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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy
(Post 1004402)
Did you see the following under the 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. |
He just doesn't look right without the 'stache.
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Originally Posted by Maxcackel
(Post 1004382)
And save the we elect to live out of base speech, everyone's not moving.
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Originally Posted by nwaf16dude
(Post 1004450)
He just doesn't look right without the 'stache.
I'm just a little under halfway through his autobiography. Good read, but it sure was a different Air Force back then. Talk about better to ask forgiveness than ask permission era:D He would have never survived the 80s/90s as a young Lt:( Ferd |
Originally Posted by Columbia
(Post 1004454)
So what's your solution as the current non-rev policy isn't changing.
In a lot of ways - this just makes sense. These carriers, wether they're DCI, United Express, or what have you, aren't acting as airlines, they are merely aircraft operators subcontracting out their services. The planes are painted in the primary carriers colors and the marketing and ticket sales are all handled by the primary carrier. I think that the employees of the primary carrier should therefore have priority when traveling on these flights. Whats the benefit, then, for employees of the subcontractor carriers? They get access to flights on the primary carriers that they operate for - albeit at a lower priority. Access that they wouldn't otherwise have. There is industry precedent for this type of arrangement. |
Ferd, if we're going to post pics of beautiful actresses of the past let's go back:
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Hi All,
I've gotten a couple of automated calls at home from something called Now Clinic Online Care (?), which is apparently being offered through Delta. Anyone have any idea what this is? Thanks. |
I'm all for this:
Originally Posted by Dash8widget
(Post 1004497)
A number of years ago, when I was working at Horizon, we (horizon) starting flying a handful of RJ's as Frontier Jet Express under a CPA with Frontier airlines. On those flights Frontier employees had a higher non-rev boarding priority than Horizon employees. Why? Because these were being operated as Frontier flights, even though it was Horizon metal. Horizon was just acting as a sub-contractor.
In a lot of ways - this just makes sense. These carriers, wether they're DCI, United Express, or what have you, aren't acting as airlines, they are merely aircraft operators subcontracting out their services. The planes are painted in the primary carriers colors and the marketing and ticket sales are all handled by the primary carrier. I think that the employees of the primary carrier should therefore have priority when traveling on these flights. Whats the benefit, then, for employees of the subcontractor carriers? They get access to flights on the primary carriers that they operate for - albeit at a lower priority. Access that they wouldn't otherwise have. There is industry precedent for this type of arrangement. |
Originally Posted by Dash8widget
(Post 1004497)
A number of years ago, when I was working at Horizon, we (horizon) starting flying a handful of RJ's as Frontier Jet Express under a CPA with Frontier airlines. On those flights Frontier employees had a higher non-rev boarding priority than Horizon employees. Why? Because these were being operated as Frontier flights, even though it was Horizon metal. Horizon was just acting as a sub-contractor.
In a lot of ways - this just makes sense. These carriers, wether they're DCI, United Express, or what have you, aren't acting as airlines, they are merely aircraft operators subcontracting out their services. The planes are painted in the primary carriers colors and the marketing and ticket sales are all handled by the primary carrier. I think that the employees of the primary carrier should therefore have priority when traveling on these flights. Whats the benefit, then, for employees of the subcontractor carriers? They get access to flights on the primary carriers that they operate for - albeit at a lower priority. Access that they wouldn't otherwise have. There is industry precedent for this type of arrangement. On that city pair and that pair only, you (and only you) would get unlimited S2A travel on that city pair ONLY, but would get no additional "priority days". "Locals" or anyone who for whatever reason chose to "opt out" would continue to get their standard alottment of worldwide S2's. How mainline versus DCI was handeled wouldn't change WRT today's already existing priorities so in that regard there would be no winners or losers as there is no difference if you are an S3C on a given flight you would go after an S3 or an S2A in either case just the same. |
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