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If You Fear the Beard, Then You Should Fly the Beard: Look What Virgin Air Did to the San Francisco Giants A320
Friday, January 18th, 2013Fly It Like You Stole It – Sailing High Over the Western A
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012My, what a long contrail you have…
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OMG, Ride the E-Line “Twin Torpedos” for Free This Weekend! Volunteer to be a Temporary Streetcar Docent
Monday, October 1st, 2012How would you like to volunteer as a docent helping out with the new-school / old-school E-line on October 6-7, 2012?
First, some background about how busy the 415 will be this weekend:
“Looking at what’s scheduled for that weekend, there might not be room in the city for many more people, much less cars. First, there’s the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, a three-day event that drew about 800,000 people last year. That Sunday afternoon, the 49ers play the Buffalo Bills at Candlestick Park, while the Giants are hoping for weekend playoff games at AT&T Park, all guaranteed sellouts. About 60,000 people typically attend the Castro Street Fair, scheduled for that Sunday, while thousands more will jam North Beach for the annual Italian Heritage Parade at 12:30 on the same day. A different crowd will probably be at the Burning Man Decompression street fair, also that Sunday afternoon. To add to the fun, two mega cruise ships are expected to dock at Pier 35 over the weekend, disgorging thousands more tourists. Then, of course, there’s Fleet Week, which brings thousands of sailors and as many as a million visitors to the waterfront for the weekend.”
So you’ll be needed to help out all the visitors moving around on the Twin Torpedos, streetcars 1006 and 1008:
“We need several more docents to work the stops along the E-line on October 6 and 7, helping riders find the right platform and providing information about the service. We have docent books prepared by Paul Lucas, so it’s easy to learn what to do. If you’re interested, send us an email and we’ll get back to you.”
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Act now.
And I Can See Those Fighter Planes: A Formation of Small Jets Above North Beach – Patriots Jet Team?
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012August 17th, 2012, over North Beach:
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Maybe this is the Patriots Jet Team. Maybe this had something to do with San Francisco’s failed and corrupt America’s Cup “World Series.”
Mythbusters! Adam Savage Needs to Borrow a Large Aircraft in the Bay Area for a Few Days – Won’t You Help Him?
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Adam Savage would like to borrow your airplane for a few days:
“ATTENTION! Anyone have a 200+ seat plane we can use (no flying) for 2-3 days in the Bay Area? We won’t blow it up. WRITE mb@beyond.com.au”
See? They won’t blow it up.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking, “What about the Getty Jet?”
But I think that old gas-guzzling Boeing 727* is too small.
But what about the big Google Jets? Either the 757 or wide-body 767 should work.
Now, what are the Mythbusters up to?
*There’s nothing wrong with The Jetty per se, it’s just that it’s old school so your chances of dying on it are one or two orders of magnitude greater that what they’d be on the JetBlue or something. And it’s not possible to upgrade all its low-bypass engines to a more modern design. Therefore it’s expensive to operate compared to jets that weren’t designed half a century ago.
December 3rd, 2011 was San Francisco’s DAY WITHOUT CLOUDS – A Jumbo Sky Filled with (Quiet) Jumbo Jets
Sunday, December 4th, 2011Yesterday, owing to the unusual winds what blew away* the fog, I saw jumbo jets above S.F. in places where I normally don’t, but I couldn’t really hear them. (I guess jets have gotten a lot quieter these days.)
Like this low-flying United Air 747-400 near the Ferry Building – you could hardly hear it:
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*I suppose – cf. yesterday’s Blue Sky Red Bridge from Burrito Justice
OMG, OMG the “Wings Over Wine Country” Airshow Near Santa Rosa Looks Awesome! Get Tickets Now for August 20-21, 2011
Monday, July 18th, 2011Oh man, your 2011 Pacific Coast Air Museum Air Show, Wings Over Wine Country, is going to be soooooo much better than the wine-sipping alternative, it’s not even funny.
