Surely the intakes of a big pison engine will fall to the same problem. I wouldn’t want molten glass and silica in my car lump. My car air filter is for that, but the larger piston engines don’t have such paper filters do they? I thought they only had a mesh type (About 33swg, 0r 0.254mm).

They used to fit lage sand filters to the Spitfires and Hurrican’s flying over North Africa because of the sand. I’m sure that this stuff might have the same effect at high altitude.
Let’s not forget the pitot static systems, the air conditioning systems and all lubricated parts exposed to this sfuff.
The BBC was quoting un named industry sources saying WEDNESDAY!!!:eek:
I bet the AVP at Manchester is quiet!!!!

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Had a lovely queit day today!
The airfield was eirily quiet. No APU’s running, hardly any vehicles driving around.
I have heard that Emirates is laying on an extra flight on saturday to try and shift their backlog.

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P.S. What is a troll?

Very sad and how dreadful that it hapens when they were going to an event trying to heal old wounds. The Russians must feel awful about this.

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Remember children are our future………………………..UNLESS WE STOP THEM NOW!!!!!!!

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Sadly they lost a pilot in a 2/3rds scale P-51 during another airshow there as well.

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Have they said what “Portion” of the engine cowling it was yet?
It is a reasonably regular occurance. We some times get the airfield ops guys coming into our office with a lump of composite saying “Any idea what this is?” I make sure that it hasn’t got my airlines name on it and then deny all knowlage of it!

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Nice shots Grey. I still can’t get over the winglets on the 767. TWELVE FEET tall!!!!!!!!:eek:

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I believe the 777 had the most trouble free entry into service of any type….at least that was the Boeing hype at the time.

Er…No. Ny BA contacts tells me they had a dredful reputation within BA for the first few years and it was mainly due to the engines. They were called “The concrete queens” or “The cripple seven” for quite a while.

Further, I don’t recall the GE90 issues you refer to at all. IMHO the real reason BA switched back to RR (remember the uproar when they had the audacity to buy GE’s on the early 777 models?) was nationalistic in nature.

The reason why BA chose the GE90 in the first place was all tied in to BA’s sale of their engine overhaul buisness in South Wales.

And see what that got them: The only 777 hull loss to date has been caused by RR engines….. .

Don’t belive that;)

The aircraft now is one of the most reliable aircraft that I deal with. I have had a lot of problems with the GE90,s. It does consume oil by the crate load were as the Trent sips it. The GE90-110 as fitted to the -300ER and -200LR have had the oil consumption issue resolved. The aircraft as a whole is a little over complicated in places. They seem to have taken tried and tested ideas off other Boeings and added extra un neccessary bits to it.

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