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Get back to me when a top rated airline orders a Chinese built airliner. If that happens within 10 years, I will dine you at my expense in London's top eateries.

So the AAIB, NTSB, FAA, Inmarsat, Rolls-Royce, Boeing, Malaysia, Australia AND the Chinese officials that have looked at the doppler analysis which is driving the current SAR ops are bull shitting? If the satellite analysis is a coverup and the wrong path, why are the Chinese assisting the...

Why don't you have a look at the date of your link (March). That report of satellite debris sightings along with 100s of others turned out to be wild goose chase. Stop posting nonsense.

Your reading comprehension sucks. I said that the information coming from Malay and Vietnamese sources was contradictory as the Vietnamese were jumping at every source and passing it off as fact - NOT that the Malay information was misinformed. Given that the information was scant at the time...

I guess they don't teach you about the destruction, famine and millions killed by the Soviet "5 Year Plans". Self determination by way of guns is not the way to go about it.

Ok Einstein tell me how you would have examined and calculated Doppler shift after comparing 1000s of Malaysian 777 flights within a matter of a few days? After all, it took the boffins at Inmarsat the best part of 3 weeks and even then they did the responsible thing of verifying and having the...

What news have the Malays fabricated? Other than not wanting to reveal exact parameters of their radar capabilities to the Chinese, the Malays have been very matter of fact and honest. As I mentioned in the earliest threads covering this topic, it would have been better if the media...

Some of the lines of reasoning displayed on this thread are a joke. Some are arguing the OP should keep his trap shut as he is American (ergo due to the faults of his government's foreign policy he is not entitled to an opinion). By the same measure therefore, the opinions of Russians (crimes...

In similar ilk to what I said before, if China can't get a relatively "simple*" straight pipe military turbojet to run reliably, what makes you think they can produce a fuel efficient HBPR turbofan for the civilian market where engines are expected to stay on the airframe for 1000s of hours...

JED is over 1 hour flying time from Riyadh. This flight was obviously intended for Jeddah from the offset given the additional fuel considerations.

The NH90 is fly by wire. The flight control set up on the NH90 was developed by Liebherr (GER) and Goodrich (USA) Unless you've got $1+ billion sitting around to redo all the testing, the answer is no.

The level of US hardware depends on customer requests but at the very least, it has a Honeywell weather radar and Goodrich flight control systems. Options for door mounted gun are a 7.62mm or .50cal platform.

The tender bids were rejected as the 777s offered were pre-2010 build.

That's all good and well but why the split 737 and A320 family fleet. For a small airlines like PIA, that means separate flight training, spares and maintenance which equal additional expense. PIA rejected the last tender offers for 4 widebody aircraft as they were all pre 2010 aircraft. Where...

Where did I say close them all down? Why did PIA MD try to arrange codeshares via Turkish Airlines to all those EU and North America cities - it was so PIA could withdraw from those silly "community service" routes and focus on an area where they can actually compete in the Gulf. Pakistanis...

The A350 is designed to compete with the 77W which PIA operates. As such it would make a good replacement. If PIA ios finding the A350-1000 too big, they can opt for the A350-900. You keep talking about reliability. This isn't the 1980s anymore with protected skies and nationalised airlines...

The platforms, 787 and A350 are tested. The engines, Trent 1000, GenX and TrentXWB are tested and their fuel burn figures are known. When the 777 entered service, it had many teething issues as do all aircraft. The GE90 engines were unreliable and required frequent changing. There were issues...

777=300ER Still better? Then why are airline buying more 787s and A350s - aircraft that DO and WILL have fuel consumption roughly 15% than current models on a per seat basis (A330 and 777 respectively)? Just so that it illustrates my point, here are the cruise fuel burn figures (bear in mind...

Smart guy, the aircraft that crashed at Bagram was N949CA. It was delivered to Air France on the 10th February 1992 as a passenger jet configured with 436 seats (F-GISE). In 2007, Air France withdrew it from pax service and had it converted under the BCF conversion to a Freighter variant. It was...

Ok, I'll entertain your thoughts. OEW: 166t FOB: 50t (being conservative, a normal commercial flight of this duration would carry 30t) Payload: 80t TOW:296t Given the improved climb takeoff procedure the flight crew would use, a lower flap setting would be used to improve second segment climb...