Αεροσκάφη!

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Όταν βρίσκομαι εκτός Ευρώπης χαίρομαι να χαζεύω τους πίνακες αναχωρήσεων-αφίξεων εκει καταλαβαίνεις πόσο μακρυά από το σπίτι σου είσαι..... ή και πόσο μικρός είναι ο κόσμος μας !!!!!

 

 

Βαγγέλη όσες φορές είμαι σε μεγάλα αεροδρόμια του εξωτερικού βλέπω πόσες λίγες πτήσεις μεγάλων αποστάσεων (και φυσικά με τα μεγάλα αεροπλάνα που τα κάνουν) στο Ελ Βελ. Πολύ Ευρώπη και Μέση Αντολή έχει στο Ελ Βελ και πολύ λίγα υπεραντλατικά Ασία κλπ. Για αυτό και δεν βλεπεις συχνά τα θηρία που συνήθως είναι η χαρά του planespotter.

 

Ο πίνακας των δρομολογίων στα μεγάλα και στα μακρινά αεροδρόμια είναι και δικιά μου απόλαυση.

Πάντα τον μελετάω και ... χαζεύω.

 

Η Αθήνα είχε πάντα αεροδρόμιο με τους συγκεκριμένους προορισμούς κατά βάση.

Άλλωστε την παλιά Ολυμπιακή την πρότειναν πολλοί ευρωπαίοι πράκτορες για πτήσεις προς Μέση Ανατολή, λόγω του καλού της δικτύου.

 

Θυμάμαι όμως τις εποχές που πηγαίναμε στο αεροδρόμιο του Ελληνικού προς το βράδυ, για να χαζεύουμε τα μεγαθήρια Boieing B-747 ή McDonnel Douglas DC-10 της εποχής, που έφταναν από την Ασία.

Πόσες φορές περίμενα τον πατέρα μου με ένα τέτοιο αεροπλάνο της Singapore Airlines, της Thai ή και τα πιο συνήθη αεροπλάνα της Kuwait Airways.

Και φυσικά έχω και εικόνες με τέτοια μεγαθήρια των KLM, TWA, Lufthansa, Quantas, South African Airways (SAA-SAL), Japan Airlines (JAL) ή ακόμα και της PIA του Πακιστάν.

Ακόμα και τα Tristar της Saudia σε τακτικές πτήσεις από τη Τζέντα μας έκαναν εντύπωση.

 

Οι πράκτορες λένε πως το Ελληνικό είχε ζήσει εποχές δόξας κι ας ήταν πιο ταπεινό από το "ΕΛ.ΒΕΛ." ...

Edited May 9, 2016 by MAC

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Θυμάμαι κάτι ειδικές περιπτώσεις, όπως σε ένα τελικό Ευρωπαϊκού κυπέλλου, όταν δεν προφταίνανε να πηγαινοέρχονται τα αεροπλάνα.

 

Δεν νομίζω όμως ότι το Ελληνικό ήταν ποτέ hub όπως είναι π.χ. το Μόναχο, ή το Λονδίνο. Ίσως θα μπορούσαμε να γίνουμε, δεδομένης της καλής γεωγραφικής θέσης, αλλά προφανώς κάτι λείπει.

 

Μου λείπει αφάνταστα εκείνη η τεράστια τζαμαρία στις αφίξεις όπου έπινες τον καφέ σου και έβλεπες με την άνεση σου όλη την κίνηση των αεροσκαφών.

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Νομίζω ότι το Ελ. Βενιζέλος δεν έχει αρκετά μεγάλο διαδρομο για να υποδεχτεί το A380. Πρέπει να το είχα ακούσει πριν καν παραδοθεί στις ειδήσεις

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Νομίζω ότι το Ελ. Βενιζέλος δεν έχει αρκετά μεγάλο διαδρομο για να υποδεχτεί το A380. Πρέπει να το είχα ακούσει πριν καν παραδοθεί στις ειδήσεις

Ένας διάδρομος 4000m και ένας 3800m, μια χαρά είναι οι διάδρομοι υποδομή για το super jumbo δεν έχουμε.

 

Μεταξύ μας τι να την κάνουμε κιόλας, ας αποκτήσουμε year round (απευθείας) σύνδεση με Β. Αμερική και Άπω Ανατολή γιατί τα τελευταία δύο χρόνια η ανάπτυξη στο Ελ. Βελ. έχει έρθει κυρίως από την αύξηση των low cost διαδρομών και των λεγόμενων leisure routes.

