It’s not that the people from DG are the only ones who got ethnically cleansed for Vaiar’s “greater good”. GD already mentioned Bikini, there’s the people of Mururoa, there’s the inuit tribes who lived in the area of Project Mercury on Greenland…

I think Sens has hit a nice one with his comment that the reason for the diversion was more a political one than an actual one. Looking at some of the replies here, there is quite a bit of appeal to terrorism-paranoia even if the ‘threat’ in question is nothing more than a bomb threat. A far cry from the hijackings which were to mark the beginning of the 9/11 attacks.

I do hope next time a hijacked/bomb-reported plane is inbound for Cyprus, they divert it to Israel though. Stupid act of paranoia, it’ll make dozens of people wait in vain for their loved ones and ruin quite a few business meetings.

Yeah, it’s always better to have someone else do that. I think.

Absolutely disgraceful. The strange thing is that Diego Garcia is appearantly on a permanent lease to the US (a bit like Gitmo is) for an unknown amount of money, but someone forgot to think of including at least an excessive amount of overcompensation for the original inhabitants.

That’s some pretty thought. The photographer’s dead, what he saw lives on.

On a 707 its huge.. lets see how it looks on those 1l-76’s.. I think Awacs should be on a large passenger plane…

Having been inside a number of NAEWF E-3A’s and the A50 prototype, i can honestly tell there is not much difference in operating space or room for workstations. In fact, the wider body of the A50 seemed to give a little more room (although the aircraft by then was actually stripped of it’s workstations).

Well whadda ya know… a whole new list of deleted and moderated messages to the credit of the usual suspects. Thread locked.

Boooooring… couldn’t they have given the somewhat less boring two-tone grey as on the F-50s and C-130H-30s? That would at least have looked different. This one just looks… yawn.