MRJ

smurfjed · 10-12-2014 7:32pm #1

Nice looking aircraft

TOKYO -- The Mitsubishi Regional Jet, Japan's first domestically built passenger jet, is expected to make its maiden flight in late May, just ahead of an international air show in June.

The plane's developer, Mitsubishi Aircraft, apparently has notified major suppliers, such as engine manufacturers, of the schedule. May 29 is now seen as the most likely date. The company had planned to fly the MRJ during the October-December period of 2013, but later postponed it to April-June 2015.

The company seeks to perform a successful maiden flight before the International Paris Air Show in mid-June, a timeline it sees as important to win more orders.

10-12-2014 7:39pm

smurfjed wrote: »

Nice looking aircraft

Yes indeed, still it looks a lot like a jungle jet.

sparrowcar · 10-12-2014 7:56pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yes indeed, still it looks a lot like a jungle jet.

Aviation industry 15 years, handle these on a regular basis and I never heard that one before. Had to google jungle jet... You learn something new everyday.

10-12-2014 8:58pm

sparrowcar wrote: »

Aviation industry 15 years, handle these on a regular basis and I never heard that one before. Had to google jungle jet... You learn something new everyday.

How about embryo jet because some day it'll grow into a real airplane !

BTW I like the ERJs.

man98 · 10-12-2014 11:51pm

Not bad really, at least it has a distinctive nose...

martinsvi · 12-12-2014 4:59pm

I can't imagine them being competitive with that kind of a price tag... why pay 47 mil for a "cat in the bag" when you can get a CRJ or Embraer 170 series for 10 mil less

Kenny2012 · 17-12-2014 5:28pm

sparrowcar wrote: »

Aviation industry 15 years, handle these on a regular basis and I never heard that one before. Had to google jungle jet... You learn something new everyday.

With regard to slang names for aircraft I have heard the following usually from UK spotters.
Love to know who comes up the names and how they stick
Embraer 170 is a Womble
MD-11 - Scud
737 - Pig
757 - Stick
Citation 750 - Slicer

A full list available here http://www.b737.org.uk/aircraftnicknames.htm

roundymac · 18-12-2014 9:56am

For those of us not in the industry can you explain "Jungle Jet" please.

L1011 · 18-12-2014 10:03am

roundymac wrote: »

For those of us not in the industry can you explain "Jungle Jet" please.

Embraer 170-195. Made in Brazil

sparrowcar · 18-12-2014 10:03am

roundymac wrote: »

For those of us not in the industry can you explain "Jungle Jet" please.

Roundymac you're around these parts long enough to know about Google ;-)

Look above ^^^ the lads even put a link up for you.

Tenger · 18-12-2014 12:00pm

Kenny2012 wrote: »

With regard to slang names for aircraft ......
MD-11 - Scud
.....

I can remember the TransAer A300 (or was it a A310?)
The crews referred to it as "The Scud" as while they knew where it was supposed to go it had a habit of ending up somewhere else......
Didn't have a great rep for reliability....

roundymac · 18-12-2014 2:52pm

sparrowcar wrote: »

Roundymac you're around these parts long enough to know about Google ;-)

Look above ^^^ the lads even put a link up for you.

Not on it.

sparrowcar · 18-12-2014 3:06pm

roundymac wrote: »

Not on it.

It is on it

It is also on Google

So it is

roundymac · 18-12-2014 6:40pm

You know what, I just can't be arsed to look it up, all you had to do was give an answer, but that was beyond you. This is supposed to be a discussion thread on aviation, looks like your not capable of it.

sparrowcar · 18-12-2014 7:47pm

roundymac wrote: »

You know what, I just can't be arsed to look it up, all you had to do was give an answer, but that was beyond you. This is supposed to be a discussion thread on aviation, looks like your not capable of it.

"You couldn't be arsed" is the problem here. If you don't see that then I won't waste anymore time with you.

smurfjed · 18-12-2014 8:19pm

"You couldn't be arsed" is the problem here

Did you ever stop to think that answering his question may provide the answer to others?

I have a long history with the Jungle Jet.... but i never considered finding out why it was called that

sparrowcar · 18-12-2014 8:27pm

smurfjed wrote: »

Did you ever stop to think that answering his question may provide the answer to others?

I have a long history with the Jungle Jet.... but i never considered finding out why it was called that

It was answered... Twice.
He's just trolling or being lazy.
I'm all for sharing information and answering questions, look at my post history in A&A for proof.

And with that I'm out of this thread.

roundymac · 19-12-2014 10:38am

sparrowcar wrote: »

It was answered... Twice.
He's just trolling or being lazy.
I'm all for sharing information and answering questions, look at my post history in A&A for proof.

And with that I'm out of this thread.

I was'nt trolling or being lazy, I did'nt have time because some of us have to work for a living. Your all for sharing and answering questions! don't make me laugh.

Cookiemunster · 19-12-2014 10:55am

roundymac wrote: »

I was'nt trolling or being lazy, I did'nt have time because some of us have to work for a living. Your all for sharing and answering questions! don't make me laugh.

In fairness to sparrowcar if you had time to post in here, you had time to google it like I did.

eatmyshorts · 19-12-2014 6:38pm

roundymac wrote: »

For those of us not in the industry can you explain "Jungle Jet" please.

Jeremy Clarkson once described it as "a plane made in a jungle clearing, by a man who went to work on a donkey".

Tenger · 19-12-2014 7:35pm

Knickers are getting twisted here.

In fact I used yahoo to search "wiki jungle jet" after the I read the term here.....I got this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Jungle
Jet Jungle, the 1960's cartoon superhero!

I used Google.ie just now with "jungle jet" and the 1st answer was this:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jungle+Jet

However Jet Jungle was the 4th answer using google!

Jhcx · 20-12-2014 2:02am

So what makes this stand out over a jungle jet? Bar the nose they look equal.

And urban dictionary just ruins everything. they got jungle jet right but jumbo jet is miles off course.

sparrowcar · 20-12-2014 2:38am

Tenger wrote: »

Knickers are getting twisted here.

In fact I used yahoo to search "wiki jungle jet" after the I read the term here.....I got this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Jungle
Jet Jungle, the 1960's cartoon superhero!

I used Google.ie just now with "jungle jet" and the 1st answer was this:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jungle+Jet

However Jet Jungle was the 4th answer using google!

In trying to abate the discussion you've now opened the Google vs Yahoo debate....

I'm definitely bowing out now, once those technology guys hear about this they'll be all over the thread :-)

MRJ

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