Re: An interesting response
Original Message: - From: Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 15:17:39 +1000 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: An interesting response On 03/05/2008, at 1:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and their fuel loads per passenger. One would have to stop for fueling several times to make that distance. I realize that most planes have to stop once, including the 747, but the 777 can make it in one. London to Sydney? In one hop? No current commercial aircraft can do it. London to Sydney is almost 13.500 miles and the 777 has a range of a bit over 9000. I'll come back to the rest of the post later. It's true that some of the plans are for 787 flights, not 777 flights, but if the links given below are trustworthy both the 777 and the 787 have the capacity to do it as nonstop. http://www.get-packing.com/news/flights/archives/april-2007/virgin-plans-dir ect-london-to-sydney-flights.html?fid=1094933108 http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/business/article59 0535.ece http://www.get-packing.com/news/flights/archives/february-2007/qantas-consid ers-non-stop-london-sydney-flights.html?fid=1638842198 It's not commercial yet, but according to the first quote, planes are now on order for that flight. The second article shows a _demostrated_ range of 13500 for the 777 , and the nonstop route would be somewhat shorter than a one stop route. Dan M. mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: An interesting response
On 04/05/2008, at 12:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second article shows a _demostrated_ range of 13500 for the 777 , and the nonstop route would be somewhat shorter than a one stop route. When loaded with passengers and baggage, the airline will be able to fly 10,900 miles non-stop Yes, it did 13,500. Unloaded. It'll just be able to do London - Sydney loaded if the shortest possible aircraft route is available, and in the right conditions. Really want to rely on no headwinds to make it across Oz...? The longest scheduled commercial service offered currently is the over 18 hour non-stop from Newark to Singapore. Maybe someone will offer a London-Sydney non-stop in the future, and maybe it'll be a 777 that does it, but currently no plane can do it commercially, as I said. Charlie. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 377, Issue 3
William T Goodall wrote: So we don't really know how available some minerals are until we start looking for them harder? It happened with oil and gas. Brazil was considered with no oil back in the 1930s - they were almost right, considering the technology of the time. Probably the UK and Norway were also considered places with no oil. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Just one complaint about Forbidden Kingdom
Julia Thompson wrote: The moon. The frakkin' moon. By what they said in dialogue at one point, I figured it was waning. Then when we saw it on the screen, it was waxing. Do they need to hire someone who understands the phases of the moon there? The idiocy of script writers spoiled the first time I saw Ladyhawke. When there was that riddle about a day that is not a day, a night that is not a night, I yawned and thought solar eclipse. But then they showed an almost-full moon, three days before that event, and I suddenly thought that it should be something else - maybe the SN 1054, the Crab Supernova. Of course, they decided to ignore science and put a trivial solar eclipse :-/ Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Gas engines: Here to stay
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