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Post by novabus9228 on Oct 19, 2010 13:08:24 GMT -8
Here is a neat little video of a Russian SuKhoi fighter jet and its aborted landing on a aircraft Carrier. Check out how Close its rear end came to hitting the deck! Hint to Mods, How about changing the title of this thread to "Aircraft Photo's and Videos so we can have the Whole Spectrum of Aircraft.
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Post by lmtengs on Dec 2, 2010 16:10:18 GMT -8
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Post by dofd on Dec 9, 2010 23:20:59 GMT -8
Thinking back to all the years I flew the Vancouver to Ketchikan and Anchorage route; on clear days never thought about looking down. Well we did but the side windows were not made for sightseeing.
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Post by Koastal Karl on Jun 25, 2011 21:21:42 GMT -8
Has anyone on here flown Canjet before??? We are flying them in September to Puerto Vallarta. I hear they are only a charter airline now and I have heard they are pretty good too!
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Post by FNS on Jun 25, 2011 22:26:08 GMT -8
Has anyone on here flown Canjet before??? We are flying them in September to Puerto Vallarta. I hear they are only a charter airline now and I have heard they are pretty good too! First time I've learned about this operator of flying machines. They fly Boeing 738 aircraft finished in Renton, WA. That's where they take off for their first time as well. Often right over Mercer Island, Lake Washington. www.canjet.com/en/home/default.aspxwww.canjet.com/en/home/our-fleet.aspx
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Post by ferryfanyvr on Oct 23, 2011 20:06:45 GMT -8
Thanks very much for posting those, Jim...especially the early PWA aircraft. Growing up in Kamloops in the 70's, Pacific Western played a big part in my early years of being an airline enthusiast. It's hard to believe PWA flew their 737's to so many small BC towns, several of which have not seen jet airline service for many years now. Williams Lake, Quesnel, Port Hardy, Cranbrook, Castlegar, Penticton, Terrace, Smithers, Campbell River are some of the towns which had regular 737 service way back when!
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 23, 2011 20:33:35 GMT -8
Yes, service into the Terrace-Kitimat airport today is exclusively provided by DASH turbo-props, both for Air Canada & Hawkair. Not so many years ago we had all jet service & three airlines (PWA, CP Air & Air BC/Air Canada). The jets were mostly 737's and Air BC/Air Canada for a while flew a 4-engined British Aerospace jet that seated about 50 people, and was quite a nice plane. Where did they go?
The transit time Terrace to Vancouver then was just over an hour. Today it is just under two hours.
This all sounds bleak, but it is not all bad as the new planes combined with better technology (GPS, for instance) means that there are far fewer delays and cancellations. Furthermore, they no longer do triangle routes - Vancouver - Terrace - Prince Rupert - Vancouver. Either north bound or southbound the flight to Terrace would stop at Rupert meaning a total transit time for that leg of about 2.5 hours.
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 24, 2011 9:50:32 GMT -8
Here are a few more plane pics of mine from the early 1970's.. 1 - Air Canada Viscount in the distance @ Victoria Airport - 6 August 1971 photo © JST - 3M Dynachrome 71-07-01 - VueScan2 - Pacific Western Boeing 737 @ Calgary International Airport - 8 August 1971 photo © JST - 3M Dynachrome 71-07-08 - VueScan3 - Air Canada Boeing B747 @ Toronto (Pearson) International Airport - 9 November 1972 photo © JST - Fujichrome 72-16-05 - VueScanThese photos are hosted on my Flickr photo site.
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Post by dofd on Oct 29, 2011 22:40:50 GMT -8
This might have been here today, but good. Super Constellation Flight with Authur Godfrey
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 30, 2011 20:57:32 GMT -8
Here is another 'vintage' aircraft photo fresh from my Nikon CoolScan V ED film scanner. Canadian Forces Boeing 707 (I think?) @ Vancouver Airport - 2 March 1973. photo © JST - Fujichrome 73-01-12 - VueScanThis photo is hosted on my Flickr photo site.
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Post by Kahloke on Nov 1, 2011 19:05:22 GMT -8
Got a treat today when riding on the ferry to Bremerton. The new 747-8i (Intercontinental) flew overhead on its approach to Boeing Field.
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Post by Kahloke on Dec 21, 2011 7:12:02 GMT -8
Article on KOMO this morning: Airline to offer flights from Seattle on new 787
SEATTLE (AP) - Seattle will see the new Boeing 787 serving the area where it was designed and assembled.
All Nippon Airways announced Wednesday in Tokyo it would begin nonstop service to the West Coast in fiscal 2012 from Narita airport to Sea-Tac Airport. ANA also will serve San Jose.
