Category Big Jets Book

Considerations – How to Flare and Land a Big Jet (v5)

13 December, 2019 · by · in Back Stories, Big Jets Book, QF32 Story, Training · 3 Comments

Question Ricky recently asked me the following question on the QF32 web site: Good evening Richard, I read all your books and have been huge inspiration during my training to become a pilot. I read you have flown nearly all airplanes and in the book you also mention a technique used on Caribou airplane. Now […]

4 November 2019 – the 9th Anniversary of QF32

4 November, 2019 · by · in Big Jets Book, FLY!, News, Physics For The Coffee Table, QF32 Story · 15 Comments

Today, the 4th November 2019 is the 9th Anniversary of Flight QF32, an event that changed my, Coral’s, our passengers’, crews’ and many others’ (Second Victims) lives. Nine years after QF32 event, I continue to fly the A380 to many destinations around the world. During each long-haul flight, it’s still my pleasure to walk the […]

The Empirical Skeptic and Hacker

21 March, 2014 · by · in A380, Airbus, ATSB, Back Stories, Big Jets Book, Cabin Crew, Leadership, Management, Passengers, QF32 Story, Rolls-Royce, Teamwork, Technical, Technical Crew, Training · 8 Comments

Version 10 – July 2016 Viewers of  Air Crash Investigators program have asked me many questions including: Why didn’t we evacuate the A380 immediately after stopping on the runway in Singapore? What are my views about the Malaysian MH370 incident? My answers centre around how I gather, judge, store and use data. Empirical Skeptic I am […]

Royal Aeronautical Society

23 November, 2013 · by · in A380, Airbus, Back Stories, Big Jets Book, QF32 Story, Technical · 3 Comments

Stop Press – Thursday 28 November The evening was a great success with my son Alexander and I meeting over 120 engineering students and 180 RAeS members. Everyone was especially pleased to met and hear Carolyn and Derwyn Jones, passengers on the QF32 flight who also addressed the audience.   Their daughter Nia Jones joined […]

Bio-Mimicry of Shaking Dogs

26 October, 2013 · by · in A380, Big Jets Book, Physics For The Coffee Table, Technical · Leave a comment

See also QF32 Biomimicry Richard Hammond’s Miracles Of Nature Biomimicry You don’t have to be a dog lover to be awe struck by this video of dog shaking themselves dry. These seemingly simply movements generate up to 70 G accelerations that “centrifuge” the hair 70% dry in just a few seconds. Why is the QF32 […]

QF32 ranked in the top 10 Best Selling books in Australia

5 January, 2013 · by · in Big Jets Book, Reviews · 2 Comments

Today the Sydney Morning Herald released the lists of the best selling (paper) books in Australia for the 2012 calendar year. QF 32 has been available for just 5 months and was rated:  (Sydney Morning Herald 5-6 Jan 2012 p6) 6th Best Selling Non-Fiction book in Australia for 2012, and 7th Australian Best Seller book for […]

QF32 Back Story – Rolls Royce Trent 900 – Request for Questions

14 December, 2012 · by · in A380, Big Jets Book, QF32 Story, Rolls-Royce, Technical · 19 Comments

I have been researching Rolls-Royce engines for decades.     I have studied the engine’s “workshop manuals”.   I visited the Rolls-Royce production and engineering facilities in Derby, UK just two weeks before my QF32 event. Yesterday I toured the Sin$700 m Rolls-Royce Seletar Campus in Singapore.   This is the first production facility for […]

Slingshot Effect (QF32 p 346)

22 August, 2012 · by · in Back Stories, Big Jets Book, Technical, Technical Crew · Leave a comment

Editor’s Note I am pleased that this topic has generated much discussion in the pilot community.      Few readers understand if and why the Slingshot Effect exists which makes this topic is even more interesting.      Question QF32 reader John Reid asks: “The QF32’s appendix includes A380 specifications.   There is a statement […]

Welcome to the Big Jets Book discussion

20 August, 2012 · by · in A380, Airbus, ATSB, Back Stories, Big Jets Book, Careers, Leadership, Qantas, Qantas History, Resources, Rolls-Royce, Teamwork, Technical, Technical Crew, Training · Leave a comment

I am writing a book about big jets My definition of the big jets are those bigger than the Boeing 737 or Airbus A320.  Large corporate jets (Gulfstream and Cessna) are also included. For aspiring aviators who are pursuing a career flying Big Jets and for commercial aviation pilots, The Big Jets book provides an […]

Richard’s (future) big jets book

29 June, 2012 · by · in A380, Airbus, Big Jets Book, Richard de Crespigny, Rolls-Royce · 8 Comments

I am producing a technical book about Big Jets (jets bigger than A320s and B737s right up to and including the A380). For aspiring aviators who are pursuing a career flying Big Jets and for commercial aviation pilots, the big jets book will provide an in-depth and technical explanation for aircraft designs and aircraft operations. […]