A340 lands in Antarctica

[M26 103]

This is exactly what we need to fight the climate change!

Carbon foot print? Never heard of it... 

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/first-airbus-a340-plane-antarctica-intl-hnk/index.html

 

 

[kent_island_sailor 5,296]

GA or PA await!

[Matagi 1,451]

We all know what's really going on here.

 

[fastyacht 2,603]

Property? Um, it is Antarctica. What is going on?

 

[Matagi 1,451]

Ok, that is pretty tonedeaf.

[fastyacht 2,603]

To boldly go where no VC has gone before

[Snaggletooth 5,199]

so.... no arctic cat house yette?

[kent_island_sailor 5,296]

AFAIK there is no such thing as "property" in Antarctica.

As far as CO2 goes, unless we are going to ban all vacation travel, this isn't any different than any other vacation trip.

[VWAP 1,099]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/weather/weather-record-cold-antarctica-climate-change/index.html

 

Antarctica's last 6 months were the coldest on record

[fastyacht 2,603]

1 minute ago, VWAP said:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/weather/weather-record-cold-antarctica-climate-change/index.html

 

Antarctica's last 6 months were the coldest on record

Global warming, local cooling.

[silent bob 1,279]

4 hours ago, kent_island_sailor said:

GA or PA await!

Because it certainly doesn’t have ANY FUCKING THING TO DO WITH SAILING ANARCHY!

[kent_island_sailor 5,296]

1 minute ago, silent bob said:

Because it certainly doesn’t have ANY FUCKING THING TO DO WITH SAILING ANARCHY!

Unless the plane runs out of gas and lands next to a sailboat, but otherwise this thread needs to take a vacation trip of its own to GA or PA

[silent bob 1,279]

Just now, kent_island_sailor said:

Unless the plane runs out of gas and lands next to a sailboat, but otherwise this thread needs to take a vacation trip of its own to GA or PA

At least the hovercraft hit a sailboat!  

[Mark Set 215]

they should run charter flights to flat-earthers

[TheUltimateSockPuppet 366]

If the A340 had to call Starboard on a couple of nesting Penguins on approach would that make it a sailing topic?

[silent bob 1,279]

The flight was South Africa.  What are the chances that they infected Antarctica with the Omicron?

[Blue Crab 2,469]

Pretty good I bet.

[Snaggletooth 5,199]

I dointe thick Omnicorn grwes welle in the colde.

[kent_island_sailor 5,296]

34 minutes ago, silent bob said:

The flight was South Africa.  What are the chances that they infected Antarctica with the Omicron?

I am not sure how you infect a big empty ice continent, but they probably infected the staff at that airport/resort.

[Ventucky Red 1,107]

They have been landing these for the past umpteen years from October to March to support the research efforts going on there.

[White Lightning2 628]

16 hours ago, Snaggletooth said:

so.... no arctic cat house yette?

Azabco.com

 

WL

 

[Wetabehindtheears 151]

Maybe they could combine services?

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/private-jet-company-offers-luxury-224639971.html

 

This Airline Company Is Offering "Mile High Club" Flights, And People Are Saying It's The "Best Sex They've Ever Had In Their Lives"

[billy backstay 1,697]

8 minutes ago, Wetabehindtheears said:

Maybe they could combine services?

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/private-jet-company-offers-luxury-224639971.html

 

This Airline Company Is Offering "Mile High Club" Flights, And People Are Saying It's The "Best Sex They've Ever Had In Their Lives"

 

 

Antarctica's cold might cause "shrinkage" no????

[kent_island_sailor 5,296]

19 hours ago, Ventucky Red said:

They have been landing these for the past umpteen years from October to March to support the research efforts going on there.

C130 with cargo for scientists <> Airbus with tourists. FYI

[Ventucky Red 1,107]

1 hour ago, kent_island_sailor said:

C130 with cargo for scientists <> Airbus with tourists. FYI

Sands the tourist....

The aircraft will be used this season to fly a small number of tourists, alongside scientists and essential cargo to the White Continent.

[Foreverslow 496]

Hope those bozos did not pull their shoulders out patting themselves on themselves on their backs.

USAF has  been flying down there for 40+ years and hauling cargo to boot.  Here is a c17 doing the route.

 

Had a husband of one of my charges do a winter down there in the 80s as a research scientist.   He told me in the winter if anything has a motor you have to be able to keep it warm or have the ability to tow it into a hut, else it is not going to restart.  Cheaper to fly in a new piece of equipment than to ship it north in the summer season and repair it.

They would just put all the kaput stuff in a corner.

[Boathavn 192]

Hats off to the guy who started this thread:  Upstart Hi Fly doing something interesting with an A340 in this day and age.

The SA Sailing Anarchy forum tie-in of course, is that the Airbus A340 is the $4KSB of the large commercial transport world. (Voila! The required sailboat-related subject link)

If Sailing Anarchy did have an aircraft section, we would be reading about A340s, A380s and MD-11s in a "AIR Landfills" thread.  All have too many engines for their own good.  With todays fuel prices, most are now "free to a good home".