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Ένας διάδρομος 4000m και ένας 3800m, μια χαρά είναι οι διάδρομοι υποδομή για το super jumbo δεν έχουμε.

Δικό λάθος τότε ή του ρεπορτάζ

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Mystery as British Airways A380 plane lands in London with square tire

By Maureen O'Hare, CNN

Updated 1556 GMT (2356 HKT) May 10, 2016




Out of shape: Experts said there was no danger to passengers.

Square eggs, square watermelons and now... square tires?

Here's an aviation mystery to sit alongside the Bermuda Triangle and the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
A British Airways Airbus A380 set off from Hong Kong on May 5 with 22 round wheels -- but apparently touched down at London Heathrow with a bizarre square-shaped tire.
This extraordinary photo was uncovered by aviation news site The Aviation Herald, which reported that the British Airways crew received a tire pressure warning shortly after takeoff.
The crew continued with the flight but requested that a tow tug be available at the London airport in case the aircraft was unable to taxi to the gate by itself.

'Not seen anything like it before'

Thirteen hours later, the plane landed safely on runway 09L and was able to taxi to the gate without assistance.
But then, reports The Aviation Herald, it was discovered that the right outboard tire had deflated both top and bottom, creating a curious four-cornered shape.
It's been puzzling aviation experts.
A Civil Aviation Authority spokesperson told the Daily Mail: "It's a curious one. Not seen anything like it before."
Patrick Smith, author of Cockpit Confidential, confessed: "The photo appears genuine, but I'm unsure how such a thing would happen, exactly."

 

How did it happen?

Kumar Mysore, from the Royal Aeronautical Society, told the Mail that the square shape might be due to how the weight of the Airbus A380 distributes itself on a deflated tire.

"You can see that the wheel is not damaged at all, as it is designed to take this weight.

"The effect is the same as when you squeeze a rubber ring toy with different intensity, it can turn into a different shape.

"In an A380, for this particular situation, it happens to be squarish."

Mysore assured the Daily Mail that while there were a number of possible reasons for the deflation, "pilots are well trained to handle the situation safely."

A spokesperson for British Airways also confirmed that the flight was not in danger.

"Our flight landed normally last Friday with one of its 22 tires deflated.

"The A380, in common with other large commercial aircraft, is designed to be perfectly safe when landing with a deflated tire.

"Our engineers quickly changed the tire and the aircraft went back into service."

Πηγή: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/10/aviation/british-airways-square-tire-mystery/index.html?sr=fbCNN051116british-airways-square-tire-mystery1200PMStoryLink&linkId=24361089

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Justin Bachman justinbachman

August 3, 2016 — 7:53 PM EESTUpdated on August 3, 2016 — 8:30 PM EEST

Emirates Jet From India Erupts in Flames After Dubai Landing

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An Emirates jumbo jet crash lands in Dubai, suffers an apparent engine explosion, and loses most of its top section to fire. The plane comes to rest looking as though someone used a giant, flame-throwing can opener to rip off the length of the cabin.

 

Despite this tremendous mechanical violence, all 300 people aboard escaped with their lives. How did this happen?

The short answer is engineering and training.

The incident involving Flight 521, a Boeing Co. 777-300 on a flight from India, resembled the July 2013 crash landing of an Asiana Boeing 777-200 in San Francisco, which clipped a seawall, flipped, and then burned near a runway. Only three of the 291 passengers on that flight died—a 99 percent survival rate—while the jet was destroyed.

 

Emirates is the largest operator of the Boeing 777, a staple of long-haul flights around the world and a model flown by the airline since 1996. The crash on Wednesday was the carrier’s worst accident in its 31-year history. And while all the passengers survived, afirefighter died battling the aftermath.

 

A burned Asiana Airlines aircraft sits on the runway after it crashed landed at San Francisco International Airport.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

In a statement Wednesday, the airline said that flight EK521 “was involved in an operational incident upon landing at Dubai International Airport at approximately 12:45 local time; all passengers and crew were evacuated safely due to the quick response of the teams at Emirates and Dubai International Airport.” The company subsequently said the crash may have been caused in part by wind shear.