The airline says the destinations maximize the ability of the fuel-efficient mid-size widebody to fly long-range routes.
It will be the first U.S. service for the new plane that Boeing delivered to the launch customer in September, nearly three years late.
ANA says it's enhancing the competitiveness of joint ventures with United and Continental Airlines, two Star Alliance partners.
The announcement was welcomed by Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire who says she's pleased to see the Boeing product will become a fixture at Sea-Tac.link: www.komonews.com/news/boeing/Airline-will-allow-Seattleites-chance-to-fly-on-787-135993623.htmlThis is pretty cool. Not only will Sea-Tac get regular 787 service, we also get a new International airline serving our city. This is good, since we're losing one (Air France) next year. Delta will be taking over the daily SEA-CDG (Paris) flight next year.
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Post by Northern Exploration on Mar 1, 2012 14:10:27 GMT -8
Today the 787 Dreamliner landed for the first time in Toronto. I know the Seattle folks are yawning . It is here as part of the 75th Anniversary celebrations for Air Canada. Open for media, special guests and VIPs, Super Elite Aeroplan members, AC employees and local Boeing suppliers. My impression was that it is a beautiful aircraft in the sky and was very quiet on landing and taxiing. It was a gray windy day, so I will spare you my photos but the link below has some good ones. The local media was out in force and included helicopter footage of the landing and water cannon salute. www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/5402243/
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Post by Northern Exploration on Apr 27, 2012 18:58:15 GMT -8
FYI to all those in Vancouver who are interested in aircraft. The first Boeing 748i for Lufthansa will make a customs and paperwork stop at YVR on May 1st. Exact time can be had from Flight Aware and since the plane has officially been "delivered" to Lufthansa already, it will be under one of their flight numbers not a Boeing number and the only one leaving from Paine Field. It is unknown whether future LH 748i will also make the same stop. There are 5 to be delivered this year. It is pretty certain YVR will not see the Lufthansa 748i in service for the foreseeable future.
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Post by Koastal Karl on Apr 28, 2012 6:46:28 GMT -8
My girlfriends parents just flew out of YVR earlier this week with Lufthansa! I think it was A340 though to Frankfurt. They said it's a pretty good airline. What is a 748i??
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Post by Name Omitted on Apr 28, 2012 9:32:49 GMT -8
747- 800 intercontinental. The i differentiates beteween the passenger version and the (f)reight version. It's Boeing's shorthand. The 737-700 becomes the 73G to differentiate it from the generic 737.
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Post by Koastal Karl on Apr 28, 2012 16:29:19 GMT -8
How many different versions of the 747 are there??
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Post by Kahloke on Apr 28, 2012 17:12:22 GMT -8
How many different versions of the 747 are there?? Several. It started with the 747-100 prototype in the late 60's, followed by the 747-200, then the stretched 747-300, even more stretched and modernized 747-400, which is what you mostly see today commercially. They also made a really short version, dubbed the 747-SP, which saw service with a few commercial operators. There's also some military variants like Air Force One and the modified NASA one which carried the Space Shuttle on its back. Now, the 747-800 is ushering in the next generation of the venerable line with better avionics, lighter materials, more room, and better fuel efficiencies, and probably longer range, too. The 747-8F is the freighter version, and the 747-8i is the passenger version.
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Post by ancflyer on Apr 28, 2012 18:12:05 GMT -8
I've got a great website the folks in this forum might like to have a look into . . . I'm an Admin/Moderator there and we have a lot of technical genius there. Certified, by credentials, genius with members worldwide. We have a great photo database there too, sort of like "shipspotting.com" - I notice MrDOT posting there occasionally ;D:) A great place to get any questions about all facets of commerical and military answered - on the ground, in the air, in space, scheduling, strategies, Boeing, Airbus, the whole thing. We publish a daily News Page about everything aviation world-wide also. Have a look at www.netairspace.com Thanks
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Post by Name Omitted on Apr 28, 2012 19:04:50 GMT -8
Several. It started with the 747-100 prototype in the late 60's, followed by the 747-200, then the stretched 747-300, even more stretched and modernized 747-400, which is what you mostly see today commercially. They also made a really short version, dubbed the 747-SP, which saw service with a few commercial operators. There's also some military variants like Air Force One and the modified NASA one which carried the Space Shuttle on its back. Now, the 747-800 is ushering in the next generation of the venerable line with better avionics, lighter materials, more room, and better fuel efficiencies, and probably longer range, too. The 747-8F is the freighter version, and the 747-8i is the passenger version. There is also a domestic version of the -100 and -400 which has less fuel capacity and a higher takeoff weight for more people in economy, a combi version of the -200 and -400 that provides significantly increased cargo capacity at the cost of passenger capacity on the main deck, and a whole host of variants that tweak range and performance. Least you be curious, the 747-500 and 747-600 were in house models that never made it to production. IIRC, the -500 was a long range aircraft and the -600 was a very long stretch. I remember reading about them in the 90's, before the Sonic Cruiser came and went. I am on really thin ice here, the but I think the 747-700 was a long range vessel that could carry the same number of passengers as the -400 an additional 700 miles, with better high weight performance for full loads at extreme ranges. It became the 747-400XQLR (Quiet Long Range) and never directly made it to production. The research that went into the -700 program created the 747-400ER, and was then folded into the -8 program.
