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By: - 24th March 2005 at 11:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
so it hasn't entered service just yet then ;)
Arriving in the UK and conducting a revenue flight (entry into service) are two different things ;)
Oh, and NGs are buiilt with the winglets on them by Boeing, if the customer chooses the option. ;)
It doesn't make sense to buy a new aircraft (or lease it) then pay upwards of £200K to fit winglets, when the winglets could have been installed as part of the manufacture.
By: - 24th March 2005 at 11:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Apparentlty its visiting Liverpool and Durham Tees Valley for training flights
By: - 24th March 2005 at 11:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
so it hasn't entered service just yet then ;)Arriving in the UK and conducting a revenue flight (entry into service) are two different things ;)
Bloody pedants everywhere ! :D
AFAIK it enters service today? Winglets to be applied sometime when appropriate.
Entering service doesn't necessarily mean it has to carry passengers, training and evaluation flights for Globespan mean it's entered service for Globespan in my book. :rolleyes: :dev2:
By: - 24th March 2005 at 12:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Started this morning around 0815
1.Southend
2.Glasgow
3.Liverpool
4.Cardiff
5.Teeside
6.Glasgow
7.Liverpool
8.Cardiff
9.Glasgow
10.Liverpool
11.Glasgow
12.Liverpool
13.Glasgow 03:35
By: - 24th March 2005 at 13:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hehe - that was the 23rd's Rotations.
The a/c started in GLA on the 24th.
By: - 24th March 2005 at 17:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Oh, and NGs are buiilt with the winglets on them by Boeing, if the customer chooses the option. ;)
It doesn't make sense to buy a new aircraft (or lease it) then pay upwards of £200K to fit winglets, when the winglets could have been installed as part of the manufacture.
Must make some sort of financial sense , Flyglobespan have bought 50 (yes fifty) pairs of winglets which will be fitted at the airlines STN base . Obviously they have major expansion plans!
By: - 24th March 2005 at 17:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Must make some sort of financial sense , Flyglobespan have bought 50 (yes fifty) pairs of winglets which will be fitted at the airlines STN base . Obviously they have major expansion plans!
STN, what?! :confused: The winglets will be fitted at Southend and their HQ, which is/was at STN is about to or has just recently relocated to Edinburgh.
By: - 24th March 2005 at 18:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
STN, what?! :confused: The winglets will be fitted at Southend and their HQ, which is/was at STN is about to or has just recently relocated to Edinburgh.
OK , but why are you confused. The point I was making was that the winglets are being done over here and not at Boeing. I apologise humbly for my err re STN! ;)
By: - 24th March 2005 at 18:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
FlyGlobespan's main base is at Glasgow not Stansted or Edinburgh. Their office is in Edinburgh but the airline's main ops are from Glasgow.
By: - 24th March 2005 at 19:20 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
FlyGlobespan's main base is at Glasgow not Stansted or Edinburgh. Their office is in Edinburgh but the airline's main ops are from Glasgow.
I was referring to their HQ.
By: - 24th March 2005 at 19:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Aren't the initial 738's from a cancelled order and one that probably didn't demand winglets ?
By: - 24th March 2005 at 19:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Aren't the initial 738's from a cancelled order and one that probably didn't demand winglets ?
that is possible.
I really do not see the logic in ordering a bunch of NGs and then retro fitting them when you can get them delivered with winglets.
Strange, very strange
By: - 24th March 2005 at 19:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Boeing do not, repeat do not fit the winglets. Other companies are contracted to do so.
By: - 24th March 2005 at 20:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Boeing do not, repeat do not fit the winglets. Other companies are contracted to do so.
Realy.
Then explain 737NGs coming off the production line with them attached.
there is a retrofit kit from Aviation Partners. This is what you're talking about.
But there is also the option to have 737NGs built with the winglets from the off.
By: - 24th March 2005 at 23:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I shot it departing Glasgow on Wednesday when it made it's first visit doing training flights up and down to Liverpool. It did the same again today so I managed to get better ones of it landing about midday.
Look forward to seeing it back at Glasgow next week with the Winglets attached as it will be the first 737 with Winglets on the UK Register (well I think that's right).
Fred.
By: - 25th March 2005 at 00:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Lovely shot of it Fred! :) Love that backdrop. Should look very nice with the winglets on.
By: - 25th March 2005 at 07:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
GCDEG will fly it's first revenue flights today -
EDI-AGP
GLA-TFS
All new build 737's have the strengthened wing to receive the winglets - even if they are not fitted with them originally. Earlier 737 NG's require wing strengthening work to be carried out before the winglets can be fitted.
Aviation Partner are a subsidiary company of Boeing.
By: - 25th March 2005 at 07:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
it will be the first 737 with Winglets on the UK Register. Not quite....Leeds-based B737-8DR G-OBBJ of Multiflight has that particular honour.
By: - 25th March 2005 at 16:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
From what I've read elsewhere, G-CDEG is due back at Southend tomorrow evening to have winglets fitted.
By: - 25th March 2005 at 22:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
It did a flight from Malaga to Glasgow today arriving mid afternoon and left for Tenerife at 5-15pm tonight.
I hope to catch it again tomorrow morning leaving Glasgow one last time, got to get some slides of it pre Winglets attached.
Now it's late March the sun is getting around far enough for shooting from the North side at Glasgow in the evenings.
Fred.
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By: Ren Frew - 24th March 2005 at 11:40
Fly Globespan's first 737-800 touched down yesterday at Southend after delivery from Seattle.
I gather it's going to have winglets added soon too ? :D