American Airlines MD80 using reverse thrust "pushback" @ DFW. These are not my GIFs, but I've actually seen this occur, back in the pre 9/11 days.
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British-French Concorde and Russian Tu-144 'Charger' at Auto & Technikmuseum Sinsheim in Germany
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Breguet 763 Provence. Marseille tarmac with Berliet passenger bus. 1954
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McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Varig
Registration: PP-VOP
Type: MD-11 P
Engines: 3 × GE CF6-80C2D1F
Serial Number: 48434
First flight: Oct 1991
VARIG (acronym for Viação Aérea RIo-Grandense, Rio Grandean Airways) was the first airline founded in Brazil, in 1927. From 1965 until 1990, it was Brazil's leading airline, and virtually its only international one. Over the years, the airline flew all across the world, offering intercontinental flights to every continent. VARIG was the first airline in Latin America to operate MD-11 aircraft. The first two MD-11s, PP-VOP and PP-VOQ, were delivered to VARIG on November 12, 1991 and began flying on the Sao Paulo – Rio – Paris – Amsterdam route. Since then, the MD-11 has become the main VARIG aircraft for international long-haul flights.
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Selective breeding in the US airliner market has resulted in unhealthy, malformed planes.
We need to make a concerted effort to reintroduce diversity to that ecosystem.
THIS IS NOT OKAY! Decades of selective breeding for big engines and long legs have left these poor planes unable to fly correctly. STOP IT! YOU ARE HURTING THEM!
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Was drawing my airliner OCs and cooked up a headcanon
So my headcanon has always been that bigger craft (ships, trains and airplanes) are not born but built. They however do have the ability to give birth, except it's all mainly controlled by their manufacturers. Most could either adopt a child or make an offspring but only after procedures with their company.
For airliners, fighter jets and military craft, this is mainly because of being able to keep control of the number of airplanes made based on their model. If the company wishes to stop the production of a certain line because of newer models or such, they just do. I imagine mostly the airliners in question don't really have say against such decisions but yeah, pretty harsh for them. I also thought about having the models who were adopted by a couple to have the last name as that of those who adopted them, but for models built and sold to airlines directly have their company name as their surname.
Really just the rough idea for now. Thinking of what else to make of it
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And our ride to Atlanta. N683DA, a Delta Airlines Boeing 757-232. Gate D16 @ PHL
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