You could go from a 4 engine to twin engine  FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
Mantec Sump Guard, Rigid Load liner, MY10 BT upgrade.

Clearly Will, you should work for General Electric.

He he he he

Thinking about it though it would make some nice sense to help reduce fuel costs on a jumbo  FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
Mantec Sump Guard, Rigid Load liner, MY10 BT upgrade.

here's an early xmas present for you David,

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/528/82/...-Gift.html ... - .- -.




Y. O. L. O.
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Thanks Stan.

2013 orders and deliveries.



More than 10,000 planes on back order. :shock:

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i wonder which countrys are the main buyers..

That'll take forever.... I think I'll just ask for my deposit back. Previously..
Vogue SE TD6
Defender 90 2.4
Defender 110 TD5
Vogue 3.5 EFI

Mostly East of Suez Stan.

thought as much..

Amazing to see demand for the Airbus A320 so strong even though it was designed in the late 80's.

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Expecting some announcements from Airbus sometime soon - I think certainly this year.

Their A330 was meant to be replaced by the A350, but it's kept on selling. In fact selling very well. Airliners like the fact that they don't have years to wait for a delivery, it's a mature technology, and it's substantially cheaper than a Boeing 787, even though it does burn more fuel.

But to keep it going they will need to address the fuel consumption. I suspect that just as there's an A320neo (new engine option) so there will be an A330neo.

Also, the A380 is seriously challenged for fuel burn by these new big twins, and the coming heavily revised 2020 777, so I think there will also be an A380neo.

The thrust requirements for the twin engined A330 and four engined A380 are pretty much the same, so I think it will be the same engine. Given the timescales and the small production size of these programmes, there's not enough time or return on investment to develop an all new engine. The candidates are developments of the current engines on the 787 - the Rolls Royce Trent 1000 or the General Electric GEnx.

My bet is Rolls Royce will be sole source supplier for both these programmes because Airbus will not want General Electric having a monopoly on the two largest airliners in existence.

In case you're wondering what they do when they're testing and certificating a plane, they don't just fly around waiting for something to break.

These are the interior shots of the A350 and as you can see it's quite an exercise and incolves some serious hardware.











This picture below is actually from the A380 when they were testing it. All those blue things that look like water bowsers are actually water bowsers, so they can play around with weights. I'd imagine they'll be doing something similar with the A350 before long.



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interesting

Concorde day on Discovery Turbo (524 on sky) for anyone who fancies it.

Still makes me sad they haven't put her back into limited service FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
Mantec Sump Guard, Rigid Load liner, MY10 BT upgrade.