Last night on Entourage…
HBO’s Entourage is one of my favorite shows on television and last night’s episode earned its keep: A bizjet lover’s dream. Twin Marquis Jet Gulfstreams featured prominently in the close of the episode. If my trained-eye serves me correctly, there was a G450 and G550 in the hangar at Van Nuys, which is actually the busiest general aviation airport in the world.
Negotiations and love songs
Boeing will announce its third quarter earnings in a conference call this Wednesday. In addition to its financial results, the company will provide an impact assessment of the IAM strike on the 787 program and jetliner production at large. The news is not expected to be particularly positive on both fronts, but should provide guidance for what to expect in 2009. I’ll be liveblogging the call via twitter.
Matt Cawby had an interesting post on the Everett goings-on since the strike began:
September 12-October 17
Three aircraft delivered.
Five aircraft completed production flight testing.
Two aircraft moved out of the factory to the paint hangar.
787 static airframe air pressure test completed.
No smoking policy in effect on October 1.
Also, SPEEA/Boeing negotiations kick off on the 28th of October. The engineer’s contract expires on December 5th at midnight. Much more on this to come.
It came from the land down under
After 13 hours and 59 minutes, VH-OQA touched down in Los Angeles as QANTAS Flight 93. The 14th A380 departed Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne at 11:30 AM October 20th, crossed the International dateline and arrived in LA 4 hours before it left!
QANTAS 93 Flight Plan
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – Los Angeles, California, United States
Airbus A380 – VH-OQA – MSN014
October 20, 2008CORRS Y81 GEMAC 3800S 15500E 3800S 16000E 3726S 16300E 3700S 16500E 3500S 17000E 3300S 17500E 2800S 17500W 2500S 17000W 2100S 16500W 1600S 16000W 1227S 15700W 1000S 15500W 0300S 15000W 0148N 14701W 0500N 14500W 1200N 14000W 1800N 13500W 2300N 13000W 2700N 12500W TONYS B200 FICKY C1177 SXC
In other A380 news…
Emirates should be getting it’s second A380 on Friday. A6-EDB (MSN013) has been held up in Hamburg for interior installations and should be shipping off to Dubai on October 24. It’ll start daily A380 service to New York-JFK on October 26. The superjumbo was spotting doing its interior outfitting flight from XFW yesterday.
Coming soon…
I’ve talked a bit about Qik streaming 3G video before, but the iPhone is about to get a full fledged application soon. I’m really excited about the potential for covering new events with this technology. The possibilities are endless!
Movie Monday
Another great NOVA episode for you. This time it’s 53 minutes on the Wright Brothers experiments that led to the first, first flight in December 1903. Enjoy!
This post was originally published to the internet between 2007 and 2012. Links, images, and embedded media from that era may no longer function as intended.
This post originally appeared at Flightglobal.com from 2007 to 2012.