Amiga500The most sustained period of house price growth in the U.K in the last forty years was 1997-2007 .
Exactly! The idea of this being a good thing beggars belief.
Just think for a moment of all the negatives associated with an inflated property market. Then name one positive aside from easy money for those with the assets to stand over the mortgages 2 or more houses.
Amiga500Except for the fact that New Labour as an experiment was successful.
Successful by what yardstick?
Getting re-elected?
Or laying solid foundations for the future of the country?
On the former, they were successful, on the latter, a complete disaster.
Why oh why can their not be someone between the tories and labour?
A group that:
– won’t reshape the tax policies to dramatically benefit the ultra rich and multi-nationals (tories)
– aren’t financially inept (labour)
– don’t have ridiculous notions of 50% of population being fit for university education (labour)
– after reaching zero deficit, won’t then impose tax cuts but instead invest in infrastructure, research, health and education (tories).
etc
etc
Amiga500Except for the fact that New Labour as an experiment was successful.
Successful by what yardstick?
Getting re-elected?
Or laying solid foundations for the future of the country?
On the former, they were successful, on the latter, a complete disaster.
Why oh why can their not be someone between the tories and labour?
A group that:
– won’t reshape the tax policies to dramatically benefit the ultra rich and multi-nationals (tories)
– aren’t financially inept (labour)
– don’t have ridiculous notions of 50% of population being fit for university education (labour)
– after reaching zero deficit, won’t then impose tax cuts but instead invest in infrastructure, research, health and education (tories).
etc
etc
Amiga500That means this election has been a disaster for democracy and the UK.
The current form of representative democracy where unqualified people are placed in charge of principal ministerial posts is a disaster anyway.
For example; what qualifications or experience did Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling or George Osborne have in the field of economics?
2 historians and a solicitor? Aye, very good.
“The SNP is now the “principal opposition” to Conservatives in Westminster, Nicola Sturgeon has said as she confirmed her party will attempt to force another referendum in Scotland.”
I thought she’d been quoted as specifically saying she wouldn’t be pushing for a referendum (outside exceptional circumstances such as leaving eurozone) as they did not have it in their manifesto therefore did not have a mandate to do so…?
I believe (open to correction of course) that the SNP were going to use the local elections to put the referendum back on their manifesto, and if they got power in the scottish parliament, then they’d have a mandate for a second referendum.
Amiga500That means this election has been a disaster for democracy and the UK.
The current form of representative democracy where unqualified people are placed in charge of principal ministerial posts is a disaster anyway.
For example; what qualifications or experience did Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling or George Osborne have in the field of economics?
2 historians and a solicitor? Aye, very good.
“The SNP is now the “principal opposition” to Conservatives in Westminster, Nicola Sturgeon has said as she confirmed her party will attempt to force another referendum in Scotland.”
I thought she’d been quoted as specifically saying she wouldn’t be pushing for a referendum (outside exceptional circumstances such as leaving eurozone) as they did not have it in their manifesto therefore did not have a mandate to do so…?
I believe (open to correction of course) that the SNP were going to use the local elections to put the referendum back on their manifesto, and if they got power in the scottish parliament, then they’d have a mandate for a second referendum.
Amiga500Good news for CFM (and by extension, Boeing and Comac):
http://leehamnews.com/2015/05/07/cfm-leap-1b-enters-flight-testing/
“When we build development engines they are heavily instrumented and built to accomplish extreme test conditions and durability,” he explains. “They are intentionally deteriorated and have open clearances because they are built for the ‘corner point’ in the test effort. We do pre-test predictions and we are within 0.5% of every one, so we are right on track. We fully expect to be right on our commitment as we enter into service.”
Last week, we received a clarifying explanation that appears to track with the Aviation Week article and the excerpt above. We were told that the 4%-5% number came from a test stand test in which the tolerances of the engine were much looser than the optimal performance engine. The clearances, we were told, were not to specification–and the result was the 4%-5%.
Amiga500http://www.arabianbusiness.com/atm-live-blog-day-3-591744.html
The Doha boss says the carrier’s latest financial results will not be as good as estimated and he has but the blame on Airbus and the delays in delivery of its A380s. “[We’re] not going to get any more A380s unless there is an absolute rethink on this airplane. Airbus have to put hands in their pocket”. Al Baker says he wants new engines that will have a 10 to 15 percent better fuel burn.
Qatar Airways Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said Airbus Group NV should consider a larger variant of its new A350 wide-body and upgrade its A380 superjumbo with new engines to make the jets more appealing.
Airbus’s largest aircraft have struggled to sustain their order momentum, with the A380 in particular failing to win fresh deals in recent years. Al Baker said the double-decker would be a “killer” with a 10 percent to 15 percent lower fuel burn, an advantage Airbus might achieve with new engines, and that he wouldn’t buy more of the planes in its current form.
“This plane has a very big potential but Airbus have to put their hands in their pocket and take this aircraft a step higher,” Al Baker said, declining to give a number of potential follow-up orders should Airbus opt for a neo option.
