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we all have one,but it,s the FAA,s opinion that counts.....!
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sure is. FAA is a stodgy Government Bureaucracy that,s about 40 years behind the industry at any given time,but you,ve got to play the game their way,or you don,t play at all......!
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Yeah, and until people get killed they don't add new rules.
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it never fails.
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Ahaha... I'm so envious! I'd love to get into commercial aviation once I can afford to get into a flight school[would love to fly MD-11s for FedEx or any other cargo company, but they might not be around by the time I'm able to fly one].
And just because I've always wanted to ask a commercial pilot this; have you ever had any close calls/incidents during your career?
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Close calls....we all get our share of those,it just goes with the job. if flight school costs are a problem,would you consider military service? they,ll take a piece out of your hide,but provide plenty of good training,and all Government-subsidized!
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Wow cool. Are you really an airline captain who flies this?
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That is SOOOO cool. I've always wanted to get a chance to talk to an actual airline captain. I may have some question for you later. I couldn't imagine flying every day. I only fly once a year or few years and get really nervous each time I fly. I love it and enjoy the whole experience, but still get nervous. Must be like second nature to you pilots like driving a car for me, huh?
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there,s really nothing to be nervous about. you,re safer on the "invisible highway" than on the asphalt one! all handled and controlled by serious pros,and lots of highly sophisticated Air Traffic Control equipment. i,m actually more nervous on the ride coming into or going home from the airport,thanks to soooo many idiots with big,ugly SUV,s who don,t even really know how to drive them properly in the first place,and are just so into their important little cel-phone conversations to have any sort of Situational Awareness...!
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I know this is a late reply, but I'm finally going through my old messages in my inbox. lol
Anyway, I know there isn't anything to be nervous about and that it's safer than driving and all. I think most of it is because it's something I don't do very often and I usually get nervous of things in general that are out of the ordinary. Once I'm in the air I do enjoy the flight and find the whole thing very fascinating. I find the takeoffs and landings to be the most exciting, mostly the takeoffs. I love the sounds of the engines spooling up followed by the increased speed. Great stuff.
But yeah, I agree. The crew are very professional and you don't have to worry about careless drivers around you talking on their cell phones.
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old messages indeed! but better late than not at all! thanks for the fave too.
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old cat purrrrrrrrs.
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I got to sit in the left seat of a UA 767! It was before my flight from LHR to ORD! The double bonus of that experience was that it was the United Star Alliance colour scheme plane!
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what type of 767 was it? we have the -200 and -400ER series.
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If memory serves me correctly, I think it was a -200ER and I THINK the N-number was N248UA! I looked it up on the internet when I got back and found out it was a one of a kind special paint job!!
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we had one of our 777,s{014} in a special paint scheme by artist Peter Max to celebrate The New Milleneium for New York City2000 but it was recently stripped and refinished in standard Company colours. lots of 767-200 and -300,s out there,but we and Delta were the only customers for the -400 series,only 38 examples were produced altogether.
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Oooh! I seen Peter max in Denver like four years ago!!! Continental Airlines right? Never flew DL's 767's though! Those -400's are pretty long!!!!!
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the -400 is almost a 777....uses the same wheel/tyre/brake assemblies,and windows/windshields as well as many of the same systems and components. a shame about Peter Max......but it was an agreement between COAir and NYC that was for a certain time,and it ran out. and the actual paint finish was still in good condition too.
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Thats probably why they only made a few of them! No sense in building something that closely resembles another product! So the -400 uses a 777 FBW system too?
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yes,the flight control systems and Airinc buses,AIMS are very similar,along with many other components,the Good,Ol Boeing "Parts Bin" concept of using something that,s already there,saves a lot of time and money.
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Cool! I've heard of the "parts bin" thing alot! Boeing's been doing that since WWII I think! Also 707,727, and 737 all have similar nose sections and fuselage diameters to keep manufacturing costs down!
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707,720,727,and 737 all had IDENTICAL nose sections{windscreens,radomes,etc.,all interchangeable},as well as all types and the 757 shared the same and original fuselage cross-section of the 707,just in different lengths. just a simple matter of "slicing the Seattle Sausage" to the length needed.....!
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Indeed! LOL! You can cut something out or put something in!!!! Just look at all those different 737's!!!
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and i,m sure we will see a 737-1000 series soon enough....i hope my Company will be the Launch Customer for it.
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probably about the same as most of the other 737NewGens....unless they do some radical mod to the design.
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"nuke got it! B-757-224,COAir. sorry about no pilots,to take pics of personnel i needed express permission from Human Resources and our HR manager was,nt avail at the time. even a Captain,s gotta play by the rules!"
Haha, at KLM we can just photograph away at anything we like in our planes and around our planes when they are in our hangars. Only when the planes are outside at the gates we can't take pictures of them. But nice photograph, i have a bunch of cockpit shots in my album aswell.
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at least i managed to take some pics before they really started cracking down on those silly rules. some of them had to do with taking pics of other employees without prior consent,considered Invasion of Privacy,and a sure way to get in big trouble. other reasons were about airport security,very severe in the USA since 9/11.
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Hopefully my office will look like that
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or perhaps something even more advanced,like the 787 Dreamliner.......?
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747-800.......? if they do go ahead with it. back in the early 70,s,the Japanese proposed a full doubledecker version of the 747 for intercity short range hops as a pure people-mover {small carry-on luggage only,purses and briefcases}that could carry aprox. 1000 passengers! back then,Boeing hemmed and hawed over the development/certification cost of redesigning the fuselage,but it may yet happen still......!
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Whoops, I meant the 747-8 
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how about that goofy looking specialized freighter version? but it,s a Boeing,so it should work just fine.
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I've seen pics of that. I couldn't believe that was a 747 when I first looked at it
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i wonder if anybody will make a kit of it? RevellGermany did make one of that Airbus Beluga Super-Transporter!
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There probably are some models of it somewhere
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not yet. if a kit came out,AHS would be among the first to stock them. but we can always hope! and BTW,i swear i,ll never do another one of those Revell kits of that A380 beast again......possibly if and only if Hasegawa made one in their 1/200 LoveLiner series.
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I take it that A380 was pretty big then, just like that Concorde?
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not so much big,but just a very bitchy kit to build,very complicated and delicate landing gear,also very thin-walled plastic on the larger parts{warpage and lots of fit problems,needed a lot of added reinforcing structure} as well as brittle and tricky decals. not a particularly pleasant build,for sure.
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I'm curious, how do you reinforce a plastic model? Do you put putty or something inside it?
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strips of sheet styrene and LocTite 495 Super Bonder{aerospace grade} along the inner seams,adds tremendous strength by creating a double lap joint in addition to the original butt joint. also adds a lamination to the original wall for added stiffness of structure.
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Hopefully my office will look like this in a few years!
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might take more than a few years. i lucked out and went right into Big Jets as a Flight Engineer when we still had lots of planes with 3-seat cockpits,but now,most start out as as F/O,s {very low-paid!} for a regional/commuter carrier. {Puddle-Jumpers}
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Your office? So where's the photocopier?
But seriously, very cool
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photocopier,and don,t forget the pretty secretary too,with a hemline to equal our cruising altitude.....!
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