Live blogging from the road!
I'm at LAX waiting for my flight (PAL flight 103, 747-400 line 1012 RP-C7472), at the Tom Bradley complex, gate 156, which is at the south end. My flight pulls up and I'm admiring how awesome 747s are in person, and a couple jets are taking off just to the side of me on runway 25R making the usual racket. Suddenly I catch this long ass ghost ship 747 race by and lift up into the air in the dark, and I look closely to see Cathay livery. It's dark so I can't see the tail number, but I looked it up on FlightRadar (because FlightAware is busted) and it's B-LJD. So not only am I stoked to see one of my overdue delivery frames take off in person 100 yards away, but I can't believe how quiet it was. I mean it was like a Tesla just drove by or something. No hyperbole, that was amazing. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough to get a pic. But here's my ride:
Now I'm in the International Lounge feeling like royalty, with free food and drinks, far away from all the smelly proletarians. I could get used to this Business Class thing...
I'm at LAX waiting for my flight (PAL flight 103, 747-400 line 1012 RP-C7472), at the Tom Bradley complex, gate 156, which is at the south end. My flight pulls up and I'm admiring how awesome 747s are in person, and a couple jets are taking off just to the side of me on runway 25R making the usual racket. Suddenly I catch this long ass ghost ship 747 race by and lift up into the air in the dark, and I look closely to see Cathay livery. It's dark so I can't see the tail number, but I looked it up on FlightRadar (because FlightAware is busted) and it's B-LJD. So not only am I stoked to see one of my overdue delivery frames take off in person 100 yards away, but I can't believe how quiet it was. I mean it was like a Tesla just drove by or something. No hyperbole, that was amazing. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough to get a pic. But here's my ride:
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| Philippine Airlines line 1012, RP-C7472 |
Now I'm in the International Lounge feeling like royalty, with free food and drinks, far away from all the smelly proletarians. I could get used to this Business Class thing...
Boeing added B1 flightplan for RC561 B-LJK. Should depart in... 17 hours.
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RC561 in the air:
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RC562 completed B1:
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Hi all. Any ideas about this news? http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/21/ct-kaman-corporation-idUSnBw216457a+100+BSW20131121
ReplyDeletePotentially something about the aerodynamic improvements that they were looking at?
It's possible, but I wonder if they're already moving forward with those.
DeleteRC032 has been moved from FAL to Fuel Dock 3th December:
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DeleteI know the airliners guys and Cawby are claiming this is RC032, buuuuut... I think it's still RC031. RC031 was just out less than a month ago, sat around, and disappeared for a couple days. I think they moved it back in the hanger for a bit to do some extra work on it, then rolled it out to the fuel dock again. They've done that before, and it would explain the partial line move they had a few days ago where nothing rolled out. Plus, the dates don't add up. They're supposed to be slowing down, not speeding up the rate. If that's rc032 they've rolled out 3 frames in less than a month.
DeleteYep, this is possible.
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