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  • May 21, 2009 at 7:57 pm in reply to: cfm versus v2500 #546328
    wilag
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    Someone pass me a gun!

    May 4, 2009 at 9:42 pm in reply to: MAN last weds #467135
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    Top notch as per the norm Tartanpics, my that 738 of Thomson looks a bit shiny and new.

    April 6, 2009 at 8:28 pm in reply to: General Discussion #348486
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    Had diesels now for around 10 years, would never go back to petrol. Had an Mk4 Golf gt tdi 150 was pants, always in the garage with a list of faults as long as your arm, build quality was poor. Completely over priced for what it was.

    Now have a Focus MK 2 Zetec 2.0 TDCI 80,000 in 2.5 years not a thing gone wrong with it, no rattles or broken trim. In fact it’s just as good now as when I took delivery. Build quality fantastic, so far to say the best car I have ever owned.

    April 6, 2009 at 8:28 pm in reply to: Best diesel car #1916546
    wilag
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    Had diesels now for around 10 years, would never go back to petrol. Had an Mk4 Golf gt tdi 150 was pants, always in the garage with a list of faults as long as your arm, build quality was poor. Completely over priced for what it was.

    Now have a Focus MK 2 Zetec 2.0 TDCI 80,000 in 2.5 years not a thing gone wrong with it, no rattles or broken trim. In fact it’s just as good now as when I took delivery. Build quality fantastic, so far to say the best car I have ever owned.

    April 4, 2009 at 8:20 pm in reply to: Wondrous Winglets #559130
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    The are popping up every were. Today at MAN I saw a First choice and Jet2 757 with them on. I think they look nice, I don’t think that the extended wing tips on the 777-300ER’s look half as nice.

    Rgds Cking

    I didn’t realise First Choice/Thomson were getting them fitted to the 757s, it did baffle me one went over the other day, I guess there 76s will be getting them in due Course.

    March 25, 2009 at 8:41 pm in reply to: Low flying Monarch A300 over Bolton, near Manchester #562481
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    Was thinking of the same thing, possible an engine out due to amount of noise the thing was making, was strange that the wheels were dangling so I guess some tech problem was preventing them from being retracted, also due to the strong winds and the drag the gear was creating hence his foot was to the floor.

    Thanks for all the replies chaps

    Andy

    January 8, 2009 at 4:15 pm in reply to: It worked on an A320, so lets try it on an A345! #587180
    wilag
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    Cripes,

    That will have been horribly expensive to apply!
    Its not exactly the best livery out there either.

    Maybe Airbus forked out for it in the way of compensation due to the mishap of there earlier A340 which got broke?

    December 1, 2008 at 2:05 pm in reply to: Aircraft registration logs #496038
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    I stopped spotting in 1974, but I imagine the principles are the same…..so tell me please why you need a database when the data you add to an already available register is “Date” and “Place seen”?
    I’m not taking the mickey, but has spotting taken on a multitude of other information?

    I myself did stop taking registrations down a while back, hence I have hundreds of books with allsorts of data capture in them, so as we now live in an electronic society I have decided to try and capture these in a more modern way with views to exporting to a database, each to there own.

    Rgds

    Andy

    November 30, 2008 at 5:40 pm in reply to: Aircraft registration logs #496073
    wilag
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    Andy:
    If you visit:
    http://www.lhr-lgw.co.uk/
    The Heathrow Movements site… in the dropdown go to “Software for the spotter” quite a few links in there.
    One that i had for a while when i number crunched was NMU (No More Underlining) i never got round to using it,but, i believe it is one of the better software.. they are at:
    http://www.nmuonline.co.uk/
    HTH
    Scotty

    Thanks for the feedback chaps, will have a scout round the above. Was going to use MS Access but I really dont like the product.

    Rgds

    Andy

    November 27, 2008 at 8:58 pm in reply to: Toulouse Diary 2008 #483946
    wilag
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    What a shame not getting to see theses XL 330s up close in the UK, I did note under the wing it did a have its G- reg already applied.

    Been a while Steph since you updated us on this side of the channel, lovely pics as per the usual.

    Rgds

    Andy

    November 21, 2008 at 6:07 pm in reply to: Thomsonfly + Firstchoice Airways = Thomson Airways #498273
    wilag
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    Are they going to be launched within the mainline thomsonfly livery or are they adopting a new corporate image?, reason I ask is that rumours were that a new colour scheme was to be unveiled?.

    October 31, 2008 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Air Europa 737 off the runway at Lanzarote #501501
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    That was a bit blommin lucky, Did you notice that the strobes were still flashing away on the wing at tail?, cockpit crew must of left in a hurry.

    October 25, 2008 at 3:33 pm in reply to: Monarch 757's #503026
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    I heard that Boeing were very interested in Buying back G-MONB been the
    15th 757 of the assembly line i think it makes her one of the oldest 757s in passenger service. They want to buy it back to well see how its lasted over time.

    I heard they were looking for 2 Newer 757s to replace them, As the A321s dont quite have the Endurance of the mighty 757!

    I am sure somewhere in the 80’s the once Britannia Airways stripped down a B737-200 into pieces and then re-built the dam thing again, claiming to be the only 737 to be built outside of the Boeing plant. Again Boeing had something to do with this to see what the airframe had encountered after many years service.

    Would be interesting to see if the Monarch 757 is to test the same thing?

    October 17, 2008 at 3:29 pm in reply to: LTE suspends ops #503841
    wilag
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    Opps, please ignore as my browser hadn’t refreshed not showing Mr Area’s post on this topic.

    September 17, 2008 at 10:10 pm in reply to: Three XL 737's departing MAN tomorrow. #509190
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    Any idea who’s having the two Lasham bound units, I take it they off there for a new paint paint job?.

    Rgds

    Andy

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