The aircraft, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines, was traveling from Trivandrum International Airport in Thiruvananthapuram, India. Delivered to Emirates in 2003, it was piloted by a captain and first officer with “7,000 hours of flying experience each,” the carrier said.

 

Among the reasons cited so far for helping 282 passengers and 18 crew survive the crash landing, the primary explanations are the “miracle” of engineering and a well-trained crew. On the engineering front, it wasn't so much a miracle as it was probably advances in three areas that increased survivability:

 

Evacuation
Airplanes must be evacuated within 90 seconds, a feat flight attendants are rigorously trained to achieve. That means passengers have a fighting chance to flee an airplane before fire and smoke can engulf it. In addition, the Federal Aviation Administration has invested enormous resources into studying emergency airplane “egress,” including an Oklahoma City laboratory specializing in such flight-safety issues.

 

Fire Resistance

The plastics and fabrics aboard airplanes aren't engineered just to resist fire; they also don’t produce toxic fumes when they do burn. That wasn’t always the case—smoke can be even more deadly than flames in an airplane crash. Airplanes built after 1990 must also meet standards on how much heat is released from materials in a fire and the density of smoke the fire produces.

 

Airplane Seats

All seats on modern airplanes such as the 777 are designed to withstand extreme forces up to 16 times the force of Earth's gravity. The connections between the floor and seats have also been strengthened so that seats do not break loose in a crash.

Emirates, Boeing Co., and aviation safety regulators will investigate the cause of the accident, a process that will probably take months. One thing is clear: Aviation will incorporate the lessons that are learned and strive to make flying even safer than it already is.

 

πηγή: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-03/this-is-how-300-people-escaped-a-fiery-crash-landing-in-dubai

 

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Plane engine falls apart mid-air

Updated: 8:43 pm, Sunday, 28 August 2016

A passenger of a US flight looked out of the window to find that large parts of the plane's engine had fallen off.

The photo was taken by Jeremy Martin, a lawyer from Ohio, on board Southwest flight 3472 from New Orleans to Orlando.

The plane's captain made the decision to divert the flight to Pensacola, where it landed without injury to the 99 passengers and five crew.

A spokesman for Southwest said the flight had experienced a 'mechanical issue with the number one engine'.

The airline added that the plane remains out of service and it was working to get passengers to their destinations as soon as possible.

Another passenger told Koco 5 of Oklahoma City that she had been on the flight with her husband and their three children.

She said the plane was over water when she heard a 'big explosion'.

'There was some smoke and then nothing.

'I saw parts flapping in the wind because it was right outside my window.'

She said the plane - which landed at 9.40am on Saturday local time - began to shake, descend rapidly and oxygen masks fell.

'I held my kids, and one was freaking out, crying. And so, we're trying to hold his hand and singing and praying a lot,' she said.

NTSB investigating incident involving a Southwest Airline fight that experienced uncontained engine failure, diverted to Pensacola Int'l.

'It wasn't until after I got on the ground that I got emotional.'

The plane was steadied before one of the pilots told passengers that one of the engines had been lost.

The woman praised the crew for their professionalism and added that 'it was thanks to the pilot that we're all alive'.

Picture: Jeremy Martin

- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/nthamerica/2016/08/28/plane-engine-falls-apart-mid-air.html#sthash.T32lM0zZ.dpuf

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Αρκετά τυχεροί

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Από το Διεθνές Αεροδρόμιο του Δουβλίνου (DUB)
(Ιρλανδικά: Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath)

Boeing B-737 της Aer Lingus

 

 

Airbus A-330 της Delta Airlines

 

 

Airbus A-320 της Lufthansa

 

 

Airbus A-330 της American Airlines έτοιμο προς απογείωση

 

Edited September 24, 2016 by MAC

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Και από τη διέλευση από το Διεθνές Αεροδρόμιο της Κωνσταντινούπολης "Kemal Ataturk"
(Τουρκικά: Atatürk Havalimanı)

 

 

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Why lightning strikes don’t harm the planes we fly in




An Icelandic airport worker recently captured the dramatic sight of a plane being hit by lightning. How do they survive such spectacular strikes?

 

By Chris Baraniuk

4 October 2016

 

Halldor Gudmundsson had just seen a huge lightning strike near his office, northwest of Keflavik International Airport in Iceland. He flipped open the camera app on his phone and started recording, hoping to catch another fork of electricity rip through the sky. But suddenly a plane, taking off from the airport, flew into view – and was immediately struck by a flash of lightning.