Check the slideshow, baby! Check the FAQ too. Get your tickets here.
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So, take a vacay from your Sunday Punch routine and get out there – let’s hope that B25J will be on hand this year. (Don’t Mess With Texas, or Tennessee, or, well, just don’t mess with 12 machine guns when they’re all firing together.)
See you there!
All the deets:
“Here’s a sneak preview of just some of our 2011 Air Show performers:
- Opening ceremony with local Police and Fire Departments commemorating the 10th Anniversary of September 11, 2001
- Advance preview of the 9/11 “First Responder” F-15 Eagle aircraft, the first aircraft to arrive over the World Trade Center on 9/11
- U. S. Navy F/A-18F “Hornet” Demonstration Team(tentative)
- C-17 Globemaster Static Display and Aerial Demonstration
- Air Force U-2 Flyby
- Air Force T-38 Formation Flyby
- Crowd favorite Eddie Andreini with amazing barnstorming aerobatics in his Stearman
- Tim Decker in his beautiful red and white Pitts Special
- Canadian favorite “Team Rocket” with fabulous formation aerobatics in two Harmon Rockets
- Crowd favorite Dan Buchanan in his towed hang glider
- World Class aerobatics with Aerobatic Competition winner Vicky Benzing in her beatiful Extra 300S
- Light, fast, and wickedly maneuverable, the Ethanol-Powered Fagen MX2 is the ultimate airshow platform for world class aerobatics by Greg Poe
- Greg Colyer in his fabulous “Blue Angels” T-33 Shooting Star – - a tribute to the 100th anniversary of U.S. Naval Aviation
- lots of P-51 “Mustangs” and lots more WWII Warbirds
- Famed Air Show Announcer Danny Clisham: Known for fresh, lively, knowledge-based commentary, Danny is one of America’s most popular air show announcers. In the course of his career, he has entertained millions of attendees at air shows throughout North America. He repeatedly puts on performances that thrill audiences and keep them coming back year after year.
- Many fantastic static display aircraft
- Fabulous Classic Car Show
- Huge “Kids World” with great activities for families and children
- Jelly Belly aircraft
- Performer’s Reception
- President’s Club
- And much, much more!
- Tickets are available at a discount, on-line, now.“
- 7:30 – 10:30 a.m. – Pancake Breakfast
- 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. – Warbird Photo Hour
- Radio-controlled model aircraft
- Opening ceremony with local Police and Fire Departments commemorating the 10th Anniversary of September 11, 2001
- Eddie Andreini Stearman
- Greg Colyer “Blue Angels” T-33 Shooting Star
- Beale Air Force Base Military Flyby
- World Class aerobatics with Aerobatic Competition winner Vicky Benzing in her beatiful Extra 300S
- U.S.Air Force Reserve C-17 Globemaster III
Aerial Demonstration - Mass WWII Warbird Flyby, featuring P-40 “Warhawks”
- Tim Decker Pitts Special
- “Team Rocket”
- Dan Buchanan towed hang glider
- More Warbirds – CJ-6s & T-6s
- Greg Poe - MX-2 Aerobatics
- U.S. Navy F/A-18 “Super Hornet” Aerial Demonstration (tentative)
Meh: Meet Your Boeing 737 “Next Generation” Workhorse with New “Sky Interior”
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011I don’t know, there’s not much you can do with an older aircraft design like the Boeing 737. Anyway, this is it, your new “Sky Interior.”
See the scalloping by the windows? And the bins, they’re new. And they use LED lights to mimic the blue of the sky. It can also do the warm glow of sunrise.
O.K., Boeing.
Fly AirBerlin:
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The saving grace for this airplane is that it’s signif. lighter than the Airbus 320. That will have to do until Big B redoes the 737.
