Sterling used to go CPH-JFK with Caravelle 10Bs with a tech stop. I bet there was more legroom on those than the Sun 738s!

Looks like a cross with between the Dornier and ATR. Looks very promising. What with the Turks now getting into the act I can’t wait to see what the Albanians come up with! What news on the Karas?

P.S As I am descended from Albanian stock there is no racial implication here 😀

Poor Peter. RIP.

Quite so. R.I.P….lots of happy T.V memories thanks to this guy.:(

I was working at Stansted airport at the time of this dreadful crime and there was a book of condolence that could be signed in the main terminal concourse. I shall never forget the sight of passengers, aircrew, and fellow employees signing it with tears in their eyes, as did I.

I guess that its stating the obvious but the Bulgers have a lifetime sentence without their son, for a parent what could be worse. IMO at the very least those young criminals should be deprived of the right to any kind of freedom for the rest of their natural lives and take that time to contemplate just what this dreadful act has cost them and the Bulger family, and that would still be getting off light. I’m sorry but that is all the concern I can muster for those two murderers. As for executing them? that would make us no better than they are.

Ah yes…real airliners 😀
Have flown in both …
From memory istr that the DC8 had a little more cabin conditioning noise (roar) than the 707.
In a way I preferred the DC8 because you couldnt see the outer engines bouncing up and down in turbulence 😀

Totally agree, having flown on an SAS DC8 Srs 63 and a BA 707 (a 320C I think). Is anyone flying pax today on the DC8? I know that you can still get a ride on an Iranian 707

Agreed, and we all know why that is. I can’t condone the way that RYR treat their staff but maybe its something that the BA cabin crew should bear in mind.

Last year it emerged that police have already been handed ‘Chinese-style’ powers to enter private-homes and seize political posters during the London games.
The measures passed by the Government will allow officers and Olympics officials to enter homes and shops near official venues to confiscate protest material.
The powers were introduced to preserve the monopoly of official advertisers on the London 2012 site and would allow advertising posters or hoardings placed in homes to be removed.
The law was drawn so widely, however, that it includes ‘ non-commercial material’ – which could extend its reach to include legitimate campaign literature.

Unquote.

The late Markus Wolf who was head of the international department at the State Security or ‘Stasi” in the GDR said on a radio interview in Germany that if he had had the surveillance capability of the UK then he would have been a very happy man and the GDR would, in his opinion still have been around. Having visited the GDR a few times the similarities with it and ‘modern’ Britain are chilling and a very longstanding German friend of mine said recently that he felt that the UK had sleepwalked into very dangerous
territory and that we should get off our collective a*+es and do something about it soon before it is too late. As a citizen of the GDR for some 30 yrs of his life……he should know.