The Planespotting/General AV Geek Thread

[JohnM]

Recently posted. Long, but very interesting IMO:

 

[RSVKanga]

Just confirming....this image is a Photoshop/prank, right?

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Posted to a planespotter's Instagram account a couple of weeks ago. I haven't seen any other pictures of VH-XF4 being painted in green since.

 

[jb747]

Recently posted. Long, but very interesting IMO.

Manual thrust on the approach. I wonder why?

 

[JohnM]

Manual thrust on the approach. I wonder why?

I certainly would not know.

Would you like to elaborate?

 

[RooFlyer]

A three aisler ... (from Simplyflying.com )

What Would The Passenger Capacity Of The Airbus Beluga XL Be If It Was An Airliner?


The designed number of seats in a three-class configuration on the concept Airbus BelugaXL commercial airliner are as follows.

First Class: 24 seats (Four abreast in 1-1-1-1)
Business Class: 84 seats (Six abreast in 1-2-2-1)
Economy Class: 624 seats (12 abreast in 3-3-3-3)
Total seats: 732

 

[encryptededdy]

onboard video of the Virgin Australia 737 compressor stalls out of ZQN

 

[ayebee]

young spotter in Perth caught this one ... action around 0:50 in
Runway no longer PERfect ...

 

[jase05]

I saw that the other day. The work experience kids must have laid the tarmac

 

[Captain Halliday]

young spotter in Perth caught this one ... action around 0:50 in
Runway no longer PERfect ...

Here’s the audio.

Appears SQ landed before the RWY was closed.

 

[jb747]

Appears SQ landed before the RWY was closed.

I'd have thought you'd see it.

And on a different note, if you happen to be travelling along the Murray in Victoria, there's an excellent little museum at Lake Boga, with a Catalina. The lake was used for training and maintenance of flying boats in WWII. And the local silo has been given the silo art treatment, with an aviation theme.

 

[kelvedon]

50% of Cabo Verde’s fleet at LIS this afternoon

 

[markis10]

A380 9HGLOBL Landed in Dresden after a long trip from the boneyard with a gear down crossing of the Atlantic in May and the same again on this leg, apparently there were no jacks in the US to do a gear swing…..QF we’re obviously not handing their KLAX assets over! Be interesting to see if she ever enters service as proposed, lots of hurdles to overcome with seating etc

 

[eastwest101]

A380 9HGLOBL Landed in Dresden after a long trip from the boneyard with a gear down crossing of the Atlantic in May and the same again on this leg, apparently there were no jacks in the US to do a gear swing…..QF we’re obviously not handing their KLAX assets over! Be interesting to see if she ever enters service as proposed, lots of hurdles to overcome with seating etc

Certainly the EFW Facilities at Dresden are used by Lufthansa and Emirates for their A380s still? I guess a good a place as any for a gear overhaul and all the other heavy maintenence.

Is the seating issue still a thing? I thought the issue was more of a parts thing with the A380 fleet.

 

[markis10]

Certainly the EFW Facilities at Dresden are used by Lufthansa and Emirates for their A380s still? I guess a good a place as any for a gear overhaul and all the other heavy maintenence.

Is the seating issue still a thing? I thought the issue was more of a parts thing with the A380 fleet.

The seating issue may have been overcome by using the China Southern bird which has Sicma seats rather than the original first bird which had the now unusable Koito seats.

 

[jastel]

First time a RAAF F35 Lightning was in CNS today.
Landed about 10:45 took off a bit early before the incoming rain at 13:20 or so.
Was to educate the airport refuellers and handlers supposedly.

Bit hard to see against grey sky...I suppose thats the point but.

 

[PERLHR]

Always nice to return to Paris at this time of year. Europe and indeed the UK do that Christmas festive feeling so well. Departing LHR and taxiing at Cdg after the short hop from Heathrow.