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Post by Northern Exploration on Apr 29, 2012 14:42:34 GMT -8
FYI to all those in Vancouver who are interested in aircraft. The first Boeing 748i for Lufthansa will make a customs and paperwork stop at YVR on May 1st. Exact time can be had from Flight Aware and since the plane has officially been "delivered" to Lufthansa already, it will be under one of their flight numbers not a Boeing number and the only one leaving from Paine Field. It is unknown whether future LH 748i will also make the same stop. There are 5 to be delivered this year. It is pretty certain YVR will not see the Lufthansa 748i in service for the foreseeable future. Ok so nevermind . Came early and left. Still leaves Paine Field again on the 1st and arrives Frankfurt on the 2nd. boeing.flightaware.com/live/flight/DLH9877/history/20120428/1830Z/CYVR/KBFIwww.flickr.com/photos/41645839@N00/6976203980/in/photostreamBoeing has changed their numbering/naming of aircraft. The industry (airline timetables) uses 748i (Intercontinental or passenger) and 748F (freighter version). Boeing now refers to their new aircraft as the 787-8, 787-9, 787-10, and in the case of the newest 747, the 748-8. All previous versions of the 747 are no longer in production. It remains to be seen what they will do with the new 737Max that is in design stages. You might see the cargo version of the 747-8 at YVR as Cathay has received a few and are using them to North America. Korean also has had a few delivered. There are a couple of other cargo companies as well using them and I know one flies to Calgary. The only way to tell the cargo version from the regular 747-400F and older versions is that the new 747-8 has raked wingtips like the 787/777 and not winglets that stand vertical like the 747-400. The passenger version has the same wing tips plus the upper deck is noticably longer. Engines are also visibly bigger on the new aircraft. *just found this www.youtube.com/watchv?=iaabfa43Ecs&feature=g-all-u
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Post by Northern Exploration on Apr 29, 2012 14:58:19 GMT -8
From a 1969 publication by the Vancouver Real Estate Board, “Through Lions Gate.” General photographs credit in the book is to Ted Czolowski. I purchased the book for $3 at a local Rotary Club book sale, just for the interesting “back in the day” photos. YVR. Around that time or just after a lot of school kids in the lower mainland had school trips to the new terminal. I was one of them. It was a big deal. The old terminal had a better outdoor viewing deck but the new terminal also had one above where the restaurants are pre-security in the domestic building. I remember watching a family friend's suitcase fall off of a baggage cart from there and we had bets whether when she arrived in Edmonton whether the mirror in the lid would be broken. Yup it was. There was no such thing as security and you could go down to the gates with passengers and see them off there. That all soon changed though. Our school trip included boarding a DC9 and getting a briefing from Air Canada. Out of the three classes that were there from Brentlawn, I was one of a handful who had ever been on a plane. Compare that to today and probably almost half or the majority have flown.
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Post by paulvanb on Aug 20, 2012 21:33:10 GMT -8
On July 31st, we were supposed to fly out of Catania, Italy on Alitalia. We weren't told why our flight was delayed. When we finally boarded our plane waiting on the tarmac, my 13 year old daughter said in a loud voce, "dad, this airplane smells of earwax!"
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Post by paulvanb on Aug 22, 2012 14:45:37 GMT -8
Somewhere over Iceland from the dirty windows of our Boeing 777 on August 1st. On another note, are the windows bigger on Boeing aircraft compated to Airbus? Just curious.
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Post by Balfour on Aug 22, 2012 19:20:56 GMT -8
Somewhere over Iceland from the dirty windows of our Boeing 777 on August 1st. On another note, are the windows bigger on Boeing aircraft compated to Airbus? Just curious. It depends on what kind of Boeing Aircraft. The 777 has larger windows than older Boeing aircraft and most Airbus aircraft. However, I've noticed Airbus's planes have larger rounder windows than most of the older Boeings such as 737, 757, 767.
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