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United 787 Loses Speed and Lands Early
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| December 4, 2012
| CHRISTOPHER DREW and JAD MOUAWAD
Posted on 12/04/2012 7:54:30 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Rome2000
Life wuz different in America when I wuz a kid (or adolescent/20er).
(Long B4 the TSA and when OJ wuz gud to be jumpin' the ropes.)
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posted on
12/04/2012 10:26:44 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Red Steel
United 787 Loses Speed and Lands EarlyWell, with the United Airlines on time performance around 70%, the passengers should have been grateful for an early landing!
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posted on
12/04/2012 10:30:05 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Prospero
First of all the, media always gets these stories wrong. Second generators make electrical power for the aircraft systems. It isn't for the engines. The generators are run by the engines. Now if I was flying and something goes wrong and I'm thinking of diverting I would probably slow down, go through the checklist, talk to dispatch, and decide on a plan.
The idea that the NYT is using flightaware to report this is hilarious. Surfing the web is a substitute for journalism now.
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posted on
12/04/2012 10:33:23 PM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: USNBandit
It isn't for the engines.Yeah, I was wondering where they got that one. The "old gray lady" must be losing it.
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posted on
12/04/2012 10:38:16 PM PST
by
RckyRaCoCo
(I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
To: Red Steel
The aircraft exceeded maximum operating speed while on autopilot that’s why they descended and diverted.
Normal cruise for the 787 is M85, MAXIMUM cruise speed is M89.
I’m an en route air traffic controller in New York.
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posted on
12/04/2012 10:44:11 PM PST
by
Zauber
To: Rome2000
have a flight attendant in the family. she figures about 85-90% of the male attendants are gay.
46
posted on
12/04/2012 10:46:46 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: tflabo
I worked with an ex-fighter pilot in the early ‘90s (he was a litigation specialist with the oil company we worked for) and I asked him why he didn’t become an airline pilot after he got out of the service. He said he didn’t want to be a bus driver...
To: Zauber
Zauber:Im an en route air traffic controller in New York.I thought ZAU was Chicago ARTCC? : )
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posted on
12/04/2012 10:58:36 PM PST
by
RckyRaCoCo
(I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
To: RckyRaCoCo
LOL call me Znyber then if u want
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posted on
12/04/2012 11:55:02 PM PST
by
Zauber
To: tflabo
A pilot once told me he liked flying the 727s since it was less computer automated. I think it required a 3rd crewman as the flight navigator.I never minded the flight in a 727.
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posted on
12/05/2012 12:03:29 AM PST
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: Rome2000
Haven't seen a decent looking stewardess on an American carrier in 10 years. From 1972, fly Cheryl:
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posted on
12/05/2012 12:10:22 AM PST
by
cynwoody
To: Zauber
Normal cruise for the 787 is M85, MAXIMUM cruise speed is M89. According to this link, Mach 1 at 41,000 feet is 660 mph. So, M89 would be 587 mph. According to FlightAware at 9:38 am, Flight 1146 was doing 655 mph at 41,000.
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posted on
12/05/2012 12:31:38 AM PST
by
cynwoody
To: cynwoody
In today’s politically correct society the new ad would have stated “Hump Bill.”
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posted on
12/05/2012 1:21:29 AM PST
by
DH
(Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
To: Secret Agent Man
Which come as no surprise to anyone who has flown much.
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posted on
12/05/2012 2:30:36 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Tucker39
Or were they maybe playing a friendly game of grab-ass with the flight attendants?! Given the current populations most highly represented in the cabin crew, the light-in-the-loafers crowd and the getting-longer-in-the-tooth/over-the-hill-gang, I certainly hope the flight deck crew is more discerning. This ain't your dad's airline experience from the 60s, ya know...
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posted on
12/05/2012 3:21:56 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: cynwoody
According to this link, Mach 1 at 41,000 feet is 660 mph. So, M89 would be 587 mph. According to FlightAware at 9:38 am, Flight 1146 was doing 655 mph at 41,000. But they were flying West to East so they had a tail wind. Flightaware's listed speed is ground speed not air speed.
I once flew a 747 to Amsterdam at 755 MPH ground and asked the flight attendant if the pilot knew we were 'Flying Mach +'. She looked up at the flight chart and went and asked the pilot.
She returned with the answer, "according to the pilot we have a 170 mph tail wind which is added to the air speed to get your ground speed".
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posted on
12/05/2012 3:26:02 AM PST
by
fedupjohn
(America...Designed by Geniuses...Now inhabited by Idiots..Palin 2016...)
To: Gay State Conservative
The figure that struck me was 655mph.My understanding is that commercial aircraft seldom exceed 525mph.I certainly could be wrong or the 655 is a misprint. Was the figure air speed or ground speed? It was flying west to east, so couldn't there be a jet-stream pickup in the ground speed?
To: 23 Everest
Any landing you can walk away from is a good one! . . . and if the plane can be used again, it was a great landing!
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posted on
12/05/2012 7:36:37 AM PST
by
RightField
(one of the obstreperous citizens insisting on incorrect thinking - C. Krauthamer)
To: JRandomFreeper
re: “hairy”...
my father in law had to do that in the Hillcrest region of San Diego many years ago when a private pilot had a heart attack (final assumption) and brought down an airliner.
He still won’t talk about it.
To: fedupjohn
Flightaware's listed speed is ground speed not air speed. Ah. That makes sense.
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posted on
12/05/2012 11:30:07 AM PST
by
cynwoody
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