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mx wcfc
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It's not a drone though, is it, if there's someone in it? Do they pilot it? Or just sit in it and hope to fck whoever is steering gets it right?
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
And there's always the jetwing.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
No, drone is a misnomer... I think
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Dangerous and idiotic but so fucking cool to watch lol
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
That used to be my favourite game. I was quite good at it.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
That used to be my favourite game. I was quite good at it.
It was brilliant, soundtrack and gameplay were amazing.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I think the ‘ground effect’ thing with flight is well known, but doubt there has been much research into ‘roof effect’.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I don't think it's that simple. The pilot of Chalk 1 on Neptune's Spear would have been very familiar with Vortex Ring State and how to get into it by flying close to walls. Nobody could say exactly when and how the MH-X would enter VRS over OBL's dacha and in what environmental conditions. What else could they do? They couldn't bin the whole operation because it might be a bit of an aviation challenge; they just had to take a chance and largely got away with it.
Lancman
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A train passing through a single-track tunnel must push a large mass of air ahead of itself and out of the exit portal. An aeroplane on the other hand works by drawing air in from ahead and squirting it out behind and out of the entry portal. It’d be an interesting aerodynamic question if the aeroplane could create a partial vacuum ahead of itself. I. K. Brunel was ahead of his time with his atmospheric railway running through Dawlish of course.
A380
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Crewed quadrocopter.
A380
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But what if there was a treadmill in the tunnel…
A380
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I love American operational names. Do the teams get to make them up themselves or is there a department at the Pentagon filled with Maddison Avenue types who do it I wonder?
More interesting, and probably not much less secure than our random ones.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Looking like BA will be pulling out of Gatwick for short haul flights, due to an inability to a deal with pilots
www.headforpoints.com
CONFIRMED: BA closes Gatwick short-haul, all flights removed from sale
The British Airways plans to relaunch its short-haul operation at London Gatwick on a low cost model have collapsed, and it will now withdraw from the airport.
www.headforpoints.com
T & P
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Funnily enough, in the last day or so reports have emerged claiming the eyebrow-raising letter of intent from BA parent company IAG in 2019 to buy 200 737-Max is dead in the water, and they’re to launch a new tender for narrowbodies inviting both Boeing and Airbus to bid. I wonder if this move is a cause (or consequence) of it.Looking like BA will be pulling out of Gatwick for short haul flights, due to an inability to a deal with pilots
CONFIRMED: BA closes Gatwick short-haul, all flights removed from sale
The British Airways plans to relaunch its short-haul operation at London Gatwick on a low cost model have collapsed, and it will now withdraw from the airport.
The Max preorder was always an odd one anyway. Even if Covid hadn’t happened, 200 frames was a rather large prospective order. Airbus weren’t even invited to bid at all. And the A320 is not only as capable, it is already integrated into both BA and Iberia’s fleets. And to cap it all, the 737 is bulk loaded rather than taking containers, which makes it a pretty inefficient choice for Heathrow operations.
What it did though was to give the 737 Max a massive PR shot in the arm when it needed it most, during the height of its recent safety problem. I wonder if that was the purpose all alone. But whoever might land the eventual new plane order, I doubt it’ll be anywhere near 200 frames.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Yeah, A350’s.
I have flown BA 777 to and from Madrid before, Club Europe gets a flat bed seat, for a >2 hour flight
teuchter
je suis teuchter
So does everyone now wait and see if those services will be replaced by another operator who can hire pilots willing to settle for worse terms than the BA ones would?Looking like BA will be pulling out of Gatwick for short haul flights, due to an inability to a deal with pilots
CONFIRMED: BA closes Gatwick short-haul, all flights removed from sale
The British Airways plans to relaunch its short-haul operation at London Gatwick on a low cost model have collapsed, and it will now withdraw from the airport.
T & P
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I got a premium economy seat aboard a 777 to Madrid on an economy ticket, which was a nice surprise.Yeah, A350’s.
I have flown BA 777 to and from Madrid before, Club Europe gets a flat bed seat, for a >2 hour flight
On the flip side, my OH has today flown to Jordan and decided to upgrade to Club Europe as they were offering £99 upgrades, which is insane considering the usual difference in price for that route. As a five-hour flight, a big reclining seat would have been nice, but BA uses short haul configured A321s so no such luck.
Worse still, if I understood her brief text correctly, there were no entertainment screens on the seats, and one is supposed to watch the onboard entertainment via your own device. Is that really possible, or have I misunderstood her message?
ETA Royal Jordanian use 787s so business class seats would have been much better, but their service is generally shit and I doubt they’re offering £99 upgrades.
A380
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Yeah, A350’s.
I have flown BA 777 to and from Madrid before, Club Europe gets a flat bed seat, for a >2 hour flight
I’d spend 90 minutes of that flight just playing with the bed to the annoyance of my neighbors a d the flight attendants…
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
BA sadly got rid of the mid haul A321s, they used to go to Jordan and sometimes Cyprus (which is when I got to fly them).
I’ve flown Club Europe quite a lot - it was quite nice in the old 767s and I had a lot of Avios to burn - but it’s just not worth it in a crappy Airbus A320/1
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Not in itself but she she was bringing lots of stuff to her mum and was overweight, so combined with the second checked bag allowance, plus free drinks and food at the airport lounge plus better service on board, the extra £99 seem decent value for money. I would never do if it cost the usual £400+ per leg though.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Jordan has always been odd that it not a Club World route when BA offers Club World and First to Tel Aviv. Cairo has been demoted to a Club Europe type route now too. That is BA trying to attract Israelis flying to the US.
The old 767’s were nice, but needed the middle seats as the window ones had no space between them. Sadly my last flight was FCO-LHR in 1D, was spoiled by a bunch of braying bankers who tried to take over all the overhead bins and spent the whole flight loudly tried to outdo each other on New York shit they’d got up to. Walloped one very hard on the head with my bag when we got to Heathrow.
The old 767’s were nice, but needed the middle seats as the window ones had no space between them. Sadly my last flight was FCO-LHR in 1D, was spoiled by a bunch of braying bankers who tried to take over all the overhead bins and spent the whole flight loudly tried to outdo each other on New York shit they’d got up to. Walloped one very hard on the head with my bag when we got to Heathrow.
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Well, the missus reported a pretty unsatisfactory business class experience overall. Little veggie availability at the lounge at T5, and apparently the only way to watch the IFE on the plane was by downloading it to one’s own device. But her phone was out of juice and no charging spot by her seat, so she had fuck all to watch all flight.
On the plus side, the FA kept bringing her booze throughout the flight, and despite BA failing to notice she’s been long registered as a veggie, and telling her at check in they’d try their best but it was unlikely they could provide a veggie meal without notice, they did just that.
I’ll be joining her next week. I bought my economy return ticket a couple of weeks ago, but in view of this £99 each way upgrade offer I thought I might as well. Never in a million years I thought I would ever be able to book a return business class flight to AMM with BA for a total of £675. Usually in the region of £1,600 at the least
On the plus side, the FA kept bringing her booze throughout the flight, and despite BA failing to notice she’s been long registered as a veggie, and telling her at check in they’d try their best but it was unlikely they could provide a veggie meal without notice, they did just that.
I’ll be joining her next week. I bought my economy return ticket a couple of weeks ago, but in view of this £99 each way upgrade offer I thought I might as well. Never in a million years I thought I would ever be able to book a return business class flight to AMM with BA for a total of £675. Usually in the region of £1,600 at the least
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