Agree with that all.... Automation is great but there are some situations where I'd love a human in charge of something especially an airline full of people.
Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?
- Thread starter { Emilia }
- Start date
a small company in Australia is also doing a booming business in aircraft storage during the pandemic as Alice Springs makes a nice dry location for aircraft storage.
Normally has about 18 aircraft but currently has 44 and there could be upto 100 by the end of the air year.
Just wish there were more pics. Can see 1 Singapore A380 and there are a pile of 737 (going by the winglets probably -800s).
Can't make out the others (think some are 777s).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07...-storage-during-coronavirus-pandemic/12510356
Also came across this video on a D check being carried out on a BA 747 (which is now sitting in a bone yard in Spain).
Just a pity about the audio mix.
Normally has about 18 aircraft but currently has 44 and there could be upto 100 by the end of the air year.
Just wish there were more pics. Can see 1 Singapore A380 and there are a pile of 737 (going by the winglets probably -800s).
Can't make out the others (think some are 777s).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07...-storage-during-coronavirus-pandemic/12510356
Also came across this video on a D check being carried out on a BA 747 (which is now sitting in a bone yard in Spain).
Just a pity about the audio mix.
Last edited:
I really like both the XB-70 and the A-10. 
I also like this chopper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_Tiger
I also like this chopper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_Tiger
They actually retrieved the third one from a boneyard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_B-57_Canberra
The Air Force has been trying to kill it.
There is a “film” called Grunts In The Sky that the USAF tried to stifle.
XB-70 probably inspired an animated airplane I once saw in the 70’s cartoon called THE YOUNG SENTINELS (aka The Space Sentinels).
Following it's review on the issues with the 737-MAX, the FAA has mandated that Boeing will need to make 4 design changes as part of the process for the aircraft to return to service.
They're a mixture of software, training and physical design. The last could be the hard one. Some of the wiring bundles will need changes to improve routing which should be straightforward on any new aircraft but for completed units it could be a real headache.
https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/...ey-boeing-737-max-design-200803184001069.html
They're a mixture of software, training and physical design. The last could be the hard one. Some of the wiring bundles will need changes to improve routing which should be straightforward on any new aircraft but for completed units it could be a real headache.
https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/...ey-boeing-737-max-design-200803184001069.html
I've been looking at UT Arlington's online photo archive (mostly from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, I think). Some cool stuff there.
American, Delta and Braniff DC-2s and -3s and a Lockheed Model 10 (I think) at some Texas airport in the early WW2 period (not all the photos are well identified).
American, Delta and National Douglases and Convairs at an unidentified airport, 1950s.
The giant Lockheed R6V makes a stop at Love Field in 1949. Notice "Your Navy -- Air and Sea" on the fuselage: This was the period when the post-war carrier program had been canceled and the future of naval air was still in question, so a publicity tour by the largest operational airplane in the world seemed in order.
American, Delta and Braniff DC-2s and -3s and a Lockheed Model 10 (I think) at some Texas airport in the early WW2 period (not all the photos are well identified).
American, Delta and National Douglases and Convairs at an unidentified airport, 1950s.
The giant Lockheed R6V makes a stop at Love Field in 1949. Notice "Your Navy -- Air and Sea" on the fuselage: This was the period when the post-war carrier program had been canceled and the future of naval air was still in question, so a publicity tour by the largest operational airplane in the world seemed in order.
have to wonder how air travel would have gone if the R6Vs had worked. Wiki says the engines were underpowered but doesn't indicate whether that was an engine issue or the aircraft was heavier than planned.
Airlines weren't ready for a plane that big as I would expect that most airports couldn't easily handle it. Add the cooling and power issues and ... that's the end of that.
so it would be the A380 of the 1950s
Pretty much. The only really large passenger aircraft prior to that were the flying boats like the Pan Am Clippers. Those were quite massive but, had an almost unlimited landing strip to work with - the ocean!
That thing is big. You do have to wonder if that one had become more modern and evolved a bit more what it would have become or what a later model would have looked like.
The basic design would have become obsolete within a very few years anyway, since jet propulsion was starting to develop quickly during the 1950's.
I suspect it would have had a short production run and then been replaced by - basically what we actually got in the 1950's onward.
I suspect it would have had a short production run and then been replaced by - basically what we actually got in the 1950's onward.
Lockheed was really counting on turboprops but none were ready in time. I think Pan Am was grasping for something that would keep their pre-war reputation for the biggest and most luxurious planes, but with the greater efficiency of land planes and without the expensive network of seaplane bases. There were a lot more long runways after WW2, but facilities for a plane that big would have also been expensive, and after the war more passengers at lower fares worked better than Pan Am's pre-war high-fare exclusive model.
