Unbelievably excited to have this.

More film avgeek stuff, all at MSP some time a few months ago.
#avgeek #photgraphy

Feels funny seeing modern aircraft in film photos. I need to get another few rolls soon. Was thinking slide film this next time, these where good 'ol Portra 400.
#avgeek #airplanespotting #film #photgraphy

The Fokker commuter plane Brothers all finally together at last.
The F28, F70 and F100 where all made by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer as smaller economical planes for short flights and of course KLM flew them all over the years.
#avgeek #die-cast #aviation

Today's failed airliner and the archive post is one and the same!
NWA was the NA launch customer for the 787, but would ultimately never get them due to Delta canceling the orders post merger.
#avgeek #aviation #airlines

He's just a little guy. The littlest analog oscilloscope ever, the Tektronix 222. Now in an amazing yellow PowerScout edition and a lithium battery upgrade.

Model planes imitating life. (I know they are not the same plane, but I couldn't help but see the similar composition.) Model is a 1/200 LOT TU-154, real plane is A TU-134 at the Polish National Air Museum in Kraków

What you're looking at is an aprox 3 million dollar computer.
This is the FADEC module for a Pratt&Whitney PW1500 geared turbofan jet.
This is the brains that controls everything about the engine and also everything going to the aircraft about the engine.
It also weighs about 20kg.
#avgeek #aviation

Shhh, they are having a meeting about making T-tails the dominant airliner configuration again.
#avgeek #aviation #diecast

Today's failed airliner is the precursor to one of the best selling commercial aircraft of all time: The DC-9!
The Model 2067 looked almost like a scaled down version of the DC-8 with 4 engines.
The twin version was one of 2 designs that lead to the final version we know today.
#aviation #Douglas

Why do I have the urge to construct a missle that will be sold to shady groups in the Middle East all of a sudden?

Time for my daily appreciation of failed airliner projects; today's edition: the DC-10 Twin a.k.a. the DC-X-200.
What you get when you lop off engine #3 of the DC-10 to try and compete with the A300/A310.
#aviation #airliners #failedprojects

The fun part of working in the Archives is finding this kind of stuff:
This article about Northwest Airlines getting their first 15 Airbus A320s in 1991, I saw the plane's S/N was 197.
Turns out Delta still has this plane in the fleet and is the 2nd oldest A320!
#aviation #Airbus #Northwest