Whoosh - The Airplane and Airline Thread

[GDRRiley]

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

You mean 7878? Technically it should have 747400 to commemorate the 747-400, but good luck posting that much. 7478 is proper though since they did call it the dash 8 instead of the dash 800.

boeing I asusme did a name charge in the early 200s. no more -x00 instead -x

[sora.sky]

If I recall correctly, Boeing's aircraft number nomenclature changed with the arrival of the 787 to no longer include customer codes. You can see that with airlines that have older Boeing airplanes and new deliveries of the same type on flight tracking websites, ie United's 777-222s being one of the first built in the 90s to just a plain 777-300ER that they accepted this year.

 

In other news, looks like 737 MAX will be given the go ahead to fly by the year's end by the American regulators. The top boss at the FAA personally flew the 737 MAX 7 earlier this week. The European and Canadian regulators have stated likewise for a timeline. 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 hour ago, sora.sky said:

If I recall correctly, Boeing's aircraft number nomenclature changed with the arrival of the 787 to no longer include customer codes. You can see that with airlines that have older Boeing airplanes and new deliveries of the same type on flight tracking websites, ie United's 777-222s being one of the first built in the 90s to just a plain 777-300ER that they accepted this year.

Yep, it was the 787 that they stopped with the customer codes. Interesting you mentioned United because all of CX's 77Ws are still marked as 777-367ER, even the newest of the bunch. 

1 hour ago, sora.sky said:

In other news, looks like 737 MAX will be given the go ahead to fly by the year's end by the American regulators. The top boss at the FAA personally flew the 737 MAX 7 earlier this week. The European and Canadian regulators have stated likewise for a timeline. 

Yea Boeing actually sent a MAX 7 test unit to Vancouver a few weeks ago for some test flights here for Transport Canada and the EASA.

 

[greenhorn]

12 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

lol thats funny

no reach 787800

Why not set more sophisticated goals? Like reaching B747 (in hex, which corresponds to 46919) for example? Even the "puny" A220 would amount to 41504 posts. And let's not even talk about the old F100 (Fokker 100, amounts to 61696).

[Trik'Stari]

3 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Yep, it was the 787 that they stopped with the customer codes. Interesting you mentioned United because all of CX's 77Ws are still marked as 777-367ER, even the newest of the bunch. 

Yea Boeing actually sent a MAX 7 test unit to Vancouver a few weeks ago for some test flights here for Transport Canada and the EASA.

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Did they fix the issue where it would autopilot nose-dive into the ground?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

 

 

Uh oh...

 

Edit: 

*smug face*

[straight_stewie]

On 10/1/2020 at 4:17 AM, Trik'Stari said:

Did they fix the issue where it would autopilot nose-dive into the ground?

The FAA just now finalized their list of requirements for return-to-service. Well, just now as in "last month".

https://www.faa.gov/news/media/attachments/19_035n-R3-8-3-20.pdf

 

Just to be clear, the government approved verbiage for "autopilot nose-dive into the ground" is:

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a single erroneously high AOA sensor input is received by the flight control system, the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS) 8 can command repeated airplane nose-down trim of the horizontal stabilizer. This unsafe condition, if not addressed, could cause the flightcrew to have difficulty controlling the airplane, and lead to excessive airplane nose-down attitude, significant altitude loss, and impact with terrain.

 

[Trik'Stari]

9 hours ago, straight_stewie said:

The FAA just now finalized their list of requirements for return-to-service. Well, just now as in "last month".

https://www.faa.gov/news/media/attachments/19_035n-R3-8-3-20.pdf

 

Just to be clear, the government approved verbiage for "autopilot nose-dive into the ground" is:

 

The ability of Bureaucracy to gloss over horrific events using simple verbiage never ceases to amaze me.