In the UK over 75% of fuel cost is tax (dont have exact figure to hand) and since no government has sorted public transport out we are forced to use cars,unless you live in a city or live near fast rail links of course.
Labour have always wasted squillions of taxpayers money and taxed us to the hilt to pay for it…. those who voted for Tory Bliar and Grabbing Gordon need not be surprised!!!

Just to be annoyingly accurate, it’s a Duty not a Tax. A Tax is a % of the original product, a Duty is a slug which is added no matter what the core cost is. Either way, it is money from our backsack into the coffers of the most corrupt Government on Earth. Maybe Nigeria is lower.
Only a coup can sort it. Voting makes no difference.
I’m very luck that I walk to work, and 99% of my long distance drives are in a hire car from work.

Niiiiiice!

Is that a Biggles style scarf flapping in the breeze there?

There are devices which are variously called “elevator” or “lift” – boxes used to move people and things vertically.

In the context of planes, both terms are hard to identify unambiguously, “Elevator” is also a control surface in tail to change the pitch of the plane. “Lift” is the force that lifts the plane into air, and the act of so moving.

Some planes contain lifts. Tristars and DC-10s contain underbelly galleys and lifts to deliver food and stewardesses; but those galleys and lifts are for crew only. People occupy 747 upper deck, but both crew and passengers get there by a narrow staircase. Some 747s, not all, have a lift to deliver food to upper deck, but not people.

A380, however, has 2 lifts meant for people. One in the tail next to rear staircase and another in front, some way behind grand staircase.

SQ A380 has been in service for over 3 months, and there have been other interiors on Airbus test/publicity frames.

Something I miss is lack of comments and images of A380 lifts. Has anyone seen them?

….and if you’re in the Wing Design office and ask for the Lift team, you will be directed to the engineers responsible for the OML of the wing and the moveables that assist the climb!

And, do you really miss information on “Vertical people propelled transportation systems”?

(Sorry, went American for a minute then)

While the currently operating B-52H are all from 59 to 61. Still the B-52 was plagued by structural fatigue issues (can’t say if all models to the same extent). The questions remains on how the Soviets deployed their Tu-95 and how many hours actually were flown. There are examples of aircraft that virtually were decommissioned over night, for example the Vickers Valiant.

The “Age” of a platform is always taken as from first flight to retirement of the last build or last upgraded. I read somewhere that the last upgraded B-52 could very well retire in 2050, making “it” (The platform) a 100 year old! Is that a plausible situation?

And the joke was originally, “I retire with the same hammer I was given as an apprentice, I’ve had it for 40 years. Only 3 heads and 20 shafts have ever been fitted”

It also has something embedded in the windscreen…..

I took this at MAKS last August…..

Heating element ?? Plasma Stealth generator ??:eek:

Ken

Obviously not MDC :-). Must be something to do with the flight test plan as it is clearly an obstruction and probably won’t turn up on the in-service models.

It probably will resemble the A400 (which kinda resembles the C-130) but it will be an all new A/C……have better performance than the A400….. be cheaper than the A400….and then this whole stupid argument can continue…….until the end of time!

A new squadron of plus the Airfield, Support and Spares will be cheaper than A400. 🙂
Maybe not the selling price, which has been committed by Airbus Mil. but they will lose their shirt on it, unless they can sell to Saudi or similar for the usual inflated mark-up.
At the end of the day, it’s giving Britain and Europe Defence/Aerospace jobs which we need to retain and grow.
I know a cheaper alternative was available, but politically the partner nations “Had” to go for a design/build option.

The 2nd “General” shot of the icicles is stunning…would grace any wall.