"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
01/29/2014 at 20:50 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
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The C-Series! Sorry for far away moving car potato, but SR20
This is what it looks like. It's Bombardier's new passenger jet. It looks good, even if it is a bit Airbus-y from a distance. It's bigger than I thought, close to the size of an A320, or at least it looks like it
Nice work bombardi-bros. Keeping an eye out for the Lear 85, it's supposed to fly soon.
ttyymmnn
> Jayhawk Jake
01/29/2014 at 21:28 |
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Airbus-y yes, but that nose is all Bombardier.
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Jayhawk Jake
> ttyymmnn
01/29/2014 at 21:30 |
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From a distance, the nose and cockpit windows look a lot like an Airbus. Up close, yes, it's very much a Bombardier. It's attractive for sure. Hopefully I can catch it in the air sometime.
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ttyymmnn
> Jayhawk Jake
01/29/2014 at 21:32 |
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Nah, Airbuses are ugly. This plane isn't.
f86sabre
> Jayhawk Jake
01/29/2014 at 21:48 |
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My C-Series story, about 7-10 years ago another structures engineer and I were asked to go to Bombardier to talk about the C-Series. We were looking at 100 seat jets and wanted to see what they were up to. They wanted to pick our brains about structural repair. They were looking at using aluminum-lithium as the skin as it would be lighter than 2000 series metals and a composite wing. We kept asking how you fix it and they said they were working on it. We kept saying it needed to be easy to fix and the just kind of nodded and said it would be lighter. Ok, good luck with that.
On the plus side, we did get to fly the iron bird simulator and they took us to a Canadians game. Win-win.
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Jayhawk Jake
> f86sabre
01/29/2014 at 22:01 |
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The orders they have certainly imply that airlines want someone else to be guinea pig. If it delivers on the promised efficiency game and doesn't cause other issues, it could be a hit
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Jayhawk Jake
01/30/2014 at 11:19 |
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The lines on the rear tires remind of a story I read long ago. I think it was a C-47 crew, or possibly DC-3 (yes, I know they're the same plane). Either way, they crewed a cargo plane. To liven things up they would put chalk lines on the tire and whoever had their line pointing closest to the ground when they parked after a flight won. Can't remember what the bet was, but something small like a beer or a buck or something. At any rate, they ended the bet when they figured out that the pilot was winning a disproportionate number of bets because he would hang out the window and taxi until his mark came around.