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Movie Tuesday - February 7 - Three Approaches, Three Perspectives

By
Jon Ostrower
 on February 7, 2012 10:42 PM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0)
SEATTLE -- Movie Monday comes a day later than usual today and gives a unique look at some of the worlds most interesting approaches.

The first video puts you in the flight deck of an A320 on approach to Paro, Bhutan's capital city and widely believed to be the most difficult approach in the world. The runway, which sits at 7,300ft, is surrounded by 12,000ft peaks.

The second video, which I shot in November, was filmed on the upper deck of an Air France A380. While it's not a flight deck point of view, the IFE onboard allows multiple external views. I took advantage of both and tuned one screen to a forward view from the A380's tail and the other to a straight-down view at the ground below. 

After our turn final it became clear that there was a significant crosswind, and the superjumbo would crab into the wind. On the straight-down camera view, notice the offset angle of the markings on the runway as the A380 compensated for the perpendicular wind component.

The third video, I shot from the jumpseat of an Embraer Lineage 1000 while on approach to Santos Dumont Airport in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The views out the front of the modified Embraer 190 provided a look at the amazing terrain that defines Rio, including the city's iconic Sugarloaf. 

The Jeppesen charts for the Bhutan and Santos Dumont arrival, which should under no circumstance be used for actual flying, are available after the jump.

All told, these three videos run about 17min. Enjoy!



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Movie Monday - January 2 - Bombardier's Chief Salesman

By
Jon Ostrower
 on January 2, 2012 3:02 PM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0)
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Chet Fuller, senior vice president at Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, sat down with Canada's Business News Network last month for an extended interview discussing the ins and outs of the CSeries and what it takes to sell the new 125 to 149-seat jet to the world's airlines. 

Interestingly, the conversation does not touch on the tactic of price as a weapon in a sales battle, an often blunt instrument that Boeing and Airbus have used to maintain their edge in the duopoly. Fuller continually emphasizes the technical merits of the aircraft as its selling point and his fierce belief that the capabilities of the aircraft are its trump card.

Additionally, Phillipe Poutissou, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft marketing vice president, sat down with Air Insight's Addison Schonland recently to discuss progress on the new program and he provides an update on the Complete Integrated Aircraft Systems Test Area (CIASTA) "iron bird" test facility which will come online to mature the aircraft's systems prior to the start of flight testing. The CSeries is slated to make its first flight later this year, followed by it service entry late in 2013.

The candid interview with Fuller runs 30min in three parts and can be found here. At the end of each 10min segment, the video will automatically advance to the next part, though you can find links here for parts one, two and three. Enjoy! 

Editor's Note: I'm just back from a week's vacation which took me all over the southeast United States on a 2,300mi road trip across Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. It was a much-needed break and I'm rested and ready for 2012. Happy New Year, everyone!

Movie Monday - December 5 - A Phenom's Journey

By
Jon Ostrower
 on December 5, 2011 6:30 AM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0)

Long-range delivery flights are standard practice in an industry without any borders and the product itself is its own delivery system. Today's Movie Monday, produced and filmed by Anna Lucchese, takes us inside an aircraft's extended journey to its customer.

In May, an Embraer Phenom 100, the Brazilian airframer's very light jet, or entry-level jet depending on your preferred nomenclature, was delivered from the company's Sao Jose dos Campos base to New Delhi, India. The aircraft (N4200), which is owned by the Joyalukkas Group, crossed from South America to South Asia over 19 legs and nine days. 

While this particular aircraft had a long way to travel to its customer, in Melbourne, Florida today, Embraer is delivering the first US built Phenom 100 to a US customer, the first North American expansion for the company, adding to its Brazilian and Chinese manufacturing footprints.

Movie Monday runs just under 10 minutes. Enjoy.

Video Blog: To Hong Kong with All Nippon's first 787 service

By
Jon Ostrower
 on October 30, 2011 2:35 PM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0)


I'm back stateside recovering from jetlag after last week's five day tour of Asia, and I've decided to start Movie Monday a bit earlier than usual. Typically I post Movie Monday around 6:30 AM ET, but as it's just a few hours into Monday in Tokyo and Hong Kong, it was only right to post a bit a head of schedule. Today's Movie Monday is also the second installment (see the first) of the 787's entry into service. Running just over 12 minutes, we take you through the day and on board JA801A for All Nippon Airways first commercial service, it's special charter to Hong Kong. Another post will follow later this week covering observations and impressions from the new jet. Enjoy!

Movie Monday - October 17 - Building Virgin Galactic

By
Jon Ostrower
 on October 17, 2011 6:30 AM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0)

Today's Movie Monday is about commercial aerospace, but from a slightly higher altitude. This National Geographic documentary takes you inside the development of Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites' White Knight Two and Spaceship Two for Virgin Galactic. If this is your first introduction to VG, the company's goal is to achieve regular commercial space tourism and science missions with suborbital flights.

The intimate look at the development of these commercial spacecraft takes you from 2008 up to about a year ago when SS2 made its first glide flight in the skies over the Mojave Desert. NatGeo had a view from virtually every angle from inside the hangar to SpaceShipTwo's cockpit. Virgin Galactic Will it Fly? runs just over 45 minutes. Enjoy!

