That's really great -- good to see it get a workout on this spat of charter work.
Sadly, that also means I don't get to see it on the ground during my departure back to YVR today. Saw it parked this past Saturday and it was glorious. I snagged a pic but it's garbage and looking into the sun; plus there are better ones already posted in this thread.
Another unique visitor courtesy of the RAF charter flights, an Air Greenland A332 currently parked on apron II just south of the terminal. Not sure when it will leave.
The latest update I have is September 16... primary culprit is delays in actually getting the aircraft from Boeing. Secondary culprit is that YYC doesn't do well for BA so they're in no rush. The delays have caused problems for AC as well.
The latest update I have is September 16... primary culprit is delays in actually getting the aircraft from Boeing. Secondary culprit is that YYC doesn't do well for BA so they're in no rush. The delays have caused problems for AC as well.
Thanks...if that date holds true I'll be on the second outgoing flight. Hopefully they'll have some booking abnormalities at check in, getting used to the new aircraft, and I'll get somehow bumped to a pod in Business Class.
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With the Shuttle program done what is NASA doing with the plane that carried the shuttle around?
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Shuttle Carrier N911NA retired on February 8, 2012 after its final mission to the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, California, and will be used as a source of parts for NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).[12]
Shuttle Carrier N905NA was used to ferry the retired Shuttles to their respective museums. It returned to the Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a short flight from Los Angeles International Airport on September 24, 2012. It was intended to join N911NA as a source of spare parts for NASA's SOFIA aircraft.[12][13] NASA engineers surveyed N905NA and determined that it had few parts usable for SOFIA, and 905 is now intended to be preserved and displayed in Houston. Three former NASA aircraft are on static display in the Houston area - two T-38s at the front entrance of Space Center Houston, and the former NASA KC-135 930 Vomit Comet. In 2013, the Space Center announced plans to display SCA 905 with the mockup shuttle Independence mounted on its back.[14] NASA 905 was erected on site at the space center, having been ferried in pieces from Ellington Field, and the replica shuttle was mounted in August 2014.[15] The display is scheduled to open in 2015.
Shuttle Carrier N911NA is being loaned out for display to the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark in Palmdale, Calif., beginning in September 2014.[16] The aircraft will remain a source of spare parts for the SOFIA program.
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Long line of thunderstorms right across the middle of the US at the moment, so guys get to do that 1,400+ km detour to get around them. Seems most everyone else try to find a gap through, or went around the south side, but this Delta... scenic route.
Long line of thunderstorms right across the middle of the US at the moment, so guys get to do that 1,400+ km detour to get around them. Seems most everyone else try to find a gap through, or went around the south side, but this Delta... scenic route.
That does seem quite excessive. Maybe they lost their weather radar enroute.
Possible, but I'm more inclined to think somebody in dispatch or somebody at Denver Center made a bad call... because they took enough fuel at SFO to get around that massive storm from the beginning.
Possible, but I'm more inclined to think somebody in dispatch or somebody at Denver Center made a bad call... because they took enough fuel at SFO to get around that massive storm from the beginning.
Must have been Denver then, cause Dispatchers never make bad calls.
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In fairness, without seeing what they were seeing in front of them on the weather radar, it is hard to pass judgment. A long, smooth, uneventful detour is far better than trying to squeeze through a small gap between 40000'+ cells. Strong turbulence at higher altitudes is problematic, and lightning strikes are expensive and disruptive.
Might be the people on that flight had the most boring ride through that weather, and I mean it in a good way.
For sure, there's obviously a lot more factors at play than I'm considering. I just found it weird that they didn't try to go around the south side as it seems way shorter. Based on some other routes I looked at, it's possible that they were attempting to try to split the two biggest systems that were just starting to merge because some other guys made it through there, but it didn't work out and they had to go up north and all the way around. Maybe KC Center couldn't take any more guys deviating to the south of that system.
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