Posted on 11/28/2018 5:23:46 PM PST by EveningStar
I've flown them about a half dozen times and they were very good each time.The cockpit crew has always been native English speakers (Aussies,Brits,Canadians,Americans,etc) and the aircraft I've flown have always been 777s or A380s...all appearing new and very well maintained.
And FYI...the UAE is nothing like Saudi Arabia.Yes,they're kinda strict in some ways but,unlike in Saudi,it's not easy to be beheaded there.They don't take their religion nearly as seriously as some moslem countries.
Stand the 380 up vertically and turn it into an apartment building.
The three engine Falcon! ... I love the extra engine for safety..I never liked two engine jets and I don't like single prop light craft either.
The Falcon is not the fastest corporate jet...that would be the CitationX at 700mph and 52,000ft...Trump has one.
Aaaaah,back when flying was a pleasure.
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Yes, lots of KC-135s and AWACS still service. I was responsible for a comm system installed on AWACS back in the early 80s. We joked - even then - that Boeing could still build a 707. Now it's almost forty years later and...
The Boeing has larger buttons and knobs.
They guessed wrong on that one. Didn’t help that you have to remodel your airport to accommodate the beast. Now it is a niche product that few airlines can fill to capacity.
Particularly during the annual trek from Riyadh to Mecca... Filthy. disease infested, poop in the aisles, etc...
Safer to rent a big Mercedes, BMW, or Audi and drive the 493 miles across the desert at 150 mph...
The chief problem with the 380 is that ATC has to give it five minutes separation from all other a/c. Nothing else requires more than three minutes. So at peak bank, when you’re trying to cram in arrivals and departures as much as possible, in an hour you can land (or take off) only 12 380s but 20 of anything else. Which also means you can service 20 different destinations instead of just 12.
Combine that with the fact that its limited by how many airports have runways and terminals big enough to accommodate it.
It’s literally the answer to the question no one was asking.
Fewer engines usually is a faster configuration because there is a minimum climb requirement with one engine inop (OEI). So a twin-engine jet has to be able to maintain the same rate of climb on just one engine as your 3-engined Falcon does on two. Which means each of its engines has to make as much thrust as two of the Falcon's combined, so if both are turnin' and burnin' it has a substantial thrust advantage, because it has fewer engines.
And it's a myth that more engines is safer, in commercial a/c anyway, because they're all perfectly capable of maintaining flight OEI. Plus fewer engines is cheaper to build and maintain.
Light aircraft is a horse of another color. The old saying is that the only reason that light twins have two engines is so that if one dies, there's still one operating to make sure you get to the scene of the crash.
Juan Browne is a pretty cool guy. His reports on the Oroville Dam were great last year, and these reports are just as good.
Thanks for the link. I didn’t even think to look for him, even though these fires are near the same area.
It was a misread of the market.....
They thought putting more people in one plane for long routes was what the market was going to want, instead they just wanted better range and fuel economy.
The smell upon landing would be so bad that they would have to burn it to the ramp.
Emirates flys a bunch of them, and IIRC they just ordered a few more
“A380 costs between $26,000 and $29,000 per hour to operate, compared to about $7400 an hour for the Boeing 777.”
I didn’t notice that, but I think you are correct! Interesting observation...perhaps made to be handled with gloves on if needed?
Hahahahaha!
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