It was an extraordinary sight, but the aircraft soared on regardless, through heavy rain. “It was very fun to see, but also a bit scary,” says Gudmundsson, whose footage provided this extraordinary photograph.

The Wow Air flight from Iceland’s capital Reykjavik to Paris on 3 October arrived safely and the airline confirmed to the BBC that the plane was not damaged in any way. As a Wow Air spokeswoman pointed out, it’s not uncommon for aircraft to be struck by lightning. How, then, do they survive a sudden shock amounting to approximately 1 billion joules of energy – equivalent to a quarter-of-a-tonne of TNT.

The “skin” around the cabin and interior compartments of an airplane is designed to conduct electricity but keep it away from the crew, passengers and electronics inside, explains Chris Hammond, a retired pilot and member of the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa).

“There’s a metal mesh that goes into the skin of the airplane,” he says, “a sort of gauze that goes the whole way through – and that’s how the electricity is conducted.”

In addition, the electronics and connections to the fuel tank, for example, are heavily shielded to protect them from external electrical bursts. All of this is rigorously tested before an aircraft goes into service – a process that involves simulating lightning strikes to the skin and internal components.

Like a flying Faraday Cage, everything on board is protected

 

Gudmundsson’s photograph, notes Hammond, is an illustration of everything working exactly as it should. The bolt appears to enter the plane at the nose and then exit via the tail and part of the wing. Like a flying Faraday Cage, everything on board is protected.

A lightning strike is still likely to be noticed by people on board, though. Passengers on two flights that were hit over west London in April reported hearing loud bangs, for example.

Years ago, aircraft were not as well insulated from strikes. Hammond remembers piloting an early airliner while waiting to land in San Francisco. After a particularly bad flash, he recalls, “all the screens went blank”. Thankfully, the aircraft was equipped with analogue instruments at the time. While the computers gradually came back online, the plane was able to land safely.

Πηγή: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161004-why-lightning-strikes-dont-harm-the-planes-we-fly-in

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Why lightning strikes don’t harm the planes we fly in

 

 

 

An Icelandic airport worker recently captured the dramatic sight of a plane being hit by lightning. How do they survive such spectacular strikes?

 

By Chris Baraniuk

4 October 2016

 

 

Halldor Gudmundsson had just seen a huge lightning strike near his office, northwest of Keflavik International Airport in Iceland. He flipped open the camera app on his phone and started recording, hoping to catch another fork of electricity rip through the sky. But suddenly a plane, taking off from the airport, flew into view – and was immediately struck by a flash of lightning.

It was an extraordinary sight, but the aircraft soared on regardless, through heavy rain. “It was very fun to see, but also a bit scary,” says Gudmundsson, whose footage provided this extraordinary photograph.

 

 

The Wow Air flight from Iceland’s capital Reykjavik to Paris on 3 October arrived safely and the airline confirmed to the BBC that the plane was not damaged in any way. As a Wow Air spokeswoman pointed out, it’s not uncommon for aircraft to be struck by lightning. How, then, do they survive a sudden shock amounting to approximately 1 billion joules of energy – equivalent to a quarter-of-a-tonne of TNT.

The “skin” around the cabin and interior compartments of an airplane is designed to conduct electricity but keep it away from the crew, passengers and electronics inside, explains Chris Hammond, a retired pilot and member of the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa).

“There’s a metal mesh that goes into the skin of the airplane,” he says, “a sort of gauze that goes the whole way through – and that’s how the electricity is conducted.”

In addition, the electronics and connections to the fuel tank, for example, are heavily shielded to protect them from external electrical bursts. All of this is rigorously tested before an aircraft goes into service – a process that involves simulating lightning strikes to the skin and internal components.

Like a flying Faraday Cage, everything on board is protected

Gudmundsson’s photograph, notes Hammond, is an illustration of everything working exactly as it should. The bolt appears to enter the plane at the nose and then exit via the tail and part of the wing. Like a flying Faraday Cage, everything on board is protected.

A lightning strike is still likely to be noticed by people on board, though. Passengers on two flights that were hit over west London in April reported hearing loud bangs, for example.

