(tommyinyork – What’s bad about the place ? )

There seems to be a lot of Germans there.

There was talk a while ago about using ducted turboprops.These would probably be much more efficient with prop blade tip sealing.
Not my subject but would this not increase the thrust.
Not sure about the noise though.

Re 727ski

Slight diversion from the thread but I could not resist.
The Trijet idea came from the Hawker Sidely Trident and was copied by Boeing as far as I remember.
Sorry

Many years ago, my wife and I were on a flight from Larnaca to Manchester aboard a British Airtours Tristar.A passenger had a heart attack over Germany so we diverted into the old Munich airport. We had to eventually disembark but we could not go through into the terminal immediately because the airport was not prepared for our arrival, and, nobody was sure if we might go back onto the aircraft.We were directed into a hangar but it had plenty of seats prepared for us. Many low life passengers were angry and complaining and swearing and saying it was disgusting.After about 30 minutes, the Captain to his great credit, came to face the angry mob.(Why they were angry I cannot explain)
The Captain told us, he was very sorry but because of an earlier delay in Manchester, the flight crew would be out of hours so he could not continue the flight.Another crew had been dispatched from Manchester so we could do nothing else but wait.There was uproar. Then after about another 30 minutes, a door opened at the back of the hangar and some ladies brought in trolleys with sandwiches and drinks.The mob attacked the trolleys filling their bags and pockets so there was not enough left for us handful of humans.I felt so ashamed to be British. But, it became worse, the loudmouths in the mob called everybody together and proclaimed they were going to phone the Sun newspaper. It was terrible. After another wait, we were informed that a meal was being prepared in the restaurant and we could leave soon. Eventually the same door at the back opened and the mob ran towards the door en-masse.My wife and I continued sitting patiently. Another lady who was obviously in charge, walked past us to the other end of the hangar from the mob, she smiled and beckoned us to follow towards another door through to the restaurant. The were mob were aghast and started running, it was so dammed funny.
The meal which was steak and vegetables was great and obviously prepared at short notice for more than 300 pax. The airport did a great job but many were complaining about food for god’s sake. We were then allowed through into the terminal. We arrived back in Manchester about 12 hours late.
These days I pretend to be a foreigner.

This should have been saved until April 1st.
Can you imagine 400 pax ejecting en masse!
Grannies,babies disabled, uncle Tom Cobley and all.
Tally Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

The Trident had the extra engine because of BEA continually changing the spec.This screwed up the design and caused many delays for the first tri-jet.

Here in Poland, the bodies of the President and his wife were flown down here to Krakow this morning in a military Casa transport plane.
I assume the aircraft flew at a very low level. The distance is about 300km.
The weather fortunately is perfect.

What if the flight had been completely full with males?
Who would they kick off the flight.
The UK is a laughing stock throughout the world.
The foreigners perception is that it is inhabited by drunks, paedophiles and men in hi-viz jackets.