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air lines retires its oldest widebody after nearly 36 years 150 000 flight hours the plane s a boeing 767 300er tail number n171dn which entered service in june 1990 it had been flying since then with a brief break in storage during the peak of the covid 19 pandemic its last revenue flight was from sfo to atl on april 9th it had passed 150 000 hours of flight hours in 2026 its flying days were done its last flight a ferry flight from atl to bhm an airport in chicago was on april 10th where it will be scrapped i did a bit of back of the envelope calculations commercial jetliners at cruising altitude do between 500 and 600 mph this varies depending on the altitude faster at higher altitudes due to lower air density the prevailing wind tail winds help increase the ground speed head winds lower it but their average speed over a flight has to be lower because during both ascent and descent it flies much slower than during cruise assuming that the average cruising speed to be around 550 mph at altitude i estimate that the average speed would be around 10 lower for the entire duration of the flight or 500 mph going with that conservative speed during its 150 000 flight hours the 767 covered around 75 million miles the earth s circumference is 25 000 miles so the distance it flew is equivalent to 3 000 trips around the earth the moon is approximately 240 000 miles so one could say that the plane covered the distance equivalent to 150 round trips to the moon i hope that like me you are impressed next since the plane has been doing a mix of transatlantic flights around 9 hours long and domestic flights around 5 hours long let s assume that an average flight for it was 7 5 hours therefore i estimate that it has done about 20 000 flight cycles meaning it has landed 20 000 times only landings count not takeoffs why for most planes the two numbers match for a few planes the number of landings is at most one fewer than takeoffs but those are extremely rare obviously the boeing 767 300er has a passenger capacity of 210 to 290 depending on whether it was configured as 1 2 or 3 class let s say this one could carry 250 people but the load factor is rarely 100 let s reduce that by 20 and say that on average it carried 200 passengers over the 20 000 flights it did therefore it ferried approximately 4 million passengers during its nearly 36 years of service i am always impressed by the build quality of these airplanes and how amazing they are in service these are modern marvels actually even the older propeller driven planes were pretty impressive too consider the dc 3 it went into production in 1936 and ended in 1950 a few dc 3s continue to fly even after 75 years some have racked up over 80 000 flight cycles over four times that of our boeing 767 they don t make em like that any more an air india dc 3 in london in 1958 from wiki no actually that s not true the dc 3s were not pressurized airplanes modern jetliners are modern jetliners bodies balloon up slightly when they are in flight and then the body relaxes after landing therefore modern jetliners end up being stressed with every flight cycle because of the pressurization and depressurization that leads to metal fatigue and the planes have to be retired scrapped at the end of their service life of a specified number of flying hours and number of flight cycles you might wonder why i m going on about the retirement of a silly plane the fact is that i love planes i have probably taken over 800 flights around half of them over 10 hours long and the other half around 4 hours long i estimate i have therefore spent around 56 000 hours in commercial jetliners that means i have spent 8 months of my life traveling at 35 000 feet at 500 miles an hour and yet and yet i get myself a window seat and look out of the plane and take pictures and videos of takeoff and landings if you saw me on flight you d think that it was the first time i was on a flight time to say goodbye to dear old n171dn may parts of you get recycled and may they fly again which reminds me of a song about a river boat i know i will remember when i cannot hear that horn that would roll up by the mountains as she took us through the storm i know they ve got to take her but i can t say i approve cause she s won so many battles that i hate to see her lose thank you good night and may your god go with you share this share on x opens in new window x share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading author atanu dey posted on april 17 2026 april 17 2026 categories uncategorized leave a comment on that old plane shubho noboborsho the bengali calendar is a solar calendar the first month of which is boishakh pohela or poila means first therefore the bengali year starts on poila boishakh shubho noboborsho greetings to all we bengalis are obsessed with food particularly fish i will have some special fish today i feel for the vegetarians or people who don t like fish anyway that just means that we get to have more of the good stuff let s listen to a hemanta da song as a homeless person i relate to this song about a river at one point the song asks is it because you have no ties that you are homeless lovely song cheers and have a wonderful day share this share on x opens in new window x share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading author atanu dey posted on april 15 2026 april 14 2026 categories uncategorized leave a comment on shubho noboborsho why sri krishna is parthasarthy this is the story of how sri krishna took on the role of arjuna s charioteer sri krishna is an incarnation an avatar of vishnu therefore he is an aspect of brahman the ultimate reality brahman incarnates from time to time the aspect of brahman who incarnates is vishnu vishnu has ten avatars why ten because decimal the first avatar was matsya the fish who came to save the universe from a great deluge and preserve life then came kurma the tortoise to help the gods and the demons obtain the nectar of immortality that was a real adventure they churned the ocean and all kinds of stuff emerged from that fascinating story next in avatar 3 place we have varaha the boar to rescue the earth from a demon lifting it from the cosmic ocean in fourth place we have narasimha avatar part man part lion some kind of superhero number five is vamana the dwarf who subdued a demon king he was followed by parashurama sixth in line the warrior with an axe who restored justice and dharma continue reading why sri krishna is parthasarthy share this share on x opens in new window x share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading author atanu dey posted on april 14 2026 categories uncategorized leave a comment on why sri krishna is parthasarthy the rules rule a discourse on voluntary servitude scumbag politicians and clueless citizens are a matched pair you cannot have one without the other the criminality of the one is enabled by the cluelessness of the other and the two are entwined in a dance macabre which is the continued destitution of india the interesting question then is what gives rise to this situation indians are fairly unremarkable in that they are not genetically programmed to be stupid they are only as flawed as any other large segment of humanity india is not spectacularly gifted natural resource wise to put it mildly but neither is it entirely devoid of them india has not been repeatedly visited by natural catastrophes that periodically send it back to square one over the centuries india has had a fairly stable existence barring the occasional islamic invasions murdering a few tens of million infidels all things considered india had all the material and human resources to make a go of it what went wrong continue reading the 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