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Title: Beautiful aircraft
Post by: Furball on April 03, 2006, 12:44:21 PM: (http://www.avweb.com/newspics/Airbus_A380_A340_p05.jpg)

(http://www.avweb.com/newspics/Airbus_A380_A340_p03.jpg)

(http://www.avweb.com/newspics/Airbus_A380_A340_p01.jpg)

(http://www.avweb.com/newspics/Airbus_A380_A340_p07.jpg)

(http://www.avweb.com/newspics/Airbus_A380_A340_p06.jpg)
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Post by: storch on April 03, 2006, 01:20:05 PM: bah, only a mother could love it.
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Post by: BlueJ1 on April 03, 2006, 01:21:28 PM: Is this a troll? It being airbus? But it is a nice looking aircraft. But I prefer the F-22.
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Post by: Staga on April 03, 2006, 01:23:11 PM: They sure are... and so is landscape :)

A340-600 length 75.30m
A380-800 length 72,75m

Then again... An-225 lenght is 84m
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Post by: NattyIced on April 03, 2006, 01:26:52 PM: Commercial passenger jets rate the same as a city bus to me. They're both boring and crammed full of people.
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Post by: Debonair on April 03, 2006, 01:27:22 PM: chubby chaser
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Post by: Yeager on April 03, 2006, 01:29:36 PM: the a380 is the first airbus plane that doesn't look like a boeing to me. Thats refreshing, plus the mountains are beautiful.
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Post by: GtoRA2 on April 03, 2006, 01:45:23 PM: Landscape is great, the airplanes are uggggggllllllllllllllllllllll lyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Plus they are just airliners, post a few shots like that of a B1 or B52 and you will have something.

I think only the most boring people on the planet could find airliners entertaining.
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Post by: Pooh21 on April 03, 2006, 01:50:56 PM: mountains are nice. The a380 is kinda cool for a flying bus. The a340 looks like a flying dildo.
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Post by: ChickenHawk on April 03, 2006, 02:19:52 PM: Both are works of art and engineering marvels.
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Post by: Ripsnort on April 03, 2006, 02:48:34 PM: Great pics! Thanks for sharing! I sent some to my Illushin engineering friends in Moscow for immediated copy. ;)
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Post by: Furball on April 03, 2006, 02:54:12 PM: i was looking at a link someone posted, and apparently someone sent them these pics - very recent, so thought i would share.

not a troll, i just thought that they were nice pictures.
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Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on April 03, 2006, 02:56:00 PM: The 380 looks well proportioned compared to the 340. Those 340s look like gliders when you see them from the front.:D
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Post by: Furball on April 03, 2006, 02:59:13 PM: (http://www.fsaviation.com/~airvideo/a340/multimedia/gallery/ai/virgin.jpg)

looks better less stretched :D
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Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on April 03, 2006, 03:02:34 PM: Because it's a -400, not -600?:p
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Post by: Fishu on April 03, 2006, 03:07:21 PM: We'll be having one of those Virgin A340's (-300 though) over here in Finland in few weeks of time, operated by Finnair. It is rumoured to fly under Virgin's colours at first. They seem to be in a real hurry to get one for the summer.
It'll be rather different, because 4-engine jets are quite a rare sight over here. Triple jets are plentiful though.

Originally Finnair tried to get 8th MD-11, but they couldn't find a suitable plane and chose to have one more A343. They'll be operating with 4 A343's instead of originally planned 3. Supposedly A350's are to replace the 343's in the future.
Finnair's 7th MD-11 is an ER version, whereas the other 6 aren't. I think they received it from Brazil and I've heard that it wasn't in the best possible condition (I think the 8th MD-11 was abandoned due to bad condition of the other available planes).
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Post by: xrtoronto on April 03, 2006, 03:17:52 PM: nice pics Furb - beautiful a/c and scenery
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Post by: RAIDER14 on April 03, 2006, 04:51:58 PM: :eek: A340 is a really long plane
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Post by: Sombra on April 03, 2006, 06:08:17 PM: At first I thought they were screenshots from a videogame. I don't know if that talks bad about my visual skills or good about videogames. :confused:
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Post by: Hangtime on April 03, 2006, 06:14:33 PM: I agree. nice picture.

airbus sucks hairy wazoo...

but that is a nice picture.
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Post by: Tarmac on April 03, 2006, 07:08:03 PM: The 340 is a nice looking airplane. The 380 looks like too much like a Super Guppy.

