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Post by beagle on Feb 27, 2014 16:30:21 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 27, 2014 17:25:57 GMT 12
Oh no! How do the pilots see??
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 27, 2014 17:26:58 GMT 12
I heard the other day on Xtended podcast that Boeing has over 4000 aeroplanes on the waiting list to be built, and Airbus has over 5000! Quite a backlog.
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Post by beagle on Feb 27, 2014 18:10:41 GMT 12
Oh no! How do the pilots see?? have you read about these aircraft Dave. First in world with no pilots, all fully automatic. |
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Post by Ian Warren on Feb 27, 2014 18:59:35 GMT 12
Oh no! How do the pilots see?? They are preparing for Instrument blind flight training ... happens to all the newbies  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 27, 2014 19:41:29 GMT 12
Oh no! How do the pilots see?? have you read about these aircraft Dave. First in world with no pilots, all fully automatic. No pilots? The unions would never wear that, surely. |
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Post by beagle on Feb 27, 2014 21:12:52 GMT 12
I doubt the passengers would either
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Feb 27, 2014 21:19:02 GMT 12
I doubt the passengers would either The Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) in the San Francisco Bay area started off with no drivers way back when the system opened in the 1970s. It didn't last long as passengers refused to travel in commuter trains that didn't have a human driver. Probably a few system failures that led to some massive stuff-ups didn't help, but within a short period of time, the transit authority put driver's controls in the trains and hired human drivers. And that is how it has been ever since. |
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Post by beagle on Feb 27, 2014 21:21:20 GMT 12
they could have probably put a moving mannequin in the seat to look like a driver
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Post by Bruce on Feb 27, 2014 23:08:10 GMT 12
they could have probably put a moving mannequin in the seat to look like a driver Otto? (Airplane!) |
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Post by aeromuzz on Feb 28, 2014 10:12:18 GMT 12
they could have probably put a moving mannequin in the seat to look like a driver Otto? (Airplane!) As long as he didn't have a leak!!! |
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Post by lurker on Feb 28, 2014 16:33:01 GMT 12
I heard the other day on Xtended podcast that Boeing has over 4000 aeroplanes on the waiting list to be built, and Airbus has over 5000! Quite a backlog. Ahhh, that was prior to that Australian airline cancelling/deferring. |
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Post by noooby on Mar 1, 2014 9:07:38 GMT 12
Well, if you travel on the Skytrain light rail system in Vancouver, BC, which has been running everyday since 1986, you'll notice that they have never had drivers and don't have controls. You can sit where a driver would and look out the front, but that is all you can do from that seat.
I read a design article once about how much drag (and fuel) could be saved by not having windows up front. And really, when you think about it, a few cameras to help them taxi to the runway and back is about all that is needed. Once off the ground it takes itself to its destination. Only thing it can't do is make the radio calls along the way (yet!)
As far as backlogs are concerned, do those numbers include options and letters of intent, or are they really orders that they have deposits for?
A number is just a number unless you know what it means!
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Post by nuuumannn on Mar 5, 2014 12:31:20 GMT 12
Same with the Docklands Light Railway in London.
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Post by ErrolC on Mar 5, 2014 12:39:11 GMT 12
The DLR conductors can take over if required, I thought? Which makes out very different.
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Post by beagle on Apr 7, 2014 16:50:39 GMT 12
look whar just rolled out of the paintshop at Seattle  |
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Apr 8, 2014 3:59:53 GMT 12
Wow, that's very er...black. Will it fade?
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Post by obiwan27 on Apr 8, 2014 10:21:26 GMT 12
Wear and tear perhaps, but fade? Not if the current fleet of black liveried aircraft are anything to go by.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Apr 8, 2014 11:25:58 GMT 12
Click on any of these photographs to download a larger size.... Air New Zealand’s first 787-9 rolling out of the paint hangar. — Photo: Bernie Leighton/AirlineReporter.com ZK-NZE under tow from the paint shop. — Photo: Bernie Leighton/AirlineReporter.com Nose to nose with Air New Zealand’s first Dreamliner. — Photo: Bernie Leighton/AirlineReporter.com Fully side on with ZK-NZE. — Photo: Bernie Leighton/AirlineReporter.com ZK-NZE on the Boeing compass rose at KPAE. — Photo: Bernie Leighton/AirlineReporter.com
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 8, 2014 11:49:21 GMT 12
It looks superb, and airliners usually never interest me!!
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