Poetry 😊

Its like a bugger of a 707. nice. and not as sport-worthy

What spooling? Compared to a dc8 or b707 it's peanuts. And compared to a b52 it's nothing.

The a350-100 is a beautiful replacement. But the Virgin Atlantic a340s live on, they now fly from Bournemouth airport for European aviation group and they are the only cargo a340s in the world.

I worked for VS when there were brand new. Nothing but a pain in the ass.

@@airdailyx oh? Why’s that?

There's minor talks about an a340 neo so here's hoping!!

@@rileymannion5301 really?

Im really surprised to see this considering its an airbus, usually they make solid planes but maybe thats due to the length of the plane

The plane is very long and HAS to flex some amount else it'll break like a thin brittle stick due to the forces acting on it.

@@sandiegoavgeek6 I know they had some FCS software to minimize the rear wobbles. It's just a long tube, it's going to happen.

@@sandiegoavgeek6 yeah 😅

You expect wobbly aircrafts from boieng , what happened this time lol

Yes, I think the A340-500 was the longest range commercial airliner until the A380 came out. I flew on a Cathay Pacific A345 from SFO to Hong Kong back in the early 2000's and I remember it being a great flight (being in business class helped, lol).

@@crocodile1313 I flew the SQ21/22 before they shut it down and later switch on A350, in the 340-500, that was quite a flight.

it was the longest range airline till the A350-900ULR, currently in service just for singapore airlines

💯👍🏼 Safe, beautiful & super comfortable. A340, the gentle giant 👌🏽

I love her. She is beautiful but doesn't know how to get angry

@@Kenan-79 tru dat!!! 👍

🤣👌

Cant wound the window while takeoff tho, so uhhh Can only open it

@@emiliamtf2777 r/wooosh

@@757Superfan No, no it’s not...

'Should have' not 'should of'.

Me too

Normal

it sounds like an AC compressor or refrigerator

is is the trent 700?

@ they sound so similar

Same as the 777 Trent 800

They would probably shoot themselves

Certainly they would look for Santos Dumont to learn how to build a plane that could take off by its own engines.

@@TheTallMan50 huh

Yeah

mhmm they would be Proud

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Love it sounds of reactor

Popped 🥐

lol

the A346 is one of the slower aircraft (incl A388)...For example, B757 is more like a sport car ;) BUT it still a great and comfortable long haul plane!!

No Malet aero are operating four ex Virgin A346s out of Bournemouth, see www.flightradar24.com/data/airlines/db-mlt/fleet

Why

@@sanveerkhanuja3249 ?

@@sanveerkhanuja3249 mainly as cargo flights from Bournemouth to Scandinavia and East Asia like China.

Its back on service again

Always did. Shame about their fuel efficiency though.

It was the 777-300ER that killed the A340-600

A346?

Abbreviated industry term for the A340-600, which is different from the A342, A343 and A345 variants. Sometimes the type is shown without the “A”. Virgin Atlantic had also operated the A340-300 version until a few years ago.

@Bandaranaike Colombo 🇱🇰 Most airlines I’ve seen show it as “Airbus A3xx” on the safety cards, etc. which seems redundant but the IATA code drops the A.

@Bandaranaike Colombo 🇱🇰 Airbus call their planes the 'Airbus A320.' Boeing do not call their planes 'Boeing B737.' The A is there for Airbus except for IATA.

yeah there is a certain comfort seeing 2 engines under each wing when flying across an ocean - especially the Pacific.

Same, Flew this aircraft new York back 2016 👍 she now flys as a cargo

@@cloud9aviation84 such a shame she had to go😔but a real privilege to fly on her! And for you to fly her! Wow

Was it comfortable?

Can I buy her washer ? lol

lol

Ask your mom how much she wants for the washer pls. thanks.

Literally.

@@pauljordan4452 ikr

Well it meets the safety requirements of all the Aviation agencies and it’s never crashed so it is sufficiently powered 🤔🙄

I used to experience this sensation too but after flying a lot I literally don't feel it anymore for some reason... If I try to pay attention to it I can kind of sense the drop but only slightly. I suppose the thing that also affects the perception is knowing why the feeling is happening - ie. most people probably assume it is because the plane is falling or losing altitude for a brief moment and so they imagine it which makes them a bit spooked since it feels like what they would imagine falling out of the sky in a metal tube would feel like, but that's not the case in reality because we only feel this "drop" because the plane stops climbing as quickly as it was at initial take-off... So even though we are still climbing, that moment when we reduce our climb rate feels to the ear as if we are falling for a moment. It's almost the same thing when we are going up in a fast elevator and it begins to stop at the floor we are going to, you feel like you've been accelerated up, so when you stop accelerating up it feels like zero gravity for a moment. So the more you imagine yourself still climbing in the plane, the less scary it becomes and the more your brain adjusts to this sensation so eventually you won't feel it at all. It's much much trippier when you are in a descend to land and the wind suddenly blows downards so the plane drops a few feet instantaneously because it loses lift... now that one is difficult not to clench them cheecks for.

Same bro