Plane Spotting - The Quiz

[espinoza]

Dornier 228.

[SeaVisionBurma]

Jetstar A320?

[Dancealot]

Jin Air? 737?

[GrantSmith]

Jetstar..

[Chao Lao Beach]

ScabStar 320

It is hard to tell if it is:

JetStar (Australia)

JetStar Asia (Singapore)

JetStar Vietnam

[SeaVisionBurma]

It is hard to tell if it is:

JetStar (Australia)

JetStar Asia (Singapore)

JetStar Vietnam

Cool - more stuff to guess

I vote 3K

[David48]

Jetstar A320?

Well SVB ... I was just happy to go with your answer ...

A Jetstar Airbus A320

If you then wish to go further then maybe an outside photo would assist.

... and apologies ... only one I have.

So is it ...

JetStar (Australia)

JetStar Asia (Singapore)

JetStar (Vietman) ... ?

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[David48]

A Jetstar Airbus A320 ... a view not often seen.

An amazing photo (well, for me anyway) ... will acknowledge the exact file reference a little later.

[GrantSmith]

David48,

That photo is the office of the photographer

[David48]

Jetstar A320?

Well SVB ... I was just happy to go with your answer ...

A Jetstar Airbus A320

If you then wish to go further then maybe an outside photo would assist.

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... and apologies ... only one I have.

So is it ...

JetStar (Australia)

JetStar Asia (Singapore)

JetStar (Vietman) ... ?

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Seems little interest in choosing the origin country so it is ...

So is it ...

JetStar (Australia)

JetStar Asia (Singapore)

JetStar (Vietman)

Cockpit photo acknowledge is to ... http://www.airliners.net/photo/Jetstar%20Airways/Airbus%20A320-232/1393430/L

Balance of the plane's information is ...

• Airline: Jetstar Asia
• Flight: 3K511
• From: Singapore, Changi (SIN)
• To: Bangkok, Suvarnabhumi (BKK)
• Aircraft: Airbus A320-232 (A320)
• Reg: 9V-JSK
• Altitude: 22525 ft (6866 m)
• V/S: -2048 fpm
• Speed: 401 kt (743 km/h, 461 mph)
• Track: 341°
• Hex: 76AA6B
• Squawk: 0154
• Pos:
• Radar: T-VTBD1

EDIT:- My post got truncated ...

[Chao Lao Beach]

Re you image of the 320 above David, flying at sunrise sounds romantic right???

If you are east bound it is a night mare, but you find ways to insert all kind of objects into cracks and crevices to help block the sun out.

[David48]

# 039

Try for the ...

• Airline

• Make and Model

Very distinctive livery ... nothing fancy here ... it is what it appears to be ...

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[RabC]

# 039

Try for the ...

• Airline

• Make and Model

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Very distinctive livery ... nothing fancy here ... it is what it appears to be ...

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Airbus A340 Sri lankan

[spud67]

Looking for the airplane make and model only. The airline is an obscure regional charter in Canada with a plain white livery.

[SeaVisionBurma]

Looks like a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 - Kelowna?

[spud67]

Looks like a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 - Kelowna?

Well spotted, it is a DC-10. AND it is Kelowna Flightcraft *Gold Star for you! How would you know that???

[Chao Lao Beach]

Defiantly Kelowna, used to go into Vernon regularly back in the day. Amazing part of the world in BC and was challenging in a light turbo prop to be honest, lots of high rock around there.

[SeaVisionBurma]

Looks like a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 - Kelowna?

Well spotted, it is a DC-10. AND it is Kelowna Flightcraft *Gold Star for you! How would you know that???

I figured there can't be too many still operating, so I had a look around. Your 'all white' description helped - as I stumbled upon this great clip (seriously check out the landing, very smooth):

[Potosi]

Only in Russia...

[spud67]

Another common Make and Model. I will not assume that guessing the Airline is too difficult as SVB is some kind of plane-spotting savant!

BTW, the old style engines are not replaced with the newer style for practical reasons. Anyone know why?

[spud67]

Only in Russia...

Yikes!! Do all Russians have dashboard cameras? There seem to be a lot of youtube videos that way.

[GrantSmith]

Another common Make and Model. I will not assume that guessing the Airline is too difficult as SVB is some kind of plane-spotting savant!

BTW, the old style engines are not replaced with the newer style for practical reasons. Anyone know why?

Lets go with 'Boeing 737-200' for $200 thanks Alex... The airline looks like 'Canadian', an awesome airline that went arse up in the 90's (happy to be corrected)

[spud67]

Another common Make and Model. I will not assume that guessing the Airline is too difficult as SVB is some kind of plane-spotting savant!

BTW, the old style engines are not replaced with the newer style for practical reasons. Anyone know why?

