Ever heard a Hawker 748? Not as loud, but the gawdawful screech is more annoying.
Posted on 08/31/2016 9:19:54 AM PDT by EveningStar
Will say it makes the loudest racket I have ever heard come from a civilian plane.
Ever heard a Hawker 748? Not as loud, but the gawdawful screech is more annoying.
727s and MD80’s are lawn darts.
I have been a passenger on C141s, C5As, C17s, and C131s.
C5, in the passenger compartment, is much quieter than you would think.
Test bed for new engine.
RIP.
The MD 80 needs to be put out of its misery.
And while the 747 gets all the attention, the 737 is the best passanger jet ever made.
I picked a ladies up for the wife on eBay back in 2009 as a Christmas gift. 1889 and the 14k case has “Charles to Rosie, Christmas 1889” calligraphied in it.
I got myself what I thought was an 1881/2 Hampton Duber on there around the same time. I was initially pissed when I got it because the guy had ended up listing the case # (irrelevant to age) rather than the movement # but the watch turned out to be a 1906 railroad grade with something like 27 jewels and was worth about 10X what I paid. That one will run about 36 hours on a wind and doesn’t lose a second.
That bodes well for the approximately 750 pounds of copper pennies I’ve culled out over the years...
If you look at the current Bing maps aerial of Paine field there’s a B52 on the grass below a row of 747s, it really shows how big the 747 is because that Buff is about 1/2 size.
Daddy brought back a gold cased pocket watch from WWII. I suppose it was valuable as there must have been several ounces of gold in it.
My Father purchased it from the Mayor of a German town. Daddy had done him some favors so I think he sold if for less than it was worth.
My older Brother got it from Daddy many years ago. His Son has it now. The one thing I recall about it was it only had 9 jewels.
Competent mechanics and only 737s is what Southwest has always capitalized on, that is a tough bird.
My boss was on one (American I believe) lifting off out of Vegas that shat an engine out and the pilot made a loop around and put it down neatly.
Dang ... you’re right. Those 747s and 777s do kind of make the BUFF seem unimpressive.
My dad flew NWA 747’s until 1992, he lost TWO engines during climbout from Japan.He was way overweight for landing.
He had to dump a lot of fuel over the sea in a hurry. I think that’s the most excitement he ever had during a flight.
It’s for getting the Shuttle up to that new NASA CO2-saving Muslim-outreach very low earth orbit.
I don’t post pics anymore, just links.
The 747 has just one boom. What’s more important than the amount of fuel it can haul is how many booms are available for aircraft needing to refuel. That’s one reason why the USAF is buying the KC-46A based on the 767 rather than the KC-45 based on the A330.
I did find the picture of a test flight with the 747 tanker refueling an SR-71 to be interesting. That’s one use of a 747 tanker that might be justified for performance reasons. The 747 is the fastest subsonic jetliner. The SR-71 had to slow down to almost its stall speed in order to refuel with a KC-135.
LOL, I know...I was making more of a 747 lover statement! Why should the dang Iranians get one and not us????????
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