RE: PIC OF THE DAY NO ROOM FOR ERROR HERE!!!
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 13-08-02 AT 09:36 PM (GMT)]Not much room… n’ah… there’s loads of centimetres left. 🙂 🙂
RE: best biz jet
Oh good… I’ll have a Citation X then!! 🙂 I didn’t know the other Citation models were a laughing stock though. And I thought they were quite quick!! The design philosophy seemed to be to make the aircraft light as a feather, and stick high powered (relatively) engines on the thing.
RE: Rude Security Scanning !!!!!
I’ve been through Orlando Airport, so have probably been through that system! I didn’t notice it though… I was too bust looking at a female soldier, carrying an M-16 assault rifle which was almost as big as her!!!!!!!!
My family were on the recieving end of quite a few of these security measures. When we got to check in, we got singled out to have our bags searched… because we weren’t frequent fliers. So everything got emptied out, and thrown back into the bags. Then we get through to the gate when we get singled out again… to have our carry on luggage searched… I’ve got some binoculars, which she found to be quite unusual… with me being an aviation enthuisiast… I didn’t think so!! Anyway, she grabs my bino’s and knock the lens caps all over the floor… I wasn’t best pleased about that… and got worse when I couldn’t find one of them… anyway, after 5 mins of looking all around my bag, and the floor, I found it and I think she felt I’d had enough, and let me board the flight. OK, I’m now at Chicago, going through the metal detectors… and I hear “Is this your bag sir”… So I’m like… WHAT NOW???? I get dragged to one side, and told to take off my shoes, she swabs the insides of my shoes, and puts the swab into a machine… I’m worried, but intruiged! I think she was comparing my bodily fibres or whatever of me with those on my bag. So I survive that, and get home safely without getting picked on again.
RE: Toilet waste disposel in mid-flight
That aircraft which dumped the excrement, I think was a long haul aircraft, which was just completing a long flight. There have been quite a few incidents of this kind of thing happening. The aircraft have facilities to store human waste, but they can only take so much. So if you have a long haul flight, these storage facilities can only take so much, so there has to be some form of overflow system which just dumps the waste overboard to prevent it from being sent into the cabin. As far as I know, these occurences are quite rare, and I feel it not necessary for airliners to ditch waste into the sea in flight because in most cases it can be carried for the duration of the flight to be treated by sewage works near airports.
RE: best biz jet
Would a Citation X fit into this category? I’d like one of these!! During testing, the pilot went Mach 0.02 higher than the highest Mach number it’s supposed to fly at, and after the flight, part of the tail needed to be re-riveted!!! OOPS!!!
RE: Seat Back TV’S
BMi have them on their A330’s.
RE: Aircraft Museums
I’ve been to the Yorkshire Air Museum on numerous occasions, I’ve been to Duxford once… courtesy of my University course :-)! Then there’s the Fantasy of Flight museum near Kissimee, Florida, and finally a military museum in the centre of Warsaw. I think that’s it!
RE: What was your first flight?
Not sure about my first and second flights… I was a bit young… I do remember going up the steps at the back of the aircraft and my dad going in the through side !!! My third flight, the one I remember was on an Air UK leisure 737 from Manchester, to Gatwick, to Rhodes. Someone fainted before we took off at Gatwick, so we had to go back to the terminal! I was on the plane for around 7.5 hours!!!! I could have gone transatlantic in that!!!!!!
RE: Pic Of the Day-Qantas Dream Themes!
Nalanji Dream is my favourite out of them!
RE: Rare Qantas pics
Hey, it serves it’s purpose!!!!!
RE: Your fav toy as a child?
LEGO rocks!!!!!!!! I was big on the LEGO town stuff, I’ve still got it stashed away somewhere! It was great… hours of fun!!
RE: Your fav toy as a child?
LEGO rocks!!!!!!!! I was big on the LEGO town stuff, I’ve still got it stashed away somewhere! It was great… hours of fun!!
RE: Little challenge for you!
Thanks! That didn’t take long! 🙂
RE: Little challenge for you!
what time will she arrive into LHR?
RE: Little challenge for you!
yeah sorry!!