Any idea which ship was it ? Nooo I don’t have any hard feeling I just want to know who knock me out of the chair and into a Fox Hole –

Regards Enrique

Don’t give him your name, Pike….

Sorry, Enrique. Just British humour at work.

I seem to recall that a Fairchild A10, possibly a prototype, crashed at the Paris airshow circa 1978 after failing to complete a loop!

1977 it was

In the Scottish news at the moment is Health and Safety concern over low level radiation on the shore of the Firth of Forth. It is said to be the result of WWII aircraft breaking (luminous dials etc) at RAF Donibristle.

err RNAS Donibristle surely…

It’s sad sad situation. I find it quite amusing that you can bet on Airlines that are going to go bust. Amusing because who would really want to bet on an airline going bust, and who came up with the idea.

Sad to hear to all those thousands of Employees that lost their jobs. All those New 737-900’S aswell, where are they all going to go (KL to the rescue). It would seem that this is the beginning, it is now a game of ‘whose next’.

EDIT: I heard UA are nearly ready to go into Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.

See, this is a perfect example of what can happen caused by something along the lines of a ‘bit of fun’. A newspaper in Florida ran a piece on UA and Chapter 11 protection which caused the share price to plummet knocking billions of dollars off the company value.

The only thing is that the piece of news was actually very old news and it had been printed in error.

The company may end up going into Chapter 11 but through no fault of its own but due to the power of mass media and ill-informed speculation.

I thought the MoD did sell off historic assets with alarming regularity

http://www.iata.org/stbsupportportal/cuss/

Yes, once upon a time they did. They were an IATA member too in the days when you had to be a scheduled airline to get past the bouncers on the door. Late 80s/early 90s.