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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:34 pm

From their perspective, we're the snobs. You get in a plane almost anywhere in Europe, and fly for two hours, you might cross half a dozen international borders into countries that all have their own languages. To them, that's normal. But I can get in a plane in San Diego and fly for two hours north and still be in California. And until 9/11 you didn't need a passport to cross the only two international land borders we have, or enter and return from many of our hemispheric neighbors.

Although - to absolutely no one's surprise - once Europeans were allowed to cross internal EU borders without passports, issuance rates declined. And - also to absolutely no one's surprise - once US citizens needed passports to travel to the most local international destinations, our issuance rates skyrocketed from sub-10% in the 90s to over 40% today. It's..... it's almost as if those data points are.... connected.

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Postby Shyster » Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:55 pm

It's also a relatively recent thing where any sort of travel credential (whether full passport or passport card) was needed to get into either Canada or Mexico. So US citizens didn't even need passports to get to/from the two countries that actually border the United States. We took a family trip to Toronto back in the early '90s to see Phantom of the Opera, and thinking back I'm not sure the border workers either way at the Peace Bridge even asked my mother for her driver's license.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:46 am

The A350XWB flight deck is just gorgeous.

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:46 pm

Jet Airways plane turns back after passengers suffer nose, ear bleeds
A Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Jaipur was forced to turn back Thursday after around 30 passengers complained of nose and ear bleeds due to low pressure in the cabin.

"The B737 aircraft, with 166 guests and 5 crew landed normally in Mumbai," Jet Airways said in a statement. "All guests were deplaned safely and taken to the terminal. First aid was administered to few guests who complained of ear pain, bleeding nose etc."

"During climb, crew forgot to select bleed switch due to which cabin pressurization could not be maintained, and oxygen masks got deployed," the official said.
Oof.

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Postby dodint » Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:49 pm

'bleed switch'

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:50 pm

What they should have done is flipped the non-bleed switch.

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Postby Shyster » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:15 pm

That Jet Airways report doesn't quite add up, or maybe something is being lost in translation. According to FlightAware, the maximum altitude was only something like 11,000 feet, and an unpressurized climb to that altitude shouldn't have caused anyone's noses or ears to suddenly start bleeding. People can fly at that altitude without oxygen or pressurization. The FAA's regulations, for example, only start requiring supplemental oxygen at 12,500 feet, and that's only if you will be at or over that altitude for more then 30 minutes. You don't need constant supplemental oxygen until 14,000 feet. Neither did the flight climb or descend particularly quickly. And I believe the pressurization system being in the "off" position is something that would sound a warning. Rather than taking off without the pressurization system on, I think it's more likely that something happened to rapidly depressurize the aircraft.

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Sep 23, 2018 3:39 pm

This looks like a fun landing attempt:

Air France Airbus @ Birmingham

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Postby Shyster » Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:07 pm

World's first Boeing 777 retires to Arizona air museum
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cath ... index.html

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Postby Shyster » Tue Sep 25, 2018 9:31 pm

It's a good thing there was good visibility at Dulles on September 17. United 326 was told to line up on runway 19C and wait for "multiple aircraft crossing the runway in front of you." But ATC then cleared United 326 for takeoff, seemingly forgot that he did just issued the clearance, and then proceeded to clear two other aircraft to cross 19C. United 326 fortunately saw one of the aircraft on the runway and rejected the takeoff.


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Postby NTP66 » Fri Sep 28, 2018 7:41 am

Plane crashes into Chuuk lagoon
Four people were seriously injured after a flight from Pohnpei crashed into a lagoon while attempting to land at the airport in Weno, Chuuk, Friday morning, according to officials and witnesses.

Within an hour of the crash, the plane sank in the lagoon, but not before all aboard were safely on shore, Colson and other witnesses said.

Jaynes said he believed that the plane hit a retaining wall and bounced back, landing in the lagoon.

"It's just surreal. I thought we landed hard until I looked over and saw a hole in the side of the plane and water was coming in, and I thought, well, this is not like the way it's supposed to happen," he said.

"We came in low, we came in very low. Unfortunately, the flight attendants panicked, and started yelling, and I was trying to be calm and help as best as I could," Jaynes said.

Jaynes said he was told the plane hit the end of the runway.

"That's the only scenario I can imagine. But we ended up back away from the end of the retaining wall," he said.

The plane was attempting to land on runway 4, the airport manager said. Instead, it crashed in the lagoon and ended up about 160 yards from the runway, Emilio said.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:40 am

Pohnpei... Weno.... Chuuk....

Did this accident happen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:04 pm

Well, the landing was a success, so it's safe to say that it certainly wasn't DC.

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Postby Shyster » Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:12 pm

It's not clear whether the aircraft overran the runway and ended up in the water or came down short of the runway in the water. The island does have a fairly short runway, and the folks at airliners.net say that this route is usually flown by a smaller aircraft (a Fokker F70) but was up-gauged to the 737 because the other aircraft wasn't available for some reason.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:20 pm

The video includes a caption that says the aircraft overran the runway, but the Wiki page cites to stories that state it came down short of the runway. The aircraft is pointed away from shore in the video, but it's really far off for it to have been an overrun. Don't know what to make of it.

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Postby Shyster » Fri Sep 28, 2018 2:11 pm

This weeks marks the 50th anniversary of the rollout of the first Boeing 747.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2018092 ... -the-world

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Sep 28, 2018 2:17 pm

That kind of makes me sad. Our house sits about three miles or so from SFO and just north of the departure corridor certain flights take on climbout. (Noise abatement procedures limit peninsula crossings to certain times of day, and it's only around 10% of daily departing traffic.) These past few months I've been able to do a bit of plane spotting; I think they're down to around three seven-fours a day, all foreign carriers.

There's a run of three A380s every day around 4-5 pm, that's always fun to watch. Because I hate the A380 and I like to point at them and laugh. "Ha ha ha," I say.

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Sat Sep 29, 2018 6:23 pm

Nice 747 retrospective photo essay. Had not seen many of these photos.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/ ... n-pictures

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Postby Shyster » Tue Oct 02, 2018 4:39 pm

Beech King Air suffers gear collapse and belly landing at Las Vegas.


Most of the audio is the rerouting of other aircraft from the incident runway. One of the aircraft that has to go around is Janet 787. "Janet" is the callsign for the top-secret government airline used to ferry workers to and from Area 51, among other secret missions.

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Postby Shyster » Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:56 am

Delta's first Airbus A220 has started its test flights:



Scheduled A220 flights are supposed to start Q1 2019. Delta supposedly will initially use the new A220s to replace Embraer 175s and Bombardier CRJ900s on the airline's longer-haul "long and thin" Delta Connection flights. Some of the flights mentioned were flights from NYC to Texas, such as LGA to DFW or IAH, which are currently operated by Delta Connection E-170s or E-175s.

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:54 am

Does AA specifically train their gate agents to say “con-see-air key?”

It’s not possible that they all can’t pronounce “concierge,” right?

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:35 am

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This aircraft is not Nazi vintage, it's just painted as such. It's a SNJ-5 painted in German colors, from Condor Squadron. We used to see them flying around our neighborhood all the time in Encino. Thankfully they never crashed into our house.

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Oct 25, 2018 7:20 am

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:11 pm

Lol, that plane crashed right on the 101...I'm sure commuters loved that.

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