RE: Easyjet enigma

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 25-11-02 AT 11:39 PM (GMT)]This is purely a stab in the dark but…
French air traffic are talikng about striking at the moment, so if I was returning to Gatwick, Luton or Liverpool from Malaga, Madrid, Barcelona or Alicante I would flight plan up towards Santiago, contact Shanwick on HF for Oceanic entry clearance and fly up Tango 9 about 200 miles west of the coast of France. About 150 miles west of Landsend you can hang a right turn for home. It’s a pain in the backside but this is what we do most times our neighbouring snail-munchers go on strike (apologies to Hand!). It could be that EZY had a medical emergency while doing this.

RE: Some very, very nice pictures to finish of the week with!

Yes, the cost is a bit of a sore point amongst the employees.

RE: Blended Wing-My Analysis!

If supply demands it the rules can be changed. The current rules are a convenience to our current airports. Who says Boeing will start with a massive design? There are ways round all these problems, eg folding wingtips, etc. Airports are not the issue or the problem here, they are easily solved. Everyone said it would be impossible to taxi a 747 from an apron to a runway and back and they even built a rig to try it!

Just to keep things down to earth I must say that yes it will probably be a non-starter but what I do want to get across is that (in my opinion unlike the sonic cruiser) this is an idea worthy of investment and worth researching. We are very guilty both in this forum and in the world at large of saying ‘this is how we do things now so this is how it will always be’. There will be change in the aviation industry, remember how radical Concorde was in its day.

It doesn’t seem that long ago when I was a very lonely voice saying I thought easyJet would choose Airbus over Boeing…

RE: Airliner Art: Fantasy Airliners/Airliner schemes

Here’s what the future may hold for Saab 2000
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RE: Blended Wing-My Analysis!

Hang on a minute, didn’t airport stands have to be redesigned to accommodate the 747? Why can’t it be done again. There is a lot of merit in the flying wing concept as the entire aircraft is dedicated to producing lift. After all a fuselage just stops the tail end from overtaking the front end, contributes rather little towards total lift and acts as a passenger storage bin. Why have all that drag when you can carry payload in the wing structure. Tail surfaces create drag as well so let’s bin those. In olden days (when Northrop were developing flying wings) they had to use reflex aerofoils (curved up at the trailing edge) in order to maintain longitudinal stability. These aerofoils were inefficient and countered a lot of the benefits of having a flying wing in the first place, however with modern military style fly by wire (ie to stabilise an unstable platform) you could make the flying wing very efficient indeed.

RE: Blended Wing-My Analysis!

I think this is a very interesting concept. With regard to the lack of windows, there has been talk for years about building aircraft with no windows and projecting the current outside view onto the aircraft interior. I also think it is very sensible of Boeing to aim this initially at the military. After all that is what they did with the 747 before it became a civilian success.

RE: Need info and quick pls!

I can’t remember which way round it is but 1 is supposed to give slightly better performance at low level and the other is better at cruise levels. There are many other differences but this was the principle one I was told when I asked a bus pilot (driver?).

RE: Scottish Airports receive £6 million boost

I delivered an empty 757-200 from LGW to GLA about 6 weeks ago, that was the last time I was there. We had stunning sunset views fromover the Lake District of the Isle Of Man, Northern Ireland, Northumberand, Cumbria, Borders and most of southern Scotland.
By the way, my brother used to fly G-BIKB a few years ago.