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| Thread ID: 113795 | 2010-11-04 04:59:00 | Anyone feel like flying Qantas? | somebody (208) | PC World Chat |
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| 1150265 | 2010-11-04 08:19:00 | It is just the Quantas / Airbus precautionary de-cowling of the engine in preparation for engineering inspection. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1150266 | 2010-11-04 11:13:00 | With those compressor fans spinning in excess of 10,000 RPM its pretty likely (certain even) that the slightest metal fatigue can cause the fan to tear itself apart and destroy the whole turbine assembly. Whack a RAM jet or FWE Pulse jet on 'em, no moving parts, no spool time, not a lot that can go wrong. This is exactly the reason I want to fly! ultimate kicks! The fan ducts air around the engine, not through it so a broken fan blade shouldnt go thru the compressor, thru the combustion section to the turbines |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1150267 | 2010-11-04 18:41:00 | I fly Qantas on near enough a weekly basis, on both international and dosmetic routes. They have a very good safety record and personally, I would rather fly with Qantas than some other airlines that I have had the pleasure of flying with over the years.:clap I could relate quite a few stories from other airlines that would make your hair stand on end and you would probably swear never to fly again afterwards. Parts fall off planes or fail from time to time. Most of the time, it doesn't make headlines. In this case, everyone jumped on the bandwagon and made it front page news. |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 1150268 | 2010-11-04 19:10:00 | I dont know Pinoy, i had the pleasure of flying quantas back from ozzy this year and im sure the plane was older than me.....It still had the old CRT tv for the movies.....remember them???? :gulp EDIT: im still here so the plane made it, but you probably guessed that |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1150269 | 2010-11-04 19:22:00 | Qantas are *slowly* moving forwards to having in seat tv screens etc. I flew one of the refurbished one's yesterday coast to coast with a choice of movies etc. Had the kids with me so they had fun watching Ben10 and SpongeBob. So it was a bit of a downgrade getting onto the Qantas flight to Chch with the old style screens but at least the in flight service is still better than anything JetStar offers on Tasman, especially when you have 2 small children travelling with you. | PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 1150270 | 2010-11-04 21:13:00 | Qantas are *slowly* moving forwards to having in seat tv screens etc. I flew one of the refurbished one's yesterday coast to coast with a choice of movies etc. Had the kids with me so they had fun watching Ben10 and SpongeBob. So it was a bit of a downgrade getting onto the Qantas flight to Chch with the old style screens but at least the in flight service is still better than anything JetStar offers on Tasman, especially when you have 2 small children travelling with you. Somehow managed to get my little TV to go into an endless reboot pattern. they run linux! Still, a good improvement over the originals. On my first flight that had personal TV's the games they offered were the good old ones like mario ect. pity they don't have them on the current flights. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1150271 | 2010-11-04 22:16:00 | Somehow managed to get my little TV to go into an endless reboot pattern . they run linux! Still, a good improvement over the originals . On my first flight that had personal TV's the games they offered were the good old ones like mario ect . pity they don't have them on the current flights . I recently came back from Melbourne on an AirNZ 777 . Nice plane . They had problems with the entertainment system on the way over and had to reboot the whole system and I noticed it was running on Windows CE while it was booting up (which took forever!) . And when it was running, it was a HORRIBLE and clumsy UI to try to use . Huge lag between your button press to pause or rewind and the command actually being executed on your screen . Mind you, the control pad was pretty crap too . . . Funny how expectations have changed over the years . Used to be you just looked forward to the air hostess bringing you another beer and EVERYONE watched the same in-flight movie (and accepted there was no choice), and you got grumpy when the beers stopped coming . |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1150272 | 2010-11-04 23:15:00 | Rolls Royce Trent 900 engine as used by Qantas A380 here (en.wikipedia.org) and for those nay sayers who say they won't fly on a A380 again if ever, different airlines use different engines like Air Emirates use Engine Alliance GP7200 engines here . (http://www.enginealliance.com/) :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1150273 | 2010-11-04 23:50:00 | RR had big problemos with RB211 before sorting them out. May be a bad batch of nimonics |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1150274 | 2010-11-05 02:01:00 | I could relate quite a few stories from other airlines that would make your hair stand on end and you would probably swear never to fly again afterwards. Air India curled my hair! It was a shocker, from broken seats, to cockpit doors flapping to and fro, and the pilots arguing inside during the flight, then announcing the wrong destination as we landed (if the pilots don't know where they are, what hope does anybody have of finding the wreckage??) On top of that I ended up with Delhi Belly as well. :( Apart from that I've not had any worries or woes in many years of travel internationally or local. My most noteworthy internal experience was turning up at Rotorua Airport for a scheduled Air NZ flight to Auckland and finding that there was only me and the pilot making the trip. It was a single engined two-seater plane, obviously contracted to do very low occupancy flights when it wasn't worth using the scheduled aircraft. It was actually a very enjoyable flight. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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