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Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
23rd Apr 2004, 15:29
Replies: 8
Views: 840
Posted By Flopster

Yes, They Do!

I spent miles with SAS, LH and AF - they will all stick you in the worst seat in the house. Tried to overcome that sad fact on my last bonus miles travel, when I took my daughter CPH-BRU-CPH. On the...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
20th Apr 2004, 13:48
Replies: 33
Views: 4,179
Posted By Flopster

Angels

The thing is, this forum is regularly subjected to the exact same type of question as posted by Fintan and the response is also very much the same as what you have been reading here.

As other...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
20th Apr 2004, 10:30
Replies: 33
Views: 4,179
Posted By Flopster

Fintan

Well, since the aeroplane is not a smouldering wreck at the side of the runway, I'd venture the proposition that an A320 is indeed capable of a go-around. In avaition we commonly refer to such...
Forum: Rumours & News
20th Apr 2004, 08:24
Replies: 26
Views: 9,591
Posted By Flopster

Oshkosh

Imagine your bag misses connection in LHR (happens all the time btw) during your transit stop there enroute to, say, LAX. When they do find your bag, you wouldn't expect them to sail it over the pond...
Forum: Flight/Ground Ops, Crewing and Dispatch
16th Apr 2004, 08:58
Replies: 16
Views: 2,990
Posted By Flopster

SAS

Scandinavian Airlines pays their fully certified Dispatchers (or OPS Officers as they are known in the UK) around DKK 30K/Mo which equals around UKP 3K/mo as a starting salary. With 10 years of...
Forum: Questions
12th Mar 2004, 21:54
Replies: 28
Views: 5,448
Posted By Flopster

Omark

I belive it is debateable whether Boeing cancelled their 747-400QXLR (or some such alphabet soup) because they found the airlines would rather buy 777s, or if the airlines would rather buy A380s and...
Forum: Terms and Endearment
9th Mar 2004, 18:39
Replies: 19
Views: 4,433
Posted By Flopster

Coastrider

My money is on the ATR42/72. Brasilias are already flying for DHL, courtesy of Swiftair. Stupid little aeroplane that is. While the Saab might be a contender, given the larger fuselage, that one too...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Jan 2004, 20:15
Replies: 26
Views: 6,865
Posted By Flopster

FEBA

Please let us know why you find EAT laughable. They're expanding the network, have extensive growth plans, are hiring people and they are profitable. I do, however, appreciate that the concept of...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Jan 2004, 20:06
Replies: 2
Views: 1,909
Posted By Flopster

Scandinavian Air Service?

Now where did you pick up that fictional airline name?

It'll be Scandinavian Airlines System, but let's be informal and call it SAS ....
Forum: Freight Dogs
14th Jan 2004, 22:06
Replies: 10
Views: 2,357
Posted By Flopster

Daysleeper

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the BA 763s are somewhat orphans, what being equipped with Rolls donks. The -524 something version, if memory serves me right. Also limited to M 0.79, and with a very...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jan 2004, 21:47
Replies: 23
Views: 6,912
Posted By Flopster

Groundloop

The all-time favourite "Not Build Here" syndrome perhaps?
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
9th Jan 2004, 19:20
Replies: 15
Views: 2,869
Posted By Flopster

Don't go to Lagos. I've heard, but dunno if it's...

Don't go to Lagos. I've heard, but dunno if it's true, that an entire KL crew got abucted and gang raped (incl. the male pilots) in Lagos a few years ago.
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Jan 2004, 18:49
Replies: 47
Views: 13,705
Posted By Flopster

A Related Question

I may have got this wrong, however, as I understand it if you shutdown an engine for whatever reason, but do so outside the ETOPS portion of a flight, that does not count in the statistics?

If so,...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Dec 2003, 01:43
Replies: 29
Views: 4,531
Posted By Flopster

Blandford

Because Sweden/SAAB has a long history of designing and building their own jets, as a consquence of being a neutral. The Draken and Vigen springs to mind. They are very technological savyy, and...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Dec 2003, 00:46
Replies: 44
Views: 11,207
Posted By Flopster

747Focal

Let's take it one more time, shall we?

