My youngest brother was landing at Sydney some years back when they had an IFE, declared a pan, and they were all in the brace position , bar him, being a moretti he decided to be a smartarse if he was going to die, and yelled out "Let's burn in !!" , bloody moron scared everyone with his stupidity
FAAAAAAAAAAARRRRK: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/colorado/articles/2021-05-12/two-aircraft-land-safely-near-denver-after-midair-collision
Can’t wait to burn my logbooks , shoes and stripes in the pizza oven...I miss that thing...After another 6 months in this joint I’m going to try and cook rice and noodles in it...
When are you actually going flying, and then coming home? Seems a long time sitting in HK. One of the interesting things about being in WA was that they supply the pilots with stripes. I haven’t worn them in years and refuse to.
2 sims down 2 to go Steve...Then next week off to Shanghai...When I’ll be home whom knows...I’m just taking it a day at the time...Unfortunately we have to wear that crap these days...On the DC8 I flew barefoot in a pair of shorts and singlet...The good old days of living in Barbados....
There is no doubt that the running costs will be a fraction of the current cost, but I don't understand how it can be made practical. https://newatlas.com/aircraft/eviation-alice-magnix/
Boy that’s pretty inefficient. They’ll need to make very significant gains on those numbers before it becomes properly viable. There are other things to consider such as the fact that the landing weight will always be the same as the takeoff weight. That will affect things like the required strength of the undercarriage, landing runway lengths etc. Also seems odd to put the engines right at the wingtips. Good luck if one fails. What do you reckon, Gayry?
Agree Steve...Your load is where you make your money and half the load is it’s batteries...I guess you have to start somewhere in new technologies....Modern day airliners have become very efficient...Look at the A350 compared to the 777...Where they can do better is the engine technology ( and they are )...To reinvent the wheel will take a very long time and it won’t happen in our lifetimes...
Yeah. The quoted range of 500 miles (430nm) almost certainly wouldn’t include reserves, and on most days you probably couldn’t plan anything much longer than half that. So, an interesting step on the way I guess, but those numbers would need to double or triple before that aircraft has any real world value.
This is more like it. Greg can buy it. Gayry and I can fly it, and Moretti can wash it. https://www.flyingmag.com/story/aircraft/dassault-reveals-falcon-10x/
They're are daily flights to Warrnambool and back to Melbourne for passengers and mail. I think it might do that ok. But then what? Charge it up or battery swap so it can keep flying.
Yes it could be able to do the very short regional stuff. From here to KI, Pt. Lincoln, and Whyalla would be about the limit, but unless you can quickly swap out the batteries to go again it’s pointless. It would surely take way, way longer than the usual 30-60min turnaround to charge them. And if the batteries are the expensive bit, having to have packs at every location to swap out immediately removes any hope of cost savings.
One of the things that gets lost in the electric vehicles discussion is the huge advantage in maintenance and replacement part costs. So many fewer bits to fail / need replacing has to be a huge consideration in any commercial usage.
