The DUSTOFF Association is a nonprofit organization for Army Medical Department enlisted and officer personnel, aviation crewmembers, and others who are (or ever were. Boeing 7. 57 - Wikipedia. The Boeing 7. 57 is a mid- size, narrow- bodytwin- enginejet airliner that was designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the manufacturer's largest single- aisle passenger aircraft and was produced from 1. The twinjet has a two- crew member glass cockpit, turbofan engines of sufficient power to allow takeoffs from relatively short runways and higher altitudes, a conventional tail and, for reduced aerodynamic drag, a supercritical wing design. Intended to replace the smaller three- engine 7. The 7. 57 was designed concurrently with a wide- body twinjet, the 7. The 7. 57 was produced in two fuselage lengths. The original 7. 57- 2. PF, a package freighter (PF) variant, and the 7. M, a passenger- freighter combi model, debuted in the late 1. The stretched 7. 57- 3. Passenger 7. 57- 2. SF) specification for cargo use, while military derivatives include the C- 3. VIP carriers, and other multi- purpose aircraft. Private and government operators have also customized the 7. All 7. 57s are powered by Rolls- Royce RB2. Pratt & Whitney PW2. Eastern Air Lines and British Airways placed the 7. The narrow- body twinjet succeeded earlier single- aisle airliners, and became commonly used for short and mid- range domestic routes, shuttle services, and transcontinental U. S. After regulators granted approval for extended flights over water (ETOPS) in 1. Major customers for the 7. U. S. The airliner has recorded eight hull- loss accidents, including seven fatal crashes, as of September 2. The 7. 57- 2. 00 was by far the most popular model, with 9. Diminished sales amid an airline industry trend toward smaller jetliners led Boeing to end production without a direct replacement, in favor of the 7. The last 7. 57 was delivered to Shanghai Airlines in November 2. In July 2. 01. 5, 7. Delta Air Lines is the largest operator with 1. Competitors needed longer takeoff runs at airports at higher elevations, with higher ambient temperatures and thinner air. This is the complete report on the UFO sighting by the Japanese crew of a jumbo freighter aircraft in November, 1986. What you are about to read is the most complete. This is a free service to receive notification of the most current Flight Safety Foundation publications, news releases, seminars and other special events by e-mail. 278 THE SPACE SHUTTLE'S FIRST FLIGHT: STS-1. One of the known quantities in space flight was that the velocity required for a vehicle to escape earth's gravitational. Concorde; British Airways Concorde in 1986: Role: Supersonic transport: National origin: United Kingdom and France: Manufacturer: BAC (later BAe and BAE Systems). Licensed Alaska Flight Operations Regulated By The FAA Flyout Alaska Fishing and Adventure Lodges Utilizing Airplanes Or Helicopters Owner, Company or dba. 1981 BELL 222 Helicopter for Sale in Australia. Detailed Specification, Price, Photos. Boeing also offered options for higher payload capability. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification on December 2. UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) certification on January 1. The European manufacturer states that the new variant will exceed the range of a 7. Officials at Air Lease Corporation, which has ordered the Airbus A3. LR, have urged Boeing to build an all- new twin- aisle airplane for 7,0. The airplane could likely seat 2. Dreamliner. Each wing features a supercritical cross- section and is equipped with five- panel leading edge slats, single- and double- slotted flaps, an outboard aileron, and six spoilers. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) classifies all variants based on the 7. United's 7. 57s assigned to transatlantic routes are fitted with 1. Designed to serve the charter airline market and provide a low- cost replacement for the 7. The 7. 57- 2. 00, the most widely ordered version of the aircraft. The first government operator of the 7. Mexican Air Force, which took delivery of a VIP- configured 7. November 1. 98. 7. State Department Foreign Emergency Support Team. Although Krueger flaps have been tried before as insect- mitigation screens, previous designs caused additional drag; the newer design being tested is variable- camber and designed to retract as seamlessly as possible into the lower wing surface. Increasing the use of natural laminar flow (NLF) on an aircraft wing has the potential to improve fuel burn by as much as 1. The test flights have been supported by the European airline group TUI AG and conducted jointly with NASA as part of the agency. While the left wing tests the Kreuger flaps, the right wing is being used to test coatings that prevent insects from adhering to the wing. Success here will open the door to the application of Natural Laminar Flow to reduce fuel burn. They receive air from the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU). Their purpose is to recover air flow that has separated from the rudder and redirect it to the rudder so that the rudder regains effectiveness, even at high deflection angles. The air exiting the APU is very hot, at 3. F, and is cooled by a heat exchanger mounted under the aft fuselage, which is connected to the ducts running along the front and back of the stabilizer's spars. This ensures an even air supply at all times. All 2. 