If there are pilots for C-46's and DC-6's they will find pilots for anything!

(Written on 10-07-2021)(Permalink)

Issues related to structural mods and weight involved or size-effect?

(Written on 10-07-2021)(Permalink)

Apparently Amazon is in love with the 763's. Great airplane for the money. Too bad there are not more A-306's available as those make a nice carrier as well. If a market ever develops for lots of over-size cargo maybe the mission-limited A-380's will have a revival.

(Written on 09-07-2021)(Permalink)

They better dredge that airplane up from the bottom and find out what happened. JT8D's are nearly bullet-proof as long as they receive proper maintenance and care. The insurers and FAA are going to put the squeeze on that airline if it looks like negligence on their part. Corrosion? Contaminated fuel? Timed-out parts? There are plenty of things they will have to investigate.

(Written on 09-07-2021)(Permalink)

The "No-Fly" list should cover all carriers. This protects pax and employees on any of the other carriers from future outbursts. We live in a society where people have been programed to think there are no consequences for their actions. The thought of NEVER traveling by air again will deter a lot of this craziness.

(Written on 04-06-2021)(Permalink)

Do not expect the current US Government agencies to do a thing since they themselves are involved in illegal and un-Constitutional acts against its own citizens. Expect to see more and more Government terrorism as lawless Governments continue to target their own citizens. It’s the Great Re-Set in action.

(Written on 24-05-2021)(Permalink)

Yeah, JAL for sure. And just about all the variations as well.

(Written on 21-05-2021)(Permalink)

Oh yes. Let's ramp-up the Government's false-security apparatus and get some more sociopathic people off the streets and into more Government jobs. Just because they are not even capable of working a fast-food drive-thru window, should not disqualify them from keeping all the "sheeple" safe.

(Written on 21-05-2021)(Permalink)

Not that CNN adds any legitimacy to the issue. As long as humans have anything to do with flying there will be errors. Everybody wants to be safe. But, there is always going to be some risk. Everybody knows it.

(Written on 21-05-2021)(Permalink)

Oh, back in the 1950's they weighed us all the time. Baggage scales at the ticket counters and pax scales used to be right at the door of the gates at ATL. Nobody cared. How about the airlines do it anyway to keep pax from having to deal with morbidly obese people overflowing their seating space and creating discomfort for the innocent pax next to them who expect to have their own space. And the FAA doesn't seem to concerned with fat people blocking emergency exits because they can't fit through them, or cannot contort themselves to get through them. Or block the aisles along with other panicked pax in an accident, etc. Or the fact that the seat attachments themselves may not be able to sustain severe deceleration forces in an accident and the whole row of seats goes flying with everyone in them. No, the airlines, the airframe manufacturers and the FAA are all completely aware of the obesity problems and everybody wants to look the other way. Meanwhile, there is still an elephant

(Written on 21-05-2021)(Permalink)