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B-747 Landing 27L at London Heathrow Split Screen View. from the air and ground
B-747 aterrizaje en Londres 27L pantalla divida desde el aire y tierra
RunwayGirl’s tour of the luxurious Emirates A-380 its shure a nice jet
Mega Storms December 04th, 2009 Category: Amazing All aircraft, small or large, trade routes or recreational travel, at all times are subject to the laws of nature, especially in what concerns the weather. The priority for any pilot is to try to avoid as far as possible have to cross areas with convective activity, due to potentially hazardous events for the aircraft (severe turbulence and strong currents progenies vertical wind shear, hail, electrical activity, etc …) that are generated inside. This implies that when an isolated storm crosses within the planned route, it is customary to circumnavigate it on one side before returning to the authorized route. When we find a multi-core convective front spread over a larger area, then it is normal deviate even hundreds of miles to find the original route (via the airborne weather radar) a corridor, or area with less activity in which cross to the other side of the front. Another possibility is to fly over the storms, although in this case would not be possible because we see that the supercells on the video, located on Kansas, USA, have their peaks located about stratospheric FL650 (65,000 feet), well beyond the service ceiling of virtually all current commercial aircraft.
Via / Visto en: http://www.landingshort.com/
Megatormentas Categoría: Amazing Todos los aviones, pequeños o grandes, en rutas comerciales o en viajes de recreo, están sometidos en todo momento a las leyes de la naturaleza, sobretodo en aquello que se refiere a la meteorología. La prioridad para cualquier piloto es intentar evitar en la medida de lo posible tener que cruzar áreas con actividad convectiva, debido a los fenómenos potencialmente peligrosos para el avión (turbulencia severa, descendencias y fuertes corrientes verticales, cizalladura de viento, granizo, actividad eléctrica, etc…) que se generan en su interior. Esto implica que cuando una tormenta aislada se cruza dentro de la ruta prevista, lo habitual es circumnavegarla, dejándola a un lado antes de reintegrarse a la ruta autorizada. Cuando lo que encontramos es un frente con múltiples núcleos convectivos dispersos en una área mayor, entonces es normal desviarse incluso cientos de millas de la ruta original para encontrar (gracias al radar meteorológico de a bordo) un pasillo, un área con una menor actividad por la que cruzar hacia el otro lado del frente. Otra posibilidad es sobrevolar las tormentas, aunque en este caso no sería posible ya que vemos que las supercélulas del vídeo, ubicadas sobre Kansas, EEUU, tienen sus cimas situadas a unos estratosféricos FL650 (65.000 pies), mucho más allá del techo de servicio de la práctica totalidad de los aviones comerciales actuales.
DENVER - A woman gave birth to a baby boy on a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago that had to be diverted to Denver International Airport. Southwest spokesman Paul Flaningan says Flight 441 was about 100 miles north of Denver Friday when the unidentified woman went into labor. Flaningan says the captain decided to divert to Denver but she started to deliver the baby en route. A doctor and two nurses on board helped deliver the baby at the back of the plane with the help of flight attendants and an in-flight medical radio service. read whole here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34278183/ns/travel-news/
9,148,688 views and counting not plane related but Muppet stuff
December 4th Pan AMs last day of operations after 63 years watch the vid and hit the link to read more on PAN AMs history.
News From Boeing Progress going on 747-F / Intercontinental “One of the great stories here is that we reached this important point a week and a half ahead of the plan we laid out a year ago for the program. What that says is that we’re learning some good lessons on the 747-8 Freighter. We’ve been able to change the way we approached the design of the Intercontinental.
via chron.com
Continental Airlines has pulled back on an amenity that can make it a little more comfortable to fly economy class — the blanket.
No longer will passengers be offered worn, navy blue blankets that are folded again after flights and placed in overhead bins for use by the next round of fliers.
Continental Airlines ha recogido en una amenidad que se puede hacer un poco más cómoda volar en clase económica - la manta.
Ya no se ofreció a los pasajeros llevar, mantas de color azul marino que se pliegan de nuevo después de los vuelos y se coloca en los maleteros superiores para el uso de la próxima ronda de Pasajeros.
Google Public DNS, then, aims to replace your ISP’s default DNS with a (hopefully) faster, safer, and more reliable alternative. Google Public DNS isn’t the first freely available alternate DNS we’ve seen. Previously mentioned OpenDNS is an excellent DNS alternative (it boasts keyboard shortcuts, parental filters, and more), but—for better or worse—we’re guessing that even more people may be interested in Google’s offering.
Visit link to configure your network to use google DNS
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Acer is preparing to launch new Netbooks in 2010 which may use Google’s new OS Chromium. The announcement should not come as as any surprise, since Acer has been critical of Microsoft starting with Windows Vista. I originally wrote about Acer and its displeasure of Windows Vista back on July 26, 2007 [original post located here]. In that article Acer claimed that Vista was the worst operating system ever.
Right now a friend of mine is flying from London City to New York JFK aboard British Airways’ new all-premium Airbus A318 service. Said friend is genuinely excited about his trip, and yet he has probably flown darn near every aircraft in darn near every configuration.
With such unbridled enthusiasm for the all-premium concept still alive and well, it might not come as a surprise that Bombardier believes there is a small but profitable market for an all-business-class CSeries cabin…..
Ahora un amigo mío está volando desde Londres a Nueva York JFK a bordo de un nuevo servicio de British Airways, todos Airbus A318 prima. Amigo dijo que está realmente entusiasmado con su viaje, y sin embargo, que probablemente ha volado en cada maldito avión y en cada configuración.
Con tal entusiasmo desenfrenado por todo el concepto de prima sigue viva y bien, no puede ser una sorpresa que Bombardier cree que hay un mercado pequeño pero rentable para un All-Business-Class CSeries cabina …..
Video of the right engine starting Boeing 787 tonight (12-1-09).
Video El motor derecho del B-787 Iniciando