Great Video and what a great landing from the pilot. That looked like one of the smoothest I have ever seen.

(Written on 2012/09/24)(Permalink)

Starting to look like Boeing were right when they said that the demand for large aircraft wouldn't be there so the moved onto the 787. The 747-8 is a relatively small expense as its just an improvement on a current model rather than a completely new plane design.

(Written on 2012/07/12)(Permalink)

You get an initial feeler that travels up to towards the sky and when it connects a path is created and the lightening discharges to the ground.

(Written on 2012/07/02)(Permalink)

The lightening has traveled all the way down from the sky to the plane. A (relatively) small tire is not going to stop it.

(Written on 2012/07/02)(Permalink)

This is like extra scary like coz when the plane hit something like it started moving along like in turbulence like and then they said we hit birds like and had to go back like and everyone was like oh my god like. Why do the press feel the need to get quotes from people like this. There must have been someone intelligent on the plane.

(Written on 2012/03/06)(Permalink)

I was in a 767 leaving Heathrow in weather worse than that. At one point we were waiting at the end of 27R and as the rain came in the runway began to disappear it was raining that hard. We had to wait for landing planes as they were given priority due to the weather (they were using both 27R and 27L to land planes)and I still don't think it was a dangerous takeoff when we did eventually get going. This looks like a normal wet day takeoff with probably a fairly strong crosswind as the pilot was correcting with aileron as can be seen by the spoilerons being up.

(Written on 2012/03/05)(Permalink)

That makes no sense at all. If I had been the pilot and couldn't see where I was going then I would just brake and pull up as soon as possible. I wouldn't be looking for visual clues. Also if it was that bad how did he manage to land on the runway in the first place. I agree that this is a load of bull****

(Written on 2012/02/27)(Permalink)

This says to me that the explination is not wrong just the assumption that the molecules of air that split at the front of the wing meet up again at the back of the wing. I do think that this video is a bad example. The high angle of attack that the wing has adds other factors to the equation. The explination would be alot clearer if the wing was level and they were demonstating only the airflow around an aerofoil

(Written on 2012/01/29)(Permalink)

I saw this. I am pretty sure there were 1 or 2 balls ups by channel 5. I think they referred to the JetBlue A320 as a 737 and if i remember correctly they messed up later on in the show (can't remember exactly what that one was though). All the dramatics a side it was pretty good to watch.

(Written on 2012/01/16)(Permalink)

It was an engine problem and they shut it down whats the big deal. The press making a mountain out of a mole-hill again. Yes it was a problem but not life threatening like is being implied.

(Written on 2012/01/10)(Permalink)