Whoosh - The Airplane and Airline Thread

[Amazonsucks]

3 hours ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

Yea lol the A380 ain't a looker but it's a pretty good intercontinental/transatlantic people mover lol

And the whole double decker thing is cool.

I could imagine a more premium airline adding like some kinda entertainment stuff upstairs as I imagine they'd be doing really long haul flights. Like anywhere in western Europe to somewhere on the US West coast or maybe even Hawaii. If it had fewer people on board.

Not a huge fan of the 757 but I mean DJT owns one and I mean Trump Force One doesn't look too bad. 

Heh

He made the boring 757 great again!

[LienusLateTips]

5 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

You could argue something like their various 737 variants are "competitors", but I'm sure lobbying does a good job of securing your financial future.

They should bring something like the MD-95 717 back again.

YES. 

 

 

#717MasterRace

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

11 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Simple: to protect what Boeing makes. Every political entity does it, (trust me, neither Canada nor the European Union are clean in this regard) it's just something countries do to help domestic manufacturers.

It's just that Boeing is probably the only one that makes a big deal when competitors benefit. 

[PlayStation 2]

3 hours ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

Yea lol the A380 ain't a looker but it's a pretty good intercontinental/transatlantic people mover lol

And the whole double decker thing is cool.

I could imagine a more premium airline adding like some kinda entertainment stuff upstairs as I imagine they'd be doing really long haul flights. Like anywhere in western Europe to somewhere on the US West coast or maybe even Hawaii. If it had fewer people on board.

Not a huge fan of the 757 but I mean DJT owns one and I mean Trump Force One doesn't look too bad. 

Heh

MAKE THE 757 GREAT AGAIN

But in all seriousness, it's one of the most boring ass jets ever made. Even the 787 and the A340 are more remarkable.

[PlayStation 2]

15 minutes ago, LienusLateTips said:

YES. 

 

 

#717MasterRace

That's honestly what I really miss, the regional jet segment that was popular with major airlines at one point. I mean you have the CRJ shit that's with American, but that really isn't the same as a jet not unlike the DC-9 line.

Delta still flies MD-88s and 717s, but that's about the only major American airliner to do so.

[LienusLateTips]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

That's honestly what I really miss, the regional jet segment that was popular with major airlines at one point. I mean you have the CRJ shit that's with American, but that really isn't the same as a jet not unlike the DC-9 line.

Delta still flies MD-88s and 717s, but that's about the only major American airliner to do so.

Aren't the 717s getting replaced by the CSeries?

 

 

(Thank you Delta for more Canadian jobs)

[PlayStation 2]

3 minutes ago, LienusLateTips said:

Aren't the 717s getting replaced by the CSeries?

 

 

(Thank you Delta for more Canadian jobs)

I believe the MD-88s are. Delta's only had the 717s for a few years by this point, and they'll probably fly the fuck out of them until, my guess is the late 2020s.

And even then, I bet once they get rid of the 717s they're going to end up with used jets.

[PlayStation 2]

On a somewhat different topic, the Douglas DC-8 and the Boeing 707 are sexy ass jets.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

On a somewhat different topic, the Douglas DC-8 and the Boeing 707 are sexy ass jets.

"Mine's bigger than yours"

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

"Mine's bigger than yours"

Honestly, it's a little funny that Airbus went with multiple engines with the A340. I'm gonna guess that it was just a bit too early to really have two engines.

Then again McDonnell Douglas thought that trijets were the future. As much as I love the DC-10 and the MD-11, the MD-11 was just pointless in the face of the rising widebody two-engined jets.

[handymanshandle]

42 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

That's honestly what I really miss, the regional jet segment that was popular with major airlines at one point. I mean you have the CRJ shit that's with American, but that really isn't the same as a jet not unlike the DC-9 line.

Delta still flies MD-88s and 717s, but that's about the only major American airliner to do so.

Yeah, I really wanna see American switch up it's CRJs with the A220. Just the interior, at least how airBaltic has it. Is so bright and clean. It is weird though, the 3-2 seating arrangement.

Let's just say, I wished American wouldn't fly CRJs from CLT to HSV. I wished they still had MD-80s in service to do that route.

