I’ve been working North 40 Flight Line Ops since the 1980’s. Camping under the wing of our 182. Kids grew up, since infants attending, and volunteer also.
Terrible shame to miss this event.
10,000 aircraft arrive over the weekend and 25 square miles of incredible aviation activities. Best airshow pilots in the world perform every afternoon.
In the upper Midwest (Michigan. Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc), almost no airline traffic but a ton of general aviation. Easy to get an arrival reservation into KORD now.
Looks like an American Airlines tail, so could be Mesa (which flies commuter routes for American and United).
Besides Mesa, American also uses Air Wisconsin, Envoy, ExpressJet, Piedmont, PSA, Republic, SkyWest and TransStates.
Looking at the flight log for KSBP, I see lots of SKW flights. So maybe more likely SkyWest?
The A319, as do most airliners, has two tires on the nose. And since the nose takes substantially less load on a (proper) landing, losing a nosewheel might have been preferable.
Anyone know if there was follow-up maintenance on the gear after that landing? My guess is that the the side loads were outside of operating guidelines (but, admittedly. I don’t know what is the maximum demonstrated crosswind for an A380).
The steady drumbeat of negative news about Boeing is quite depressing. Since the MD merger, they’ve steadily run an amazing company into the ground (sad pun intended).
It’s going to take real leadership, discipline and perseverance to recover their place in the industry. I truly hope that they have it in them to accomplish this. I also truly worry if they’ll be able to do it.
Surprisingly, it flies very much like a regular A330. Requires small addition to your type certification if you are A330 qualified. The different tail causes a few handling differences.
