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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX  Posted: 29 Jan 2016, 22:47 |
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Username Protected wrote: Amazing that this airplane is in its 4th generation and the tube has been flying since the 60s! At least this one is easy to tell from the others with the zig zag engine cowels. +1. I'm only 6 ft tall and barely fit. About 30db of sound attenuation wouldn't hurt, either. And, if we are making a wish list, a space for 2 crew bags. Not just the Captain's.
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 29 Jan 2016, 23:20 |
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Username Protected wrote: When they gonna re-design the 727 windows and nose? It's looking a little long in the tooth with those flat windows with mullions when everyone else rocks curved windows. Learjet had them in the 60's. Not something Boeings customers care about.
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 30 Jan 2016, 11:23 |
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My son, whose name is Max, sent me this last night. Attachment: image.png
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 02 Feb 2016, 09:22 |
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What's the story of the little drogue chute at the top of the tail in the video of its first flight?
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 02 Feb 2016, 09:34 |
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Username Protected wrote: What's the story of the little drogue chute at the top of the tail in the video of its first flight? It's called a trailing cone pressure transducer. It measures extremely accurate static pressure, which can then be used for calibration of the normal static system. - Martin
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 02 Feb 2016, 09:41 |
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Username Protected wrote: What's the story of the little drogue chute at the top of the tail in the video of its first flight? It's called a trailing cone pressure transducer. It measures extremely accurate static pressure, which can then be used for calibration of the normal static system. - Martin
The way it was whipping around from the turbulence of the tail it would be hard to imagine it measuring anything very accurately.
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 02 Feb 2016, 10:53 |
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Username Protected wrote: What's the story of the little drogue chute at the top of the tail in the video of its first flight? It's called a trailing cone pressure transducer. It measures extremely accurate static pressure, which can then be used for calibration of the normal static system. - Martin
I remember asking the same thing about the same piece of gear when I got a nickel tour of a 789 test mule a couple years ago.
OT- if you're an airplane lover then a nickel tour of any test mule is really great stuff! Aviation people are usually really nice that way (you never know if you don't ask), at least the Boeing guys were.
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 02 Feb 2016, 11:19 |
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Username Protected wrote: It's called a trailing cone pressure transducer. It measures extremely accurate static pressure, which can then be used for calibration of the normal static system.
- Martin The way it was whipping around from the turbulence of the tail it would be hard to imagine it measuring anything very accurately. Vince
It gets reeled out into clear air when they are using it
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 02 Feb 2016, 11:32 |
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Username Protected wrote: It gets reeled out into clear air when they are using it during DC-8 70 series RVSM testing ( for an STC) we once lost one on short final, in the heart of Europe…could not reel it in no more…got lost in some trees…some spotter kids who had watched us brought it back to us..making jokes….we gave them a nice hangar and airplane tour... 
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 02 Feb 2016, 15:56 |
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Username Protected wrote: Why Boeing won't stretch the cockpit by a mere six to ten inches is beyond me.
Another few inches of seat travel would make the ole relic at least tolerable.
The best band-aid fix would be the 757 nose pop riveted on the pointy end but if wishes were horses beggars would ride. Probably the only area where the airbus exceeds the 737. Cockpit size. The A320 has a big cockpit.
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 03 Feb 2016, 17:48 |
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> if you're an airplane lover then a nickel tour of any test mule is really great stuff! Yes! One of the best tours I have experienced ... PanAm's heavy mx facility at MIA and (NASM's) Garber Restoration Facility @ Silver Hill. Neither offered "public" tours. But sometimes, a respectful request for a favor can score BIG rewards. (Anyone else here been inside Enola Gay?  ) Of course; it fails more often than not. Boeing's 787 mule at KOA was not open for visitors.
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Post subject: Re: Boeing 737 MAX Posted: 23 Feb 2016, 04:33 |
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Got all emotional watching this http://bcove.me/z7wm1kpq Watching a beautiful efficient workhorse piece of art being created from various materials sourced from all over the planet. Just absolutely amazing what we can accomplish working together. I miss the eyebrow windows. We had them on the -500. Got them back in spades on my Aerostar though!
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