Congaboy From United States, joined Jan 2006, 295 posts, RR: 2 Posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 7443 times:
Was checking out the pictures of the new livery for Go! on this site, and saw that the aircraft picture was taken in PHX. It then occured to me, "how is this thing going to make it to Hawaii?". Looking up the stats here on airliners.net, I found the following:
100 - High speed cruise 851km/h (459kt), typical cruising speed 786km/h (424kt). Range with max payload at long range cruising speed with reserves 1815km (980nm).
200LR - Speeds same. Range with max payload at long range cruising speed and reserves over 3713km (2005nm).
ANother From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 7417 times:
Maybe they will fly from SFO, which is closer (you check it out - true!). The ranges that you are quoting are for normal operations - a flight with nothing but two pilots and some extra fuel will have longer legs.
Congaboy From United States, joined Jan 2006, 295 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 7283 times:
Quoting ANother (Reply 2): Maybe they will fly from SFO, which is closer (you check it out - true!).
Yea, you're right...I have 2395 miles. So empty, with extra tanks, and slightly shorter hop, they make it. The installation and de-installation has to be rather costly, considering the down-time...and multiplied by what, maybe 10 aircraft?
Bluewave 707 From United States, joined Jun 2001, 2791 posts, RR: 7 Reply 9, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 6957 times:
HA, AQ, and WP use ferry tanks inside the fuselage to bring their inter-island fleet to Hawaii, as shown in the photo above. The seats are shipped separately.
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Srbmod From United States, joined Mar 2001, 13454 posts, RR: 43 Reply 16, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 4824 times:
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Quoting 777STL (Reply 1): My guess would be in-cabin fuel tanks as QF did with their 717s.
Actually, the Impulse/Qantaslink 717s took the long way to Australia, flying hops up the west coast of North America, across the Bering Strait, and down Asia to Australia.
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TropicBird From United States, joined May 2005, 400 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 1511 times:
The last word I heard was that this coming week, the first aircraft will ferry to Hawaii via SFO (refueling at Signature Aviation). The following week will be the next 2 and the week after will have the last 2 (for a total of 5). And yes they will have auxiliary fuel tanks installed.
F9Animal From United States, joined Dec 2004, 2907 posts, RR: 23 Reply 20, posted (2 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 1413 times:
Quoting Dutchjet (Reply 19): The new plan is to send the aircraft via FedEx......this way, they aircraft will arrive in Hawaii by 1000am the next morning, guaranteed.
LMAO! That is funny!
What if the tanks failed? Please tell me they have the no smoking sign on during the flight??!!
I guess it would be a bad day if there was an onboard fire. YIKES!!
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