 

Which is why I may consider getting an AAdvantage CC eventually but I could see myself flying more on Delta (american's program is better tho and MasterCard vs Amex) just because I'd rather go from ATL to HSV on a 717 or MD-88 lol

[Shreyas1]

Wanna hear a plane joke?

 

Spoiler

Nah, it would probably go over your head

 

[handymanshandle]

1 hour ago, LienusLateTips said:

Aren't the 717s getting replaced by the CSeries?

 

 

(Thank you Delta for more Canadian jobs)

eh there's a good chance that whatever Delta ordered that hasn't been made yet. Will be made at Airbus's FAL in Mobile, AL

[Crunchy Dragon]

12 hours ago, Amazonsucks said:

The Concorde is my favorite civilian aircraft. Too bad that we've regressed back to subsonic only transport

The Concorde's last crash was fatal enough to let it be grounded.

 

Plus, it could only really fly supersonic over the oceans, and likely didn't bring enough ROI to airlines flying it. That thing used as much fuel taxiing from the gate to the runway as the average car does in a year.

 

Not cheap to fly.

[handymanshandle]

8 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

The Concorde's last crash was fatal enough to let it be grounded.

 

Plus, it could only really fly supersonic over the oceans, and likely didn't bring enough ROI to airlines flying it. That thing used as much fuel taxiing from the gate to the runway as the average car does in a year.

 

Not cheap to fly.

Well and Boeing and I forget who else did a study for their SST project and found that people don't generally like frequent sonic booms...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

Well and Boeing and I forget who else did a study for their SST project and found that people don't generally like frequent sonic booms...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

They could shatter windows and cause other damage from what I've read about it, which is why the Concorde couldn't fly supersonic over populated areas.

[Amazonsucks]

17 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

The Concorde's last crash was fatal enough to let it be grounded.

 

Plus, it could only really fly supersonic over the oceans, and likely didn't bring enough ROI to airlines flying it. That thing used as much fuel taxiing from the gate to the runway as the average car does in a year.

 

Not cheap to fly.

Its last crash?

 

You mean its ONLY crash which was a combination of improper maintenance(literally left a part off the landing gear) and overloading the plane, then eating a landing light before losing control and not really a design safety issue?

 

Good things are rarely cheap. The Space Shuttle turbopump could drain a pool in a matter of seconds. Still a good engine.

[handymanshandle]

4 minutes ago, Amazonsucks said:

Its last crash?

 

You mean its ONLY crash which was a combination of improper maintenance and overloading the plane, the eating a landing light and not really a design safety issue?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Accidents_and_incidents

Eh tbf there were other incidents but yeah it was the only fatal accident involving the airplane.

[Dissitesuxba11s]

Here we have a wild C5 Galaxy about to devour a wounded H53. 

[Amazonsucks]

5 minutes ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Accidents_and_incidents

Eh tbf there were other incidents but yeah it was the only fatal accident involving the airplane.

And those failures were tire issues or improper maintenence as well. The Concordes tires did have issues but otherwise it was a very safe and overengineered plane.

[PlayStation 2]

The smaller DC-9s are honestly cute. But they are incredibly loud.

[handymanshandle]

23 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

The smaller DC-9s are honestly cute. But they are incredibly loud.

Issa baby plane hehe

[GDRRiley]

1 hour ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

Well and Boeing and I forget who else did a study for their SST project and found that people don't generally like frequent sonic booms...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

those are fairly loud tho, NASA is working right now on testing how to reduce the sound.

 

1 hour ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Here we have a wild C5 Galaxy about to devour a wounded H53. 

C5s do that so well.

[Dissitesuxba11s]

7 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

C5s do that so well.

FYI there was maximum of 6 inches of clearance when it was finally in the C5.

[Eduard the weeb]

14 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Simple: to protect what Boeing makes. Every political entity does it, (trust me, neither Canada nor the European Union are clean in this regard) it's just something countries do to help domestic manufacturers.

but multiple airlines have said Boeing doesn't have an equivalent to the Bombardier C series planes and Boeing won't have anything to compare to mid to late 2020's.