Boeing 757-200 at DFW

Overhead on Memorial Day 2012

MD-80 On Short Final

Caught this bad boy on short final as I was driving past the airport in Austin. This pic is from my blog about airplanes.

Mid Air Refueling Probe

KC-135 tanker seen at the Randolph AFB air show 2011.

Qantas 747 Suffers Engine Flame Out

A day after an incident with an A380, a 747 has some engine issues. A flame basically means that the engine turned off while in flight. As mentioned in the article, the affected plane was able to land safely after dumping and burning off some fuel.

They don’t mention whether the affected engine is also a Rolls Royce engine, but I’d be curious to know what’s going on in the Qantas maintenance hangars that they’ve had 2 engine incidents in as many days.

Amplify’d from www.bloomberg.com

Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia’s largest carrier, juggled aircraft to maintain schedules after a second engine flameout in as many days, as it continues safety checks of its grounded Airbus SAS A380 fleet. Today’s Sydney-London flight, normally an A380 plane, will begin on an “alternative aircraft” for the first leg to Singapore and a British Airways Plc jetliner will complete the journey, Qantas said in a statement. A 747’s return to Singapore yesterday after an engine failure was “unrelated” to the engine explosion on an A380 a day earlier, spokeswoman Olivia Wirth said by phone today. Qantas is working with Rolls-Royce Group Plc to check its six grounded A380s, which represent about 17 percent of its international capacity, before deciding whether to return them to service. The airline has been using some of its 27 Boeing jumbo jets to replace those Airbus planes. “It was like the afterburner of a fighter jet,” said Andrew Jenkins, 43, a passenger who is based in London and was flying to Sydney on the 747 yesterday for work. “The captain explained that the problem was contained. He shut the engine down and it didn’t look like anything beyond that.” The pilot of the Boeing Co. jet, which departed Singapore as flight QF6 bound for Sydney yesterday with 412 passengers on board, shut down one engine after flames erupted shortly after takeoff, dumped fuel and flew for about an hour before landing, Wirth said. Engineers are inspecting the plane.

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