Like the song says, you can always go around- unless you’re a glider pilot Obvs...
Yes I wondered about that too... Message is still good though.The shrugging emoji thing as all the people die on the Air France is a nice touch...
The shrugging emoji thing as all the people die on the Air France is a nice touch...
Was an airshow so no PAX, but yep they died. software glitch iirc
My mistake. Air France Flight 296 - Wikipedia 3 dead, all PAXLots of passengers, guests who won space in a raffle iirc
An A380 (not our dear own A380) making a very late decision to abort landing at LHR this afternoon, thanks to Storm Francis
We get the large and smaller versions weekly at Doncaster.Is there anyone here who keeps tabs on these things. Does anyone have any idea when an Antanov will be returning to the UK as Mrs Tag is desperate to see one.
I saw one at Farnborough many years ago and see one recently landed at Prestwick (taking arms to Israel) and appreciate that ony a few airports have runways big enough for them.
I understand East Midlands airport is another that is big enough. Any clues or hints anyone, where to find these things out? Thanks.
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That Hercules was doing circuits over the bay and the Gower back on, I think, Sunday, too.Pretty sure I just witnessed a load of military stuff in the sky. Saw at least four fast flying 'things', quite separately over 2 minutes but all in the same-ish part of the sky to the south and south west of my house. Heading east. Then came in to check flightradar because it was getting silly and picked up a Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules doing rounds of Carmarthen Bay at very low altitude, which then disappeared from the screen before reappearing again a minute later showing it heading back to wherever it came from, Brize Norton direction. It's still on there, low altitude, reg ZH879 showing Ascot181 as its number.
Never seen that many aircraft nighttime flying before, they must all be connected.
Edit - Just landed at Brize Norton. Where it had a C-17A Globemaster for company for a while.
I’m quietly hoping the ‘express quarantine’ trials they’re currently doing at one of the Heathrow terminals will be successful, as it would allow cutting down the quarantine period to just two or three days provided you’re not infected. I think a lot more people would be prepared to fly to quarantine-hit countries if all you’ve facing back home is 3-odd days of isolation.I see Gatwick has already closed a terminal and shed 200 jobs already with another 600 to go
BBC News - Gatwick Airport plans to cut 600 jobs due to coronavirus
Gatwick Airport plans to cut 600 jobs due to coronavirus
The job losses follow an 80% drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus, the airport says.www.bbc.co.uk
Pretty sure I just witnessed a load of military stuff in the sky. Saw at least four fast flying 'things', quite separately over 2 minutes but all in the same-ish part of the sky to the south and south west of my house. Heading east. Then came in to check flightradar because it was getting silly and picked up a Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules doing rounds of Carmarthen Bay at very low altitude, which then disappeared from the screen before reappearing again a minute later showing it heading back to wherever it came from, Brize Norton direction. It's still on there, low altitude, reg ZH879 showing Ascot181 as its number.
Never seen that many aircraft nighttime flying before, they must all be connected.
Edit - Just landed at Brize Norton. Where it had a C-17A Globemaster for company for a while.
The extraordinary story of the fastest English Electric Lightning in the RAF that managed to intercept the world's highest-flying spy plane, the U-2, and overtake the world's fastest airliner, the Concorde.
Bet that made a bang when he hit it!So that's what that was all about! I saw the video on Twitter but the comments were all in Russian so couldn't work out what had happened. (The second pic wasn't there obvs.)
A practice emergency landing on a highway apparently, the road signs should have been removed.
I've got hundreds of patches but this is one of my favourites.
I also wore this Italian one for a while in defiance of regulations because I thought it looked ally. Sadly lost now
[...] this was before the advent of the MP4, the DVD, the magnetic videotape and the laserdisc, and airlines needed to use 16mm celluloid prints to exhibit films on board.
So the film was bizarrely threaded along the length of the cabin next to the overhead luggage compartments. Each screen had its own projector that back-projected the film onto the screen in color and in the film’s original aspect ratio. At any given time, nearly 300 feet of film ran through the complex system of gears and loops.
This meant that passengers in the back of the plane saw a scene nearly five minutes after the passengers in the front. And with so many moving parts and a filmstrip that could reach 9,000 feet in length, the failure rate was 20 percent.
Astrocolor had effectively turned the airplane into a giant film projector, and maintenance of the complex in-flight entertainment system could hinder an airline’s flight schedules.