Dosen’t look like I’m going to be able to get time off Work to join you (Weekends are not easiest to get off at the Pub…), after all, what with already taking time off later this Month for a trip Home.

Even though this was posted weeks ago, I just noticed it, YAAAARR!!! :mad:. Good lookin’ out though, Bhoy :). Is Celtic going to surpass Rangers and pull off the double?

P.S. I actually have already flown on 757 with a UA flight number (US flight from PHL-LAX) with those ‘other’ engines you guys love. 😮

I too have flown on a US 757, only I was put on it by BA as my original flight with them was cancelled (this was back in the days of USAir being BA’s North American partner [’97])

As for the double… ask me in three weeks when I emerge from the Loo. 🙁

A320-214
2 for the generation
1 for the engine choise
4 for the general cabin layout

almost, but not quite…

2 is obviously the type (ie -200)
1 is the engine manufacturer (0 is GE, 1 is CFM, 2 is P&W, 3 is IAE and 4 is RR)
4 is the actual model of engine (thus eg. TCX’s A320-214’s have CFM56-5B4/P engines, while BA’s A320-211’s have simpler CFM56-5 engines)

surely SQ wouldn’t want to take custom away from their own offshoots on the LHR-JFK route? (ie SQ own 49% of Virgin)

there’s something missing here…

AA30 left LAX last night (the seventh) at 11:30pm; now, considering the timezone LA is in, that means it was only scheduled to leave an hour and a half ago… So how come everyone already has arrival times for it?

Scheduled arrival at JFK is 7:47am EDT (3 and three quarter hours hence), with AA142 scheduled to leave JFK at 8:30am EDT, getting him back to Heathrow tonight at 8:15pm BST.

nah, you can tell by the size of the engines… deffo MD80 series; I’d say an MD87?

BMW started out with making Aero engines before Cars.

From the BMW website History section…

BMW is set up in Munich during World War 1 as the successor to Rapp Motoren-Werke, an aircraft engine plant founded in 1913, and becomes a plc in 1918. Its first product is the IIIa aircraft engine containing Max Friz’s altitude carburettor, which, in comparison to rival products, greatly decreases loss of performance at high altitude.

In fact, the IIIa engine powered the Red Baron’s biplane.

Whether or not they still make Aero engines in their own right is debatable, though…

Aisle seats are better than being sandwiched in the middle in my book. Still rather have the window, mind.