RE: The GE90-115B!

I read a report on this a couple of months back. If I remember rightly there is 9 inches clearance so they don’t start it up until they get lined up on the runway (otherwise too much foreign object ingestion while taxiing). They take off using the 3 original engines and the GE90 at idle otherwise the thrust would be too asymetric and unmanageable.

RE: Aurigny confirms the wet-lease of BAe146-200

Very interesting news. I hope it spurs the company on in that direction. However I worry that Aurigny are not aggressive enough in their marketing to sustain a 146 through the leaner periods.
You have to wonder whether this experience combined with a possible withdrawal by BA could mean that Aurigny are starting to think big.

RE: Pic Of The Day-New AF confrence room!

‘Air France find a new place to put striking pilots!’

RE: Quiz!

767-300 has a bumper but the 767-200 doesn’t.
757-300 has a bumper but the 757-200 doesn’t.

It sure looks like a bumper on that 727 although I didn’t know they were fitted to that type. I’ve also see 737-400’s and 800’s fitted with a different type of device which I’m told is a tail bumper.

On the 757-300 and 767-300 we have a fourth undercarriage green light which tells us if the tail bumper has deployed when the gear is selected down. We also get a message on the center screens if we touch the back end closely followed by a P45 in your pigeon hole. A properly flown rotation (according to Boeing) leaves just 12 inches between the ground and $85 million dollars of aeroplane!

RE: Two Airlines Apply For Cockpit Guns .

Yes absolutely. If the pilot is part of the plot you can forget it right from the start. He doesn’t need anyone else in the passenger cabin or even a gun. He can keep everyone else out already because of the new doors and all he has to do is bash the other guy over the bonce with the crash axe. So let’s put this one to bed.

On the subject of pyrotechnics. Andrew, If they can get pyro’s on board they can get their own weapons on board. You would prefer to be on a flight where if they breached the cockpit the flightcrew were unable to resist would you? Reread my earlier post – If the weapon is in the flightdeck at the start it can’t be used to gain entry. Your argument isn’t against a weapon in the flightdeck it’s a statement about locked doors.

RE: Hadj again!

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 24-01-03 AT 07:48 AM (GMT)]Both of these are off to Beirut for a month to do a spot of Hadj work. It’s a wet lease just lasting a month so they won’t be gone for long. Don’t know if you remember me saying I was lying low because I didn’t want to go to Beirut? Well it turned out to just be an Airbus thing after all. Phew!

RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !

Thanks everybody, this is really quite interesting. Isn’t that the same engine that was used in the F70 and F100? Was it used in anything else?

RE: Boeing 727 Flies Into History !

Ahhh I see. But I don’t think the engine upgrade could have been the Olympus as that is the engine used in the Concorde!!!