Trivia 2016 (miscellaneous news)

[Passenger]

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... jp#ac66251

Chartered flight for AA Gent to Skopje probably? AA Gent will defend a 2-1 home win against FC Shkëndija (Macedonia) on Thursday evening.

... flight was followed by a few Denim Air training flights at/near/above Ostend:
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... jp#ac76750

[sdbelgium]

It was indeed a charter flight for the Europa League game between Shkendia and AA Gent on Thursday. The training flights were announced earlier.

[Passenger]

Very difficult take off for a Royal Air Maroc 737-700:

see as from 0min22sec:

[luchtzak]

Very difficult take off for a Royal Air Maroc 737-700:

see as from 0min22sec:

Take-off on V1 iso VR ?

[Passenger]

KLM Cargo arranged transport for a Tyrannosaurus Rex from the United States to Amsterdam Schiphol by a 747 Freighter. The T.rex (6.000kg, 13m) then continued by road to the Naturalis Museum in Leiden.


photo KLM Cargo & Luchtvaartnieuws.nl

Source
http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/c ... -trex-trix

[Passenger]

Story:
https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/ ... ed-my-eyes

[DIBO]

I just hit my little toe Pictures will follow Ooh hang on, I don't own an airline, sorry no pictures then.

[DIBO]

Miscellaneous news, but certainly not trivial...

Fatal parachute jump in Opglabbeek, airborne from Zwartberg, British citizen.
RIP

Dutch only: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Binnenland ... beek.dhtml

[Passenger]

Reports on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/WN3472?src=hash&lang=nl

[Passenger]

Well done, fire brigade at AMS Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on Saturday night:

"... A Boeing 747-400F (reg N903AR) suffered a spectacular APU fire tonight on Amsterdam's S-ramp. The Centurion/Skylease flight KYE4852 had arrived earlier today (ex/MIA) and probably was preparing for departure, as KYE4851, to MIA. Schiphol's firefighting services appeared on the scene en masse and seems to have had things control quite rapidly..."

http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=126776

[sn26567]

Delays on the British M40 motorway while a Jaguar jet (not a Jaguar car!) is towed away after making emergency landing yesterday.

[DIBO]

...on the British M40 motorway while a Jaguar jet...

somebody is pulling someone's leg...
My guess would be, a former Mirage F1AZ from 1 Sqn Hoedspruit, being towed on the N1 highway near Pretoria in 2014...

[bigrage]

Delays on the British M40 motorway while a Jaguar jet (not a Jaguar car!) is towed away after making emergency landing yesterday.

Lol'd

[Passenger]

[Passenger]

Very difficult take off for a Royal Air Maroc 737-700:

see as from 0min22sec:

Take-off on V1 iso VR ?

The Aviation Herald has obtained a few photos that suggest it was more then a difficult take off:
http://avherald.com/h?article=49d159fc&opt=0

[galaxy]

Airbus Perlan 2 Standing by for Record Flight Attempt


Before aviator and businessman-explorer Steve Fossett died in 2007, the Perlan I stratospheric glider’s record flight above 50,000 convinced him and his partners, NASA test pilot Einar Enevoldson and meteorologist Elizabeth Austin, that higher altitudes were certainly possible. In the next month or so, the pressurized Perlan 2 plans to make the team’s dream of a flight to at least 90,000 feet a reality, so long as Mother Nature and the aircraft’s specialized onboard equipment all cooperate. Here are a few details.
The 1,100-pound Perlan 2 research glider, now sponsored by Airbus Group, plans to launch from about 9,000 feet above El Calafate Airport in southern Argentina with a traditional tow by a powered aircraft. It’s here that, typically in August and September, powerful stratospheric mountain waves form, offering the natural push the aircraft will need to reach 90,000 feet.

These waves are created by strong winds running perpendicular to the Andes mountain range, where peaks themselves can reach 23,000 feet. Weather experts say the mountain waves can become powerful enough to push the Perlan 2 to altitudes as high as 130,000 feet, more than enough to capture an International Gliding Commission (IGC) record.

In order to capture the IGC record however, the Perlan 2 will need to prove it actually reached 90,000 feet, an achievement that will be confirmed by an onboard LXNav, LX-9000 high-altitude flight recorder. At the flight’s completion, the flight recorder’s memory will be downloaded for verification by ICG judges. Just in case something does go haywire on the flight, the Perlan 2’s crew will be carrying an iPad as their backup.
http://www.flyingmag.com/airbus-perlan- ... ht-attempt

[Homo Aeroportus]

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, ...

Well it happens. Every year actually, so really trivia. And it doesn’t make me feel old, though I must admit that I’ve been young for a long time now.
But what a nice gesture from M&M Brussels Airlines to send me an e-mail today. It contains a link to the site where I can chose between Schumann and Brahms that will be played “just for me” by an orchestra in an LH hangar in FRA.
See :

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Now wait a minute.
Why this A340 in the back? Just three days after Convair told us that LH was sending an A340 to the scrapyard because it was too old, at 17 !
Is this a subtle message telling me it’s time to retire?


Nice gesture though. Thanks SN.

H.A.

[Passenger]

Too bad it's dark outside - Brussels Airport is about to get a very colourfull visitor: OE-FDN
https://www.flightradar24.com/OEFDN/afb1e5d
https://www.flightradar24.com/reg/oe-fdn



Photo Jetphotos.net - http://www.jetphotos.net/photo/8347496

(url edited)

[sn26567]

Err, what was the idea (from ANR to BRU) ?

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[sn26567]

The previous flight (around ANR) is even more intriguing!

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