Author Topic: Commercial aviation thread  (Read 1597 times)

Post anything related to aviation. If you've flown on one, you lose. "You Flown, You Lose" is an alternate title, but this is also a megathread.

For those of you who don't know, or have been living under a rock since the forties, commercial aviation is the transport of passengers across the world (international) or across countries (domestic). It varies in price and usually you pay for one seat (one ticket). The oldest currently running airline is KLM which had its first commercial flight in 1927. The worst - maybe not the most famous, but the worst - incident involving commercial aviation (excluding 9/11 which was mostly ground casualties) was the Tenerife incident, which also involved KLM. As a huge fan of KLM, I also own a 50s KLM luggage bag.

Today, I bought a 1960 American Airlines flight information booklet that included info about the brand new Boeing 707 "Jetliner"! It's kind of funny compared to all the new stuff we have now. I also, on that same trip, bought a vintage TWA Swizzle stick, which had "Africa" on it, and I also bought an old deck of American Airlines playing cards.

Now I know some of you are going to say it's ironic that Muslim would be posting a thread on commercial aviation, but it's my interest. I have three model planes, a US Airways A330 (I think it is, I can't really tell), a vintage-livery Air France a320, and a New York Air 737.

What planes - COMMERCIAL - are you seriously interested in? Keep that military stuff out of here, you can make another thread for that ridiculous bull.

Here's a really good picture I found today.


And another:



do the anthropomorphic versions of these things also go here

do the anthropomorphic versions of these things also go here
they could but i could also go without seeing it


tu-144, oh yes

looks better than concorde
(performed stufftier though)

I flew on a Southwest 737-300 on Tuesday coming back into KOKC from KPHX

It had a non-glass roosterpit and you could hear everything they did. The electric motors that ran the flaps and gear were loud as stuff and you could hear the air resistance from the gear.

It was amazing.

Also I listen to LiveATC on every flight.

And commercial russian planes are pieces of stuff.

Today, I bought a 1960 American Airlines flight
Wow have fun flying the skies of America in an old setting I've never heard of this before but it sounds like an interesting thing to have, especially for those history buffs who love to relive the past---

Today, I bought a 1960 American Airlines flight information booklet
oh

The Tu-144 doesn't even look better than the concorde.

I flew on a Southwest 737-300 on Tuesday coming back into KOKC from KPHX

It had a non-glass roosterpit and you could hear everything they did. The electric motors that ran the flaps and gear were loud as stuff and you could hear the air resistance from the gear.

It was amazing.

Also I listen to LiveATC on every flight.

And commercial russian planes are pieces of stuff.
That sounds great. I flew on a 767 both times I flew to and from KATL and KLAX. I flew a 767 from KATL to KJAX (which is a really nice airport because it's so small and the TSA people can be really cool at times). From KJAX to KATL, I flew on a 757 which was a bumpy, actually dissatisfying occasion.

I've never actually listened to LiveATC because I don't know what they're saying. Call me stupid, but I just don't get it.

It's funny cause most of the time the flight attendants say you've been cleared for departure, you really haven't.

Also the whole turning electronics off before takeoff and landing to 10,000Ft is a load of bullstuff.

The Tu-144 doesn't even look better than the concorde.
ha, nice joke!


tu-144 looks so much more....powerful....and majestic

it actually was faster than concorde

Every time I flew on Delta they let us use our phones as long as they were on airplane mode. Which makes me wonder if the whole thing is just so you buy "gogo in flight internet".

no its just that the FAA just recently approved electronics in flight legally, like it was a few months ago or something