Amiga500What operational fighter currently (mid-2010s) offers VLO strike capability with VLO-equipped EODAS, EOTS and 1676 module AESA radar with RF attack?
Leaving aside the powerpoint acronyms and definition of operational; anything equipped with Storm Shadow can offer a VLO strike capability.
Anything that purports to be modern and built within the last 15 years has RWR, MAWS and most have IRST and FLIR.
Electronic attack using the AESA radar is relatively new on the scene; I had read somewhere that the AdlA were intending to use the RBE2 for electronic attack. Can’t find it now though.
Amiga500You seem to have a good idea on your hands here though. Simply bring in more roughty toughty aircraft into Africa and watch the corruption vanish overnight.
Its quite obvious your reading abilities are limited… at best. My time is too valuable to be wasted educating you on the fundamental differences between what was stated in the post and what you interpreted it to state.
Tenuous at best. It is only ‘relevant to the thread’ in the sense that you started offering up fairly obvious pointers that don’t refer to either of the previous posts purely so that you can soapbox about some sh!t nobody cares about.
Post 1: “Look at this DC-8 that is being run by a charitable organisation in Africa”.
Post 2: “Looks like the engines have been replaced”.
Your post: “Well if I were running a charitable operation out of Africa then I wouldn’t have blah blah blah blah, maintenance costs, blah blah blah corruption”.
My first post (#3) mentioned corruption?
Very, very limited reading abilities.
And now you are arguing that this is all ‘relevant to the thread’. Amazing.
Entirely relevant. Does a DC-8 best fit their need? Possibly as an aircraft, but would it really be cheaper than having the stuff lugged in commercial freighters or in the bellies of passenger aircraft?
Unless you want discussion to centre solely around the aircraft they’ve bought? Would be pretty boring – although it might conform to the desires of the thought(less) police constable called meddle.
Hysterical at best. No confusion here, in your case it is just another armchair philosopher hijacking a thread about a fairly dull aircraft so that they can get their voice heard.
Yes. You’ve done a superb job of f**king up the thread so far.
Amiga500An excuse usually drummed out by those too lazy, poor or uncaring to donate to charity. Nothing to do with DC-8 aircraft, so I’m not sure how it helps the thread along. :sleeping:
If you weren’t up in the clouds on your high horse, you would realise that having (say) a C-27J would allow the aid organisation to distribute directly and bypass pretty much every stage bar one of the local bureaucracy. The less stages, the less funds (or effective funds) siphoned off via corruption.
Given the DC-8 doesn’t have rough field capability, it is entirely relevant to the thread.
However, if your still confused, just ignore it all and go back to acting very sage about what other people’s motives for holding particular viewpoints are, and perhaps plot your career path to chief constable of the thought police. :very_drunk:
Amiga500Do you know it’s for that kind of disaster relief?
No idea.
However, I believe (and am open to correction) that typically charities working in Africa that distribute through the local government end up being out a relative fortune through corruption within said government and its civil servants.
Amiga500Indeed. Being 90 knots faster (flat out) than an airliner in level flight does not mean it can climb to intercept an airliner before it leaves Swiss airspace.
It just struck me…
If the airliner enters swiss airspace at FL41 and flies on out, does the swiss airforce care about said airliner?
[The French/Italians/Germans/Austrians can deal with it if they want to.]
Even the m346 might do at a pinch [somewhat countering my earlier statement I suppose].
Amiga500Well I guess if all they’re looking for is a fast jet for intercepting non-responsive airliners, then a T-50 or M346 would be even cheaper than a Gripen.
Yep, well I did say earlier that the M346 is probably a little too marginal on speed. Although, I suppose cannon rounds would be sufficient for downing a civilian aircraft if it ever came to it, you wouldn’t need AAMs (and the drag they induce).
Infinity – 1 is still infinity.
Ugh. And you claimed to be an engineer elsewhere.
Amiga500Probably because he didn’t actually make any relevant points. An invasion from a neighbour given the current political climate in Europe is unlikely to the point where its suggestion is a joke. And his other point suggested Switzerland wouldn’t be able to afford to maintain the aircraft, which is another dead-end, since Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world per capita, with a very low debt ratio and currently running a surplus.
Ugh.
Again. His point is SWITZERLAND DO NOT NEED A FAST JET WITH BELLS AND WHISTLES.
Its not about ability to afford. Its about need to pay for.
As for the invasion crap, its crystal clear what he is saying is:
The probability of Switzerland being invaded by a neighbour is = 1/∞
The probability of Switzerland being invaded by a country that isn’t a neighbour is = 1/(∞-1)
Amiga500More here:
They raise a point I hadn’t considered.
If MAX+LEAP really is 5% off the pace of the A320NEO+GTF, and P&W get a 3% PIP prior to 2019, that will force Boeing’s hand with regards their muted middle-of-market concept.
i.e. If its a twin-aisle, they’d have to pretty much scrap it and focus on NSA instead, with NSA also covering longer ranged missions.
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