Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

John Travolta's 707:

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6 comments:

Old NFO said...

Must be nice... sigh... I couldn't even afford ONE bag of gas for that bird!

4/07/2013 10:21 AM
CenterPuke88 said...

Best numbers I can find show the B707-138B with a fuel capacity of 17,334 USG. With a fuel price of $3.09 a gallon (recent cost at DFW) for Jet-A, that's a $55,295.46 fill-up.

Since the average cruise fuel burn for the 138B was ~11,400 lb/hr (~1676.47 USG/hr), that's roughly $5,180.29 per hour on fuel alone. Make me wonder what kind of fueling set-up JT has at Greystone/Jumbolair (17FL).

Of course, we helped Mr. Travola out some years ago. Just after RVSM started, he or the 707 wasn't RVSM qualified and couldn't make it home non-stop without getting up into the 30's. It was after midnight, and they snuck him through. Controller's girlfriend was a huge JT fan and got a package FedEx'd the next day with signed pictures...

4/07/2013 9:12 PM
bearsense said...

Damn, I miss that airplane.........
Nice landing .. Why the QANTAS livery ????

4/07/2013 11:08 PM
CenterPuke88 said...

The aircraft is a B707-138B, the Qantas specific model. They pulled 10 feet from the length of the -120 to improve the range. Qantas was customer number 38 to Boeing, hence the -138 designation.

The particular aircraft served about 3 and a half years in Qantas service as "City of Launceston". JT restored the aircraft to it's Qantas "V-jet" livery after purchase for the 2002 Qantus "Spirit of Friendship" tour, which he participated in.

4/08/2013 8:48 AM
Sarah said...

Thanks Centerpuke, I was just going to look those numbers up. I think you're a bit out of date on fuel prices though. Current price at DFW for JetA is $5.75 so that's $9675/hr in fuel alone.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KDFW

Fuel prices vary wildly between airports - something else to think about when flight planning.

4/08/2013 8:50 AM
CenterPuke88 said...

Thanks Sarah, the number looked low to me too (it may have been a bulk buy price for the airlines)...but I was rushed. Sorry!

4/08/2013 11:11 PM

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