A really great set of pics there. It’s always good to see an A310:) I just wonder how much worse some of these airline names have to get? Fly Time? Helitt? :rolleyes:

As J Boyle mentions in #4, I can’t understand why we are not seeing more Russian, or to a lesser extent, Chinese airliners, in the colours of the likes of Iran Air, Mahan Air, Iran Asseman Airlines etc. There would appear to be Russian aircraft types available, that could fulfil some, if not all, operational requirements of Iranian airlines.

jbritchford. Many thanks for the information in your post. A complex issue indeed.

I agree with TonyT and would go further and keep all the TV and Media crews out of earshot.

But wouldn’t doing that play straight into the hands of the very people he claims he represents? Condoning off streets, shutting out the media etc. That sounds awfully familiar to me. The old Communist regimes of cold war times, used to do similar things to keep their dissidents from airing their views to the outside world. Is that really how we want to deal with this situation? Just my two penneth.

Very sad news indeed. That poor family. It would be nice to think that she is now in a better place, and is re-united with Keith. Depending on your own belief system, at least neither mother or son will have to see that monster Brady’s face again, as I suspect that he’ll be going to a very different place.

Some real gems there. Interesting tail livery design on the fin of the UTAir. I wonder if they have access to the BA ‘One World’ tail art portfolio;)

Iran produces a licence built copy of the Antonov 140 propliner. Built as the HESA IrAn 140, the Iranian version can carry 52 passengers. HESA also produce a range of civil and military helicopters, under the name Shahed. One of which is a carbon copy of the Bell Jetranger. One of the newer models is the Shahed 285, which looks very similar to the US made Apache attack helicopter.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/202680.html

According to the Iranian Press TV news channel, negotiations are presently under way, for HESA to licence build the An148 jetliner in Iran.

It doesn’t, and on checking my last post, I dont think that I imply that they were. IMO the story just highlights how rediculous their behaviour was. The example in my post, was intended to show the irrational behaviour of some of these ‘worthy folk’ such as the passenger concerned in my post, blaming me for the fact that he was late to check in, and let’s not forget my involvement, in conspiring with the Almighty, for an absolute ‘pea souper’ to delay this good fellows travel. As for the rudeness aspect, I just included it as it was part of the overall encounter with that ‘gentleman. Being as we do not know the complete word by word conversation that took place on the aircraft, we cannot know for sure wether or not the Doctor and his good lady exhibited any rudeness in this encounter