AA high speed aborted takeoff at DCA, near miss 5/29/24

[ERfly]

I love the sandcrawlers. Such a unique vehicle… and come on, a bus that essentially docks with the building? Heck yeah! Also, low key, my retirement gif is driving a shuttle between two points. Looks like the chillest job ever.

Even cooler when they docked directly with the jet!

 

[poser765]

Even cooler when they docked directly with the jet!

Shut up! They can dock to a jet!?!?

 

[BobDDuck]

Shut up! They can dock to a jet!?!?

Kind of an old picture... but yes.

 

[Skåning]

Shut up! They can dock to a jet!?!?

Even French ones!

 

[Kingairer]

I diverted into IAD once, and because we were going to DCA originally, we had more than half the plane just want to get off. We we're at a remote stand and they brought out the starwars mobile and offloaded.

 

[ERfly]

Shut up! They can dock to a jet!?!?

Yep! They're call Mobile Lounges for a reason. When IAD first opened, all the planes parked remotely. You boarded the lounge at the main terminal and it drove you out to the jet.

 

[killbilly]

The crawlers are going to be a problem because supposedly they can’t get parts for them anymore.

Fun fact: the ones with the masts on top have the screw jack assemblies to dock with airplanes. The ones that don’t have masts, can’t - they just shuttle people between terminals.

 

[///AMG]

Can they dock with a B-737 though? If they can't, NEXT TOPIC!!!!

 

[Skåning]

Can they dock with a B-737 though? If they can't, NEXT TOPIC!!!!

Needs mohr tailstand!!!!!!

 

[Roger Roger]

Can they dock with a B-737 though? If they can't, NEXT TOPIC!!!!

They elected not to make it 737 compatible because at the time the guppy was so aged and obsolete they figured it would go away soon

 

[///AMG]

They elected not to make it 737 compatible because at the time the guppy was so aged and obsolete they figured it would go away soon

Surprise cockbags!!!!!

- 2024

 

[Skåning]

They elected not to make it 737 compatible because at the time the guppy was so aged and obsolete they figured it would go away soon

It was just a crappy regional jet for those dirty Appalachia and intra Texas routes. Dont wanna get the Mobile Lounge carpet dirty with that unwashed clientele!

 

[Skåning]

Surprise cockbags!!!!!

- 2024

Cries while sitting in a 2024 Guppy seat

 

[///AMG]

Cries while sitting in a 2024 Guppy seat

But its a 2024 model.....

oh wait.....

 

[Roger Roger]

Cries while sitting in a 2024 Guppy seat

I’ll give it this, it’s more comfortable than a Learjet. Of course it still flies like a school bus, and we didn’t do 6 hour legs in the Lear

 

[Roger Roger]

Surprise cockbags!!!!!

- 2024

I had the munchkins at the Museum of Flight last weekend and I cried a little to see the exact same overhead on display.

 

[Murdoughnut]

Have ridden the IAD shuttles a lot of late. What angers me is when you're driving past the row of international widebodies and everyone is looking down at their phone. Losers.

 

[///AMG]

Have ridden the IAD shuttles a lot of late. What angers me is when you're driving past the row of international widebodies and everyone is looking down at their phone. Losers.

Great point. Last time I was at IAD, or actually I think it was JFK, me and the older FAs oogled at a pax Lufthansa 747 strolling by. People should really appreciate these moments before they are forever gone. The young FAs were of course on their phones.

 

[MikeD]

Have ridden the IAD shuttles a lot of late. What angers me is when you're driving past the row of international widebodies and everyone is looking down at their phone. Losers.

Great point. Last time I was at IAD, or actually I think it was JFK, me and the older FAs oogled at a pax Lufthansa 747 strolling by. People should really appreciate these moments before they are forever gone. The young FAs were of course on their phones.

Sheesh…..you all act like you were driving past a flightline of F-105 Thuds or F-8 Crusaders.

J/k……I know what you mean. It’s like how plane spotting at airports back in the 80s/90s used to have such a variety of airliner types, jets to props. Now, it’s the same few types, regional or mainline.

 

[///AMG]

Sheesh…..you all act like you were driving past a flightline of F-105 Thuds or F-8 Crusaders.

J/k……I know what you mean. It’s like how plane spotting at airports back in the 80s/90s used to have such a variety of airliner types, jets to props. Now, it’s the same few types, regional or mainline.

haha I wish. I'll say that the biggest surprise of my life was that both the Thud and the Crusader were flying operationally (at least in the Guard/Reserves) in my lifetime. Which signifies a big regret......dont think I ever saw either one fly. Talk about the coolest jets to ever move under their own power.