nJayMSounded a great 20 mins but it is restricted by copyright to OZ viewers only
Thought you guys might like to view this excellent presentation from Aussie TV.
Make yourselves comfortable as it goes for about 20 minutes.
http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/741699
Enjoy
Hi Deskpilot
Thanks for the URL but it appears that for copyright reasons the viewing of this video is restricted to OZ.
nJayMI am not sure if you will find a single source but these are worth looking at
Not sure if this is the the right forum for this topic, or even if it’s suitable for the board. Apologies if it isn’t.
I’m looking for recommendations as to the single best ‘bible’ on Concorde around, covering the aircraft in detail from inception to retirement in terms of politics, engineering, commercial history, Air France 4590, etc. Bonus points for glossy presentation and coverage of Tu-144.
I understand that looking for a single source attending in some depth to all the various perspectives might be pushing it, but this would be a gift and handing over a bundle of books seems less gift-like and more like I robbed a library. 😀
Thanks in advance for any recommendations.
I am not sure if you will find a single source but these are worth looking at
http://www.concordesst.com/books.html
Also see French BAE for all the reports (English and French versions) on the crash at Gonesse of Concorde. Tragic though it was there are some great technical aspects within the reports.
Good luck in your quest
nJayMYes the madness of high capacity ‘cattle truck’ configurations
….. The A380 can of course hold up to 850 passengers, has anybody actually done that yet? 565ish seems to be the common configuration as far as I’ve read. I sit to be corrected on that.
Imagine 850 pairs of sweaty feet on a long haul! It will smell like a maggot factory…..
Hi PeeDee
In fact this URL talks of 656 to 960 pax – ‘cattle truck style’ http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/airbus_a380.pl
“Future variants may include an A380-900 stretch seating about 656 passengers (or up to 960 passengers in an all economy configuration)”
There was some outfit in the ME region that showed interest in 3 of the highest capacity version. It appeared to be possibly providing a solution for shifting ‘slave’ labour to points of need for heavy manual labour and for possibly periods within temporary visa regulations (or until the poor souls died). I guess a desert airstrip with a tarmac runway but no terminal buildings – none to be seen – why bother in such situations of exploitation, a large marquee would do. In fact at the time it was a configuration of ‘lean to’ or ‘standing seats’ (of MO’L dreams and Chinese fame). The greed that arises around the word ‘globalisation’.
nJayMThanks for clarifying this – new wing with profiled/blended ‘winglet’
……When you design the wing from scratch, the whole Wing can be designed to facilitate the spanwise airflow required to remove the need for a Blended Winglet as per the older Boeings. If you look closely, it actually has a winglet, but it is so gentle a curve it hardly shows.
Dreamliner and NightmareLiner (A350) has the same type of integral winglet.
Hi PeeDee
Thanks for clarifying this – new wing with profiled/blended ‘winglet’.
Yes so it does – found a pic that shows it (similar to 787 Dreamliner/A350) http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.makesandmodels.com/images/June2008/Boeing%2520747-8%2520Intercontinental/Boeing-747-8-Intercontinental-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.makesandmodels.com/Boeing-747-8-Intercontinental.php&h=1900&w=2459&sz=200&tbnid=YRxRH9xYRSqocM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpic%2Bof%2Bnew%2B747-8%2Bintercontinental&zoom=1&q=pic+of+new+747-8+intercontinental&usg=__M3fJPfUz-NSQaRo4Amf9XiBPBkg=&sa=X&ei=YWGITYqfOYeXhQePtvGsDg&ved=0CCIQ9QEwAA
nJayMThere’s room in the competitive world for both A-380 and 747-8
There is room in the competitive world for both A-380 and Boeing 747-8
Fleets have a choice, the competition reduces complacency on a possible monopoly and passengers get I hope a better choice on long haul routes.
nJayMBeautiful, superb inaugural colours and what a 1st flight
Beautiful, superb inaugural colours and what a 1st flight
The post flight press conference was also extremely interesting to watch and listen to.
Captain Mark Feuerstein Chief Test Pilot 747 programme covered many interesting aspects in response to questions from journalists including –
– descriptions of stall testing – down to 105 knots
– full rudder – forward flight – equivalent to the airplane flying ‘sideways’
– all mods on the freighter were incorporated in today’s 747-8 Intercontinetal aircraft and were tested successfully
Summed up by the VP as “2011 the year of the 747”
Great pedigree and years of service ahead. Let’s raise a glass and toast the original ‘jumbo’.
