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April 8, 2010 at 10:13 pm in reply to: Boeing Confirms Success on Ultimate Load Test #570988

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I was watching a test flight on flightradar24.com a few days ago. The test aircraft was at 40000ft at 565 kts. Very impressive indeed for it to be at about m0.9 its usually gulfstream territory. please correct me on my mach calculation if im wrong.

steve

April 7, 2010 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Aircraft of the WeeK:The Big & litte members..A321's & A319's #442742

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As a side note to an A321 thread I think my wife has given the A321 its first unnofical nickname. Apoligies to anyone under the age of 30 and not from the UK, but here goes. The A321 is now the ‘Dusty Bin’. With apologies to Ted Rogers.

Steve

January 16, 2010 at 11:13 pm in reply to: Second runway at London City? #488535

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Thanks guys.

Steve

January 13, 2010 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Malaga 31/12 – 1/7/10 #402527

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Unfortunatly I was only carrying a pocket-compact. The shots from the terminal were taken through grubby glass in very bad weather conditions so many didnt turn out.

Steve

January 12, 2010 at 10:09 pm in reply to: The Russians invade Salzburg! 09JAN10 #446913

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Does the overly-large tailfin of the IL96 give lie to stability problems?

Steve

January 10, 2010 at 10:21 pm in reply to: Malaga 31/12 – 1/7/10 #402533

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Return flight was with the same crew, still happy and smiling. Lots of turbulence out of Malaga saw several barfs in the cabin. The sky cleared over Northern France and over the UK so this let us see all the snow as we arrived into MAN.

AGP seems a very bust airport with lost of interesting movements. The park will be a nice place to spend a day or two spotting of you are staying local.

Hope you enjoyed

Steve.

Snaps taken with a compact camera only im afraid:

January 10, 2010 at 10:14 pm in reply to: Malaga 31/12 – 1/7/10 #402626

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Our homeward flight was on the 7th and on schedule despite the travel chaos back home. Bag Drop after online (FREE) checkin was quick, so was security. We found that the gates around C50 offered a good view across the ramp and some of the GA-Exec ramp too. Not too many shops and a quite lousy coffee shop are here. The glass was dirty in places and suffered from glare so pictures were not of a good quality.

Noted in the time we were waiting were:

PH-XRW, XRE Transavia 737s
EI-EFV, DWW Eire o’flot 737s
YR-BIC Blue 737
EC-HJI Iberia ATR72
EC-HDT, JFH Iberia A320
G-EZTK Easy A320
LN-KKR Norwegian 737
EC-HQL Vueling A320
EC-GQG Spanair MD80
VQ-BEB Global Express
EI-DVE Aer Lingus A320
EC-JCU Aeronova Sw Metro

Escaping Identity were a brace of Andalus E145s, a Jetairfly 737, Air Berling 737 and Iberia CRJ2.

January 8, 2010 at 10:15 am in reply to: Whats the worst Airline service you've had? #490991

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My worst experience was in July last year. At shannon airport at the hands of everyones favourite low-cost airline ‘Eire o’Flot’.

No ambulift despite it being pre-booked and confirmed as booked. I had to carry my wife both on disembarking and boarding at Shannon. Very dangerous, especially when using the 737s steep and narrow onboard stairs. I almost fell carrying my wife up the stairs.

Never flying with them again.

December 8, 2009 at 6:57 am in reply to: Free air show by F-15. #2407922

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A Boeing E3D being used as a high level crop-duster. Oh wow its really brightened my day. I laughed so much I nearly had to change my trousers.

December 1, 2009 at 10:07 am in reply to: Day to Malaga: 7th Nov #402686

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Josh

did you visit the small museum and viewing area in Malaga? We are heading that way in a few weeks and hope to visit them.

Steve

November 14, 2009 at 8:52 am in reply to: The last Caravelle at Manchester #509621

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Hispania were flying Caravelle charters into Manchester towards the end of the caravelles lifespan.

October 30, 2009 at 10:27 pm in reply to: F-22A Raptor has been killed !! #2445321

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So how many units from the original production run have been cut then please?

Thank your lucky stars that the F22 production run has just been cus short to save money. If this were a UK program then the whole fleet would have been chopped.

Does the US need such a high tech fighter for homeland defence currently. Maybe in 20 years when the PLAN have a true blue-water capability on a global scale and the PLAAF have a long range bomber, but is it really needed in todays current threat environment?

October 30, 2009 at 10:17 pm in reply to: F-22A Raptor has been killed !! #2445329

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Ok thanks. So now im a little confused. The F22 project has been ‘killed’. Is this relating to the production run?

Lets not forget here that the F22 is groundbreaking. Stealthy and made from composite. This has never been tried before. So it may not be the rip roaring success everyone hoped but on the plus side there must be thousands of lessons learned which will ease the F35 (unless its canned due to cost) into service.

October 30, 2009 at 10:10 pm in reply to: F-22A Raptor has been killed !! #2445339

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So back to the subject in matter.

Will the F22 be remaining in service?

If so what life expectancy does it has?

October 22, 2009 at 9:18 pm in reply to: Another ridiculous UK start-up bites the dust. #513846

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I think you’re thinking of Orion Air who I believe did a season from MAN/LGW for Thomas Cook and every flight was half a day late at best!

Barry

Orion were a well established charter carrier who flew reliably for many a year with 737 200s and 300s. Towards the end when they were merged with Britannia they flew A300s.

Are you maybe thinking of the ludicrous ‘Peach Air’ who flew clapped out Tristars from Manchester for one summer season.
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