777 Orders / Deliveries: 622/460
A330/A340 Orders / Deliveries: 812/532

Boeing has sold less NGs than Airbus has sold A32x family aircraft, by a rather...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Dec 2003, 23:16
Replies: 44
Views: 11,207
Posted By Flopster

747Focal

A330/340 Orders / Deliveries: 812/532 ....
A32x Orders / Deliveries: 3083/2086
B737NG Orders / Deliveries: 2240/1402 (Including BBJs)

Airbus has outsold Boeing by a substantial margin in both...
Forum: Nordic Forum
11th Dec 2003, 23:48
Replies: 9
Views: 1,237
Posted By Flopster

Daysleeper

Nope, only been to CGN on short business related trips. We (as in Danes working for the yellow brigade) are doing our very best to establish mafia's whereever possible, and take over the world so to...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Dec 2003, 21:28
Replies: 29
Views: 4,531
Posted By Flopster

F62

Take your word for it; my memory is getting quite rusty.

Watched them coming down the straight at Monza last year, breezing by at 320+ km/h. Most hit the brakes just short of the 100 meter mark,...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Dec 2003, 18:24
Replies: 29
Views: 4,531
Posted By Flopster

Seem to remember seeing somewhere, that your...

Seem to remember seeing somewhere, that your average F1 will do 0 to 200 and back to 0 in less than 10 seconds ..... and the braking distance was just short of 50 meters :ooh: Well, with around 900...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Dec 2003, 17:42
Replies: 30
Views: 10,417
Posted By Flopster

.... And a couple of daily An-12 fligths operated...

.... And a couple of daily An-12 fligths operated by a, ehh, Eastern European airline, on behalf of DHL.

I trust it was a joke when someone asked whether MNG crews made gazillions from flying into...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Dec 2003, 22:35
Replies: 30
Views: 10,417
Posted By Flopster

It ORBS/SAD, but that's another story ... ...

It ORBS/SAD, but that's another story ...

It's also on a Danish newssite, www.ekstrabladet.dk but prolly won't do you much good if you can't read Danish.
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Dec 2003, 17:45
Replies: 29
Views: 4,531
Posted By Flopster

Schumacher to race Typhoon

*****************************************

From landings.com:

Seemingly unbeatable in formula one, six-times world champion Michael Schumacher will on Thursday test his speeding skills against a...
Forum: Rumours & News
9th Dec 2003, 21:38
Replies: 12
Views: 4,554
Posted By Flopster

747 turns back to HKG after losing part of wing ...

HONG KONG (AP) - Part of the wing fell off of a jumbo jet flying from Hong Kong to Thailand, but the pilot turned back and landed safely as frightened passengers shot pictures of the hole in the...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
9th Dec 2003, 21:14
Replies: 20
Views: 4,397
Posted By Flopster

MD80 - Wonderfully quite up towards the front of...

MD80 - Wonderfully quite up towards the front of the cabin; one can hardly hear the engines starting and normal conversation is possible even during T/O. Got a mate flying the thing for SAS, or...
Forum: Nordic Forum
9th Dec 2003, 01:34
Replies: 9
Views: 1,237
Posted By Flopster

Hey Daysleeper, Belive you and I are working...

Hey Daysleeper,

Belive you and I are working for the same company. I'm presently based in BRU, but am a Dane and lived in the Copenhagen area for the first 30ish years of my life. Guess you're...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
5th Dec 2003, 21:13
Replies: 3
Views: 772
Posted By Flopster

And the point is?

Just checked the calender, yep - it's December. Winter. Cold. Snow. Now had this been January, or in Sydney, I could've understand the fuss. But since when has snowfall in NYC in December suddenly...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Dec 2003, 19:52
Replies: 69
Views: 9,201
Posted By Flopster

Bearing In Mind ...

... the endless posturing on this here site, and indeed throughout the English speaking media, wouldn't it be more appropriate to name the vessels

HMS Moaning
HMS Whinging

???

The JSF,...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th Nov 2003, 15:56
Replies: 8
Views: 2,169
Posted By Flopster

Felt I had to respond to the factually incorrect...

Felt I had to respond to the factually incorrect article, a possible spin-off from an equally inaccurate article printed in Newsweek a few weeks back. First of all, DHL does not operate any 707s. The...
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