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Originally Posted by Maxcackel
(Post 1004354)
I agree that no parents should bump a working employee, especially a working crew member. Nothing like the parents of a Delta new hire getto ramp rat not listed showing up and bumping you from getting to work! A new rating for all working crew in uniform going to work should be S3A.
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Boeing
Originally Posted by hoserpilot
(Post 1004353)
Boeing won't start detailed design work on any 737 replacement until 2014 to keep pace with planned changes to the manufacturing process for new aircraft, a senior executive said Tuesday.
The company has yet to decide whether to replace its best-selling narrowbody with a clean-sheet plane or follow rival Airbus by adding new engines and other upgrades. Boeing is also assessing potential upgrades to its 777 widebody range, including reengining the planes and introducing larger wings to improve performance. "One thing I'll make sure we don't do is enter the design phase with technology that isn't mature," said Jim Albaugh, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. This quote was in my Scottrade news brief this morning. Hoser What Boeing is telling us is that they have outsourced their engineering leadership and they are restricted by the capabilities of their vendors. Sad day for those of us who take pride in our American aerospace industry. Danny stock watchers with 90 day time horizons. |
I disagree, I think any crew member going to base to start work should have priority. Not going to anywhere else just your base. Get caught abusing this and all privledges are revoked. Times have changed and planes are full and oversold more than in the past and something needs to change. A Delta pilot or FA should not get bumped by an (ASA, Pinnacle,ect.) parent trying to get to work to fly Delta passengers anymore than an (ASA, Pinnacle, ect.) pilot or Fa trying to get to work to fly Delta passengers. And save the we elect to live out of base speech, everyone's not moving.
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Originally Posted by Maxcackel
(Post 1004382)
I disagree, I think any crew member going to base to start work should have priority. Not going to anywhere else just your base. Get caught abusing this and all privledges are revoked. Times have changed and planes are full and oversold more than in the past and something needs to change. A Delta pilot or FA should not get bumped by an (ASA, Pinnacle,ect.) parent trying to get to work to fly Delta passengers anymore than an (ASA, Pinnacle, ect.) pilot or Fa trying to get to work to fly Delta passengers. And save the we elect to live out of base speech, everyone's not moving.
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Originally Posted by Maxcackel
(Post 1004354)
I agree that no parents should bump a working employee, especially a working crew member. Nothing like the parents of a Delta new hire getto ramp rat not listed showing up and bumping you from getting to work! A new rating for all working crew in uniform going to work should be S3A.
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Originally Posted by Maxcackel
(Post 1004382)
I disagree, I think any crew member going to base to start work should have priority. Not going to anywhere else just your base. Get caught abusing this and all privledges are revoked. Times have changed and planes are full and oversold more than in the past and something needs to change. A Delta pilot or FA should not get bumped by an (ASA, Pinnacle,ect.) parent trying to get to work to fly Delta passengers anymore than an (ASA, Pinnacle, ect.) pilot or Fa trying to get to work to fly Delta passengers. And save the we elect to live out of base speech, everyone's not moving.
They may be flying our Pax as a feeder, but its not Delta. Delta doen't operate those RJ"s ( seperate debate and I agree we should) but really, you want super Non Rev status on someone elses airplane over their own employee riders... Just because you are commuting, come on dude thats not right. |
Ok boys, history lesson time (and I'm behind in the hot chick picture quota)
Who is this and what is her relation to aviation? USAF guys better get this one!! Ferd <--------didn't have a clue either till last night, then I got to the 1947 part of the autobiography http://i.fanpix.net/images/orig/a/p/...fkhrjdpa0r.jpg ok, small hint for the goggle challenged:p http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...A-WFvjCJr9Nboh |
Originally Posted by FmrFreightDog
(Post 1004262)
So, any intel as to what actually happened here? Amazing video.
"Moscow - Russian military prosecutors launched an investigation on Wednesday after an amateur video captured a defence ministry jet lurching terrifyingly out of control in skies close to Moscow. Videos of the Tupolev jet posted on YouTube by witnesses show the aircraft twisting from side to side uncontrollably before pilots manage to land it safely at a military aerodrome outside Moscow. "The military prosecutors have launched a probe which should establish the reasons for the mid-air incident that almost led to an aviation disaster," a spokesperson for the chief military prosecutor's office told the RIA Novosti news agency on Wednesday. The Tu-154 aircraft, dating back to the 1960s, was dubbed the "dancing plane" by bloggers. The spokesperson for the chief military prosecutor's office told RIA Novosti that the aircraft's steering system had malfunctioned and praised the pilots for managing to land safely in a built-up area. "During a test flight, the steering system broke down on the TU-154B-2 plane belonging to the Defence Ministry's 800th air base," the spokesperson said. First flight in 10 years "Thanks to the great professionalism and supreme skill of the pilots, the crew managed to land on the second attempt at Chkalovsk aerodrome, avoiding casualties among the airforce and the local population." The video posted on April 30, which has been watched more than 380 000 times, says that the aircraft was being flown for the first time after a 10-year break. The ageing Tupolev 154 planes, first flown in 1968 and used by Aeroflot until 2009, have been involved in a number of air accidents in recent years. The aircraft's last major fatal crash was on April last year, when a Tu-154 carrying Polish president Lech Kaczynski and other top officials came down in fog near the Russian city of Smolensk. In September a Tu-154 aircraft made a miraculous emergency landing on a derelict airstrip in the remote Komi region after its electrical systems failed midflight. This year, the spectacular display of Russian military aviation that usually accompanies the Victory Day parade on Red Square on May 9 has been cancelled, according to media reports, in an apparent cost-cutting measure. AFP" I also read somewhere that the plane had been in storage and a ground engineer incorrectly connected the electronic flight control system. The yaw damper controls were wired to the aileron controls? Apparently this mistake has happened before because of the color of the wires. If the engineer connects green to green, it is incorrect. Following the book they connect wires of different colors. Stupid. |
Ella Raines and she was married to Robin Olds!! Good bit of info I did not know until today, do not ask me about it next month though.
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Originally Posted by Ferd149
(Post 1004398)
Ok boys, history lesson time (and I'm behind in the hot chick picture quota)
Who is this and what is her relation to aviation? USAF guys better get this one!! Ferd <--------didn't have a clue either till last night, then I got to the 1947 part of the autobiography http://i.fanpix.net/images/orig/a/p/...fkhrjdpa0r.jpg ok, small hint for the goggle challenged:p http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...A-WFvjCJr9Nboh |
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