Squawk as you see fit (Off Topic Thread)

I think they are also operating it to Frankfurt, possibly some others. Crew familarisation/recency apparently.

Saw a "weird" plane fly over my house a couple of weeks back , what was striking about it was it was a single prop engined plane but was the size of something like a regional jet , also the wings werent swept back much, it had no obvious airline markings. What might have I been looking at? it was heading west inland from Sandymount Strand direction. It just looked like a plane one would expect to be twin engined.

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Nice end to the year for Airbus with a big contract agreed with Air France - KLM.

" The contract covers Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft and will renew the medium-haul fleets of KLM and Dutch low-cost unit Transavia Netherlands, while also allowing for both the renewal and expansion of the fleet at sister unit Transavia France."

Makes me feel old that "oeo" 320s are going to the scrapper 😳 "Sit on my knee, son, now I remember when that fly by wire thing was considered witchcraft"

Then again, I'm still not over the loss of the L-1011 😪 by far the most technologically advanced airliner of its era, but it still couldn't overcome "why isn't this light on" 😕

Flew through Dubai World (DWC) a few nights ago, there had to be at least 40 A380’s in storage there. Didn’t see any B777’S, are they back in service or parked somewhere else.?

Ryanair 4052 Manchester to Faro made an emergency landing at Brest, France last night due to a reported outbreak of fire on board. Everyone was taken off safely.

Sky News have it that the aircraft shed 36,000 ft of altitude in about 6 minutes to make the approach, which must have been great craic for all concerned.

Don't know whether this is the right thread - but did any of you see the WWII movie Midway at the weekend, it showed a fighter plane taking off from a aircraft carrier and crashing in the sea because the ship was moving too slow - can someone please explain this scenario?

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SOmeone has a lot of paperwork to fill out

A plane spotter's dream comes through

Lots of bad CGI there.

I see China Airlines is maintaining its usual standards...

Catapult launches as we know them today were much more limited then and most aircraft took off from a carrier under their own power, aided by the built in head wind. A carrier needed to be hitting 25 to 30 knots, added to whatever wind was blowing on the day, to get loaded aircraft off and you often saw loaded aircraft dip down near the water after clearing the bow to gain a few extra knots of airspeed. Pilots were taught to turn left or right immediately in case they did ditch, to avoid getting run down by the ship. They also had the canopies open so that they could get out quickly. The aircraft usually had flotation bags built in to give them more time to get out and a dedicated crew dinghy, which was sometimes rigged to deploy automatically when immersed. But, carrier ops were and still are, always hazardous and accidents and losses were and are much more frequent than for land based operations.

Anyone recommend parking in the Clayton? I'm away from 24th-30th and the Clayton is only €51 where as the red long term where I was originally going to park is €75. Is the €25 saving worth it?

10 Irish aircorp fly by in Dublin this morning? Anybody?

HS 748 and a Fairchild C119