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Nice article on the history of the Aer Lingus B747s

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,863 ✭✭✭Blut2


    A good short article. They really looked great in the old white livery:

    vAZjcAA.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,381 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Was gonna say, the old livery is mint - though is the flag the wrong way around there?!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭kevinandrew


    I believe the general rule is that the flag should always be painted to match the direction of travel. Ryanair still paints the flag next to its registration like this but Aer Lingus abandoned the practice years ago.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,000 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    I believe the general rule is that the flag should always be painted to match the direction of travel. Ryanair still paints the flag next to its registration like this but Aer Lingus abandoned the practice years ago.

    They should also abandon the ridiculous tradition of naming their planes after obscure religious figures.
    The Saints and Scholars argument doesn’t hold up as they have never named a craft after someone who was just a mere Scholar.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    They'll run out of saints shortly anyway; and that's without any more expansion to shorthaul or regional


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭Captain_Crash


    Jump seated in the cockpit as a kid on a flight to JFK and the captain let me sit in his seat for a bit during the flight... ahh the good aul days of the late 80's/early 90's. Over the years I flew on three of EI's 747's. I've a deep rooted love for these birds its not even funny!


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Locker10a


    Pat Dunne wrote: »
    They should also abandon the ridiculous tradition of naming their planes after obscure religious figures.
    The Saints and Scholars argument doesn’t hold up as they have never named a craft after someone who was just a mere Scholar.

    I think they recycle names, and I think there’s many Irish saints so unless they get an absolutely huge fleet they should have enough


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,650 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato
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    Pat Dunne wrote: »
    They should also abandon the ridiculous tradition of naming their planes after obscure religious figures.
    The Saints and Scholars argument doesn’t hold up as they have never named a craft after someone who was just a mere Scholar.

    I think Irish placenames would make a lot more sense, has tourism promotion potential as well.

    It took a while but I don't mind. How does my body look in this light?



  • Registered Users Posts: 33,650 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato
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    Comhra wrote: »
    "by"
    Joanna Bailey
    September 3, 2019

    That's pushing it
    Hit the Wikipedia article, grab a few factoids and pics, grab a few more pics off flickr, and some airframe history from airfleets.com and you too can be a "journalist"!

    It took a while but I don't mind. How does my body look in this light?



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Pat Dunne wrote: »
    They should also abandon the ridiculous tradition of naming their planes after obscure religious figures.
    The Saints and Scholars argument doesn’t hold up as they have never named a craft after someone who was just a mere Scholar.

    Pat, you gave me the idea to do a little search

    First up from the search engine

    https://ifiplayer.ie/radharc-blessing-the-aer-lingus-fleet/

    :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,000 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    That's pushing it
    Hit the Wikipedia article, grab a few factoids and pics, grab a few more pics off flickr, and some airframe history from airfleets.com and you too can be a "journalist"!

    You’re spot on, it full of sentence fillers along with copy and paste writing. I'm not going to use the expression “Journalism” for fear of upsetting the few remaining real Journalists out there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    I believe the general rule is that the flag should always be painted to match the direction of travel. Ryanair still paints the flag next to its registration like this but Aer Lingus abandoned the practice years ago.

    A flag painted on an aircraft is always painted in it's correct orientation, in our case, Green first, as if flying from an imaginary flagstaff, regardless of what side of the aircraft it is on. Some countries have been known to reverse the flag on aircraft and even on uniforms. Some countries insist that all aircraft, civil and military, must fly their flag, which is why you often see the emblem on aircraft as small as microlights.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    outThere is plenty that could be written about the EI 747s but that would require a lot of research. At different times aircraft were leased to or operated for BA, BCAL, Air Jamaica, Kenya Airways and Air Siam, amongst others. One machine had its livery modified for a movie role. The Alitalia lease was for a short duration to cover for maintenance and should not be counted as operated by Aer Lingus, IMO.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭Captain_Crash


    When BA had EI-ASJ on lease its reg was G-BDPZ and was fondly nicknamed Paddy Zulu lol


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,730 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    When BA had EI-ASJ on lease its reg was G-BDPZ and was fondly nicknamed Paddy Zulu lol

    The story goes there was a note left in the flightdeck for the EI crew collecting PZ at the end of the lease saying "Fly green side up."


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭Captain_Crash


    Comhra wrote: »
    The story goes there was a note left in the flightdeck for the EI crew collecting PZ at the end of the lease saying "Fly green side up."


    Haha yeah that story rings a bell lol


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭goingnowhere


    The 747's date from the early days of the voodoo of Tony Ryan who always able to find someone somewhere to take an aircraft.

    The Air Sian lease is what really started the whole leasing business, became GPA, GECAS and the multi billion $ business it is now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Bazzy


    Comhra wrote: »
    The story goes there was a note left in the flightdeck for the EI crew collecting PZ at the end of the lease saying "Fly green side up."

