Indeed Woody.Must grind your gears reading such sheite.Woody wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:52 pmSome truly uninformed comments on this article
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Anyone want to head over to TOP for the expert’s input
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Also need METAR!
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"Plummeted" indeed.
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Forget about supposed bed bug infestations, or even the colonies of tarantulas in the pitot static system, what I am more interested in is, "has BA fixed their fecking seats?", which are often completely knackered, making an 11 hour flight from London to Cape Town more akin to a visit to a medieval torture chamber at Castle Aargh, what with sundry lumps and knackered metal spikes being pushed up like proverbial pain spindles into one's arse! Not even a trip to the bondage dungeons at the Karl Lagerfield Bondage Dungeons in Bremerhaven, BA hostie domantrixes aside, has quite the same frisson!
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Not like the cockroach infestations that bedevil flights in India. Like the incident that occurred on the flight deck of Punjab Flight 323 to Poo...
ACTUAL COCKROACHPIT RECORDING
Captain Pinik Sarka - "Pre landing checklist please... but what is that crawling on the throttles?"
FO Bona Choddonkar -- "The ECAM is reporting a cockroach infestation Captain Sarka Sir.."
FO Bona Choddonkar - "But look, the little bastard has just pushed the TOGA button, I will remove him Sir" <<sound of engines initially spooling up and then down again... sounds of hands hitting the console>>
Captain Pinik Sarka - "Choddonkar you fool, you have retracted the flaps. Oh no, now the cockroach is crawling up my leg....crawling up my flies... Choddonkar stop hitting my crotch... I can't hold her... AAAARGH"...
RECORDING ENDS
Tragic stuff...
ACTUAL COCKROACHPIT RECORDING
Captain Pinik Sarka - "Pre landing checklist please... but what is that crawling on the throttles?"
FO Bona Choddonkar -- "The ECAM is reporting a cockroach infestation Captain Sarka Sir.."
FO Bona Choddonkar - "But look, the little bastard has just pushed the TOGA button, I will remove him Sir" <<sound of engines initially spooling up and then down again... sounds of hands hitting the console>>
Captain Pinik Sarka - "Choddonkar you fool, you have retracted the flaps. Oh no, now the cockroach is crawling up my leg....crawling up my flies... Choddonkar stop hitting my crotch... I can't hold her... AAAARGH"...
RECORDING ENDS
Tragic stuff...
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I’ve been doing a bit of research and at the moment flights to the Mother City aren’t due to start until 1st November, but they’ve obviously borrowed a couple of LGW 777’s with 10 abreast in cattle class and no First, but they are new seatsTheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:41 amForget about supposed bed bug infestations, or even the colonies of tarantulas in the pitot static system, what I am more interested in is, "has BA fixed their fecking seats?", which are often completely knackered, making an 11 hour flight from London to Cape Town more akin to a visit to a medieval torture chamber at Castle Aargh, what with sundry lumps and knackered metal spikes being pushed up like proverbial pain spindles into one's arse! Not even a trip to the bondage dungeons at the Karl Lagerfield Bondage Dungeons in Bremerhaven, BA hostie domantrixes aside, has quite the same frisson!
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Edit- Two flights scheduled most days and operating from T5
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I can't wait to get out there...Woody wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:19 amI’ve been doing a bit of research and at the moment flights to the Mother City aren’t due to start until 1st November, but they’ve obviously borrowed a couple of LGW 777’s with 10 abreast in cattle class and no First, but they are new seatsTheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:41 amForget about supposed bed bug infestations, or even the colonies of tarantulas in the pitot static system, what I am more interested in is, "has BA fixed their fecking seats?", which are often completely knackered, making an 11 hour flight from London to Cape Town more akin to a visit to a medieval torture chamber at Castle Aargh, what with sundry lumps and knackered metal spikes being pushed up like proverbial pain spindles into one's arse! Not even a trip to the bondage dungeons at the Karl Lagerfield Bondage Dungeons in Bremerhaven, BA hostie domantrixes aside, has quite the same frisson!
48J/40WTP/184Y
Edit- Two flights scheduled most days and operating from T5
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Not the DM but same class:
Venue a model aircraft venue somewhere in England. A model Vulcan doing impressive dudplay
"The Vulcan was part of a trio of V bombers the other two being the Victor and Vampire. There was a crew of 5 but only two crew had parachutes. The rear crew slid down the entrance door and climbed onto the noswwheel and dropped off from there.
In the Falklands the aircraft bombed from 30,000 ft and carried 3 bombs
Two went either side of the runway but the third hit.... "
My informant who thought he had actually dropped 21 gave up and went for a beer.
Venue a model aircraft venue somewhere in England. A model Vulcan doing impressive dudplay
"The Vulcan was part of a trio of V bombers the other two being the Victor and Vampire. There was a crew of 5 but only two crew had parachutes. The rear crew slid down the entrance door and climbed onto the noswwheel and dropped off from there.
In the Falklands the aircraft bombed from 30,000 ft and carried 3 bombs
Two went either side of the runway but the third hit.... "
My informant who thought he had actually dropped 21 gave up and went for a beer.
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Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:05 pmNot the DM but same class:
Venue a model aircraft venue somewhere in England. A model Vulcan doing impressive dudplay
"The Vulcan was part of a trio of V bombers the other two being the Victor and Vampire. There was a crew of 5 but only two crew had parachutes. The rear crew slid down the entrance door and climbed onto the noswwheel and dropped off from there.
In the Falklands the aircraft bombed from 30,000 ft and carried 3 bombs
Two went either side of the runway but the third hit.... "
My informant who thought he had actually dropped 21 gave up and went for a beer.
Only beaten by the two drunken nitwits who did the commmentary on the public Saturday at the last ever proper Farnborough display before the Shoreham crash and Covid intervened! Both slurring away and talking twaddle. Twas most unedifying and a rather poor way to remember Farnborough, possibly forever.
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I say, old chap............jolly unsporting, what?but only two crew had parachutes
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Moomba Parade, Melbourne 1984~, they had an aircraft perched on a truck and the PA informed us the aircraft was a 'Comet', which it was, and also that it was the word's first jet airliner which it was not. No one seemed to mind.
Been in data comm since we formed the bits individually with a Morse key.
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John, maybe I am behind the curve here, I often am, but the DH Comet was the first commercial jet airliner, to my knowledge?
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Great minds etc...
I am always amused by the sound of overspeeding props in Airplane!
I am always amused by the sound of overspeeding props in Airplane!
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Particularly poignant for me - this was my first Dinky Toy aeroplane (at age 7) and it started the whole thing off
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You still have that toy Boac and have lived the dream...
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Sadly probably not still got it - that was a Google image. Mine lost its props a while back (70 years...? - obviously a budding jet pilot.... ) I'll have a rummage in some boxes and check.
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Talking of Dinky Toys, I had the Dinky 60c Percival Gull,... silly little bugger that I was, I lost it in the builder's sand while playing on the building site when our new Scottish neighbours, Alastair and Agnes Wilson, were building their new house opposite our place in Parkhurst Johannesburg!
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TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:08 am
John, maybe I am behind the curve here, I often am, but the DH Comet was the first commercial jet airliner, to my knowledge?
The aircraft in the parade was a Comet but it was not a Comet DH106. I distinctly remember the commentator calling it 'Gross Vener House'. It was of course a DH88.
The DH106 may well have been the first commercial jet airliner to enter service but one could hardly call it successful. The first successful jet airliner was of course the Tupolev Tu-104 which was the only jet airliner in service anywhere from 1956 - 1958, they remained in service for a few years after that. 201 were built.
Been in data comm since we formed the bits individually with a Morse key.