Fun facts about aviation

A-350-X

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Not quite aviation but I think it fits here

You can control where the snow will fall in airliners.net’s main page by moving the cursor of the mouse

Emirates SkyCargo ordered 10 747-8F’s back in 2006

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Did it fall through or something

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My life is a lie

The A340-200 is slightly longer than the A330-200

I thought they were the same size, just like the A340-300 and A330-300

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Everyone else: there’s an A342!?!?!

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Yes, the A330-200 is 58.82m long while the A340-200 has a length of 59.39m.

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Why didn’t they just stick with the same airframe lmao

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thats what im asking myself

they did with the -300s

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Seems like a lot of extras expenses just for like a foot difference

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more like 3 feet

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Not quite a meter tho
But yeah. Still stupid

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nvm me stupid

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It’s probably like 2 feet or something

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The 787-10 and the A319neo had their first flights on the very same day, 31st of March 2017

And to make things even more fun, the E195-E2 first flew 2 days before them

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Flydubai’s livery is asymmetric, see if you can see it:


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Why? Just why? It’s not that hard to put the same design on each side.

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The first Cessna 172 is still operational and flying, produced back in 1955, it is now 67 years old!

Here it is back in July at Oshkosh:

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That chrome is nice

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How do they call ATC lmao

“November five zero zero zero zero alpha”

“November five quadruple zero alpha”

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