One question I have for the technically more informed, new wing design, why no ‘winglets’ ?
nJayMNo lockers are premium rate on ‘racehorsemanure’ airline – more like under seat
Next time maybe she should try Ryan Air, they charge for putting kids in lockers!
No lockers are premium rate on ‘racehorsemanure’ airline.
More like under seat (what no I am forgetting – no seats on ‘racehorsemanure’ airline- the standing kind have no real ‘under’ …).
Toilets are also premium rate so maybe in the hold to freeze to death and then a premium charge for keeping corpse at ambient cool temp.
All in days work for ‘racehorsemanure’ airline.:D
nJayMClassic shot from across the ‘pond’
Whilst trawling the murk depths of the internet for the puposes of research, you understand;), I found this.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=356356
Rgds Cking
Classic shot from across the ‘pond’. Thanks for sharing.
Apologies for digressing but that freight train engine/s could be trundling along with over a hundred fuel/’gasoline’ ‘cars’ in tow.
I used to count the ‘cars’ when I would go walking in the US and they stretched for miles. You could get through a chapter of a book waiting at a crossing until the entire train passed.
When speaking with some responsible friends in church about the risk of some lunatic attaching a device to it and getting an accomplice to detonate it once it was in a city centre marshalling yard on en route. I was re-assured that there was a camera on the rear ‘car’ – balderdash – the usual American hype and smug attitude “lightning never strikes twice”.
What would one camera see?
nJayMThis is stupendous !!!!!!!!
Here’s another one which is similarly amazing 🙂
This is stupendous !!!!!!!!
Thanks for sharing.
nJayMOkay but your post seemed lost even to a search I carried out before my thread
Already posted : Military Aviation News From Around The World – VII – #187
Okay but your post seemed lost even to a search I carried out before my thread
nJayMThis is progressing through crash investigation and Israeli expertise called for
This is progressing through crash investigation and Israeli expertise being possibly called for
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_11/Mar03_1299159253KA.php “The SLAF also expects to summon officials of the Israel Aircraft Industries as well if necessary for the investigation.”
nJayMIMO the terrorists win only when we the public stop flying
Far from it, my view is the minute you started to introduce all of this stuff, you instantly lost the war against terrorism, they had achieved their goal.
IMO the terrorists win only when we the public stop flying
Lockerbie (we surely did not tighten up enough) and then most recently the catastrophe of 9/11. Sick minds will only get sicker. Jewish people haven’t stopped using El-Al nor have sensible people reduced their air travel purely due to the risk of terrorism (current economic reasons excluding).
Commercial airlines aren’t the only targets but the overwhelming increase of cybercrime on the internet is where many terrorist organisations engage in a constant disruptive campaign against society.
Sadly many of us lament the lack of walk on board and fly BA shuttles between Edinburgh or Glasgow and London Heathrow but we still fly.
nJayMYou have to see both sides of the argument though
Hi Symon,
I totally agree with you in that enhanced security at airports is an absolute must in the current world of ‘crazies’ we live in.
Yes it adds time, cost and can be embarrassing to some only in the way some in-discrete security personnel carry out their job (it’s become a ‘Jobs Worth’):rolleyes:. The watching public/passengers do not all realise it is a random check and the passenger being searched may feel that they become in the eyes of fellow passengers a suspect terrorist/criminal.
The solution is not to remove the random checks but to find an impartial (a-sexual) way of doing the pat downs. Why not instead consider a humanoid robot developed a little further than some of the Japanese ones ( e,g. Honda ASIMO http://asimo.honda.com/ )
Two years ago I saw ASIMO (perform faultlessly) at the McEwan Hall at the University of Edinburgh and it sure was impressive to the point of asking why it has taken so long in developing?
A little further development and maybe we have an a-sexual random security check humanoid robot.:cool:
A tad more effective than ‘Holograms’ of security staff at Manchester Airport
nJayMThat is incredible luck to have been on that Commercial flight
Listening to the audio, it was a scheduled commercial airline flight… you can hear the pilot on the intercom telling the passengers that now they shouldn’t complain about their flight being behind schedule.
Hi Bager1968
That is incredible luck to have been on that Commercial flight
Anyone that complained about any change of course or schedule would be a ‘kill joy’ of undescribable proportions.
Thanks for posting the video is a keepsake.
nJayMAwesome
Aerial view of Shuttle Discovery’s last launch:
Awesome. 😎
Does anyone know if it was an intentional/routine filming or simply a brilliant coincidence ?
Pity it’s Discovery’s last mission.
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