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Originally Posted by Normy
Connie is definitely "cheap". And he's "cheap" on maintenance for sure- he hires mechanics on the cheap...guys straight out of school and guys with police records.
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Connie
is cheap, though he recently got a bunch of good former NWA mechanics after NW busted the mechanics union... lot's of 747 experience there now.
Also, +1 on those 'R" powered classics. I loved those engines: Lots of thrust on those 830k takeoffs. I believe that they had one more stage of compression over the "Q"s. (It goes to 11!)
I don't fly them anymore, but I miss the airplane and am fortunate in that I never had to make that high-speed abort decision. That's a tough one.
Anyway, it's sad to see the loss of a nice machine, but the important thing is that the crew was able to walk away.