Incidentally wasn’t Fluff originally from Australia?

Yes he was. Coincidentally I was thinking of starting a Radio Luxembourg thread (208) to see how many members would admit to remembering their introduction to rock and roll music, pre pirate radio days! 😀

Details of the crash last week. 🙁

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20061118-0

D;ck Stratton is still going strong and his memories of his time as development engineer at Saro are amazing.
If you ever get the chance to hear him speak, its well worth doing it. And that’s before he recounts tales of being development engineer on the SR.53 rocket interceptor project, then devising one of the world’s first gas turbine helicopters.
An amazing man! …….A story for KE and Flypast perhaps?

Never mind a story, where’s the book? 😀

Other than Argentine examples, does anyone have any pics of other foriegn users?

You’ll be lucky! Photos of other foreign users are like hens teeth. The Paris was operated by Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and possibly Morocco.

The seats themselves are ‘standard’ airline spec seats…merely mounted facing the rear.

The reason that this configuration is that there is a perception that passengers will be more prone to motion sickness if they fly backwards..

The same people would however travel on the train facing backwards but flying seems to be different…

Certainly has never bothered me.. even a 10 hour nonstop flight effectively ‘backwards was no problem…

The safety aspect is easy to understand.. on rapid decceleration you are forced into a seat not restrained by your seatbelt….far less damage to your internal organs potentially..

NASA did do some testing that confirmed it was safer…

Hi Michelf, Totally agree, 100% with your observations and with the train analogy, don’t forget that the plane is going faster! 😀

It worries me that the American people are so willing to accept their liberty being trodden on.

They are too busy working two or three jobs to see what is going on behind their backs.

As the country with the most surveillance cameras in the world, (UK), don’t forget to smile as you leave!