(http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/images/content/121798main_061705_EC05-0091-78.jpg)
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Post by: ASTAC on April 03, 2006, 07:34:58 PM: As an Anti-Sub Tactical Air Controller..I think this one is beautiful..Does Airbus make a Maritime Patrol Aircraft?

Boeing 737-MMA. It ain't a P-3C, but if they insist on replacing the best Naval Aircraft ever built, then I guess it will do.

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/mma_10.jpg)

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/SMITHS.jpg)

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/mma_9.jpg)
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Post by: RAIDER14 on April 03, 2006, 07:37:23 PM: Boeing seems to be better:cool: :aok
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Post by: Yeager on April 03, 2006, 08:54:05 PM: The more I learn about the A380, and the more pictures I see of it like this, the more impressed I become with it. It is a beautiful flying machine.
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Post by: xrtoronto on April 03, 2006, 10:29:22 PM: agreed...she's a beauty!
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Post by: wetrat on April 03, 2006, 11:23:48 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Pooh21
The a340 looks like a flying dildo.
:rofl
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Post by: Furball on April 04, 2006, 01:52:45 AM: Quote
Originally posted by ASTAC
As an Anti-Sub Tactical Air Controller..I think this one is beautiful..Does Airbus make a Maritime Patrol Aircraft?

Boeing 737-MMA. It ain't a P-3C, but if they insist on replacing the best Naval Aircraft ever built, then I guess it will do.

Brits dont need one, thats for sure!

(http://www.pcfltd.co.uk/images/mra4.jpg)

(http://www.keme.co.uk/~supanova/colinspictures/images/farnborough_1998/l018_084.jpg)
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Post by: RTSigma on April 04, 2006, 02:12:07 AM: My personal preference, Airbuses are much more roomy than a Boeing and much more stable. I distinctly remember returning from LAX on a Boeing and being elbow-to-elbow with a dude while on an Airbus I was able to enjoy some luxury.
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Post by: Hangtime on April 04, 2006, 02:26:08 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Furball
Brits dont need one, thats for sure!

(http://www.pcfltd.co.uk/images/mra4.jpg)

(http://www.keme.co.uk/~supanova/colinspictures/images/farnborough_1998/l018_084.jpg)

Didn't the Nimrods get sucked up in the bermuda triangle with the resta the Comets like, what; 40 years ago? Right after the Avengers.... (not the tv show.. you know, the one with the other nimrod in the bowler hat and diana rigg)

;)
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Post by: straffo on April 04, 2006, 03:40:55 AM: nothing beat the connie

(http://www.conniesurvivors.com/pictures/N974R-May76.jpg)
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Post by: Debonair on April 04, 2006, 03:48:31 AM: Super Constellation
I know a guy - a 737 captain - who refers to the Convair 990 as "connie".
I've thought it was weird, but who am I to question the 10000 hour pro?
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Post by: straffo on April 04, 2006, 04:04:01 AM: He tried to make the convair look pretty ;)
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Post by: beet1e on April 04, 2006, 04:05:14 AM: Furb - are the mountains the French Alps?

Very nice pics. I hope the A380 is as quiet as the A340. I guess it will be quieter for some carriers than others. ;)
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Post by: storch on April 04, 2006, 06:59:49 AM: a super connie landing at MIA, probably in the late '70s. nice photo straffo.
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Post by: straffo on April 04, 2006, 07:36:04 AM: Quote
Originally posted by beet1e
Furb - are the mountains the French Alps?

Very nice pics. I hope the A380 is as quiet as the A340. I guess it will be quieter for some carriers than others. ;)

more probably the Pyrénée
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Post by: Ripsnort on April 04, 2006, 08:02:35 AM: Straffo, that Connie brings back memories! My first airline ride was in one, from Minneapolis to Ft. Lauderdale, FL in 1963.

