If you want to adopt me, please send $50,000 to my address. HE HE HE HE 😀

Don’t sell yourself short. I think we could get twice that. 😀

We had a Loganair Islander pilot come to out primary school when I was about ten years old. He gave us a talk about flying and showed us some pictures on a slideshow. He even organised a trip round the airport for us.

I’ve only had the opportunity to do this for 1 group of kids but it was a lot of fun. After I gave my little presentation they asked me questions for what seemed like forever. Pretty sharp group of young minds. I had a bunch of airline junk (rulers, posters, pens, etc.) to hand out which made their day.

The teacher told me afterwards she was thrilled by my involvement and that this was the most excited the kids had gotten over any presenter. I guess for 2 weeks they had a different professional come in and talk about their job. For some reason the architect, lawyer, etc. drew nothing but blank stares. That’s one thing about the aviation biz, it sure captures the attention/imagination of the younger folks.

Is this the same FAA that allowed a certain 747 operator to ferry one of their aircraft, with only 3 engines physically attached to the wing, due to cracks being found on the engine mounts?

Aircraft are often ferried with failed systems but the important difference between those flights and this BA flight is that passengers are not allowed to fly on ferry flights. Not to mention that a mechanic must insure that the failed system are secured.

There is definitely a political angle here and a good way of showing this is that the FAA (as do many organisations) have a double standard on certain issues when it is convenient to them.

I guess I don’t see a double standard as the “problem” that the FAA had with the flight wasn’t that there was a 3 engine aircraft flying but that an aircraft was flying after an engine was shutdown. As others have said this was very poor airmanship which the FAA and other national aviation administrations frown upon.

This has very little to do with how many engines the aircraft has.

If they don’t need 4 engines then why don’t they have only 2 or 3?

The only none American types (or American build) is the Hawk! – Oh yea and now the new Merlin helos!

What about:

Dassault HU-25A Guardian

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/674305/M/

Aerospatiale HH-65A Dolphin

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/684405/M/

De Havilland Canada UV-18A Twin Otter

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/729580/M/

De Havilland Canada C-7A Caribou

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/578177/M/

Embraer R-99

(ordered but not delivered yet so no pictures available in US markings)

Shorts C-23B Sherpa

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/671528/M/

I’m sure there are others but those are what I could come up with off the top of my head.

I’m sure we’ll see a EMB-170/190BJ in the future.