Regional Jet Cycles
10-09-2009 | 11:35 AM
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10-09-2009 | 05:16 PM
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We were in the hangar when an -80 was going through a major check and it was down to the bare bones. Everyone wondered how in the hell they were going to get it back together. A week later it was plowing the skies.
10-09-2009 | 06:54 PM
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850HK is the oldest E-145, and is owned by TSA. It started life as an E-135 I believe and was converted to an E-145. I heard rumors it was a test bed for Embraer.
If you do some research, you can find some photos of it when it was first off the press as a 135.
Thats an old worn out bird. Ferried it with the gear stuck down once, a turbine tower shaft busted on it in KEWR on one trip I flew, and I seem to recall we had an asymmetrical speed brake deployment on it one time, but that may have been another airplane.
If you do some research, you can find some photos of it when it was first off the press as a 135.
Thats an old worn out bird. Ferried it with the gear stuck down once, a turbine tower shaft busted on it in KEWR on one trip I flew, and I seem to recall we had an asymmetrical speed brake deployment on it one time, but that may have been another airplane.
10-09-2009 | 08:58 PM
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It's all about time and cycles. I don't think the USAF pulls 3,000 hrs. per year on a C-5 or 130. Nonetheless... I'm still amazed at those B-52s. They were designed right after the B-47, at times when jet flying was still a crazy idea...
10-09-2009 | 10:17 PM
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Are you kidding me? I'd jump on that in a heartbeat!!!!
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