Cost effective ways to fly around the World.

ivan burit · Cost effective ways to fly around the World.

Whether you like flying or not, its up there, and its changing the way we travel, its getting bigger and more cost effective, and cuts pollution levels per head while doing it.......

Its massive, its been a long time coming, and its got a connection in Brooklands, Jaywick.....

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The A380 will carry more passengers over longer distances, allowing for projected passenger growth worldwide and helping to ease an increasingly congested environment. It will achieve this without increasing the number of air traffic movements and without negatively impacting the environment, thanks to significantly reduced noise and emissions levels.

Data displayed in the above range chart refers to typical seating configurations and maximum range.

Taking a clean-sheet design for airlines’ operational needs of tomorrow, Airbus developed the A380 as the most spacious and efficient airliner ever conceived. This 525-seat aircraft will deliver an unparalleled level of comfort while retaining all the benefits of commonality with Airbus’ other fly-by-wire aircraft Families.

Thirty years after launching the world’s first twin-aisle, twin-engine jetliner, Airbus is preparing to introduce its A380 as the first true double-deck passenger airliner for the long-range market. The A380 offers unprecedented levels of productivity, efficiency and economics in passenger service, while the A380-800F cargo version is to be the first commercial freighter with three full cargo decks.

And your fun loving seaside reporter, was part of a team of engineers that produced the first prototype parts for the landing gear struts / side stays that fit into the wings, so that the first a380`s can now fly..
Oh dear, the thought of all that work again makes me feel like having a rest, and yet another cup of tea..........lol........

easye, your easy-peasy, nice and squeezy, very, very cheesy, seaside reporter..........Well someone had to do it.. Cool

ivan burit

As our news teams are having a field day with a Boeing in a spot of bother at heathrow, i re looked at this, a place i once worked for a while...

http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk/profile/6591/Smith%92s_(Harlow)

In the race for the air space, you are either a Boeing man or an Airbus man...

I was an airbus man and proud too.........

ivan burit · the first biggest, now the first greenest

How green is your airspace....

http://lifestyle.aol.co.uk/go-gre...lane/article/20080201075909990004

amenity

Sebastien Remy, head of Airbus's alternative fuels programme said: "The age of easy energy is over." He said GTL was better than traditional kerosene jet fuel because it did not deplete the world's oil supply, produced less emissions of local pollutants like carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons, and was virtually free of sulphur.

This is a step in the right direction Ivan, but I do worry why we don't tax Airplane fuel like any other?

I suppose there would not be many planes flying?

ivan burit

I am not sure why amenity...
All airtravel has taxes of some sort on their journies.
We must not forget at just how much air freight fly the sky`s at any one time.
even the A380 will / has / a freighter variant flying the sky`s in someones night time somewhere.
in actual fact, Airbus industries normaly has full order books for its out of service A319`s / 320`s / 321`s and 340`s that have total rebuilds, to be reincarnated into flying freighters, with huge side loading doors.
now even more boring bit`s..
one of the biggest bodied A series airbuses has been made just for flying the wing sections from UK (i think) to France, to be joined onto the body sections.
this variant is named the Beluger and the whole front end tilts upwards somewhat like a big mouth, to take on board the l o n g wing sections.
its looks strange, with only 2 engines to power it (not a lot of weight) and not a very large range of flight.
its more of a large delivery van really, but it fly`s....

amenity

Like you Ivan I can see the magic of flying but, Alternative more fuel efficient methods have lost favour because of the disparity of taxation. One day we will by circumstance be forced to adopt something closer to parity and then train and ship travel will look more appealing, don't you think?

ivan burit

++closer to parity and then train and ship travel will look more appealing, don't you think++

OK, good points amenity.
If we lived in Kent, we would have ready made access to 180mph rail tracks.
Of course i do not know how much freight weight the new tracks stand, but working on the principal of 40 tonne containers, 1 total gross weight train weighs HUGE amounts..
OK, if these freight trains are powered by electric, then how is that produced..
If they are self powered by elctro - deisel, then of course particulate exhaust emissions are themselves quite high...

of subject slightly, from Feb 4th londons Lord Mayor has the start of the London wide Low emission Zone starting.
basicaly its inside the M25...ok you may say.
but if you have a nice diesel engined motor home BEWARE as it may not qualify for exemption, and be subject to a £200 daily charge for entering the zone..
they are not the only vehicles to be subject to this piracy..
i know of a cab driver who is expected to pay £2,500 for an exhaust system to retro fit his older cab, and its not confirmed it will pass its new test ofterwards..

So, the question of taxing the diesel vehicles now is by stealth...and then some..

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/lez/default.aspx

After re reading this LEZ what strikes me is the amount of good solid working vehicles now being marked as "un road worthy" (read un L E Z compliant)....
In Frating is a business named John Whitings, they have lots of "un road worthy" vehicles up for sale "for export only"...
buses...lorries.of all sorts etc..

amenity

Just as an example Ivan a train has just run from China to Germany through Mongolia and Russia and eastern European states to arrive in half the time that it takes ships and at less cost than either ships or planes, towing 89 containers.

ivan burit

WOW.....lol.

amenity

I know what your thinking but 89 containers can be delivered with some certainty by rail whereas thousand of containers on one ship have recently been diverted from SCT losing 600 Nissan cars on the just in time production line.

London Transport deliver millions of people every day with shorter trains than the one just specified.

Losses by sea are really great its just that not much gets into our news.

ivan burit

As an aside, i have to use our famous london underground central line from the outskirts to the city..
Great in the afternoon going in, but, at rush hour coming out in the evening....
i just wonder how much weight it has on each carrige when its jam packed so tight, last man on can only let the curved doors shut if you crook your neck..

the last time although i was holding on tight, as much as i can, the train lurched, i leaned onto a nice young lady, i was so sorry but she smiled and said "its ok"

anywhere else, i would have been seen as a bit, well you know.......lol..
i just thank the lord above i was with my daughter....

amenity

Here's an answer to that Ivan,

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
Officially, the capacity of one carriage is 152. There are six carriages on the train equalling 912. This is calculated by the number of seats plus approximately one square metre per every four people. In reality four people per square metre is unrealistic but during rush hour there are probably more people occupying this small amount of space meaning there are closer to a thousand people on a jam-packed train.

Source(s):
Northern Line driver.

ivan burit

In an earlier post i refur to an Airbus Beluga..
A transit luton of the skies...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysR1DJJcNo0&NR=1

Cost effective ways to fly around the World.

the first biggest, now the first greenest