The General Airplane Thread

[Carlos]

Yeah, probably. They shake turbulence.

Anyways, I just got back home on a flight from PIT-ATL and noticed the guy who came and sat beside me was looking at the KC-46 on the airliners forums, I stuck up a conversation with him and found out he flies KC-10's. I mentioned to him as you said it has the 400's glass cockpit and he thought it was the 787's cockpit they were putting in it.

Such a strange aircraft this one...

We also cloud surfed while coming into Atlanta and I have a picture or so of it. A bit of a wing effect (whatever it's called when condensation builds up because of high pressure...) on one of them.

I said both hehe

differing by combining the -200ER fuselage, -300F wing, gear, cargo and floor, -400ER digital flightdeck and flaps, uprated engines, and six generation fly-by-wire fuel delivery boom. However in 2008 the DoD chose the KC-30 over the KC-767. This led Boeing to protest and started a campaign. The Air Force was forced to reopen the tanker contract. In late 2008 the Defence Department canceled the whole thing. The new round was in late 2009, the Air Force announced the selection of KC-767 in February 2011. It was now called the KC-767 NewGen Tanker, based on the 767-200 with an improved version of the KC-10 refueling boom and cockpit displays from the 787

Cool you met that pilot, he's probably more than interested in it! I wouldn't mind going from a KC-10 to 767. I'll miss that third engine though, it still looks great.

Show us the photo 👍 I think the fancy name of what you mean is wingtip vortices. I just learnt that from Wiki

 

[Swagger897]

I said both hehe





Cool you met that pilot, he's probably more than interested in it! I wouldn't mind going from a KC-10 to 767. I'll miss that third engine though, it still looks great.

Show us the photo 👍 I think the fancy name of what you mean is wingtip vortices. I just learnt that from Wiki

waiting for dropbox to sync with my ancient phone...

edit: here she is... I don't know the exact word, vapor cloud or whatever it is... It's quite faint because the flash on and off. I was on a 757 once going into ORD and and couldn't see the leading edge of the wing when it happened..

 

[Carlos]

Nice photo! You had nice position too, I love watching everything go up and down in landing. This is from last year if you're interested, taking off Schiphol Amsterdam and landing in Madrid, Spain with KLM.

 

[Carlos]

Right...

 

[Swagger897]

Nice photo! You had nice position too, I love watching everything go up and down in landing. This is from last year if you're interested, taking off Schiphol Amsterdam and landing in Madrid, Spain with KLM.

Yeah... I didn't know that I would be flying and had to leave the house on short notice so the camera wasn't with me other than the one on the phone..

I've also got some other ones over the Grand Canyon on a 757...

 

[Carlos]

Yeah... I didn't know that I would be flying and had to leave the house on short notice so the camera wasn't with me other than the one on the phone..

I've also got some other ones over the Grand Canyon on a 757...

Show them!

 

[Swagger897]

So I found some of the best (from a phone that is) I took on that trip. We were going to Vegas and had to take a whole bunch of stops (my dad and I looked up we could get on a flight from ATL-SLC then SLC-LAS faster than the later ATL-LAS. Getting back we went from SLC-MSP-ATL. We knew that we were probably going to get stuck into MSP because of a snow blizzard they were about to get, but SLC doesn't have that many flights back to ATL.. And there was quite the amount of snow already on the ground when we got there.) but was still a fun time...

Anyways, first was a 767, then over the wing was a 757. Not sure what I was on from MSP-ATL as I was extremely tired..

Spoiler: big pictures

SLC-MSP just past Lake Mead

This has been a favorite photo of mine for a while. I never noticed that it focused on the glass and was mad at first until I went back to edit it.

Then MSP.... yeah..

 

[TexRex]

Watched this during lunch earlier:



It was very interesting.

 

[GregTheStig]

Right...

What, you didn't know Glorious Leader invented the art of flight?



Speedbird 217 arriving into Washington Dulles

Russian Knight pulling out of a loop

<3

nom

And something random I found on reddit. A DC8 literally losing an engine at altitude. Info here.

 

[Swagger897]

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What, you didn't know Glorious Leader invented the art of flight?



Speedbird 217 arriving into Washington Dulles

Russian Knight pulling out of a loop

<3

nom

And something random I found on reddit. A DC8 literally losing an engine at altitude. Info here.

I've never seen a dc8 with intakes in the front like that before. Is that a one off or were they all like that (per version that is)?

 

[GregTheStig]

I've never seen a dc8 with intakes in the front like that before. Is that a one off or were they all like that (per version that is)?

NTSB report says it's a DC-8-52. Google says they all have that. 👍

 

[Carlos]

What, you didn't know Glorious Leader invented the art of flight?

His dad was scared of flying so he has to get some things right I guess

And those comments on Reddit, oh oh oh

 

[Swagger897]

Seems like the appropriate place for this:
http://www.newser.com/story/201198/delta-flight-takes-off-with-just-2-aboard.html

Two people had a Delta flight all to themselves. At first, it was almost just one person.
I think the fewest amount of people I ever had on a flight was six including myself. I think it was from ATL-PIT early in the morning......




early, in the morning...

 

[GregTheStig]

As someone who flies Delta on standby, I wish that could happen to me

 

[Swagger897]

That's exactly what I said...