That said, I recall the old joke: "..why do aircraft that fly over water have four engines?  Because nobody makes one with five."

 

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Every $4KSB and $400K Commercial Transport Aircraft is sacred !  

 

 

[Snaggletooth 5,199]

8 minutes ago, Boathavn said:

$4KSB

I nevere sawe that befoire, 4KSB siurre...... is teh dollare sine ($) licke a hashtag? (#)

[Boathavn 192]

21 minutes ago, Snaggletooth said:

I nevere sawe that befoire, 4KSB siurre...... is teh dollare sine ($) licke a hashtag? (#)

Perhaps an over-clarification, as not to be confused with £4ksb or a €4ksb.  My current boat cost $1.61 so I guess it would be a <¢4ksb.

 

 

It's one o'clock already?  Where did the day go?!

[Ventucky Red 1,107]

On 11/30/2021 at 5:54 PM, Foreverslow said:

Hope those bozos did not pull their shoulders out patting themselves on themselves on their backs.

USAF has  been flying down there for 40+ years and hauling cargo to boot.  Here is a c17 doing the route.

 

Had a husband of one of my charges do a winter down there in the 80s as a research scientist.   He told me in the winter if anything has a motor you have to be able to keep it warm or have the ability to tow it into a hut, else it is not going to restart.  Cheaper to fly in a new piece of equipment than to ship it north in the summer season and repair it.

They would just put all the kaput stuff in a corner.

My neighbors were pilots in the USN VXE-6 - The Puckered Penguins with the orange tails out of NAS Pt Magu.  They would go down in October and come back in April when they were having summer down there.  

 

C-17, they built those in Long Beach, CA (KLGB)...  they are an awesome beast

 

[Ventucky Red 1,107]

1 hour ago, Boathavn said:

why do aircraft that fly over water have four engines?  Because nobody makes one with five."

 

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Every $4KSB and $400K Commercial Transport Aircraft is sacred !  

 

 

Quantas will disagree with you on that..   I know, it was transporting a spare engine...

But the crazy kids in Mother Russia refuse to be outdone..

 

[Blue Crab 2,469]

How come there are two different C-17s?

[See Level 1,186]

5 minutes ago, Blue Crab said:

How come there are two different C-17s?

There aren't, that's a C-130 in the photo

[Boathavn 192]

"..Quantas will disagree with you on that..   I know, it was transporting a spare engine..."

 

Ah, the rare 747 engine ferry kit.  I should have qualified it further by saying "turning" ("ETOPS - Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim"). No that won't work either, as occasional #5 freewheels in flight. "Powered" works.  Curious how the lubrication system is supported when free-wheeling at cruise, perhaps self pressurizing from the main fan?

I think QANTAS pioneered & paid for this option, first on the 707? (pic).  I guess the Next-Gen giant twins (777/A350) must in the future go by boat

I was on the Anotov AN-225 once.  My impression was it looked like it had been hand beaten from aluminum using only a  ball peen hammer. I think its flight crews would be happy if 5 of the 6 Progress D-18T turbofans made it their full targeted removal hours.  Still, you can't knock a niche filled by a long-lived successful one-off.  

 

It's 2:30?  Where did the day go...?

[Blue Crab 2,469]

17 minutes ago, See Level said:

There aren't, that's a C-130 in the photo

Thanx. I should have realized that. 

[Boathavn 192]

On 12/2/2021 at 1:34 PM, Ventucky Red said:

My neighbors were pilots in the USN VXE-6 - The Puckered Penguins with the orange tails out of NAS Pt Magu.  They would go down in October and come back in April when they were having summer down there.  

 

 

Sadly Hercules "131" (above) crashed in Antarctica supporting the recovery of her sister Herc "231".  Both were owned and operated by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

"231" was a similarly specially equipped C-130 aircraft to "131" above.   "231"  crashed in Antarctica when it's un-used JATO rockets malfunctioned during release.  After landing with only two engines, she was buried under the accumulating ice and snow for sixteen years.  In 1980's "231" was rebuilt in situ and eventually flown out for further repairs.  It then flew Antarctic missions for another decade.  It's mothballed now at the David-Monthson storage facility.  Hopefully it will end up in a museum.  Shows how tough these aircraft are.

The "231" story is found here:

https://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/history/321/321.html

"231" after crash landing with two engines out.

 

 "131" (quoted picture) later crashed supporting this amazing remote repair effort, sadly with loss of life.

The story of the crash of "131" is here:

https://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/history/321/131crash.html

The irony is losing an airplane to save an airplane for a net gain of 0.  

Arctic air operations are no walk in the park regardless of season or aircraft type. The men and women who support them are brave and noble airman (airpersons?).

 

...is it 10:00 already?  Where does the day go...?

[Blue Crab 2,469]

Looks like we have a dyslexic airplane or poster.

[Boathavn 192]

Fixed !