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ac greatest % of life in the air
What ac has spent the greatest % of it's life in the air- excluding the ac
that crashed on it's first flight. Thanks Pat |
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Which SINGLE a/c or which TYPE a/c?
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"patrick mitchel" wrote in message ...
What ac has spent the greatest % of it's life in the air- excluding the ac that crashed on it's first flight. I'll vote for the C141A/B. I know that when they were new at Charleston, we used to turn them around in a couple of hours and send them back to SEA. Regards, Dick |
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Dick Latshaw wrote in message om... "patrick mitchel" wrote in message ... What ac has spent the greatest % of it's life in the air- excluding the ac that crashed on it's first flight. I'll vote for the C141A/B. I know that when they were new at Charleston, we used to turn them around in a couple of hours and send them back to SEA. Regards, Dick single ac- I recall reading of a 747 that had spent some remarkable portion of it's time in the air, earning it's keep- I believe it was a Braniff plane and the article was in "flying" magazine Pat |
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:32:47 -0800, "patrick mitchel"
wrote: What ac has spent the greatest % of it's life in the air- excluding the ac that crashed on it's first flight. Thanks Pat My guess would be some commercial aircraft somewhere |
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C-141 a/B a total slacker compared to almost *any* commercial aircraft.
In 1993 we did a study using AFMC and NTSB/FAA flying hours/calendar hours to build reliability and maintainability models . . . the absolute *worst* commercial liner was at least a full order of magnitude higher utilization than the absolute *best* utilized military aircraft. Steve Swartz Well, o.k., 7.3 times higher; not quite an order of magnitude but pretty damn high "Dick Latshaw" wrote in message om... "patrick mitchel" wrote in message ... What ac has spent the greatest % of it's life in the air- excluding the ac that crashed on it's first flight. I'll vote for the C141A/B. I know that when they were new at Charleston, we used to turn them around in a couple of hours and send them back to SEA. Regards, Dick |
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My guess would be some commercial aircraft somewhere
Ditto. Commercial aircraft only generate money when their landing gear is retracted. So there is a large incentive to keep them flying. On the other hand, most military aircraft actually get relatively little flying time, except in times of war. This is why the KC-135 tanker fleet is scheduled to fly for at least another 10 years (over 50 years total) and why the B-52 will also be flying into the forseeable future. Martin |
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C124? Old Shaky had to spend a lot of time in the air, it was so slow!
Walt BJ |
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patrick mitchel wrote:
What ac has spent the greatest % of it's life in the air- excluding the ac that crashed on it's first flight. Depends how you define the start of its life. Is it the day it's rolled out of the factory, first flight, delivery to customer or first flight "in service"? There are instances of RAF fighters being shot down on their first day of squadron service but not on the first sortie of the day. Also depends how you define the end of life. There also a few wartime instances of aircraft being damaged on their first flight and limping back to base, and while not actually crashing they cannibalised for parts almost immediately. Cheers David |
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