The Hawaiian Airlines aircraft I flew to Shin-Chitose was I think one of their first 767’s. The tail number was N584HA, and the bird name was “Kioea” (Chaetoptila angustipluma), which is an extinct honeycreeper. The cabin safety card calls it out as a B-767, and indicates it is valid for tail numbers 584 to 586, so apparently there are three of this generation. According to online aircraft resources, this is a 767-3G5 ER with airframe number 24258/255, so it is an extended range 767-300 with P&W 4062 engines. The airframe was originally built for the German airline Lufttransportunternehmen (LTU) in 1989, and transferred to Hawaiian in 2002, which explained all the German labelling. I’ve been on one of their newer 767-33A ER WL wingletted aircraft on the HNL-KIX run before. Those were built new for Hawaiian and weren’t lease turnovers. None of Hawaiian’s 767’s have individual headrest screens like their Airbus A330-243’s, but the shared screens in these older 767’s were probably upgraded to LCD’s when the aircraft was refitted, as I don’t think something built in 1989 would have come with them originally. It doesn’t appear that the 2-3-2 seating was reconfigured. The seats were roomy and the German-sized legroom was enough to stretch out in. I’m repeating what I said in a live SUAR post earlier, but considering the age of this airframe, it is amazing how odor-free the interior is. I give the Hawaiian Airlines cleaning crew some major credit. All the JAL international flights I’ve been on in the past several years have been pretty stinky.
Monthly Archive for December, 2012
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Thank goodness the horn on the FR-S is decently loud! A Porsche Cayenne/vw/audi almost backed directly into my drivers side in the Koko Marina parking lot. Came extremely close. Doesnt your fancy shamancy car have backup sensors? Sheesh!
170cm of base at Sapporo Kokusai and a forecast of continuing snow and below-freezing temperatures through the New Year means using up those last vacation days, packing up the Hovercraft, and getting a flight up to Hokkaido! I’ll probably hit Niseko over the weekend, and maybe try and get to the “under new management” Onze sometime during the week if I get a late start, or it isn’t off the hook at Kokusai.
Could they have gotten a more difficult set of call letters for a Japanese speaker? Hopefully their transmitter problems are fixed, they seemed to be on no problem the past few days. Their signal isn’t any better though, HD reception is pretty unusable in a moving car in town and anywhere east. Too bad because it seems they are slowly bringing features online, I notice the web based streaming app now lists title and artist for most of the songs. Hopefully they succeed!
First it was weird kids putting Southeast-Asia Altis badges on their Corollas, now it’s K-boy wannabes putting YF badges on their Hyundai Sonatas. Forget the fact that the Korean-market Sonatas DON’T actually come with YF badges where the oval marque badge should be, nor at the wheel centers (the YF is red subtext to the Sonata nameplate).
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OK, here by popular demand, an overall pic of the car with the PlastiDipped wheels. And to fulfill my Racer Boy image, I actually raced at today’s SCCA Solo II AutoCross. It was a learning and entertaining experience. My first run I forgot to turn off the VSC stability control. I realized as I was pulling away from start and could only manage to turn off the traction control. What a horribly frustrating excercise! Throw it into a corner and put the pedal down and the electromom kicks in and the gas goes limp. By contrast on my second run where I did turn all the techno dodads off, I was all over the place! Oh my, these Bridgestone Turanza tires featuring COCS (they need to get together with Easton with their CNT) are quite the squirrelmeisters! I dare say these might be worse than the Michellin “Prius” tires that all the reviewers got on their FR-S’. At least those were summer tires, these are all seasons. When I calmed down and tried to drive more whithin the bounds of the tires, things got better, and actually pretty fun!
While wandering around Shirokiya’s yatai-mura, I happened across Akimune-an’s taiyaki stall. I guess they didn’t shut down as I thought, but had just been relocated to the second floor. My unfavorite Micronesian worker had a cold as evidenced by a mask, but she was holding the mask to her face with one hand. Great. I hope that hand gets washed before it touches food or food making apparatus! I’m sure that’s wishful thinking.