General Aviation Thread

Terran

Well-Known Member
Amazing how bombs and shells can still go boom after so many years. A shame more beneficial products can’t last as long.
The fact it went off now implies it failed to do so when intended. I doubt anyone who was involved with that particular bomb would view this as anything other than a failure. It’s the downside of Duds. To Quote Susan Ivonava form Babylon 5.
“No boom today!!!!! Boom tomorrow. always boom tomorrow... BOOM!!!”
The same for landmines, cluster munitions. These are the unintended consequences of a war often paid by those whom had nothing to do with it.
 

Sandhi Yudha

Well-Known Member
"The AW609 has a rich history..." What they actually mean is "The AW609 has a very long history of endless development".
First flight was in 2003 and the certification and entry into service was planned to be somewhere in 2024....
 

Sandhi Yudha

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A bad day for the tug driver and American Airlines. Engine nr.2 of a 787 is heavily damaged by empty cargo containers.

It happened on 17 October. Looking to the damage, i don't even want to know how expensive it is.
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FormerDirtDart

Well-Known Member
A bad day for the tug driver and American Airlines. Engine nr.2 of a 787 is heavily damaged by empty cargo containers.

It happened on 17 October. Looking to the damage, i don't even want to know how expensive it is.
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Holy crap.
I simply assumed the containers hit the engines while driving by or something. I did not expect that.
I'm more surprised that an immediate engine fire didn't occur
 

swerve

Super Moderator
Driving across a taxiway between airliners with their engines running, queuing to take off - what could possibly go wrong? Shouldn't there have been some control, e.g. a red light at the crossing point?
 

Sandhi Yudha

Well-Known Member
Driving across a taxiway between airliners with their engines running, queuing to take off - what could possibly go wrong? Shouldn't there have been some control, e.g. a red light at the crossing point?
There are special rules for car traffic at airports. Aircrafts have always priority, and everything else have to wait to cross over until the aircraft is at a safe distance. If the aircraft is towed, then you do not need to wait as long as an aircraft on own power. Looking to the video it is quite obvious that the tug drivers (also the one in front of him) are the one violating the rules.
 

Ananda

The Bunker Group

As no outside verification, off course the claim can be argue. Still this shown that Russia effort to speed up production of their civilian turbofan to closing the gap with Western Turbofan is gaining momentum.

PD-8 for Regional Jet,
PD-14 for Single Aisle Medium Range,
PD-35 for Double Aisle Long Range.

If this work, then perhaps we can see IL-96 being redevelop toward double engine version. Thus IL-96 can have current quad engine PS-90A version and double engine PD-35 one.
 

Ananda

The Bunker Group


On previous post, I already link COMAC intention to rename ARJ-21 as C909. Now at Zhuhai it is offcial ARJ-21 now become C909. According to the article C909 bot just rebranding, however COMAC also make improvements on weight, noise and resistance to improve costs per seats performance.
 

SolarisKenzo

Well-Known Member
Italy and Germany reached an agreement on Lufthansa - Ita Airways (former Alitalia) deal.
The contract was sent overnight to the EU Commission for the final approval.


 
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