This is a South Arabian Federation, then South Yemen Air Force …….

The most embarrasing thing about this was that I lived in Aden for two years!!!! 😮 Mind you I was only three/four at the time. Interesting picture non the less.

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Manchester is known for its beutiful weather so it is the first port of call for a lot of diversions! Seriously though the airport routinely handles 747’s so it has the capacity and facilitys for bad days. This was only a fuel stop (Splash and dash) but if this one had to stay we would have to deal with 300+ pax. Most airports would struggle to cope. Some airfield wouldn’t have steps high enough to get on board!.

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The A340-600 has an incredible range with a normal passenger fit. I wonder what it is with a (possibly) lighter exec fit? I also wonder if they have fitted more fuel tanks in the freight bays? What would it’s range be then?

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Is there any reason why you don’t just go to the next level down? I know tht there appears to be netting across the “windows” but you could still poke your lenses through it.

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Hi Coanda.

If we’re being brutally honest, any cabin crew worth their salt would ensure the safety of the majority of passengers in an incident rather than risking time to physically manhandle a non mobile passenger out of a burning cabin.

Thats why they put disabled passengers as FAR away as possible from the emergency exits. Brutal but true

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It also nicely dispels the myth that an Airbus can’t fly with unpowered flight control computers (in fact it just becomes a conventional aircraft). Also nicely shows that despite being fly by wire the aircraft is inherently stable unlike most military applications on FBW.

The RAT, when deployed powers the green hydraulic system. The green hyd system powers a Hydraulic motor driven generator. The HMG provides electrical power to various systems, the flight control system being one of them. Therefore the flight control computers were powered, without power to them the pilot would not have been able to move the flying control surfaces.

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Engines and the cowlings are designed to contain fan blades should they ‘let go’ – imagine a red hot fan blade going through the engine (at enormous speed) and into the fuselage. ouch.

The fan case is designed to contain a blade off situation but the cowls are not. The fan case is made of steel or titanium and, in some cases is wrapped in carbon fibre. The Cowls are made of composite honeycombe and light alloy and have little or no containment ability.
The fan blades are in the “cool” bit of the engine and should not be red hot. The turbines are hot and do cause an imense abount of damage when the “Let go”, just ask American Airlines at LAX!

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