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S V Choong

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  1. The Zaha Hadid designed airport just opened its door today. First flight was a China Southern A380-800 to Guangzhou.

     

    Beijing's Capital Airport is already the second busiest in the world. The Daxing airport - said to be the world's largest terminal in a single building - is expected to receive a large amount of the 170m passengers the city expects to welcome by 2025.

     

    More at:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49750182

     

     


  2. This two accidents will make life harder for aircraft manufacturers from now on.

    It will not be as simple as making subsequent variations of an existing model and bypassing all the normal requirements of producing a whole new model.

     

    The 737 Max is flawed by its design and weight distribution. Had the gotten things right, MCAS should not be required at all.


  3. MCAS was originally designed to activate based on data from a single angle-of-attack sensor, which measures the level of the jets nose relative to oncoming air. Air-safety experts, as well as former employees at Boeing and the supplier that made the sensor, have expressed concern that system had this single point of failure, a rarity in aviation.

     

    Such sensors are highly reliable and have been used on passenger jets for years, but like any aircraft component, they can fail, the engineers said. Because the sensor is fallible, it is surprising that Boeing enabled it alone to activate a system that automatically pushes the aircraft toward the ground, said one former engineer who helped build the sensors at Rosemount Aerospace, a subsidiary of the industrial giant United Technologies based in Burnsville, Minn.

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/business/boeing-737-max-crash.html

     

    Boeing was either complacent, ignorant or challenging probability/likelihood.

     

    If the 737Max was designed correctly with correct weight distribution from the beginning, then there wouldn't be a need for the MCAS.


  4. It took my 2 hours from Wan Chai to doorstep of MFM. I thought it was pretty okay.

    What was the cost involved? If it cost too much especially with Taxi and ferry, many would simply not bother. The ferry is considered expensive at HKD $175 per way, compared to the Airport bus $42 per way. Unless the airfare is super cheap, perhaps for the budget conscious group, it might work. Then again, CX had just bought HK Express, so Air Asia will face stiffer competition compared to when HK Express was managed by the ailing Hong Kong Airlines/ Hainan Airlines Group.

     

    Most people do not live close to the Ferry, nor have quick access to the Airbus bus that will make a stop at the HK Border Crossing after the airport, so that will add more time to it.

     

    As for mainland Chinese, I don't think anyone is in a hurry to go to Macau just to catch a flight. SZX is cheap enough, Guangzhou is a bit too far. Perhaps they can attract people from Zhuhai, then again, it will be a hassle to cross the Border at Zhuhai as well.

     

    Sorry I don't really see how MFM will work out especially when China had tighten the outflow of money from within their border. The gold old days of big spenders at Macau Casinos are gone... I hope TF had done his feasibility studies.


  5. The AirAsia China JV did not take off. MFM is a good place to start, now that there are good links to Hong Kong and the rest of the Pearl Delta.

     

    It is worth a shot!

     

    Not really a good link from HK - it is too much of a hassle to go to Macau airport to catch a flight. It takes near 2-3.5 hrs per way, 2 hrs is considered quick...

    One can probably do it within two hours, but you need an HK ID card / smart gate option for both HK and MO side. It would also help once the monorail starts operating, connecting the Cotai ferry with the airport.

     

    I am going to fly from MFM to BKI next month and we shall see...


  6. I am quite sure BOAC made it to SZB (when it was KUL) - see the 707s and VC-10s regularly. Can't really remember seeing any 747s though.

     

    Not sure if Landor made it to KUL - this livery was superseded in 1997, when KLIA opened. But there may be some aircraft in this livery pending the update. BA stopped coming to KUL in 2001.

     

    I have seen both Landor livery in KUL and SIN during the 1990s. I saw the Negus livery in HKG, KUL and SIN in the 1980s.

     

    Landor livery is definitely one of the best livery of BA.


  7. Yes they can. They need to prove it in court though,since it is not US FAA the one grounding those plane.

     

    This will be another big bill Boeing need to foot after 787 debacle, if proven true.

     

    God, please hopefully 77X does not have same issues as 737max and 787. 425 pax!! Boeing moves from one bowl of hot soup to another...

     

    Luckily not even one of the many 787s had fallen from the sky....

     

    Then again, Airbus is no angel.

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