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To: SkyDancer

OK....I thought it was the 4 engine job. I didn’t bother to look it up, but I alway thought that’s what they’d be flying on the trans-atlanic routes.


21 posted on 07/12/2013 8:06:03 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: PhiloBedo

I think you’re right. They only use the four engine jobs on o/s flights of long duration. I believe only Boeing 767/777 are ok’d for o/s flights of over three hours. Boeing had what’s called ETOPS (we like to say: Engine Turns Or Passengers Swim) but it means: ETOPS, Extended Operations, and En Route Alternate Airports - says that it can go 180 minutes without engines to the nearest airport three hours away.


23 posted on 07/12/2013 8:23:52 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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