LOL!

Who do you fly for wysiwyg? Is it Virgin? I have to say I have seen some Virgin female cabin crew that would not be out of place on a catwalk. Wow! 😀

I’ve flown only twice and it’s a great aircraft to fly on!

I presume the interiors of later models were revamped? The (Thompson) a/c I flew on had a very 80s feel to it, with those box TV monitors attached to the ceiling, and that old fashion big red buttons for calling the cabin attendants.

Does anyone know if the fuel tanks were suppossed to be full? If the test flight was scheduled to flight up to 5 hours, and including the reserve fuel it would have carried, they would have been 50%-60% full at least.

Add the 20-odd tons of equipment and you have a fairly heavy plane by all accounts.

And it still took off effortlessly and quickly… brilliant 🙂

Anyways, don’t forget my country of birth Spain, proud supplier of the vertical tail and wingbox (IIRC).

I’m no scientist but I guess is to do with the velocity at which the impact takes place. The higher the speed, the smaller the weight/mass required to produce a certain amount of damage. At nearly 500mph even a very small bird impact causes tremendous force.

For the same reason, even speckles of loose paint weighing only a few grams and other such debris that orbit the Earth the can puncture the skin of the space shuttle or the ISS, due to their travelling at 28,000 mph.

It flies……. Boeing Sells …..237 787 at the moment

And that point of that is?

Nice turn!

Incidentally the BBC News feed is about 30 seconds ahead of the other one.

I think it’s turning to prepare for final approach and landing.

All I can see on the Airbus feed is a plume of smoke, not the best thing to show really…

I saw that too and for a moment my heart stopped! But I’m seeing the bird descending now 🙂