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british airways 777 aircraft

How do the airlines name them……….? Well Singapore airlines have the suffix *-*12 in All their Boeing aircrafts like *eg:-Boeing 777-312/ER OR Boeing 747-412 And Also British Airways like *eg:- Being 777-236/ER OR Boeing 747-436 Can Anyone help me out with this please?? thanks! the last two numbers are the customer numbers from boeing. British [...]

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New Plane Programme Boeing says it needs more time to advance the underlying technology. Chicago-based Boeing put together a team to “study the possibility of creating a new airplane for the narrow-body market” in 2006. article continues below… Since the 737′s 1967 debut, the aircraft has won Boeing more than 6,000 orders. The 737 replacement study [...]

boeing 777 news

Which aircraft is safest to fly long haul? I’m booking a trip to Europe, and can’t decide between a nonstop on a Boeing 777 with British Airways or a one stop on a 757 and 737 with Continental. Researching, both have problems with icing, and the 777 is all over the news because of two [...]

boeing 777 fedex

Who undrstands more about economy: FedEx executive board or Nancy Pelosi? FedEx is threatening to cancel orders for as many as 30 Boeing 777 freighters (worth $6.5 billion) if the House proceeds with Employee Free Choice Act : http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/03/fedex-gets-mad.html Pelosi knows nothing beyond tax and spend. The women quite honestly is clueless. So the unions [...]

boeing 777 aeroplane

Can someone explain this to me? Ok, bear with me here – The world spins in such a way that if you were able to hover in mid air, you would float to America if you started in the UK. So, considering this fact, why does it take a Boeing 777 aeroplane, 8 and a [...]

boeing 777

A Pilot’s view. The British Airways Boeing 777 that crash-landed at London Heathrow on Thursday provoked a wave of speculation. How could a modern hi-tech airliner lose thrust from both engines at once? Theories ranged from crew error to fuel starvation. BA is a top class airline and crews don’t easily make casual mistakes – [...]

boeing 777 rolls royce

Why do they have different types of engines for the same aircraft? For example, how come some Boeing 777′s have engines made by GE, while others have engines made by Rolls Royce? What difference does it make? It depends on the goals and mission of the airline. In the US you won’t see a 777 [...]

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Qatar Airways Qatar Airways is the national airlines of Qatar and has its headquarters in Doha. It is amongst the fastest growing airlines in the world .It has got the “five star airline” status from Skytrax. The other airlines to get this rating are Kingfisher Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Asiana Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines [...]

boeing 777 crash

The recent events of US Airways Flight 1549 have brought renewed interest to heroic pilots and their exploits. No one can doubt the courage of pilot Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III, who managed to bring the crippled craft down with no fatalities despite having no engine power. His heroism has sparked an interest in heroic [...]

boeing 777 landing

Help with this aircraft pneumatics question??? how to make aircraft pneumatics throughout flight??? Thanks? can anyone help me with this question on pneumatics aircraft engineering??? Using a variety of diagrams e.g from civil aircraft inspection procedures. or from a boeing 747,777,737, airbus a320,a340, a330, identify the pneumatic power system supply requirements from engine start up [...]