Danish news are reporting a survivor, appearently the news are from Reuters, but I have not yet been able to verify it anywhere other than Danish news sites.

Politiken is a fairly decent newspaper.

http://politiken.dk/udland/article743189.ece

I suppose the system could be given its own high power battery, and in the event of all power being lost, it burst transmits its data and the GPS co-ordinates?

Not a bad idea.

Not for the first time I’m wondering why airliners, with inflight reporting systems don’t burst transmit CVR and FDR data along with their normal reporting. In an airbus this information is already digitized and could be transmitted without any problem.

As might be understood, such a system would help accident investigation, when none of the data recording devices can be recovered, or has been completely destroyed.

Maybe someone here can give me an answer.

This sounds really picky, but can’t all the youtube links etc all be posted on the existing youtube threads?
To anti youtubers like me its bloomin annoying to keep finding more and more threads to them.
Surely if anyone wants to watch anything in particular they can go to youtube and type in what they want to see anyway, isn’t that the idea of it?
OK whinge over.

I agree about a youtube thread, but the idea about just going to youtube and finding things, is slightly out of tune with the mind-boggingly large number of videos they host. You simply won’t find most of those clips people share in this forum.

The idea of youtube is sharing, which means you post something and then tell your friends about it (what it is and where it is).

The production of “Lord of the rings” was not air-tight. Plenty of things leaked early on.

Don’t forget that its a Peter Jackson project and he is a major player now. There are journalists in the movie business and they make a living sniffing out these things. Just like in any other profession.

If the production was anywhere after pre-production and script writing, there would have been something in the media, at least in the media covering movie productions.

I don’t know where all the Jackson = secrecy is comming from. Lord of the rings had a fan website, where people could follow the development from day one. “The one ring” it was called and they had information and news even before filming began. Besides there is already plenty of talk about “The Hobbit” and that’s not out untill 2011.

It seems Jackson is pretty booked untill 2012, so dont hold your breath, even if Fry is working on the script.

Not sure what Christian Rivers (the proposed director) is up to, but searching google reveals nothing new.

Is it just me, or have a large number of aviation documentaries (any other type documentary too) been dumbed down considerably?

I can hardly watch them anymore. correction – i can’t watch them anymore.

I get the feeling that most of these programs are made simply to sell TV advertisement aimed at people, who are too dumb to move away from the telly. And its not just about making aviation programs that appeal to a broader base of technical geeks. I can’t remember when I last saw an aviation documentary, that I would recommend to anyone.

Don’t get me started on discovery….. 😮

Its not unsporting to answer two, three, or even four in a row. Thats what sport is 😀

Besides, there is always someone waiting to post a wotter if the winner is unable to do so.

I can’t see it will be more problematic than any other form of mobile class room (a temporary form of class room).

I assume the £20K includes transportation and kitting out for educational use.

Personally I think its a great idea. At least is show some level of imagination from the school administration, which should go down well with a bunch of imaginative kids. I would have loved this, when I went to school (but I had access to real RDAF C-47 flights, so from an aerospace angle, it might not have been top of my list).

True, it might not last as long as brickwork, but it doesn’t need to – its experimental. This sort of thing will always be temporary, even if a success. Once the school no longer needs it, its possible that some aviation group could take on the airframe as an exhibit.

Maybe they run into unforseen problems along the way (who doesn’t?), but I gotta give them a ten for trying.