Delta Flight Museum ATL

SeanD said:
and this

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Nice! Best jumpseat ever.

I remember when I hitched a ride from ATL to MCO when I was still working for Skyway, the flight was full and I had to ride jumpseat. Although it was full, it was fairly light and I sat on the jumpseat to the left and aft of the captain. Big flipping window, unobstructed view and it was about the coolest thing since sliced bread.

Or Ciabatta. Ciabatta is delicious with the olives, toasted with a little marinara on the side.
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
I think that it was their fortress hub back in the day, which is why DL still has a hub there, because of the merger.
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Their training center is all FA stuff there. The A330 egress trainer, on its digital readout between the forward doors on teh wall, still says Northwest Airlines on it. They had to move it piecemeal and reassemble it inside the building there.
 
Flew on a Western 707 (one of my favorite all-time aircraft) on our honeymoon to/from Hawaii back in the late '70s. Great airline, worst airline food I've ever, E-V-E-R eaten. Correction: tasted. It simply wasn't edible.
 
Nick said:
I googled that phrase; the 787 design test pilot I had brunch with two weeks ago (before he went up to his hangar at KPAE) said it was 65, so I'm quite certain that is the number that are not normal 787s. 65 "teenagers," whether or not they are all sitting at Everett in one area I'm not sure but that is the total number.
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http://online.wsj.com/news/article_...amliners-1409347948-lMyQjAxMTA0MDIwOTEyNDkyWj

The problem: the jets come from a batch of early 787s built in 2009 and 2010 during the depths of Boeing's struggles with Dreamliner design and supply chain problems. Dubbed by some industry insiders as the "terrible teens," the jets are the 10th-to-19th and 22nd Dreamliners built. They have early design shortcomings that make them less efficient than more recently constructed units.
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RDoug said:
Flew on a Western 707 (one of my favorite all-time aircraft) on our honeymoon to/from Hawaii back in the late '70s. Great airline, worst airline food I've ever, E-V-E-R eaten. Correction: tasted. It simply wasn't edible.
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I have a picture of my great grandmother boarding a Western 727. I love that picture. It reminds me that she was born in 1896 and lived on a farm in VA until she was almost 100. Grew up with no electricity but remembered her first car, seeing her first airplane, watching man walk on the moon, yet vividly remembered dinner conversations with her Civil War veteran grandfather. Pretty remarkable.
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Some American airline, (Delta) should snap those up with a very decent discount from Boeing and use them as domestic 787's
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That will not happen, unless RA leaves and we get some buffoon to replace him. From what I understand, they are overweight and have structural weakness in the tail area because the contractor didn't built the tail right.
 
Cptnchia said:
That will not happen, unless RA leaves and we get some buffoon to replace him. From what I understand, they are overweight and have structural weakness in the tail area because the contractor didn't built the tail right.
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Plus RA doesn't like to underfly an aircraft's range when it can be avoided.
 
Cptnchia said:
That will not happen, unless RA leaves and we get some buffoon to replace him. From what I understand, they are overweight and have structural weakness in the tail area because the contractor didn't built the tail right.
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Cav said:
Plus RA doesn't like to underfly an aircraft's range when it can be avoided.
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Oh, I didn't know about any structural weaknesses. But figured that since RA is a penny pincher, and always looking for a good deal...
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Oh, I didn't know about any structural weaknesses. But figured that since RA is a penny pincher, and always looking for a good deal...
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Apparently, they weren't built right, and because it's composite material, it's cost prohibitive to cut them open and repair them.
 
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