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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Science and Technology => Topic started by: bloodline on September 05, 2005, 03:29:36 PM
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Anyone else noticed the huge number of air crashes that have occured in the last month?
Anyone else noticed that all the aircraft were Boeing 737's?
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Or Airbus A340s.
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PMC wrote:
Or Airbus A340s.
That crashed after/during landing, so doesn't count... :-D
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Hum,
bring back ships like the Titanic, Or the Hindenburg?
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The Titanic was safe, just those icebergs which were dangerous. As for the Hindenburg, it's a tragic shame that more Nazi party officials didn't take up travelling in hydrogen filled airships.
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If Titanic had been named Britanic it would have been safe. :lol:
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Dan wrote:
If Titanic had been named Britanic it would have been safe. :lol:
Wasn't Olympic... the safe one? ;-)
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Hum,
Yeah, Britannic sank as well…
But, hasn`t everyone missed the obvious?
Apart from melting, I have never heard of icebergs sinking…
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Of course, back in the day there was no built in obsolescence.
Just check this out:
http://www.poynting.co.za/consulting/images/proj_dakota2.jpg
It's a DC 3 fitted with turboprop engines and updated avionics as used in South Africa. The airframe is pretty much unchanged in 70 years and judging from the way the Dakotas seem to run and run they will be around for some considerable time yet. It's successor, the Hercules first flew in the mid fifties yet is being updated to extend it's life even further.
The USAF don't plan on retiring the venerable B52 (first flew in November 1952) until 2050 at least, while the F4 Phantom (still on active duty with the Luftwaffe, Iranian and Spanish air forces) first flew in 1957/8. Turkish and Italian F104 Starfighters first flew in 1952 and are still in service today...
... although technically the RAF still operates two Spitfires, a Hurricane and a Lancaster as part of the Battle of Britain memorial flight. The combined ages of the Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster formation is 183 years!
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It's weird to think that the B52 will be around 80 years old when they retire it...! :-o
Anyway, I think the who 737 fleet should be grounded. Then replaced with something better... From Airbus ;-)
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bloodline wrote:
It's weird to think that the B52 will be around 80 years old when they retire it...! :-o
Anyway, I think the who 737 fleet should be grounded. Then replaced with something better... From Airbus ;-)
So what are we going to do for the next 20 years while we wait for airbus to try and build something better then a 737??
-Tigger
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Tigger wrote:
bloodline wrote:
It's weird to think that the B52 will be around 80 years old when they retire it...! :-o
Anyway, I think the who 737 fleet should be grounded. Then replaced with something better... From Airbus ;-)
So what are we going to do for the next 20 years while we wait for airbus to try and build something better then a 737??
-Tigger
:roflmao: good one!