My London flight cancelled that day. Just me…all of our other Londons departed. (Does my company know something I don’t? Hmmm).
But I believe that same guy commented on my landing a few months back when LHR had another blustery day. (It was so-so. Not my best.)
He’s nice, so your comment would be something along the lines of: “phwoar that cant have been easy, noice one mate, well done!”
Flight Report | Kostroma Antonov An-26-100 | Kostroma to Pulkovo. Nice little view of Russian civil aircraft service. Nice views of aircraft interior, interesting views of landscape including Russian building architecture from height.
Interesting video showing differences within the cockpit of the old Yak-40 and the new MC-21 designed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau.
The Irkut MC-21 is a Russian single-aisle twinjet airliner, developed by the Yakovlev Design Bureau and produced by its parent Irkut, a branch of the United Aircraft Corporation. The initial design started in 2006 and detailed design was ongoing in 2011.
https://youtu.be/HTXMTKkA1ag
More fun and games with bad weather here in London this weekend. This time it’s storm Dennis:
Glad I was not a passenger on any of those flights. 
Wheels
Perhaps a slot and ground services consideration? Getting the aircraft in is one thing, but if ground ops are limited due to the high winds(stairs flying about on the ground is not allowed) they may want to keep the aircraft available for other flights?
I was joking of course. I think that the real reason was that the plane was returning to Newark from Zurich late. It was easier and cheaper to just push our customers onto the later flights.
The cool really cool thing is that it has an onboard defense feature. If you are ever attacked, the tail detaches and becomes a combat quadcopter defending you against all comers. Once the carnage is total, it reattaches to the “mothercopter” and you can go about your business. As Captain Aubrey says, “It’s a marvelous modern world we live in!”
Is this like the race to put more razor blades on a razor blade head? The Gillette Quad+1 Copter…
Snipe!
Yeah I am not quite sure why they used four small fans instead of one.
But I thought it was kinda cool that they tried to make an electric tail rotor work.
Wowza… Smooth.
Redundancy? Separate motors. Backup batterie(s). Just one fan is probably enough for a run-on landing.
Yeah I am not quite sure why they used four small fans instead of one.
Edit: ha, Smokinhole beat me to it 
My guess would be redundancy?
It would seem this will be quite a lot safer than traditional tailrotors, which is basically one big single point of failure waiting to happen.
And two gearboxes plus taildrive shafts are eliminated, must save a good deal of weight too, not to speak of less maintenance intensive! I like it
Yeah makes sense. Even though it does look slightly ridiculous.
It would be interesting to know if they do have backup batteries in the tail so that you would still have tail rotors for a short while if the power cable to the main fuselage got shot up.
The big, single, spinny thing on top doesn’t count as single point of failure? 