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Post by Tero » Wed May 31, 2023 7:02 pm

I did not want to google this when still traveling but one engine is fine.
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If two Canada Geese fly into two engines, though...
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:14 pm

NASA's going to try the truss wing.



'NASA’s newest X-plane wants to save the planet'
There’s a new NASA X-plane in town, and like its predecessors, it’s a little bit goofy-looking. Unlike most of the space agency’s experimental aircraft, however, the new X-plane isn’t built to break speed barriers, carry astronauts, or test the possibilities of unmanned air combat. This one is designed to fight climate change.

NASA and Boeing announced on Tuesday that the Air Force had designated a new transonic, truss-winged aircraft as the X-66A. The design is a product of the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, a NASA-Boeing partnership to produce a single-aisle plane that promises to slash fuel consumption for commercial aircraft. The new aircraft looks like a giant glider with long, skinny wings propped up by diagonal struts to reduce drag. If widely adopted, the truss-winged design could transform sustainable air travel as we know it. The new X-66A is also the first X-plane designed specifically to achieve the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions for airplanes.

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Re: Airplane and airline stuff

Post by Tero » Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:29 pm

I'd like to have it in production in the 2nd Trump administration. He will have lots of press conferences.

Simialr to the aircraft carrier stuff
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Re: Airplane and airline stuff

Post by Tero » Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:59 am

The 737s are an old line of planes. Airlines wanted them as old 737 pilots can fly any newwer 727 model. Not sure what Airbus they would buy to get the same kind of plane. The engines are bigger than original 737s now that the smaller planes fly greater distances.
United Airlines said it now expects its fleet of Boeing Max 9 jets to remain grounded through the end of this month, and that the company will report a first quarter loss in the range of $116 million to $262 million. That’s more than the $138 million loss already forecast by analysts surveyed by Refinitiv.

United has 79 of the Max 9s, more than any other airline, and had originally scheduled nearly 8,000 flights with the plane for this month before the incident, according to Cirium, an aviation analytics firm.

Beyond the current 737 Max 9 problem is what this means for Boeing’s orders for the 737 Max 10, a newer, larger version and more expensive version of the 737 Max that has yet to be certified by the FAA. It will be at least five years in a best case scenario before Boeing can delivery those Max 10 jets to United, Kirby said, and the airline is now no longer counting on getting that plane in the future.
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Re: Airplane and airline stuff

Post by macdoc » Wed Jan 31, 2024 5:27 pm

Bought a model of the Concorde to go with our Blackbird.
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