45 occupants evacuated successfully. The fuselage was donated by Boeing and was previously part of a test aircraft; the interior fittings were donated by United Airlines and installed into the aircraft section for exhibition purposes. 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This sighting gained international attention when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it was going to officially investigate this sighting because the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Anchorage, Alaska, had reported that the UFO had been detected on radar. Captain Terauchi was featured on numerous radio and TV programs and in People Magazine. Within a few months of these events he was grounded, apparently for his indiscretion of reporting a UFO, even though he was a senior captain with an excellent flying record. Several years later he was reinstated. What you are about to read is the most complete and analytical investigation of this sighting ever published. Kenju Terauchi was excited to learn of a special Japan Airlines flight from Paris to Anchorage and then to Tokyo. It was to carry a cargo of French wine. The plane landed in Iceland and waited for good weather. The next day the plane took off heading north northwest. A bright moon helped with the visibility for the night flight over Greenland, but as the plane continued over northern Canada the moon set behind them. When the plane reached an air route reporting point in far northwestern Canada called . The plane reported its position to the flight control center at Edmonton, Alberta, and continued across the Canada- Alaska border, where it made history. But something happened over Alaska which caught the attention of the world for several days in late December and early January, 1. Virtually every newspaper in the world carried a story about what Capt. Terauchi and his crew saw over Alaska. This is the story of that sighting as told to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) by the crew members and the flight controllers on the ground. Terauchi first realized that he had company: there were lights of some crafts to the left and below. After watching them for a short time he decided they were the lights of . But then he realized that after several minutes they had not changed their apparent position relative to his aircraft. In other words, they were flying along with him . The sky to the right had an afterglow of sunset, but ahead and to the left it was very dark. The copilot, who handled the aircraft communications, acknowledged the AARTCC request and then turned the plane to the left (. It was during this turn that Capt. Terauchi, sitting on the left side of the cockpit, first saw the unidentifiable lights out his side window . Subsequently the speed decreased to about 5. He could not know how far below the lights were just from his visual sighting. At 3. 5,0. 00 ft the horizon distance is about 2. The pilot's statement therefore implies that the lights were below, probably considerably below, his horizon, i. This will be described later.). The captain's initial reaction to the lights was to ignore them as US air fighters, probably military aircraft from one of the nearby Air Force Bases (Eielson or Elmendorf). But the position of the lights . The lights of these two . The inside cockpit shined brightly and I felt warm in the face. A crude partial sketch of one of the objects looks somewhat like this (limited by ASCII notation). The horizontal lines of circles represent flame colored or yellowish . There were two totally separate sets of the . It was the captain's impression that the two . However the center area of the ship(s) where below an engine might be was invisible. Its shape was square, flying 5. Its size was about the same size ad the body of a DC- 8 jet, and with numerous exhaust pipes. Some became stronger than others and some became weaker than others, but . At the time of this startling appearance the pilot . We probably would have felt more in danger and would have been prepared to escape if the spaceships were shaking or unable to stop themselves. As they moved they rocked or swayed back and forth. Then they abruptly rearranged their orientation from one above the other to side- by- side. They were still both at about the 1. Continuing the description, the lights were like flames coming out of multiple rocket exhaust ports arranged in two rectangular arrays, according to the captain's drawings made shortly after the event and again two months later. He described the colors as . Besides the lights of the . And weak green, ah, blinking. He had no doubt that he was seeing some sort of aerial object or objects just ahead and to the left of the airplane. He compared the clarity of the lights to seeing . Terauchi recalled that the lights might have been a bit higher. Tamejfuji pointed out that . It was clear enough to make me believe that there was an oncoming aircraft. Instead, they were matching exactly the speed of the 7. The copilot's