Mase Taylor [L.A]
Top Gun
Reged: 04/29/04
Posts: 3763
Loc: SOCAL
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Still new whales coming from Boeing this year.
Regards,
Dux
HERE is some stuff on the new 747-8.
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Joe Budge (W29)
Top Gun
Reged: 04/30/04
Posts: 5585
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HERE is some stuff on the new 747-8.
I had wondered what was "new" about the -8. Thanks for the link! And that paint job is almost as slick as Bessie's.
Regards,
Joe
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Randy Sohn
Gradn Exlated Ordre of teh Fyling Fingres
Reged: 08/31/01
Posts: 10637
Loc: KMSP
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Grining here, Dux, guess then they should ahve been on "LaVerne" or "Shirley", huh? Memories!
Best, Randy
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Andy Dulay [PGD]
Hangar Rat
Reged: 04/07/04
Posts: 57
Loc: Punta Gorda, Florida
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My very first takeoff in the 747 was on a flight (IOE, first leg!) from Louisville, KY to Rome, as in Rome, Italy.
It's August, it's hot and of course we're maxed out.
I've just come from the rocket ship B-757 with the big engines and to make things exciting, my recently hired engineer gives me REDUCED THRUST DATA!!
Of course, I'm a day one, brand new guy in the machine so I really don't understand what he's just handed up.
The takeoff was, uh, to say the least, exciting.
It's amazing how much dirt and dust comes up from the opposite end of the runway when you charge on through with the mains dragging the ground with about 500 feet of runway left.
The old IOE instructor was just hanging on to his job and should have been retired off a long time ago so he didn't catch it.
About that time I wondered just what I had gotten myself in for???
Turns out I was able to catch that mistake many times in the ensuing years. Familiarity with your aircraft solves a lot of accidents before they happen!!
That new hire engineer who handed up the "bad data" is now an MD-11 Captain and right up until I left, he always bought me a beer whenever I brought up that particular flight in front of his crew. We laugh about it even to this day.
AD (not missing UPS for a minute)
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Richard Duxbury (Dux)
Top Gun
Reged: 05/15/04
Posts: 2053
Loc: Minneapolis/Tucson
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You are correct Andy
At over 800,000lb at takeoff at max gross, the concept of reduced thrust was not (or in your example should not have been) considered -at least with the B-747-200 birds.
Yep, like you I went from the hot rod B-757 to the B-747-but I had some previous years as a 1st Officer and even FE.
Still, it's a great aircraft and it looks like new ones are coming from Boeing -longer, better wings, better engines, and even longer.
But mostly for cargo -and no long upper deck?
Regards,
Dux-from Tucson and a many years since I've been a pilot in a B-747.
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