PR BS as per usual

You mean there won’t be any gyms, casinos and indoor swimming pools? 😡 Look, there will be one airline that has a bar, and that airline currently has said bars on their 747’s and their single decker aircraft, as well.

The A380 is a massive double-decker plane with cocktail bars, billiard tables and room for more than 800 passengers.

Billiard tables? Considering there is a slight nose up attitude during cruise, how are they going to make this work? Will the legs on the back of the table be longer in order to compensate? :confused:

1) I find it remarkable that people worry about a pilot going berserk with a gun. If the pilot wanted to kill you all he’s got the perfect tool already…the aeroplane!

Hear hear! I say give the pilots guns.

So which was the airline in Airport 75 which is the one Dantheman asked about. George Kennedy was chief ground engineer Joe Patroni. By Airport 79 wasn’t he the Captain flying the Concorde aircraft?

George Kennedy was indeed the captain of the Concorde in Airport 79. He then graduated to a Catholic priest in Delta Force which was quasi-based on the TWA hijacking in ’85 from Athens. A few years later, there was a more accurate film made about the same hijacking where Lindsay Wagner, aka The Bionic Woman, played the heroic flight attendant.

Contrary to what’s been said above, Conrad Kalitta and Kalitta Air have nothing to do with Kitty Hawk. Many years ago Conrad Kalitta had an airline called Kalitta Air, later renamed American International after Conrad Kalitta got out of the airline business. Kalitta/AIA operated 747, TriStar, DC-8 and 727 freighters. American International bought out a domestic US freight operator called Kitty Hawk which operated a large fleet of 727Fs, the two airlines merged, and a new airline was created doing business under two identities – Kitty Hawk, and Kitty Hawk International. Kitty Hawk operated the 727s, whilst Kitty Hawk International operated the 747s, L10s and DC-8s. Kitty Hawk was successful but Kitty Hawk International turned out to be a bit of a disaster and resulted in the entire airline going into chapter 11. All of the long haul fleet was parked, mainly at Victoville and Mojave, but also Oscada MI where the international part of the airline had a maintenance base.

The former management of Kitty Hawk bought back the domesting part of the airline, and that’s the KHA that is now taking delivery of 737Fs, whilst the long haul airplanes remained parked. Conrad Kalitta decided to get back into airlines (I believe his son runs Kalitta Air now) and has gradually bought the AIA/Kitty Hawk Intl 747Fs from the recievers, rebuilding the business as Kalitta Air again.

So, two entirely seperate airlines again now – Kitty Hawk with 727Fs and 737Fs, and Kalitta Air owned by Conrad and operating 747Fs.

Andy

Very impressive clarification. That clears things up a bunch.

Yes it was Kalitta, but they’ve changed the name to Kitty Hawk. They have a fleet of classic 747’s and i think the DC8’s and Tristars have been put out to pasture, but don’t quote me on it

Yeah, I haven’t seen anything other than the Jumbo at LAX in recent years. The Tristars, 727’s, and DC8’s used to be rather plentiful, including the one Tristar that wore the Landor c/s sans titles. This particular 737 has a completely different scheme than the 747’s. Perhaps this is Connie’s new image?

The Russian Tu-144 “Concordski” did not survive his encounter with a mirage at Le Bourget though.

INDEED!! 😮

It looks good on all their planes. I believe this is the last of their types (along with the A319) to don the new scheme.