Film Montag - September 12 - Building a Lufthansa Airbus A321

By
Jon Ostrower
 on September 12, 2011 6:30 AM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0)
I don't speak a word of German, so naturally today's Movie Monday would be entirely in German, right? While a language barrier may exists for non-German speaking readers, the visuals of this documentary on how Airbus builds an A320 family aircraft offer a universal translation.

The aircraft being assembled was the 901st A320 family aircraft, a 1998 A321 for Lufthansa, registered D-AIRY. This incredibly detailed documentary takes you through the process of building an A321, from sheet metal fuselage panel fabrication all the way through final assembly, testing and delivery to Lufthansa. The program should also provide a look at how Airbus's A320 workflow and supply chain is structured. 

For those knowledgable observers, I'd be very curious to hear how the Airbus assembly process for the A320 family differs from the 737 fabrication and assembly. Is there a meaningful difference between how Boeing and Airbus approach narrowbody manufacturing? In 1998, the 737 line beginning a troubled ramp up, but the Renton line was itself operating as a slant system rather than the significantly higher efficiency moving line first instituted in 2002, which cut the aircraft's flow time in half from 22 to 11 days.

The eight-part documentary - which as I said is entirely in German - runs just under two hours. Parts two through eight after after the jump. Special thanks to commenter Michael who pointed this out. Enjoy!

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A Tu-144 documentary, Lufthansa 747-8I and a programming note

By
Jon Ostrower
 on September 7, 2011 9:38 AM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0)
As you've undoubtedly noticed, there has been a lack of content here since last week. That has not escaped my noticed as well. Professional and personal obligations have made it difficult to write regularly here, but regular content will return in earnest as I wrap up a set of features on 787 entry into service for Flight International and complete up a month-long transition to a new home in DC. There's no shortage of things to write about, just a dearth of hours in the day to write about them.

In the meantime, I found this Russian documentary (translated to English) on the 1969 development of the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 or Concordski as it later became known. The video, which doesn't quite pass for Movie Monday (as it's Wednesday) runs a bit over 20 minutes. Enjoy!

Also, if you haven't yet seen the first 747-8I in full Lufthansa colors, it's now on the Everett flight line and registered D-ABYA. Boeing says its first flight is planned for November and delivery in the springtime.

Movie Monday - July 25 - Inside PMDG's Next Generation 737

By
Jon Ostrower
 on July 25, 2011 12:01 AM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0)
I'll be the first to admit this is not your typical Movie Monday, even though it runs more than an hour. For the past several years, Precision Manuals Design Group, also known as PMDG, has been at work creating the world's most extensive desktop simulation of the Next Generation Boeing 737 for Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Final pricing and release dates are not yet available, but with its release to beta status the project is finally nearing completion.

UPDATE: PMDG announced this morning that software will be release on or before August 4.

The project, known as the NGX, has been developed as a product officially licensed by Boeing and has spared no detail, both visually and technically. One of the company's beta testers, Angle of Attack, has created a fly-through of the 737's virtual cockpit, highlighting the nearly uncountable number of features built in to the simulation. The AoA video is available in HD to really show off the level of depth and detail designed into the simulation. I would challenge 737 pilots, Boeing engineers and maintenance personnel to find things that might be missing, but I have a feeling you might be hard-pressed to do so.

AoA also created a considerably shorter walk-around of the external model, though if you're looking to get up close with the 737, Boeing's own gigapixel walk-around of a United Airlines 737-900ER with the updated CFM56-7BE engine and drag clean up is well worth your time.

Movie Monday - July 18 - The Final Shuttle EVA

By
Jon Ostrower
 on July 18, 2011 11:41 AM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0)
Continuing in the theme of Movie Mondays devoted to space exploration, this week's edition takes you on-board the Space Shuttle Atlantis and more specifically outside for the Shuttle Program's final spacewalk last week. Today's Movie Monday is the STS-135 flight day five highlights running just shy of 40 minutes and inclues a recap of the final 6h 31min extravehicular activity (EVA) by International Space Station expedition crew members Mike Fossum and Ron Garan. Enjoy!
 

Movie Monday - July 11 - The First Space Shuttle Mission

By
Jon Ostrower
 on July 11, 2011 12:04 PM | | Comments () | TrackBacks (0)
As a docked Atlantis orbits overhead with the International Space Station, I felt it only appropriate to delve into the YouTube aviation archive once again and pull out vintage NASA footage from STS-1, the first mission by Space Shuttle Columbia that began on April 12, 1981. Flown by astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, the mission was a two-day checkout flight of the spacecraft. 

Today's Movie Monday takes you to the April 1981 coverage of Columbia's first liftoff and and landing as reported by NBC and ABC News. Rather than embed each of the 27 parts below, the players is in a playlist format that allows you to step from one part to another. The news coverage of STS-1, as well as a 30-minute NASA documentary of the flight runs a whopping 4 hours and 30 minutes. Enjoy.



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