“....drop them in Massachusetts” : that’d take a pretty big deviation from an IAD-PHX flight plan.

(Written on 2021/01/16)(Permalink)

Would one crew fly both legs, HNL to California and back? Can this be done within duty time limits? Or would they bring a second crew to fly the return to HNL? Presumably the crew or crews would wait on the plane in California while it is unloaded, serviced, reloaded.

(Written on 2021/01/07)(Permalink)

Having read all 89 comments before this, I think this forum needs MCAS: a Mediating Contentious Arguments System. How ‘bout it FlightAware?

(Written on 2021/01/02)(Permalink)

“....passengers don’t weigh very much.”: actually passengers are high density in terms of weight per unit of volume. They just can’t be packed together as tightly as cargo, though some airlines do try.

(Written on 2020/12/25)(Permalink)

Sutter and Boeing designed the 747 from the outset to be a freighter. It was thought that SSTs would soon make it obsolete as a passenger plane.

(Written on 2020/12/24)(Permalink)

Along with the type certificates, Mitsubishi got the parts and maintenance business, including Bombardier’s CRJ service bases. This infrastructure will be very useful to Mitsubishi when and if they maybe somehow someday I’m-not-holding-my-breath-waiting get the SpaceJet certified and in production.

(Written on 2020/12/18)(Permalink)

I think Eastern used Electras well into the ‘70s as standby aircraft for the Eastern Shuttle. In July 1976 a parked empty Eastern Electra was destroyed at BOS by a bomb. Before that, in October 1960, one crashed into Boston Harbor on takeoff: birds ingested into engines. I remember as a little guy seeing the new Electras in Orlando at ORL. They sure sounded different than the piston-engine prop liners of the day...

(Written on 2020/12/11)(Permalink)

Full-day layover should be enough rest time for the same crew that flew it in to MCO to fly it back out to HNL. 12-hour layover in AUS and 11h30m layover in ONT might also allow one crew to fly the round trip. A trip to Hawaii on their BOS/HNL service is on my bucket list

(Written on 2020/12/09)(Permalink)

aviation-safety.net reports the incident aircraft to be a 737-800

(Written on 2020/12/07)(Permalink)

“This was a demo flight....” the article says, so not carrying paying passengers. The need to ferry the airplane from storage to AA maintenance base at KTUL for FAA-required upgrades presented an opportunity for a publicity flight.

(Written on 2020/12/03)(Permalink)