Having read the article referred to in this squawk, I cannot help but feel that "Las Vegas International Airport" would have been better for the long term. Conversely, I recall the line in the asteroid-apocalypse film "Deep Armageddon" (yes, I know two films came out at the same time in the late 1990s) - "Well, we'll all have high schools named after us". As an aside, here in the northwest of the UK, Manchester International Airport is always referred to, locally, as "Ringway".

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Here's wishing Boeing a successful first flight. Do prototypes still leave their landing gear down throughout the first flight? Good luck Seattle.

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First World problem.

(Written on 2021年06月18日)(Permalink)

Well, the incidents usually involve a French driver! Selective quotation follows; AF358 A340-313 Toronto long landing, ravine, fire; AUG2005; AF449 A330-203 CFIO mid-Atlantic JUN2009 AF296 Early A320-111 Habsheim CFIF (controlled flight into forest) 26JUN1988. Lessons are usually learned from every incident; let's hope that this is the case at DCA. On this one at DCA, thank heavens for a run-off area. Personally: if I walk away from it, it was a good landing. It's entirely binary - survive or...

(Written on 2021年06月11日)(Permalink)

Excellent marketing work by the former US President - and employment increased in Mobile Alabama, delivering a great aeroplane to an airline which I (across the Pond) hold in high regard. Looks like a win-win to me, especially with another 45 airframes on order. Well done Bombardier!

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Sitting up in the small hours of an English morning, with my father, watching the first moon walk on shadowy black and white TV (when the planet united in awe at the achievement, was a lifelong memory. Apparently his final words to Armstrong and Aldrin, as they made their way into the LEM to commence the powered descent to the lunar surface, were: "please come back." Definitely The Right Stuff.

(Written on 2021年04月30日)(Permalink)

If it helps David, that was the new airframe list price. It will be fascinating to see, in a year or two, how many airlines can see a space for a massively-depreciated airframe for congested, slot-constrained, airports.

(Written on 2021年04月23日)(Permalink)

I don't think that is the normal Helipad at Addenbrooke's, which is a large square patch on the south side of the hospital campus, in an open field. The site in the video looks like a load of PSP loose-laid on the deck. Most UK hospitals have their helipad on the roof, or in a section of a tarmac-covered car park. Anyhow, nice to see the Osprey being used in daily flying - justifying the faith which was placed in the programme during the early days when teething troubles nearly sank the programme.

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Nice one! But April 1st would have been better.

(Written on 2021年04月03日)(Permalink)

Kyle, I am with you - you can only jerk around with a 100-seat design from the 1960s (when did the 707 fuselage first fly?) so many times before something stretches too far. The Royal Air Force has a long-standing principle for FAI proceedings - "only blame a dead pilot if you are absolutely certain that there is no other possible cause". I hope that your wife carries life assurance (I hope that I am summarising this correctly, without insulting anyone's professionalism). Boeing were desperate to get the MAX into airlines, without needing any more training than "read a manual and play a DVD". The decision-making process which enables airlines to optionally delete half of the indicators (including ones which would alert drivers to failed Pitot tubes or "MCAS is activated" will go down (sorry!) in history alongside the 1912 assessment that "it's only an iceberg". Two years later, with the FAA doing what it should have done beforehand, along with Boeing being (slightly les

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