I might add, that in 1964, while taking my dad to the airport with Mom for a flight, we watched as he got on board one of these I've posted below. According to my Dad, he said the moment I saw that aircraft with no propellors, I claimed that I was going to build those airplanes one day, this at age 4 1/2. ;) Ironically, the very first production part I manufactured for the Boeing Company at age 18 was for a 727 spares order.

(http://photos.airliners.net/photos/middle/2/5/3/0596352.jpg)
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Post by: beet1e on April 04, 2006, 08:32:01 AM: Quote
Originally posted by straffo
more probably the Pyrénée
Wow! My very first jet flight took me across the Pyrénée! :)

I've just seen a (copyrighted) photo of the A380 cockpit. LOL - it looks more like an Aces High gaming station! Both pilots have external view (tail fin mounted camera) and the joysticks look remarkably like one of my old Saitek twisty sticks. In front of the captain there is a keyboard - lol - and both pilots have a computer screen to the side of the main console angled at 45°. The display looks like my Windows 2000 display without the wallpaper.

I wonder if text and speech has to pass a profanity checker! :rofl
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Post by: Goomba on April 04, 2006, 10:55:30 AM: Love the Connie pic!

I've always felt that the Constellation was, and still remains, the single most elegant commercial aircraft designed to date.

While the moderns are certainly sculptural, they all look more and more like just another bus on wings. I suppose form does follow function, but I'm not seeing anything really notable these days.

The Connie still has lines worth noticing.
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Post by: Debonair on April 04, 2006, 11:14:56 AM: i wonder if they'll chat online with ATC?

jfkapp: speedbird 123, hold PVD VOR R-057, 6k, 4:00 legs, ETA 25:00
a380cp: d00d!! WTF!!?!l
a380lt: 1@m3, u r a g4y
jfkapp: roflmao, i pwn joo!!!!1!1!!1eleven
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Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on April 04, 2006, 12:14:00 PM: Connie is nice, but the Strato is number 1 for me ... the art-deco look second to none.
(http://www.ovi.ch/b377/pcs/paaAus.jpg)

(http://www.ovi.ch/b377/pcs/unitediii.jpg)
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Post by: Ripsnort on April 04, 2006, 12:21:33 PM: My father-in-law worked on those Stratos at Boeing Field. He also used to be a mechanic on the "Twin Mustang" in the Korean War.
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Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on April 04, 2006, 12:30:07 PM: He must had quite some fun time with the infamous pyromaniac 3350s and the corncobs :cry 28 cylinders of pain.
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Post by: Furball on April 04, 2006, 12:42:45 PM: the article said they were the swiss alps.

i think the strato is smurfy.

the DC 4 was much better looking
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Post by: Hangtime on April 04, 2006, 12:44:28 PM: Quote
Originally posted by straffo
more probably the Pyrénée

Typical... Brits using torpedoes on mountains.
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Post by: Furball on April 04, 2006, 12:48:15 PM: submarines in mountains are the threat of the future. we are just planning ahead.
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Post by: Hangtime on April 04, 2006, 12:52:21 PM: so that's where the french hide their subs!
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Post by: Furball on April 04, 2006, 12:55:11 PM: well, if they put them at sea they are afraid they might find a war. better be safe than sorry.

besides, i wouldnt want to be a frenchman at sea with the royal navy about, it doesnt usually have a happy ending.
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Post by: Ripsnort on April 04, 2006, 01:04:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
He must had quite some fun time with the infamous pyromaniac 3350s and the corncobs :cry 28 cylinders of pain.
I should have been more specific: "Airframe Mechanic"
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Post by: Hangtime on April 04, 2006, 01:13:17 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Furball
well, if they put them at sea they are afraid they might find a war. better be safe than sorry.

besides, i wouldnt want to be a frenchman at sea with the royal navy about, it doesnt usually have a happy ending.

Really? Yah sure about that? Cause DeGrasse certainly seemed to abruptly end the limey attempt at colonial butt spanking over here a few hundred years back...
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Post by: Furball on April 04, 2006, 01:23:21 PM: thats why i said usually instead of always. we usually annihilate them.
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Post by: straffo on April 04, 2006, 02:48:07 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Furball
thats why i said usually instead of always. we usually annihilate them.

but since we learned :)

(http://www.netmarine.net/armes/exocet/exocet02.jpg)

J/K Furby ;)
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Post by: Hangtime on April 04, 2006, 02:50:58 PM: perfect setup.. he passes to Straffo.. he shoots..

