RE: Rubish

We have a team and they are the world’s biggest under-achievers IMO. I would be HAPPY just to see them Qualify!

Regards, Glenn.

RE: Brazilian team arriving in Brasilia – pics

When they say football is a religion over there they are not wrong, these guys have been treated like arriving gods! Love the escort shot!

Regards, Glenn.

RE: congrats Rabie…..

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 03-07-02 AT 00:38 AM (GMT)]Rabie, well done!!! And..

Dutchy,

Congrats on reaching 500 posts mate. Didn’t notice that. 🙂

Regards, Glenn.

RE: Landing on water

Dutchy, go ahead. Don’t mind my sarcasism. 🙂

RE: Landing on water

>Its funny this topics arisen, I was jsut looking through
>some safety cards earlier today and wondered if the
>illustrations on them could actually be a good
>representation of what would happen if such an aircraft
>landed on water.

Indeed funny! I have just flown with AIR NEW ZEALAND and we took 767-200/-300s to and from NZ, and the safety cards always get me. The chances of landing, or should I say ditching a large commercial plane fully loaded in ONE piece is minimal I think. Obviously depicting the best possible outcome of what could be the worst case scenario. We don’t want people to believe they will die if the plane has to ditch, do we?

Regards, Glenn.

RE: Aircraft collide over Germany

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 02-07-02 AT 09:02 AM (GMT)]>I’ve been saying for so long that this was going to happen
>sooner or later. Its very sad.

Ben,

It shouldn’t though. The Swiss ATC told the Tu-154 twice to alter altitude but didn’t respond, and what happened to the collision warning system that the 757 should have had? There seem to be doubts about whether or not the TUPOLEV had this system fitted. Something sounds fishy…

Regards, Glenn.

RE: Airtime Publishing

>Can anyone help me locate the Airtime Publishing website?
>I’m trying to order the F-4 Phantom: Spirit in the Skies
>book (which is supposed to be really good) and I can’t find
>their website. I have their phone number and everything, I
>just wanted to see what info their website has.

PhantomII,

Hi.

http://www.airtimepublishing.com

But don’t bother, they are still building it, and all you will get there is COMING SOON! They have been building the site now for well over a year, if not more. Talk about slow. Last I heard from them was that they still had a few copies of the original Spirit of the Skies left but that was months ago.

>The book was originally copyrighted back in 1992, but I
>called recently to order it and she said the new version
>would be out sometime this month (July). A good updated book
>on the Phantom would be a nice thing for me to have.

A new version? Well that might be worth waiting for then.

>I’m also considering ordering this CD-ROM reference thingy
>about the F-4, but I’m not sure if it’s any good or not. It
>isn’t produced by Airtime, but by someone else (who has also
>done an F-16 CD-ROM).

CD-ROM references depend on content and the Authors, price usually reflects what you get. I have some from American MPC Research and they are not bad but only have basic data, although the MPEG video footage is handy, as well as the galleries.

>Is Airtime the company that does World Air Power Journal?

Now they are yes. Aerospace Publishing no longer print them, and as far as I know AIRtime still have quite a few back copies of WAPJ and WOF (Wings of Fame). Interestingly, They have just introduced the quarterly payment option for INTERNATIONAL AIR POWER REVIEW JOURNAL, which means you get charged as they send them to you. Aerospace Publishing did the same about a year or so before the collapse of the WAPJ and WOF series. Omenous signs perhaps? I hope not.

Regards, Glenn.