ROJ: spare rotor blades (total 5!). At the risk of stating obvious things we all know: one might roughly estimate more than 2X odds of a rotor blade flying off versus 2-bladed helicopters...Glad you surviveded. Indeed, Risk analysis is always a case of probability x severity............. .............

Just back in Songkhla (Thailand) after a week offshore in the disputed MTJDA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia%E2%80%93Thailand_joint_development_area ) Survived the trip there and back in one of these https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/dblist.php?AcType=A139 It seemed to have plenty of noi...

First scheduled non-stop service UK - Australia

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-43530332

We will have to consult the final report- was the parked chopper not properly positioned?

It seems this happened in 2012 and the report is here.

https://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/_ ... 44A&akey=1

Not only tourist choppers, but now the police are trying to win the avoidable accident of the year award.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMhsD8OFCs

There has been a total national pride disaster!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-43414145

And whilst we're talking of Georgia, in the absence (temporary?) of Blueblack, I offer you this.
(For the music rather than the video.... )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTz8g8y ... st=WL&t=0s

I have found that adult beverages can be effective. Sadly (but wisely, I think) adult beverages are available neither at the well site nor on the aforementioned Flying Machines. I shall therefore endeavour to over-imbibe before embarkation, whilst remaining alert to potential chopper problems..... ...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/greek-socc ... 13966.html

...And we build Boeings too...you're welcome.

Apparently the gentlemen is originally from Georgia......
....but the Georgia on this side of the pond......

Sad to go to work offshore and crash burn/drown and die. Fixed. Your aged co-forumite is due to travel to HDY towards the end of this month, (yes, I know, it was meant to be February while Per was in Bali, but stuff happens) and take one of the above to go to a Malaysian rig drilling in the gulf of...

Flight BS211 veered off the runway while landing on Monday afternoon.

Gratuitous speculation..............

Landing gear failure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_8_la ... _incidents

219 in the order book, probably minus the Hawaiians.
Per

A330-900neo: 206 orders
but
A330-800neo: 0 orders

According to this page.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A ... deliveries

The six still showing in the totals row are presumably the cancelled Hawaiians

Dexterous crop on the latest logo....... (IMHO)

Are these flight attendants?

Airline
Boarding
&
Beverage
Assistants
?

But it's going to take a while.....

http://www.bbc.com/news/43250091

I'd paraphrase this for the current situation. Doing something and doing something useful are also two different things. Absolutely. Cancelling discounts for NRA members will not prevent nutjobs from gunning down school children. It is perhaps only a PR gesture, but it is still indicative of increa...

Stuff I'm more proud of: 707 to Dayton and back. 747 from MSP to LAX and back and from Flyover to hooowaii. BAC-111 from Flyover to PIT Shorts 330 Twin Oetter Ozark DC-9 from Flyover to LAS via DSM and KCI Southwest airlines from two states away to DAL...via Lubbock. Book tickets separately, get su...

And it just keeps getting worse: http://fox61.com/2018/02/26/model-tv-sh ... re-flight/

You may have missed this request from our favourite Monchavo

https://airdisaster.info/viewtopic.php? ... =25#p70844

But on a more positive note.......

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43181337

OL-leiren bestilte 1500 egg gjennom å oversette via Google Translate. Men det slo feil. 15.000 ble levert på døra. Vi ønsker lykke til og håper at de norske gullhåpene er glade – veldig glade – i egg: :D http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42978915 It will egg them on. We'll take ALMOST every meda...

There are some very excellent ideas. Seeing as there are so many, why not have separate logos for the different threads. Surely, we can include lifejacket man in one of them http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/090115-USAirway-hmed-535p.grid-6x2.jpg Nice new logo but you need t...

With more than 4,600 currently on order, Boeing says it will increase production of its 737 to an astonishing 52 per month in 2018, and as many as 57 per month in 2019. Of course to a certain participant there , any number > 0 is astonishing. :lol: Conspiracy theorists will be quick to note that th...

The comment section at Av Herald said 22 fatal accidents from about 1500 ATRs build vs 6 fatal accidents from about 1250 Dash-8s. I blame the French. ....and the French probably blame the Italians Wikipedia says The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner developed and produ...

AND, the cool acronym

Apparently Necessary Dive