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The Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, is an uncompleted hotel. Construction started in 1987 and was halted several times. Most prominently during the colapse of the Soviet Union.

The hotel existed largely in a rough construction state until 2008. From then, a Egyptian construction company, Orascom, re-started construction on the exterior part of the building. By 2011 they had completed the exterior part of the building.

Up until now, only the exterior part of the building is completed. The interior part is largely empty and no works have commenced on the interior part. In recent years, a large LED panel was fitted to one of the sides of the building.

The building is up until now never used as a hotel. Unkown is why the Egyptian construction company never finished the interior.

Did you know a 747 could carry an additional engine? The 5th engine is not working: it is carried as cargo underneath the wing to transport it from one location to another. This special way of carrying the engines is mainly used to transport an engine to an already broken down aircraft at a non-base airport. The second 747 can fly in a new engine, after which engineers can replace the engine on the broken down 747. The broken engine can be carried back in the same way to the home base airport.

Due to the drag, the performance of the aircraft is quite heavy impacted. Crews must plan additional fuel stops to account for the added fuel burn.

See for more information and a very nice description of this process this blog from Flightradar24.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3045766

The photo is a frame of a video from the JetBlue aircraft, showing the runway incursion

A Jetblue Embraer ERJ-190, registration N179JB performing flight B6-206 from Nashville,TN to Boston,MA (USA), was on final approach to Boston's runway 04R cleared to land on the runway.

A single engine aircraft had been cleared to line up and wait on crossing runway 09, the crew of Embraer already cleared to land heard that clearance, acknowledge the clearance and proceeded onto the runway, however, commenced their takeoff run without clearance.

More info: https://avherald.com/h?article=50c9d066&amp%3Bopt=0

The Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant was built in Zwentendorf, Austria. It has never entered service because in a referendum on the 5th of November 1978, a narrow majority of 50.47% voted against the start-up.

The plant was completely finished by the time of the referendum, but has never been used for electricity production. After the referendum, some parts were taken out, but in large the facility is still complete. It has been since used as a training center, a movie and photography shooting scene and location for other events.

In total the project costed €1.4 billion.

SA Novespace of France operates an Airbus A310 (F-WNOV) to perform 'parabolic' flights. During these flights, the aircraft simulates weightlessness for a short period of time. The cabin of the aircraft is therefore mostly empty, to give people the space to float around.

Astronauts from ESA use these flights to prepare themselves for weightlessness in space. See for an image what parabolic flight maneuvers are: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paolo-Lunghi-2/publication/314285521/figure/fig2/AS:469569253974026@1488965442721/Parabolic-flight-sequence.png

Delta Air Lines flight DL1437, a Boeing 757-232, was evacuated on the runway after landing at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, GA (ATL). Apparently several tires on the left main landing gear had burst/deflated during landing on runway 09L, followed by a overheated landing gear which was contained by ARFF.

Source: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/343181

General Electric owns a 747-400 (N747GF). This aircraft is used to test new engines in-flight. For example the one in the photo: the new GE9XTM engine, which will be used on the new Boeing 777X. What a size difference compared to the CF6s of the 747!

This frame was orginally delivered to Japan Airlines in March of 1994 with registration JA8910. GE bought it in January 2011 to replace the aging Boeing 747-100 (N747GE). The 747-100 was orginally delivered to Pan Am in 1970 as 25th 747 off the line. GE bought it in March of 1992 and has used it until January 2017. The N747GE is currently on display at Pima Air and Space Museum (Tucson Davis-Monthan AFB)

A United Boeing 767-300, registration N641UA performing flight UA-702 from Newark,NJ to Houston Intercontinental,TX (USA), landed on Houston's runway 26L at 10:34L (15:34Z) but touched down hard. The aircraft rolled out without further incident and taxied to the apron. There were no injuries.

Source: https://avherald.com/h?article=50c768a7&amp%3Bopt=0

Air India owned several A320 aircraft with double wheels. By default, all A320s are delivered with a singe-wheel setup by Airbus. Back in the early 90s, Air India wanted to operate A320s to airports in India which could not carry the weight of an A320 on the ramps and taxiways. To help distribute the weight more evenly, Air India asked Airbus to design and deliver double-wheeld A320s. Several A320s were delivered with double-wheel setup in the early 90s to Air India.

Nowadays, the infrastructure in India has vastly improved and the weight constraint is no longer in place. Air India has stored or scrapped all double-wheel A320s.

This is a post in a serie of aircraft odd-variants. If you like it: please upvote it :)

Akasa Air from India will soon start operating its first Boeing 737-8200 Max. After Ryanair, it will become the second airline to operate this very high density 737-800Max variant. Equiped with an extra after-wing emergency exit, this 737-800Max variant is certified to transport a whopping 212 passengers in a high density (crammed) setup. The extra emergency exit is added to comply with safety regulations, allowing 212 passengers opposed to the 189 of the regular 737-8max.

I am starting a small series on the "odd variants" of some aircraft types. This is the first post 🙂 Please upvote if you would like to see more ✈️

Honeywell owns a 757-200 with RR-engines. They have fitted their 757 with a small, 3rd, wing to test avionics, engines and other instruments. So far it has carried a jet engine, prop engine and instruments..

It is an early 757 from 1983: the 5th delivered 757. Delivered to the now defunct Eastern Airlines. Honeywell aquired it in 2005 as N757HW.

Picture source // aeroprints.com