Flightradar24 to mask government aircraft.
Don`t know about Radarbox24 though never tried it.
And I agree the A380 is a very comfy ride. The travel experience also depends on the respectable airline and how they manage boarding service etc.
Don`t know about Radarbox24 though never tried it.
And I agree the A380 is a very comfy ride. The travel experience also depends on the respectable airline and how they manage boarding service etc.
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It's the most comfortable plane I've ever been on. I hate long travels, even a mere hour in an autobus is enough to really get on my nerves, so I'd feel the difference. The cabin is very spacious and quiet, and you barely notice the thing's moving. And since no airline uses the plane to its 800-odd capacity, even the cattle class on the A380 is more roomy and comfortable than the business class in a smaller airplane.
It's a pity really this aircraft came about a decade too late. But I actually think the A380 could eventually find itself on a career trajectory akin to that of the Boeing 717. Although a commercial failure back in the day, airlines now overbid the original price to get their hands on a used 717. Should the concept of packing as many passengers as possible into an aircraft become modern again, so could the A380.
It's a pity really this aircraft came about a decade too late. But I actually think the A380 could eventually find itself on a career trajectory akin to that of the Boeing 717. Although a commercial failure back in the day, airlines now overbid the original price to get their hands on a used 717. Should the concept of packing as many passengers as possible into an aircraft become modern again, so could the A380.
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FAA Projected MCAS Could Cause 15 More Max Crashes
House of Representatives Transportation Committee chairman Rep. Peter DeFazio on Wednesday called for a commitment by FAA administrator Stephen Dickson to investigate why the agency did not ground the 737 Max when its own analysis performed after the October 2018 crash of Lion Air Flight 610 projected as many as 15 more fatal accidents over the model’s service life if its flight control problem went uncorrected. Speaking during the fifth transportation committee hearing on the twin crashes of the 737 Max that claimed 346 lives, DeFazio further noted that the FAA also reached the conclusion that 99 out of 100 flight crews could comply with the airworthiness directive and successfully react within 10 seconds to the “cacophony” of alarms and alerts recounted in the NTSB report of the Lion Air crash.
“Such an assumption we know now was tragically wrong,” he said. “Despite its own calculations, the FAA rolled the dice on the safety of the traveling public and let the Max continue to fly until Boeing could overhaul its MCAS software. Tragically, the FAA’s analysis, which never saw the light of day beyond the closed doors of the FAA and Boeing, was correct.”
Following the October 29 crash of the Lion Air Max, the FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive giving pilots of Boeing 737 Max 8s and Max 9s procedures to follow in the event of runaway horizontal trim caused by faulty angle-of-attack inputs to the airplane’s flight control system. The AD came a day after Boeing issued an operations manual bulletin in response to investigators’ findings that the Lion Air 737 Max 8 that crashed into the Java Sea on October 29 experienced erroneous input from one of the sensors. According to the AD, an analysis performed by Boeing showed the defect could lead to repeated nose-down trim commands of the horizontal stabilizer, thereby compromising aircraft controllability and leading to excessive nose-down attitude, “significant” altitude loss, and, ultimately, a crash. While the directive required a revision to the chapters in the airplane flight manual dedicated to certificate limitations and operating procedures for addressing runaway stabilizer, it did not mention the system implicated in both the Lion Air and March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crashes by name.
“The FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive that purported to inform pilots on how to respond to an erroneous activation of MCAS while actually never mentioning the system by name,” said DeFazio. “In fact, during the certification of the 737 Max Boeing actively pushed the FAA to remove references to MCAS from the flight crew operating manual, as revealed in the emails and instant messages from Boeing executive Mark Forkner.”
For his part, Dickson noted that he began his tenure at the FAA after the agency performed the analysis while expressing a desire “to advocate for [his] people.”
“The FAA is a data-driven organization...With all due respect, any indication that any level of accidents is acceptable in any analysis is not reflective of the 45,000 dedicated professionals at the FAA...The reason that we have the safest airspace in the world has been through decades of developing data systems and decision-making tools that will allow us to make the best decisions and prioritize in the interest of safety.”
House of Representatives Transportation Committee chairman Rep. Peter DeFazio on Wednesday called for a commitment by FAA administrator Stephen Dickson to investigate why the agency did not ground the 737 Max when its own analysis performed after the October 2018 crash of Lion Air Flight 610 projected as many as 15 more fatal accidents over the model’s service life if its flight control problem went uncorrected. Speaking during the fifth transportation committee hearing on the twin crashes of the 737 Max that claimed 346 lives, DeFazio further noted that the FAA also reached the conclusion that 99 out of 100 flight crews could comply with the airworthiness directive and successfully react within 10 seconds to the “cacophony” of alarms and alerts recounted in the NTSB report of the Lion Air crash.
“Such an assumption we know now was tragically wrong,” he said. “Despite its own calculations, the FAA rolled the dice on the safety of the traveling public and let the Max continue to fly until Boeing could overhaul its MCAS software. Tragically, the FAA’s analysis, which never saw the light of day beyond the closed doors of the FAA and Boeing, was correct.”
Following the October 29 crash of the Lion Air Max, the FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive giving pilots of Boeing 737 Max 8s and Max 9s procedures to follow in the event of runaway horizontal trim caused by faulty angle-of-attack inputs to the airplane’s flight control system. The AD came a day after Boeing issued an operations manual bulletin in response to investigators’ findings that the Lion Air 737 Max 8 that crashed into the Java Sea on October 29 experienced erroneous input from one of the sensors. According to the AD, an analysis performed by Boeing showed the defect could lead to repeated nose-down trim commands of the horizontal stabilizer, thereby compromising aircraft controllability and leading to excessive nose-down attitude, “significant” altitude loss, and, ultimately, a crash. While the directive required a revision to the chapters in the airplane flight manual dedicated to certificate limitations and operating procedures for addressing runaway stabilizer, it did not mention the system implicated in both the Lion Air and March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crashes by name.
“The FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive that purported to inform pilots on how to respond to an erroneous activation of MCAS while actually never mentioning the system by name,” said DeFazio. “In fact, during the certification of the 737 Max Boeing actively pushed the FAA to remove references to MCAS from the flight crew operating manual, as revealed in the emails and instant messages from Boeing executive Mark Forkner.”
For his part, Dickson noted that he began his tenure at the FAA after the agency performed the analysis while expressing a desire “to advocate for [his] people.”
“The FAA is a data-driven organization...With all due respect, any indication that any level of accidents is acceptable in any analysis is not reflective of the 45,000 dedicated professionals at the FAA...The reason that we have the safest airspace in the world has been through decades of developing data systems and decision-making tools that will allow us to make the best decisions and prioritize in the interest of safety.”
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Jesus Christ.
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Random question for the nerds out there - can any of you think of a civilian delta winged aircraft produced more recently than Concorde? I imagine Burt Rutan has may have made some wacky (But awesome) prototypes, but I can't come up with anything else.
Anyone?
Anyone?
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Does the Beechcraft Starship qualify as a delta wing aircraft?
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Honestly not sure if it counts - small wing area and canards. Oddly enough, I was trying to remember the name of the Rutan VariEze because that's a similar configuration and all I could remember was "it killed John Denver!".
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The 737 MAX makes headlines again...This airplane is going to get a worse reputation than the DC10...which is fair since the worst DC10 crashes were human errors.
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'Designed by clowns': Boeing messages raise serious questions about 737 Max
Internal communications from April 2017 show employees referring to plane’s ‘piss poor design’
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