Years ago, aircraft were not as well insulated from strikes. Hammond remembers piloting an early airliner while waiting to land in San Francisco. After a particularly bad flash, he recalls, “all the screens went blank”. Thankfully, the aircraft was equipped with analogue instruments at the time. While the computers gradually came back online, the plane was able to land safely.

Πηγή: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161004-why-lightning-strikes-dont-harm-the-planes-we-fly-in

Το θέμα είναι ότι μπορεί να δημιουργήσει άλλα προβλήματα, από το fly by wire μέχρι και compressor stall λόγω των υπολογιστών που ελέγχουν τους κινητήρες.

 

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"Unboxing"

(https://www.facebook.com/vasilis.porgiazis/posts/10154664799353166?theater)

Καλημέρα Αθήνα!!! Καθώς τα αστέρια αχνοφέγγουν. Ξημέρωμα στο Ελ.Βενιζέλος.
Είναι το νέο απόκτημα της AEGEAN προσγειώθηκε στην βάση του χθες το βράδυ λίγο πριν από τις 22.00 Καλές και ασφαλείς πτήσεις AEGEAN!
Delivery Flight Α36001/ΑΕΕ6001 27/11/2015 Toulouse Airbus Delivery Center (TSL) – Athens(ATH)
A320-232(WL) MSN 6832 SX-DNB
Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" ATH/LGAV


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http://www.onalert.gr/stories/polemiki-aeroporia-ti-tha-doume-ston-fetino-eortasmo/52726 μην ξεχάσουμε φέτος την γιορτή της πολεμικής αεροπορίας μας

 

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Kill από ώρα…

 

Εννιά φορές το βάρος μου σηκώνω

αίρων τις αμαρτίες που μ’ αναθέσανε γενιές χαμένες

σε μια στροφή το μάτι μου καρφώνω

σε εικονικά τετράγωνα αιχμαλωτίζοντας κουκίδες ξένες.

 

“Θέλει αρετή και τόλμη η Ελευθερία”

μάρτυράς μου η ιδρωμένη φόρμα

οι κρύες αίθουσες των readiness

και τα ονόματα των συναδέλφων στα Ηρώα.

 

Το μόνο που δεν σκέπτομαι είναι να πεθάνω

αν και μπορεί κι αυτό αναπάντεχα να γίνει

κι αν τα g δεν μ’ αφήνουν να ανασάνω

πολλά περιθώρια η ευθύνη δεν μού δίνει

 

Μπαίνω στο merge, “Γιάννη άφησε τον δικό μου”,

έχει λιακάδα μα εδώ θυμίζει μπόρα,

μου αρκεί που τρία λεπτά οι ουρανοί είναι δικοί μου,

κι εσύ εχθρέ είσαι kill από ώρα…

 

Γ.Ν.Χριστογιαννάκης

Νοεμβριος 1997

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μαγεία....

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Από το Διεθνές Αεροδρόμιο Βρυξελλών (Brussel Nationaal/Bruxelles-National κωδ. BRU)

 

 

 

Boeing B737-600 της Tunisair

 

 

Airbus A320 της Thomas Cook Airlines

 

 

Airbus A320 της TAP Portugal

 

 

Bombardier CRJ900 της Lufthansa Regional

 

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Από τα καλυτερα αεροπλανομουσικοβιντεο που εχω δει

 

[karimpas 98]

Από τα καλυτερα αεροπλανομουσικοβιντεο που εχω δει

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpmBP760ag

Από την ταινία Chevalier's du ciel, τρομερές σκηνές

 

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Edited April 3, 2017 by karimpas

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rT0uiK_jy8

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http://news.in.gr/science-technology/article/?aid=1500150822#ref=latestarticles

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Aυ΄τό που γράφει είναι σχετικά ανακριβές μιας και πολύ μεγαλύτερο πρόβλημα στην ζέστη είναι η απόδωση των κινητήρων που πέφτει πολύ και δεν φτάνει ο διάδρομος απογείωσης. Πολύ αμφιβάλλω αν λόγω ζέστης τα φτερά χάνουν πάνω από 5-10% της άνωσης ενώ οι κινητήρες χάνουν αρκετά παραπάνω

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Απλά πράγματα νομίζω, για τον ίδιο λόγο που αποδίδουν αισθητά λιγότερο το καλοκαίρι οι κινητήρες με turbo.

 

Αραιότερος αέρας.