no, no, just laughing at the Gooners… And Real Beckham CF (apparently there’s a rumour that they have more than just the one player, though, although you’d never guess it listening to the english press…).

I do fancy Chelsea’s chances for the semi, though, and if Ranieri delivers the Champions League, I won’t have to worry about Abramovich (and just to give this thread a semblance of being aviation related, his Boeing 767-300ER, the ex N349HA of Hawaiian Air is currently having a VIP interior put in at Jet Aviation here in Basel (who, as regular readers will know were my former employers)) trying to Poach St. Martin of Derry (that’s Martin O’Neill to you). 😉

Did I hear somewhere it was just the Cargo aircraft affected by the ban?

I’m tempted to say Barcelona the other week, but that wasn’t so much aviation related as just me floating on air…

erm, first and only cockpit visit, BA5403 (Zurich-Birmingham), 24/12/1990, BAC1-11-501EX, G-AXJK.

Either that, or my first Transatlantic flight… BA2199 (Gatwick-Pittsburgh, PA), 09/07/1997, Boeing 767-336ER, Club World. Didn’t get the reg 🙁

Originally posted by skylinerworld

i was planning a trip to MAN maybe in early summer with “Speedbird 12 tango” (another forum member) to see Concorde, did you mention ticket prices on another thread?

Yes,they’re £10 each for a trip on it.

Er, surely you mean to have a look around inside… :rolleyes:

I wish I could have got a trip on Concorde for a tenner…

because then you really are asking for trouble… if you let anyone post messages, then lots of windups could be posted anonymously, and those of us wishing to avoid them couldn’t add them to our ignore list.

the only thing with the 1/500 Saabs is they’re fcuking tiny. Even the Saab 2000, at an actual length of 27m3cm is less than 5 and a half cm long in the 1/500 scale. the 340 is only about 2/3 of it’s length ie the model is little more than an inch big 😮

Ren, as Frank says, the A300 was named such as the original concept was for an aircraft that could carry 300 passengers (although it was shortend before it came into production). The A310 was a derivative of the 300 (did it have 10 less frames or something?)
The A320 was a completely different design, and as the 330/340 had already been conceived (jointly) by the time Airbus decided to offer an extended 320, this became the 321. When, shortly after a shortened version was offered, this logically became the 319.
The 340 did in fact take to service before the 330, but this was because the 340 had received more orders, so Airbus prioritised it during flight testing. Essentially, they’re structuturally identical except for the engines and their paraphenalia.

Finally, when yet another shortedned 320 series was planned, it was logical to make it the 318.

The 380 is the only one that dosen’t follow any real logical reason…

you use BBCode, gd. you insert (without the spaces) [im g]url of picture you want to use [/ img] (kinda like html, except you use square brackets instead of ‘<‘. It has to be done this way as the forum software (provided by BB) won’t allow html entries)

nb the picture in question has to be on the web somewhere.