Welcome to my channel. If you are an aviation geek like I am, then I hope you will enjoy the content that I put out. My main focus will be mostly plane spotting and trip reports, but if and when I am able, I may throw up a video here and there of a hotel review. Thanks for stopping by!
My first DC9 flight was on PSA from LAS-SAN-SMF in December of 1987. My first 717 was on Hawaiian HNL-OGG, & bsck later that day in the Fall of 2011. Always love watching videos like this from time to time when I can't fly for whatever reason.
What a beautiful video. Great arial view of O'Hare and the sunset. But am I weird? The dramatic hum of those fans at take off are oddly reassuring for me. Thanks for sharing the video.
Back in the day when you could board a Boeing and not worry about a tire coming off, a door opening in flight, pieces fallaing off the plane, and a flight crew that were onboard based on their skills and not DEI. Today, "We don't gaurantee your flight will meet it's destination but we do have a minoity pilet, a trans flight crew member, and the most diverser maintenance team in the industry. Preparing for take off. Let us all pray."
You must be one of those fragile white male losers who have never accomplished anything in life and are looking for someone to blame for your own abysmal existence. Let’s see 99.9% of all fatal crashes that have happened in these United States were piloted by white men. I guess you somehow think just because someone has white skin that makes them competent. It doesn’t. Get used to seeing more highly skilled black, brown and Asian folks in the cockpits. We ain’t going nowhere. But you’re welcome to get off. Nobody will miss you.
A 717 is a re-badged DC-9 ... a real hot rod. I loved flying those until they started dropping like flies because of the bad connecting rod design of the tail controls. Denzel Washington's movie Flight is all about why you don't want to fly a DC-9/717.
Haha not hardly! That movie is based on the Alaska MD-80 that went down because the jack screw broke because of faulty maintenance. The 717 is very safe to fly.
It certainly would have needed much more runway than usual to get the required amount of lift,that's why flaps 15 are normally set because in that configuration it allows most lift and minimum drag and the plane needs less runway to reach take off speed.
The runways were reconfigured for reasons involving better ground efficiency, optimal wind direction and/or more options to redistribute air traffic so one or two residential areas aren't constantly besieged by overhead jet noise. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but these seem logical and what I vaguely recall from local news reports. It's been a while since the runway redo.
