Titanic tourist sub missing

[BigMoaner]

Which Dave is doing the piloting that day? Irish Dave, English Dave, Scottish Dave, Welsh Dave or Cornish Dave?

Dave Dave

 

[andysays]

In journalism terms, it's known as 'dog bites man,' versus 'man bites dog' kind of thing. The former's meh, whatevs, the second is a story.

You say that, but this is the most watched video on the BBC News website right now

Dingo bites tourist sunbathing in Australia​

 

[brogdale]

...y Jones's locker?

 

[Idris2002]

Dave Dave

Which one? Big Dave Dave, or Wee Dave Dave?

 

[WouldBe]

Yeah, but being the Prime Minister comes with a few perks. If I was him I'd have played with all the toys I could get my hands on.

"What's this black and yellow stripey thing do?".

 

[Idris2002]

You say that, but this is the most watched video on the BBC News website right now

Dingo bites tourist sunbathing in Australia​

Well we all know how the average Dingo is a publicity hound.

 

[two sheds]

Dave's not here

 

[BristolEcho]

Yeah, but being the Prime Minister comes with a few perks. If I was him I'd have played with all the toys I could get my hands on.

You might* have done the job with a sense of decorum and responsibility which means people can overlook some of the perks. If you take the piss, and also take all the perks it doesn't look great really.

*Might being a very important word.

 

[A380]

 

[BigMoaner]

Which one? Big Dave Dave, or Wee Dave Dave?

Dave Dave

 

[Idris2002]

Dave Dave

Not Dave Dave Dave Dave?

 

[gosub]

Dead Dave.

 

[Smangus]

Big Dave's Gusset

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Done my bit…




Glanced out of the window, couldn’t see ‘em, tried my best.

 

[Cid]

Done my bit…

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Glanced out of the window, couldn’t see ‘em, tried my best.

Thank you for your service. Thoughts and prayers.

 

[Yossarian]

In other news, the entire state of California has been flattened by a giant plane

 

[Idris2002]

In other news, the entire state of California has been flattened by a giant plane

Are the billionaires OK?

 

[Numbers]

I found Dave. He's watching the Lightning Seeds at Glasto

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I found the waiting grim and a lot of the discussion distasteful.

We give the full 5 star service.

 

[WouldBe]

Done my bit…

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Glanced out of the window, couldn’t see ‘em, tried my best.

Wrong side of the continent.

 

[The39thStep]

This FT article covers some familiar ground but it's a concise summary. Unfortunately, it doesn't answer the rhetorical question at the end , however, the answer I would guess is very few , most deaths have occurred with the mass expansion of commercial flight.

https://archive.ph/dL8pv#selection-1597.10-1597.23

 

[BigMoaner]

Not Dave Dave Dave Dave?

yes, hhhaaaactually. yes its that one

 

[sim667]

It was at 3300m when they lost communication. So that's an even more ridiculous amount of compressing.

Ah I didn’t know that, I was just on a guess as I know it’s an 8 hour trip for just descent and ascent.

 

[Tanya1982]

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Great line, but JJ Astor, Ben Guggenheim, and the Strauss couple, among many others, weren't poor.

And people do visit graveyards all the time without censure. I think it’s foolish to do so in this case, but not because it’s a graveyard.

 

[planetgeli]

This FT article covers some familiar ground but it's a concise summary. Unfortunately, it doesn't answer the rhetorical question at the end , however, the answer I would guess is very few , most deaths have occurred with the mass expansion of commercial flight.

https://archive.ph/dL8pv#selection-1597.10-1597.23

It's a stupid question implying that it was ok for Rush to use similar health and safety regulations to over a century ago.

 

[Storm Fox]

It's a stupid question implying that it was ok for Rush to use similar health and safety regulations to over a century ago.

The Wright Brothers were generally only endangering themselves, not taking fare-paying passengers.
Plus, we know much more about how materials react or know we do not fully understand it as with carbon fibre requiring more caution.
We also have computer simulations that would aid understanding.

 

[Artaxerxes]

The Wright Brothers were generally only endangering themselves, not taking fare-paying passengers.
Plus, we know much more about how materials react or know we do not fully understand it as with carbon fibre requiring more caution.
We also have computer simulations that would aid understanding.

We also know what it takes to make a sub that will survive underwater

Rush wasn’t pushing boundaries he was cutting corners

 

[pogofish]

This, I think, is where hubris comes into it on the part of the passengers.

If wanted to fly onto the beach at benbecula and the options were either at a price I couldn't afford - or didn't exist - or Dave's Airline, run out of a shed at Shobdon Airfield, who can do it for £20, I probably ought to ask myself why every else does it for £300k, or doesn't do it, and how/why Dave can do it for £20.

Or more pertinently, look at the case of Emilano Sala - Old plane with poor maintenance record/obfuscated ownership and an unlicensed pilot who had never been rated for night flying....!

2019 English Channel Piper PA-46 crash - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[hash tag]

 

[pogofish]

Some things you just can't do. Until recently the only way for civilians to fly in current jet fighters was to chuck the Russian military 20 grand, and I guess if a billionaire offered the British Army a quarter mill for a go in an Apache, he'd be told to fuck off.

There is/was a US firm with a number of Starfighters that very rich people could pay to fly - they also negotiated access to US military ranges in order to be able to let them fly supersonic. Indeed, their presence as "enemies" at the various international airforce meets, often brought comments that the fastest/most capable fighters taking part were the private ones! eta - Seems they have refocused their business to government-contract R&D/Space/sattelite-related work recently. Maybe the millionaires plaything market isn't paying so well for them these days?

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Also a firm in South Africa that took over the SA airforce/ex-RAF Buccaneers and operate them privately.

Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd also operated his personal aircraft collection on a commercial basis for some years, which included a couple of reasonably up to date jets - although after he sold it a while back, its new owners moved its focus to supplying aircraft to film/TV work.