Lets go with 'Boeing 737-200' for $200 thanks Alex... The airline looks like 'Canadian', an awesome airline that went arse up in the 90's (happy to be corrected)

It is a Boeing 737-200. However, as the photo was taken in the last year, it is not Canadian Airlines.

[Chao Lao Beach]

That 732 is one of First Air's machines after a departure.

It does not have a "gravel kit" installed. Some operators up north use their 732's off strip into gravel strips.

Many are also configured as combies, about 1/3 is for for cargo in a separate compartment and pax down the back. In a perfect world they would be all freight, the best passengers are boxes.

They are banned in oz due to noise and they use so much fuel anyway.

Here are some examples. Note the nose wheel.

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/jimbob_malone/5275927487/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/2487558266_8cb61579f1.jpg

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/images/uploaded-images/2007-3/9/3168.jpg

[spud67]

That 732 is one of First Air's machines after a departure.

It does not have a "gravel kit" installed. Some operators up north use their 732's off strip into gravel strips.

Many are also configured as combies, about 1/3 is for for cargo in a separate compartment and pax down the back. In a perfect world they would be all freight, the best passengers are boxes.

They are banned in oz due to noise and they use so much fuel anyway.

Here are some examples. Note the nose wheel.

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/jimbob_malone/5275927487/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/2487558266_8cb61579f1.jpg

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/images/uploaded-images/2007-3/9/3168.jpg

Nailed it! This is FAB861 CYFB -> CYOW. First Air has a habit of putting photos on their tail. This particular one is the night sky with aurora.

While you are correct, and way ahead of me, about the lack of gravel kit, the usage of these particular engines is for use on gravel runways. Obviously they will not want to land this one on gravel in this configuration but on at least one of their B732 that we get here is equipped as such. And according to their in-flight magazine is the reason they still use them.

In addition to the gravel kit on this Canadian North (Empress) B732 Combi, you can see the bottom of the large cargo clearly between the wing and the front exit door.

Love your comment about the best passengers being freight.

[spud67]

Following up on the best passengers line of thought.... when choosing a place to act up and become unruly, deciding on northern Canada is not a good place. Can you imagine, a guy gets on a plane in Vancouver flying to London Gatwick then gets his butt kicked off the plane after becoming unruly? In Iqaluit, Nunavut? On an island in the Arctic Ocean? I bet the -25 wake up was .... sobering.

Flight Aware of TSC242 diverted last night

..or in case the link doesn't work, a screen capture.

Soooo Bob .... how was your holiday? Oh right

[Ricardo]

On the passengers-as-freight point I recall while with TNT-Express once hearing, that we were looking at using our BAe146-freighters for QC (Quick-Change) to passenger-operations at week-ends, when the peak demand was.

We were planning passenger-seating fixed to pallet-floors, loaded through the cargo door on a Friday-night/Saturday-morning after final freight-rotations were completed, and then locked into position, reversing the process on Sunday-nights/Monday-mornings.

Hopefully the SLF would still have loaded in the normal manner, on foot.

And I also recall seeing futuristic ideas (from Boeing ?), showing palletised-SLF boarding the module in the terminal, and the modules then being transferred complete to the waiting aircraft ! Which might well have sped-up turn-rounds, and enabled post-flight cleaning to have been done more-efficiently, in the terminal rather than cleaning the inside of the aircraft itself ?

[Chao Lao Beach]

On a high by-pass engine like on a 737-300, 400, 500....... etc it is to easy to suck in rocks thrown up into the intakes. I have never flown one of these but I have been told by a friend who did time up north on a 732 that their are limits on reverse while on gravel, I forget what they are though.

See the buckets very aft on these donks.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3141/3006539574_23dda382f2_z.jpg?zz=1

and here and here

Remember these are -200's are in the 100 - 120 seat class, much smaller than the common 737 of today.

What replaced them, well they are still operating into gravel in Canada, but as a general comment, they are being replace by the discontinued F100, (Foker)

These are now a proven money maker in Australia. Many operators are scrambling to get more.

Alliance Airlines goes into gravel with them daily and they are worming their way into Northern Canada. They are a strange one, high bypass donks with buckets.

They also have a very strong under carriage and were well ahead of their time back in the day with simple glass cockpits. I have a soft spot for the F100.

F100 in reverse

http://www.online-utility.org/image/ImageCache?file=e/e4/reverse.thrust.klm.fokker70.arp.jpg/800px-reverse.thrust.klm.fokker70.arp.jpg

and more http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Klm_f100_ph-kle_arp.jpg

[lubbkis]

the best passengers are boxes.

But passengers are self-organising walking freight.

[GrantSmith]

Ok gents...

Here's my first crack at this... Had to do some manual 'touch' up to make it a little less obvious...

Airline, make & model?