The first photo is China Airlines

Let’s see what airlines have the RR powered 747-400’s. BA, CX, QF, NZ, and South African. That’s not a huge chunk, infact NZ AND QF have GE powered 747-400’s. If the RR RB-211 is such a great engine, why isn’t it offered for the 747-400ER? You can only get a GE engine. But I can tell you this, I sure know the difference in sound of all 3 engines. This is due to the fact that I was a ramper working for a POS company at LAX, I would work in the BA bag room, when we heard those RR enigines we knew the bird was here, sometimes a QF would throw us a curveball.

The A340 -200 & -300 have CFM engines with 38,000 lbs thrust each. That’s a 737 engine powering a big boy like that. What were the (SC)Airbus engine engineers thinking? They weren’t!!

I love this aircraft, but it reminds me of a flying cigar. I’ve flown on it, very smooth a/c.

I will look those up, thanx.

I witnessed it when I was a ramper at LAX, I worked for a company that serviced BA, PR, KE, CX, JL, LT, AS, NCA, CX Cargo. When we finished offloading the cargo & baggage from the a/c the Line Mechanics had their ladders out up to the CFM engines on the A340-300 Pouring in the oil in each engine. The reason why it used so much oil is the fact that those engines spin at a higher RPM, thereby burning the oil.

That is correct. If VN was gonna join any alliance, it should be in oneworld, I believe it’s due to the fact that they codeshare some of the HKG-Saigon routes with CX. It would be very nice to see that bird come here to LAX.

The movie braveheart twists what did happen during that time, another thing any of you scotsman out there should know that Tartans weren’t around during William Wallaces time. The movie Pearl Harbor changed history, the Battle of Brittain was well over by January 1941. Shouldn’t our AAC have had P-40C’s not P-40E’s? Have any of you Scots & Brits seen the movie “A Bridge Too Far”? That whole planning was Monty’s. Great planning on his part, that whole operation was a huge failier. Operation Market Garden. How about the movie Patton?