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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Oh reminds me, the Air & Space museum in Washington DC, a most excellent place, been twice and just agog at what you are looking at. It's free to get in too 
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Oh reminds me, the Air & Space museum in Washington DC, a most excellent place, been twice and just agog at what you are looking at. It's free to get in too
I went there weekly when I lived in suburban Virginia as an 11 year old kid for 6 months. Touching the moonrock, seeing the rare planes eg Me262, what a brilliant time that was!
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Can’t wait to go back.Oh reminds me, the Air & Space museum in Washington DC, a most excellent place, been twice and just agog at what you are looking at. It's free to get in too
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
It's having a baby
spitfire
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
This is the solution to the conveyor belt thing. Can't agree on the answer or even the assumptions implicit in the question? Just stick the whole apparatus inside a larger plane. Then it'll fly. Job done.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I never knew that! I assumed the stripes were merely for visibility. Every day schoolday, etc.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
T & P
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Whose responsibility would have been to check & remove that tie? The jumper, the officer in charge of the jump, or the bloke who folds and prepares the chutes for the next jump?
Software flaw led to 'serious incident' on Tui flight
A language difference meant some women were labelled as children, throwing out weight calculations.
www.bbc.co.uk
69 kg? Average American female 77.4kg
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Don't think it was a tie that was the problem T & P it was the rigging lines caught in a clip on the container iirc. There aren't any ties to remove from putting on the kit to jumping out of the plane.
The thing they attached is called a HUPRA. Every plane dropping military parachutists carries one. The delay between the hang-up and release of the jumper would have seen a flurry of panic while the aircrew ransacked the plane looking for it, probably eventually finding it covered in dust and oil under a pile of coats or something.
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
Birmingham is not in AmericaSoftware flaw led to 'serious incident' on Tui flight
A language difference meant some women were labelled as children, throwing out weight calculations.www.bbc.co.uk
69 kg? Average American female 77.4kg
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I didn’t know about these. Ta.Don't think it was a tie that was the problem T & P it was the rigging lines caught in a clip on the container iirc. There aren't any ties to remove from putting on the kit to jumping out of the plane.
The thing they attached is called a HUPRA. Every plane dropping military parachutists carries one. The delay between the hang-up and release of the jumper would have seen a flurry of panic while the aircrew ransacked the plane looking for it, probably eventually finding it covered in dust and oil under a pile of coats or something.
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
So is this one.That one isn’t but this one is:
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LDC
On est tous des pangolins
The drill is if you jump out and find yourself hung up you put your hands on your head to signal you're conscious (if somewhat dismayed at the way your day is going) and wait while they attach it and cut your original static line and you then fall under the HUPRA parachute. Hopefully.
There's a slightly worse one here...
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
There's two broad types of parachuting; static line and freefall (aka skydiving and a few other terms). The thing that divides them is how the parachute is deployed. In static line you don't have to pull anything, a line attached to the plane and then your 'chute does it. In freefall etc. you jump from much higher and then after a while pull the cord yourself. Basic military parachuting is static line from a quite low height (<800 feet) as the point is just to get you on the ground quickly.
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Static line - Wikipedia
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That would spoil your day...
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teuchter has been so busy fighting cars today that he's apparently missed this piece of good news for the environment
I think it's a good thing, on the whole. But then I get the feeling (could be wrong though), that you would usually have a fair chance of scooping reasonably cheap rail fares in France. Domestic flights (other than flight transfers) should be completely avoidable in the UK also where the two city pairs are well linked by rail, but only if one does not have to remortgage the house to turn out at a train station at peak time without having previously bought a ticket.
France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights
MPs vote to stop flights where the journey could be made by train in under 2.5 hours.
www.bbc.co.uk
I think it's a good thing, on the whole. But then I get the feeling (could be wrong though), that you would usually have a fair chance of scooping reasonably cheap rail fares in France. Domestic flights (other than flight transfers) should be completely avoidable in the UK also where the two city pairs are well linked by rail, but only if one does not have to remortgage the house to turn out at a train station at peak time without having previously bought a ticket.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I thought they'd already done that last year.teuchter has been so busy fighting cars today that he's apparently missed this piece of good news for the environment
France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights
MPs vote to stop flights where the journey could be made by train in under 2.5 hours.www.bbc.co.uk
I think it's a good thing, on the whole. But then I get the feeling (could be wrong though), that you would usually have a fair chance of scooping reasonably cheap rail fares in France. Domestic flights (other than flight transfers) should be completely avoidable in the UK also where the two city pairs are well linked by rail, but only if one does not have to remortgage the house to turn out at a train station at peak time without having previously bought a ticket.
Looks like this is a watered down version of the originally proposed 4 hour limit though.
Good to hear you're in favour of aggressive road pricing in the UK, to shift some funding towards public transport instead of subsidising private motorists - and bring rail fares down a bit.
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It’s all those great nuclear powered TGVs they have in France. 66% nuke as I type. French National Grid statusteuchter has been so busy fighting cars today that he's apparently missed this piece of good news for the environment
France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights
MPs vote to stop flights where the journey could be made by train in under 2.5 hours.www.bbc.co.uk
I think it's a good thing, on the whole. But then I get the feeling (could be wrong though), that you would usually have a fair chance of scooping reasonably cheap rail fares in France. Domestic flights (other than flight transfers) should be completely avoidable in the UK also where the two city pairs are well linked by rail, but only if one does not have to remortgage the house to turn out at a train station at peak time without having previously bought a ticket.
I quite like nukes and their propensity to bring excitement to the energy mix. I’m surprised teuchter is so keen though, obviously he must also support the French bombing Greenpeace anti nuclear testing ships as well, as that’s the only logically consistent position to take.
