Whoosh - The Airplane and Airline Thread

[OJTheAviator]

1 minute ago, GDRRiley said:

no. the F4 gets that award

Agreed if you add 18 to that and actually mean F22

[handymanshandle]

11 minutes ago, YellowJersey said:

JAS-39 Gripen is best fighter.

I don't really pay too much attention to military ACs but the B-2 Spirit, B-29 Super Fortress, and what you just said lol, also the new F35s are pretty cool. Oh and the C-17.

[handymanshandle]

Just now, Nowak said:

you think about how delta was the first and last MD-90 operator

it's rather sad.
Hopefully someone will pick a few of them up for something and preserve them and maybe keep some flying

[GDRRiley]

Just now, OJTheAviator said:

Agreed if you add 18 to that and actually mean F22

you are funny. F4 get is to me because of how versatile it was. interceptor, bomber, wild weasel, recon. land and carrier based

[Nowak]

1 minute ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

it's rather sad.
Hopefully someone will pick a few of them up for something and preserve them and maybe keep some flying

Maybe Boeing or whomstever can run a freighter conversion program? There are a few DC-9 and MD-80 freighters out there.

 

If a 51 year old DC-9 can haul cargo, so can a 25 year old MD-90.

[handymanshandle]

What I love most about the C-17 is the way the T-Tail looks, it seem very heavily based off the DC-9 family's T-Tail

[handymanshandle]

also look at all the dust lol

 

I wonder how high the risk for FOD is even with a high mounted engine

[GDRRiley]

Just now, pinksnowbirdie said:

 wonder how high the risk for FOD is even with a high mounted engine

it is a lot better. kinda a theme in us heavy lift aircraft

[Nowak]

You wanna know what else is sad?

There's only one operational L-1011 in the world, N140SC "Stargazer".

[handymanshandle]

Still maintain that Straight through trijets are better than S ducted trijets even if the S duct has some benefits

[OJTheAviator]

20 minutes ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

Still maintain that Straight through trijets are better than S ducted trijets even if the S duct has some benefits

Hmm. I don't know about that. But to each their own

[YellowJersey]

4 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

no. the F4 gets that award

We really are never going to agree on anything, are we?

 

[GDRRiley]

10 hours ago, YellowJersey said:

We really are never going to agree on anything, are we?

dual pixel AF is cool?

[YellowJersey]

38 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

dual pixel AF is cool?

I mean, it's okay :P

[handymanshandle]

neat, in theory a 757 could fly to Japan with just a stop in Anchorage for fuel from Huntsville lol

that doesn't really account for winds aloft or any ETOPS restrictions but assume for a private jet configured 757 with an extra fuel tank it probably would be fine lol

 

I would imagine winds, and ETOPS are why we don't see 757s flying from Honolulu to Narita lol
Although it might be possible, I mean Delta flies their 757s from Seattle to Honolulu lol

[handymanshandle]

I mean, right now flights to Huntsville AL are pretty cheap but I wished they'd be just a smidge cheaper and same for lodging lol

[handymanshandle]

41 minutes ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

I mean, right now flights to Huntsville AL are pretty cheap but I wished they'd be just a smidge cheaper and same for lodging lol

I think that's what I'd imagine my airline focusing on, medium sized cities that don't have direct flights to larger cities across the US with A220s but then also try and snatch up some market share in bigger destinations with A320/A321 and either A330neos or A350s.

[GDRRiley]

2 minutes ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

I think that's what I'd imagine my airline focusing on, medium sized cities that don't have direct flights to larger cities across the US with A220s but then also try and snatch up some market share in bigger destinations with A320/A321 and either A330neos or A350s.

so hub and spoke but with coverage aimed at under served

[handymanshandle]

12 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

so hub and spoke but with coverage aimed at under served

basically lol

 

Because cities like Huntsville, which specifically the two biggest cities Huntsville has flights with jets to are Denver and Atlanta and maybe Detroit, Charlotte, Houston, Chicago but aside from Denver for some flights and Atlanta those are on smaller regional jets. Denver has some flights to Huntsville served by those regional planes but Frontier flies A319s to there, and Delta flies the 717 to there from Atlanta.

[handymanshandle]

5 minutes ago, Kaloob said:

I'd put a hub at BWI since you get to offer flights to a population center while using an undeserved airport (well, at least on the international side of things).

yeah IAD or BWI or DCA which ever was cheaper to land at

[handymanshandle]

Just now, Kaloob said:

IAD gets plenty of flights, same as DCA. I'd imagine BWI is cheaper than either, defiantly DCA because of its prime location.

While BWI gets the most flights in the region, they're like all WN, and again, there are low amounts of international flights.

and another idea that could be floated around for that airline is the bigger airports that the airline serves, it would have international flights with either A330s and A350s as I mentioned lol

the A330 I think would be more optimal for training purposes but I can't imagine the A350 being that much harder for an A320 pilot to get used to

[handymanshandle]

4 minutes ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

and another idea that could be floated around for that airline is the bigger airports that the airline serves, it would have international flights with either A330s and A350s as I mentioned lol

the A330 I think would be more optimal for training purposes but I can't imagine the A350 being that much harder for an A320 pilot to get used to

https://leehamnews.com/2015/06/01/airbus-a350-cockpit-compared-to-a320a330/

this article seems to explain that the differences aren't too difficult to understand although the A380 and A350 have more commonality apparently

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/news/en/2014/10/the-common-type-rating-is-approved-for-a350-xwb-and-a330-pilot-training.html

[GDRRiley]

Just now, Kaloob said:

Well, BWI would be a good airport for international lol

still think its hilarious my local OAK has some international flights almost every other goes to SFO/SJC

[handymanshandle]

1 hour ago, GDRRiley said:

still think its hilarious my local OAK has some international flights almost every other goes to SFO/SJC

Minneapolis is a pretty big hub for Delta but that's because of their purchase of Northwest at the end of the 2000s.

 

but it'd be cool to have more cities in the US better connected with direct flights to larger cities and interconnect some of those smaller cities with each other with at least once a week flights but depending on demand it could be a couple times a week.

[handymanshandle]