All the deets:
“New interior options for the 737NG in 2010 included the 787-style Boeing Sky Interior. Designed using Boeing’s new cabin concepts, the Sky Interior features sculpted sidewalls and redesigned window housings, along with increased headroom and LED mood lighting. Larger pivot-bins similar to those on the 777 and 787 have more luggage space than prior designs. The Sky Interior is also designed to improve cabin noise levels by 2-4 dB. The first 737 equipped with the Boeing Sky Interior was delivered to Flydubai in the fourth quarter of 2010. TUIFly and Continental Airlines have also taken delivery of Sky Interiors.”
How Jumbo is Too Jumbo? Airbus A380, SFO’s New Loadstar Aircraft, Bumps into Stuff Once Again
Monday, June 20th, 2011I’ll tell you, I have no objection in particular about Airbus A380 superjumbo jets flying into and out of SFO, but over the past few years the arrival of this a/c got oversold, way oversold, by SFO, the old mayor’s office and the new mayor’s office.
They went on and on about how farsighted SFO was to become “A380-ready,” but after these kinds of taxiway incidents worldwide, I gotta ask:
Where’s your Messiah now, SFO?
Oh, here it is, at the Paris Air Show, bumping into buildings ‘n stuff. Sacre Bleu – Une Autre Allision!
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(Don’t call it a wing fence (or winglet or sharklet) the way some journalists do, oh no, call it a wingtip fence. Thusly: “The Superjumbo jet just lost another wingtip fence.)
“While the crew had been informed that the taxiway was clear for the A380, said Airbus, and the aircraft was on the centreline, it hit a building belonging to Aeroports de Paris.”
Oh well.
Hey SFO, why don’t you actually do something by getting your runways farther apart so you’ll be future-ready instead of just A380-ready?
Just asking, SFO Bro.
“Giant A380 Jetliner Proves SFO Planners Were Right?” Uh, Not Really, SFGate
Monday, May 23rd, 2011Well, here’s the latest from Business Report – The Chronicle with Bloomberg:
Giant A380 jetliner proves SFO planners were right
Uh, so I’m not saying that the powers that be shouldn’t have gotten ready for the long-delayed Airbus A380 jumbo jet, but this wasn’t all that much of a gutsy call, right? It’s like, should we prepare to accommodate the jets that are being planned for five-ten years from now?
O.K., so why not prepare? Sure. But I don’t know how much credit should go to the people of SFO for doing what they’re paid to do.
See? Some have three jetway thingees, some have two:
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In other news, the new A380 uses more fuel than any other airliner you could think of. So this is incorrect:
“It’s a much less fuel-consuming aircraft. It’s a much more efficient aircraft; it costs 30 percent less to operate than other wide bodies.”
And considering all the hype, the hype like this:
“The A380′s modernity, comfort and stylishness should help drive business between the Bay Area and overseas markets, said R. Sean Randolph, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. Randolph said he thinks this is especially true of the burgeoning business relationship with India, which generates high transpacific traffic.”
…the A380 appears to be kind of a big nothingburger. You want to fly from India, you can do it on a Boeing 777 or an old 747 or, soon enough, the long-delayed new 747-8i. And in fact, if anything, the trend of rising fuel prices is making some airlines rethink the desirability of non-stop hops from faraway lands. And “stylishness?” You know, I’d just love to make business with you there, Reddy, but that triple-seven they want me to fly over on, well, it just doesn’t do it for me, it’s not stylish at all, you know? I’ll wait until Airbus makes a fat piggy plane with wings that are too big (because they were designed for future stretched versions like the A380-900, or, Gaia help us, the mythical A380-1000. But, seeing as how the freighter version of the miraculous, wonderful, oh-my-God-this-changes-everything A380 got cancelled, it might be a good long time before the world sees a stretched A380…)
And speaking of the new 747, Lufthansa is also buying those as well, so maybe you’ll be on a Boeing the next time you fly to Frankfurt. IRL, Lufthansa calculates about a 3% delta in fuel economy per passenger betwixt the newish A380 and the impending Boeing 747-8i.
Anyway, the giant A380 jetliner does not necessarily prove SFO planners right, just saying.
Now, about those substandard runways…