 

[Carlos]

100 very nice photos of USAF operating around Japan 👍

 

[Pupik]

Seems like the appropriate place for this:
http://www.newser.com/story/201198/delta-flight-takes-off-with-just-2-aboard.html

Two people had a Delta flight all to themselves. At first, it was almost just one person.
I think the fewest amount of people I ever had on a flight was six including myself. I think it was from ATL-PIT early in the morning......

early, in the morning...

Apparently, he was the only one (along with the other passenger) not to change his flight plans. I flew from Detroit to Saginaw with 7 others, about three years ago; just a twenty minute flight on a CRJ200. We waited on the tarmac for about 20-30 extra minutes while waiting our turn for de-icing.

US Airways runs shuttle flights from LGA to DCA every hour, they probably had 12 folks on one of my runs last year. Back in 1985, I flew on Eastern Airlines with 9 others from Fort Lauderdale to Miami, presumably for re-positioning. Shortest flight I've ever been on. I'm guessing it was a DC-9, since I recall the 2-3 configuration, but I could be wrong.

Lest anyone thinks Delta can't fill aircraft, typically their flights are quite full*...my flights home from ATL to HSV are almost always oversold. Evening flights back to FLL usually feature about 10-15 folks on standby. Once, the list had 48 waiters, probably due to a cancellation.

* Scientific studies have yet to figure out the difference between a "Full Flight", "Very Full Flight", and "Extremely Full Flight". I'm guessing the latter is used when they see a lot of overstuffed carry-ons and/or an excessive amount of duty free junk toted along.

 

[Swagger897]

Apparently, he was the only one (along with the other passenger) not to change his flight plans. I flew from Detroit to Saginaw with 7 others, about three years ago; just a twenty minute flight on a CRJ200. We waited on the tarmac for about 20-30 extra minutes while waiting our turn for de-icing.

US Airways runs shuttle flights from LGA to DCA every hour, they probably had 12 folks on one of my runs last year. Back in 1985, I flew on Eastern Airlines with 9 others from Fort Lauderdale to Miami, presumably for re-positioning. Shortest flight I've ever been on. I'm guessing it was a DC-9, since I recall the 2-3 configuration, but I could be wrong.

Lest anyone thinks Delta can't fill aircraft, typically their flights are quite full*...my flights home from ATL to HSV are almost always oversold. Evening flights back to FLL usually feature about 10-15 folks on standby. Once, the list had 48 waiters, probably due to a cancellation.

* Scientific studies have yet to figure out the difference between a "Full Flight", "Very Full Flight", and "Extremely Full Flight". I'm guessing the latter is used when they see a lot of overstuffed carry-ons and/or an excessive amount of duty free junk toted along.

Yeah, for now I'm flying standby on Delta due to my dad, until I'm out of school..

But out of all the places in the world to go, PIT is always full. They had I think 10-8 flights a day two years ago and now it's between 8-5 flights...

 

[R5]

Seems like the appropriate place for this:
http://www.newser.com/story/201198/delta-flight-takes-off-with-just-2-aboard.html

Two people had a Delta flight all to themselves. At first, it was almost just one person.
I think the fewest amount of people I ever had on a flight was six including myself. I think it was from ATL-PIT early in the morning......




early, in the morning...

There was a story of a single passenger, the captain was said to say "Are you :censored:ing ready?" Before the flight and blasted Metallica over the intercom

True or not it's a funny image.

 

[Swagger897]

There was a story of a single passenger, the captain was said to say "Are you :censored:ing ready?" Before the flight and blasted Metallica over the intercom

True or not it's a funny image.

lol, that would be awesome...

Sometimes I find myself on YouTube looking at the pre-flight intercom messages that the captains go on about. Pretty funny the one man with the Star-Wars message..

 

[Omnis]

Right...

"Kim Jong Un flight diary

Day 1: I have encountered a yoke I could not eat."

 

[R5]

Day 1: I have encountered a yoke I could not eat."

"Do it do it do it" says the pilot... egging him on

 

[Swagger897]

"Kim Jong Un flight diary

Day 1: I have encountered a yoke I could not eat."

"Do it do it do it" says the pilot... egging him on

I'm cracking up over these

 

[R5]

I'm cracking up over these

Dont. Kim Jong will send his soldiers after you

 

[Omnis]

That was just Kim Jong Un learning to fly. He now pilots his father's custom single-seater Dassault Falcon, codenamed: Sault Ronery.

 

[Swagger897]

Dont. Kim Jong will send his soldiers after you

Nicknamed "deviled eggs" I suppose?

 

[Brett]

On my way home from the grocery store, I managed to snap a picture of a B-1 Lancer passing overhead. I was not even sure I had managed to get a picture of the plane, as I took the picture blind while driving (not a good idea).

 

[R5]

On my way home from the grocery store, I managed to snap a picture of a B-1 Lancer passing overhead. I was not even sure I had managed to get a picture of the plane, as I took the picture blind while driving (not a good idea).

Damn I only get light aircraft flying overhead.

Ok, there's been one impressive thing. An Avro Vulcan, the last airworthy one, after its low level flight over Carlisle Airport, which is home to another which nobody knows what it's missions at the Falklands was. Probably just a reserve plane.

Still cool.

 

[Pupik]

It's funny where one's photos might turn up!

 

[Crash]

You're even credited too!

Congrats, that's great visibility; TU Delft is a fantastic engineering school.