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Wait, so they send airplanes from your iPad?

 

With Robinson helicopters, they package up all the parts into crates and ship the crates to their destination for the customer/a certified dealer to assemble (only for deliveries outside of the US). Of course, airliners are a totally different story, but I just wanted to throw that out there. B)

737s or A32xs can easily make transoceanic crossings at empty weights and full fuel. Smaller stuff like regional jets I assume they have to do in multiple legs stopping at Gander, Iceland, Shannon etc going across the Atlantic and stopping in Hawaii, Guam, Anchorage, etc going across the Pacific.

I just download mine from the PMDG website :)

..Or, here's another way..

Not quite as big as Boeings...

I took this pic in Montreal in 1960, and as you can see the aircraft, one of six, were on their way to Australia. We dropped them off a few weeks later in Cairns, I seem to recall.

I also remember 'missing' - by a few minutes - a real treat - Qantas ? had just taken delivery of a couple of brand new Brittanias (They had been flown out) - and I missed a free flight (with sandbags as company) across from Cairns to Darwin and back, complete with in-flight meals...they were gaining certification I think for Aussie flights.

..memories

Regards
Bill

 

 

 

KLM flies their 737s directly from Seattle to Amsterdam, no pax and max fuel. If the air is too cold over Greenland they have to go lower to prevent the fuel from freezing up and then they have to divert to Glasgow, otherwise they do the trip non-stop.

Full story here: http://www.vsv.tudelft.nl/en/node/398, click on the September 2011 issue (the one with the photo-mosaic and the 15 on the cover) and then go to page 18.