A Very Happy Christmas to everyone on the forum.(Mods included):D:D:D

Wouldn’t it be nice if the worlds politicians would leave us all alone?

How about a retro livery?! 😉

Rgds Cking

I’d me more than happy to see that:D But I feel that for most folk the idea of an airliner adorned with a red flag with gold star and hammer and sickle would be too much for todays Russian ‘yuppies’ to bear. I am still surprised that the modern day entity known as Aeroflot still carries the winged hammer and sickle …but I aint complainin!

Euroleaks is fine by me. I look forward to seeing more of them.

darren, you’re bringing back some great memories of my days working at STN. I had to pick up that crew in our crewbus from that F27. Would you believe that during the ride back to ops. the captain berated the No1 for activating the emergency door system which release the pax door from its ‘runners’ thereby allowing it to fall to the ground. On arrival at Ops. the poor girl was in tears. Very poor form on behalf of the captain I have always thought.
Great images again, especially that Sterling!

Interesting!
I always liked Aeroflots B777’s previously. Im sure they’d look great in their current livery.

Will they? Never liked the livery myself.:(

I am sure that even if the sex charges don’t stick on Assange, they will find something else. He must be punished to make an example out of him.

Otherwise, whistleblowers from all countries will start doing the same.

By the way, a new aspiring site has come up. Maybe soon we will have our “euroleaks”. 😀

http://brusselsleaks.com/

God bless the whistleblowers.

My thoughts exactly. And to keep on blaming the media won’t wash.:mad:

Interflug – “Surely the question that the American government should be asking itself is why these seemingly disgruntled personnel are repeatedly passing on this kind of material to outside organisations.” – and to find them and kick them out of the military immediately with the accompanying permanent stain on their record…….

And we are all contributing to the daily pufffing of a story which doesn’t deserve it. After all, what have actually learned in thousands of leaked diplomatic documents that we either didn’t already know, couldn’t have guessed at and are not surprised by?

It’s another media field day!

Well the Americans seem to be doing more than enough ‘puffing’ for all of us in connection with what many regard as being nothing more than a passing fad. The Americans and indeed others appear to be in a diplomatic ‘blind panic’ about this situation and seem to have a desperate need to have a scapegoat, and Assange is ‘easy meat’ as they seem unable to locate the ‘viper in their bosom’. As far as the media is concerned, there’s mileage in this story who’s outcome could have a quite profound effect on the freedom of the press, the internet and other media in the future.

What are we becoming? 🙁

Good question, and the answer probably merits a thread all its own. I’m sure that people very much more educated than I can see whats going on in this disturbing state of affairs. I have a feeling that the Swedish government, along with many other governments, has become a willing participant in a very big and sinister ‘game’, at the behest of a manipulative foreign power, and the Swedes are not alone. I think their actions will have far reaching consequences, not only for Sweden and its perceived neutrality, but also for its reputation as a paragon of freedom and tolerance. To me, its ironic that the leaked documents were very probably passed to WikiLeaks by a citizen of the US who is almost certainly a member of their own armed forces or intelligence network. Surely the question that the American government should be asking itself is why these seemingly disgruntled personnel are repeatedly passing on this kind of material to outside organisations.

I am not a great fan of conspiracy theories, but whats going on here seems to me to be a very clumsy attempt to keep on ‘shooting’ the messenger, and if that fails, then to subject him to a an appearance in a kangaroo court. The treatment of Assange draws striking parallels with the treatment of detainees in states with a less than decent pedigree. Some people argue that Assange is nothing more than some kind of attention junkie. That may well turn out be the case, but IMO the actions of certain governments in this matter appear to suggest otherwise. I’m quite ready to be shot down in flames over this, but this is just MY take on the topic.

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.” Friedrich Nietzsche