The air above the wing has to travel further so the pressure drops

That pressure tries to equalise as air rushes upward to fill the void sucking the wing upwards with it

The wing is not so much lifted but sucked up.

The same is used on chimney were slots in a pot accelerate the wind through, lowering the pressure and sucking the smoke up and out.

A fast fighter can fly upside down as a projectile at speed naturally fies without conventional lift…like a thrown stone.

It could not take off upside down.

The faster the aircraft the less curve there is on the top of the wing.

The same effect can be achieved with a high angle of attack causing the longer up surface travel relative to the bottom. This is why Concorde had such a high nose up on landing and take off (it had no flaps) and why a slow flying aeroplane always flies nose up at the lowest speeds it can remain airborne.

This way a high speed wing can fly at lower speed using AoA to maintain lift.

But you need a certain amout of speed to get the air flowing and the effect to work hence the take off run.

I don’t see why airlines should pay compensation for this sort of thing…or weather delays

It’s not their doing..

Passengers should just accept this sort of thing can happen…delays caused by things outside of anybodies control.

OK so a lot of people lost a lot by missing flights, but it was not the airlines fault.

One point of interest here is that Boeing themselves considered the NG sufficiently different to warrant a restart of the build number sequence. Almost as if they wanted to drive a division between the NG and the earlier versions saying, yep..it is a 737 and much better…all new, does the same job better but is totally different.

Maybe the max will restart too.

The whole comparison thing is a pointless exercise as the current state of the World dictates the usefulness of any item and that has changed many times since.

Most “DC 3” were really C-47, but the civil version sold well. Not as many as some modern types, but in the hundreds when production runs for airlines were sometimes in single figures and 50 would have been a good run,

To compare numbers of DC3 against 737’s is a bit like comparing the top scoring American football team with the top scoring Rugby team…just numbers that mean nothing.

American did paint them in the old livery in a way as they were lacquered, so a sort of transparent weight.

i have read many times that any weight saving was cancelled by upkeep costs and the chemicals used didn’t save the environment as folk assumed.

this is not too bad for a modern livery and better than the bare metal that went past it’s sell by date with the advent of plastic parts on aeroplanes, something that will only increase.

One thing I don’t like is the subtle tones in the tail colour blocks that make it look like another coat of paint is needed.

I certainly did and would love to see more:cool:

Thank you

It’s a Isle of Man registration and belongs to Global Jets Austria.

Ryanair will not be buying anymore 737 after the present commitment

Ryanair Atlantic was palnned a few years back as an expensive buisiness class full service alternate but has been shelved until the economy improves.

They are looking to the Chinese for their next fleet.

Virgin will not have A.340’s but they will have A.330’s and possibly A.350 BA will still be using 777’s some of which are still to be delivered.

Truth is I wouldn’t like to say who will be arround in what form this time next year let alone ten years

Not forgetting of course Stellios is forming a rival for easyJet