He scores!

GOAL!!! GOAL!!! GOAL!!

;)
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Post by: straffo on April 04, 2006, 03:06:52 PM: ROTFL :D
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Post by: RAIDER14 on April 04, 2006, 04:44:03 PM: Quote
they all look more and more like just another bus on wings

thats where they got the name Airbus:lol
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Post by: Ripsnort on April 04, 2006, 04:56:10 PM: Quote
Originally posted by RAIDER14
thats where they got the name Airbus:lol

I have a 1972 photo of the first Boeing 747 in flight. The name of the plane is "Super Air Bus". Now you know where they got the name. ;) (I'll snap a picture of it off my office wall if I remember tonight)
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Post by: straffo on April 04, 2006, 05:19:54 PM: except Airbus was founded in 1972 :)

For the kids : http://www.airbus.com/store/mm_repository/pdf/att00006084/media_object_file_A380_airbuscolours.pdf

;)
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Post by: RAIDER14 on April 04, 2006, 05:21:40 PM: Quote
Originally posted by straffo
except Airbus was founded in 1972 :)

For the kids : http://www.airbus.com/store/mm_repository/pdf/att00006084/media_object_file_A380_airbuscolours.pdf

;)

Boeing was founded long before that, "Boeing B17 ":aok
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Post by: straffo on April 04, 2006, 05:29:41 PM: Raider ever heard of Blériot ?

If you look at the "genealogic tree" of Airbus you will find Sud Aviation ,Sud Aviation was the result of the merge between SNCASO and SNCASE and SNCASO was the result of the merge of several entities and Blériot.

I strongly doubt that Boeing was founded before Blériot :D

Be more carefull next time ;)
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Post by: Debonair on April 04, 2006, 05:39:01 PM: Boeing founded in 1916, Bleriot joined SPAD as president in 1914
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Post by: straffo on April 04, 2006, 05:43:39 PM: I just checked Blériot-Voisin was founded in 1905, now I'm off to bed it's too late
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Post by: Debonair on April 04, 2006, 05:57:12 PM: And now...the rest of the story
it ceased to exist in 1906
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Post by: beet1e on April 05, 2006, 05:33:27 AM: Quote
Originally posted by straffo
but since we learned :)

(http://www.netmarine.net/armes/exocet/exocet02.jpg)

J/K Furby ;)
I wish this had not been sold to Argentina. :mad:

~~the crew of HMS Sheffield, 1982.~~
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Post by: Rino on April 05, 2006, 09:23:59 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Hangtime
so that's where the french hide their subs!

The little wheels on the bottom are a dead giveaway ;)
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Post by: Ripsnort on April 05, 2006, 09:27:32 AM: Quote
Originally posted by straffo
except Airbus was founded in 1972 :)

For the kids : http://www.airbus.com/store/mm_repository/pdf/att00006084/media_object_file_A380_airbuscolours.pdf

;)

Correction to my post above, it was a picture from its first flight in 1969.
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/background.html

Sorry for the poor quality of pic:

(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/137485577.jpg)

(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/137485579.jpg)

So now you know where Airbus stole the name from, a very successful company :)
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Post by: StSanta on April 05, 2006, 10:50:21 AM: Hm yes, because airliners aren't glorified buses that fly. Airbus. Wow, where could one even conceive of such a name?

:D
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Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on April 05, 2006, 11:38:11 AM: Quote
Originally posted by beet1e
I wish this had not been sold to Argentina. :mad:

~~the crew of HMS Sheffield, 1982.~~

~~Well ... if you must know, we sold the Exocet to Argentina, and the associated counter measure to Great Britain. :p~~
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Post by: Hangtime on April 05, 2006, 12:03:06 PM: ppssssssst. Frenchy.. it's 'they'. not 'we'.
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Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on April 05, 2006, 01:03:47 PM: "they" is for sissies.:)