Those who think it’s a game will play it like a game. Those who don’t will simply donate money, supplies and rescue personel.

The Genie Nuclear AAM!!! HA HA HA HA

The China Daily is reporting that Sri Lanka’s international airport has received so many supply planes that its fuel supply has run out!

It’s both a good and bad sign. Good because there is such a flood of needed supplies coming in, bad because it could mean a potential operational gridlock if more and more planes are left in the airport without means to refuel for return trips.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/04/content_2412523.htm

Sri Lanka airport runs out of fuel
http://www.chinaview.cn 2005-01-04 08:37:22

By Renee Lawrence (China Daily)

BEIJING, Jan. 4 — Sri Lanka’s only international airport ran out of fuel on Monday as the South Asian island receives more aircraft carrying supplies of medicine, food and equipment to aid victims of the nation’s worst natural disaster caused by giant waves linked to an earthquake near Indonesia.

“We ran out of fuel yesterday afternoon for a couple of hours because of the unexpected increase in the number of planes coming in,” Ariyaratne Hewage, the top civil servant at the Ministry of Ports and Aviation, said in Colombo yesterday. “We are not equipped to deal with traffic of this magnitude, it’s all been unexpected.”

SriLankan Airlines, the island’s biggest carrier, has been flying stranded overseas visitors back to their homes and bringing emergency aid workers and suppliers to Colombo, the island’s capital.

Almost 30,000 Sri Lankans perished in the tsunamis that struck the island on December 26.

The international airport near Colombo, which gets about 18 flights on a normal day, now receives at least 20 daily, excluding commercial flights that are carrying relief supplies to the areas along the island’s coastal region that were struck by the tsunami.

“We also have a team from Dubai here to help distribute the relief supplies along with SriLankan Airlines and our army forces,” said Hewage. “We will make sure we have enough fuel to deal with the higher traffic,” he said.

Ceypetco, the State-owned oil company, is boosting supplies to the airport to 1,000 metric tons daily, up from the usual 600 tons.

“We will see this week if we need to import more oil, we have placed our orders for oil shipments and we can advance those if we have to,” said Sarath Kottahchchi, commercial manager at Ceypetco in Colombo. “We don’t foresee any shortages.”

SriLankan Airlines provided flights to transport aid workers and suppliers to remote parts of the island, the airline said in a statement. The airline is also working on clearing a backlog of cargoes destined for Sri Lanka from airports in Bangkok, Singapore, Dubai and London.

(Source: China Daily)

Originally Posted by Severodvinsk
Hehe, yeah you ought to come over to have a waffle together! (I come too much in your country lately). Met a girl in Goes now…

First you insulting our country and now you’re are stealing our women ….. my god, man, have you no shame!

Wanshan, do you understand what he means when he says he “comes too much in your country?”

Nice, Huitong!

Didn’t we all found it strange that the Luhai was an one-off?

These could be old partially-finished or unfitted out hulls that the PLAN is finally finishing off now.

K-8E (assembled in Egypt) with loadout display from a picture at an exhibition.

The first planeload of Chinese aid went to Sri Lanka. A 747 with 100 tons of supplies. Another jumbo is going to Indonesia. The first of many.

I personally urge people to people to visit

http://www.redcross.org/

and make a donation. I donated $200. But you could donate as little as $5, any amount would help. It is easy, safe and secure and from a legitimate organization and website.

During donation you can choose what program of the Red Cross you want to donate to; I chose the “International Response Fund” which would go to tsunami disaster.