drawing was similar . The two arrays associated with a single craft were . He recalled that when he first saw them he was looking . After discussing the situation over the next 6. Tamefuji, who was the . It was now about nine minutes since Capt. Terauchi had first noticed lights on . At the time of the call the two . The times listed below are minutes and seconds of Alaska Standard Time . Tamefuji (who had to speak English to communicate with the AARTCC) or by the transcriber. The seven o'clock position is far to the left and nearly behind the airplane where Tamefuji couldn't have seen the lights. I assume that the correct direction was eleven o'clock.). It is interesting to note that Tamefuji asked for . The suggestion that the lights were a bit above agrees with the captain's recollection. Terauchi recalled in his testimony written about a month and a half later. Maintain visual contact with your traffic and, ah, can you say the altitude of the traffic? Would you like a higher or lower altitude? We cannot identify the type, ah, but we can see, ah, navigation lights and ah, strobe lights. Say the color of the strobe and beacon lights. It is unfortunate that the crew was not fluent in English (many of the words on the AARTCC tape are barely distinguishible) because, no doubt, the crew could have provided much more accurate descriptions during the sighting. I suspect that the poor description of the colors (white and yellow) was a result of the copilot not knowing the English words for the actual colors he was seeing and thereby being forced to use the closest word he knew. In the subsequent interviews with a translator the colors mentioned were yellow, amber and green. The colors yellow and amber are not conventional colors for aircraft (red, white, green are conventional) but they might be consistent with . JL1. 62. 8, HB7. 47, BIKF- ANC reported traffic at his altitude (FL3. AAL ROC and EDF ROCC notified. No known traffic identified. Also, the Elmendorf (EDF) Regional Operational Control Center (ROCC) was not actually contacted until 5: 2. PM. Hence the contact with the Air Force at Elmendorf. After flying in a one- above the other orientation for several minutes the . We did not report this action to the Anchorage Center. Honestly, we were simply breathtaken. Terauchi decided to take a picture of them. He asked Tsukuba to get the camera. This incident helped Tsukuba later to remember how long the lights had been in front of the plane. He recalled during the interview . The reason is because the captain wanted to take pictures. His camera bag was placed behind his seat, beside mine, and I handed it to him. But he could not take pictures, so I placed his camera bag beside my seat again. So I think about 1. He could not operate it well. I mean the operating procedure of the camera was not well understood. I asked to bring forward my camera bag that was placed in the rear of the cockpit and began to take a picture. The area in which the plane was flying was unchanged but the lights were still moving strangely. I had ASA 1. 00 film in my camera but the lens kept adjusting and never could set a focus. I changed auto- focus to manual- focus and pressed the shutter but this time the shutter would not close. Then our aircraft began to vibrate and I gave up taking a photo. I placed the camera back in the camera bag and concentrated on observing the lights. It took from about 5: 2. AARTCC to get an answer about the clouds because of interference with the radio transmissions. At 5: 2. 2: 4. 1 the AARTCC told the plane the transmissions were . In his testimony the pilot recalled the several requests for cloud altitude: . We saw thin and spotty clouds near the mountain below us, no clouds in mid- to- upper air, and the air current was steady. The repeated questions about the clouds caused Terauchi to wonder why the controller was so interested in clouds. Of course, there were no such laser beams in the . However, communication conditions became good as soon as the ships left us. There were no abnormal- ities in the equipment of the aircraft. When he was interviewed the captain was asked to describe the type of interference he heard. He described the interference as . The communications capability was, he said, two out of five possible levels (5,4,3,2,1) with five being perfectly clear . Normally communications with a plane in that area would be good. And I'm not receiving any radar replies. Looking to the left the captain could now see that . In the meantime significant events occurred aboard the plane and at the AARTCC. It was now about 1. Capt. Terauchi had first seen the lights traveling along with his plane, about 6 to 7 minutes since the lights had appeared abruptly in front of the plane, and only a minute or so since the . A drawing made several hours later indicates that the lights were horizontally oriented and spaced apart, like two long fluorescent tubes end- to- end with a large dark gap in between them. At this time in the flight he could only see the two white lights. He was not sure whether the two . After seeing the outline the captain had the impression that the distant lights were on a very large .
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