    BRILLIANT


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    They also drank fuel, oil and hydraulic fluid like alcoholics, needed constant maintenance and spares and I'll bet the true cost of operating them will never really be known but the flight crews, cabin crews and engineers all held them in high regard. The 330 slashed operating costs dramatically so the 747s were heading for the desert. Good aeroplane, though, and always a head turner.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,003 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    The movie was called WHITE NIGHTS, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Nights_(1985_film)

    They modified and painted a B707 to look like the B747, the B707 was then crashed, the whole thing was setup by an Aer Lingus maintenance engineer.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 33,650 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato
    Restaurant at the End of the Universe


    It took a while but I don't mind. How does my body look in this light?



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭billy few mates


    Stovepipe wrote: »
    They also drank fuel, oil and hydraulic fluid like alcoholics, needed constant maintenance and spares and I'll bet the true cost of operating them will never really be known but the flight crews, cabin crews and engineers all held them in high regard. The 330 slashed operating costs dramatically so the 747s were heading for the desert. Good aeroplane, though, and always a head turner.

    All JT9D engines were oil guzzlers, there was an SB to extend the range of the P&W 747s which was basically a bigger oil tank.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭jippo nolan


    All JT9D engines were oil guzzlers, there was an SB to extend the range of the P&W 747s which was basically a bigger oil tank.

    The main landing gear bay always reeked of skydrol,
    Always guaranteed an eye wash!


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,694 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I think Irish placenames would make a lot more sense, has tourism promotion potential as well.

    A mixture of place names and or people who have perhaps made big indelible and significant contributions to Irish culture and society. Better then some fûcker who nobody knows if they actually existed or not, 3000 years ago, up a mountain, eating their own shîte and praying to some other fûcker who they have no idea actually existed or not.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,650 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato
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    Well 60-odd years ago the prevailing view was that those feckers living in a stone hut on top of a barely hospitable island had made big indelible and significant contributions to Irish culture and society!

    The Radharc documentary linked in post 11 is an eye-opener if you haven't seen it already

    And of course this is the era when it was unthinkable that the shiny, modern, Dublin Airport of the next decade (70s) wouldn't have a fairly large church slap bang in the middle!

    Whatever about the annual blessing of the planes, I thought the prayer leaflet for each passenger a bit much! and kinda introduces a safety angle that the marketing department would probably rather not have the passengers thinking about. Ironically EI had an excellent safety record even in the prop days - maybe blessing the planes worked :pac:

    Does anyone know when they stopped blessing the planes (they did stop, right?)

    It took a while but I don't mind. How does my body look in this light?



  • Registered Users Posts: 24,694 ✭✭✭✭Strumms



    Does anyone know when they stopped blessing the planes (they did stop, right?)

    I saw an article that says 3 years ago in 2016 it was still happening...presumably still is.

    https://lovindublin.com/news/pics-a-priest-performed-a-blessing-on-planes-at-dublin-airport-on-christmas-day

    Last thing I’d want there if I was an Airport Police member would to be spending a freezing cold Christmas morning being dragged around the freezing cold and windy ramp by some fella in fancy dress, watching him sprinkling water on every parked aircraft...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,843 ✭✭✭Van.Bosch


    Strumms wrote: »
    I saw an article that says 3 years ago in 2016 it was still happening...presumably still is.

    https://lovindublin.com/news/pics-a-priest-performed-a-blessing-on-planes-at-dublin-airport-on-christmas-day

    Last thing I’d want there if I was an Airport Police member would to be spending a freezing cold Christmas morning being dragged around the freezing cold and windy ramp by some fella in fancy dress, watching him sprinkling water on every parked aircraft...

    Ah here, if I saw that in father Ted it would be hilarious.

    Wonder do the airlines agree to it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,650 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato
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    Strumms wrote: »
    Last thing I’d want there if I was an Airport Police member would to be spending a freezing cold Christmas morning being dragged around the freezing cold and windy ramp by some fella in fancy dress, watching him sprinkling water on every parked aircraft...

    If temps were that low, hope he was using holy de-icing fluid :)
    Probable Cause

    The probable cause of the accident was the inability to rotate the aircraft once Vr had been achieved, this in turn was caused by the accretion of water in the hinge of the left-hand elevator shortly before pushback which froze in the prevailing meteorological conditions during the extended taxi to the threshold of Runway 10.

    As the aircraft was unflyable, the crew then attempted to abort the takeoff at a speed substantially above Vr. In spite of maximum braking and reverse thrust, insufficient runway distance was available and the aircraft overran the runway, deviated to the left and impacted structures in the airport's cargo terminal.

    :eek:

    It took a while but I don't mind. How does my body look in this light?



  • Registered Users Posts: 24,694 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    If temps were that low, hope he was using holy de-icing fluid :)



    :eek:

    Be more practical too, bless the four trucks and back inside for a fry.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Pat Dunne wrote: »
    They should also abandon the ridiculous tradition of naming their planes after obscure religious figures.
    The Saints and Scholars argument doesn’t hold up as they have never named a craft after someone who was just a mere Scholar.

    Name the next one after Michael Nugent :)


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