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April 14, 2002 at 9:22 am in reply to: Airbus A340-600 #674384

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RE: Airbus A340-600

SAA is OK, but not sure about the cabin crew! They always seemed quite surly to me. Plus, the title of their inflight magazine is a bit of a tongue twister!

April 14, 2002 at 9:19 am in reply to: Flight Log Book? #674388

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RE: Flight Log Book?

I think the log should be restricted to those journeys made as a passenger. Otherwise it would be flooded!

April 13, 2002 at 10:27 pm in reply to: Flight Log Book? #674568

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RE: Flight Log Book?

Nice idea – how about starting from 01/01/02 to give it a more authentic annual appeal?

Haven’t got a clue how to go about it though!!

April 13, 2002 at 10:24 pm in reply to: Airbus A340-600 #674571

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RE: Airbus A340-600

I disagree, it is a beautiful looking aeroplane.

It might look a bit long, but that only induces gracefulness.

The 757-300 and some of the MD-80’s – now they look way too long!

April 12, 2002 at 11:45 pm in reply to: Engines #674799

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RE: Engines

Yeah, Middlesbrough is poor – but I moved out when I was 13 so I haven’t got a complex about it.

April 12, 2002 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Cairns set to become a gateway to Australia. #675000

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RE: Cairns set to become a gateway to Australia.

Agreed – prices to Australia are ridiculous, sometimes even being the same as a Club ticket LHR-JFK.

Not sure using Cairns will reduce prices per se, not unless it will be a part of Qantas strategy to compete with other carriers.

April 12, 2002 at 6:26 pm in reply to: Qantas SYD – LAX Excitement. Recommended!!!! #675001

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RE: Qantas SYD – LAX Excitement. Recommended!!!!

I have been on a BAE 146 a number of times (always at LHR, oddly enough) when it was refuelled. True about seatbelts being undone, but I don’t recall the door being opened on any occassion.

Also in the 80’s I recall refuelling on a 747-200 at Kai Tak – no doors, not even the seatbelts announcement. In fact, they even gave everyone a small box of raisins to make up for the delay.

The airline was Cathay Pacific.

So – how well regulated is this thing and who is ultimately responsible? The airline, the Captain, the refueller, the dispatcher?

April 12, 2002 at 6:19 pm in reply to: Engines #675009

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RE: Engines

Well speaking as a Northerner – fu*k off!

Only joking – I’m still bitter over they way the Evening Standard treated “the north” when Middlesbrough (ie. my team) bought Juninho from under Arsenals’s nose in 1995!

April 12, 2002 at 6:16 pm in reply to: B737 with transatlantic capabilities! #675014

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RE: B737 with transatlantic capabilities!

Well, transatlantic flights with B757-200 aircraft have operated for a while now. Continental do it, not sure who else?

As the previous post indicated, the 757-200 is only a bit larger than a 737 NG.

April 12, 2002 at 6:09 pm in reply to: ill #675018

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RE: ill

Not sure that it counts as being “ill” but generally I get off a plane feeling worse than when I got on.

Not so much on short flights, but long haul ones – certainly.

I only felt ill once; a 2 hour charter flight in a 5 seat Piper Aztec en-route to a game lodge in Zambia. When the sun has warmed the ground in the early afternoon, the thermals make it horrible! Felt fine about 30 mins after landing though.

April 12, 2002 at 6:05 pm in reply to: Engines #675030

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RE: Engines

Well, “Trent” is certainly the most imaginative of all the names!

April 12, 2002 at 6:03 pm in reply to: Engines #675034

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RE: Engines

I didn’t forget the CFM 56, just that I never really considered them “big” – more of a 737 or A320 engine (though admittedly they do propel A340’s)

April 12, 2002 at 12:48 pm in reply to: VS008 LAX – LHR #675290

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RE: VS008 LAX – LHR

Yeah, I was struggling to get comfy in economy class and about 2 mins later I had all the room I wanted, a glass of champagne (reasonable stuff too, Veuve Clicquout I think) in my hand and a bowl of strawberries on my huge arm rest. Then a stewardess comes over to me and asks what time I’d like my massage!!!

April 12, 2002 at 12:45 pm in reply to: Off Take #675295

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RE: Off Take

What is the name of the LHR perimeter road that goes to the M40? (or the M4??)

I was waiting at lights on that road about 3 yrs ago when this painful sound caused me to jump and stall the car. Felt like a bomb going off! I looked around and saw Concorde taking off not more than a few hundred feet to my left. Awesome!

Go-arounds…I was on a BA 737-400 at LGW in January (when we had all the bad wind). Nice views.

It might be just me, but whenever I go in a Dash 8, the pilots always seem to flog the engines with the brakes on, then release the brakes and shoot off down the runway with incredible acceleration. PLY is the best, followed in my experience by LCY.

April 12, 2002 at 12:30 pm in reply to: QUIZ!! #675307

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RE: QUIZ!!

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