Just got back from a week in the States. Furthest flight SYD-DFW 13,823km Longest flight DFW-BNE 15h 35m Longest delay courtesy of a thunderstorm passing through DFW last Monday 6h 8m http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL2402/history/20140512/2155Z/KDFW/KFLL (and don't get me started on the taxi dr...

I enjoy the railroad thread so much that I may consider a subforum to discuss matters relating to railways. Thoughts?

... would that lead to a shipping forum...

It seems like a very unique failure for the left main gear to "simply" break off with the tires largely in tact...and I don't think it's cheap, composite struts. not that unique, it happened earlier in the year http://avherald.com/h?article=46f15c12 An Airwork Boeing 737-300 on behalf of ...

http://www.news.com.au/world/norwegian- ... 6884045928

Maybe I should try a different bait

This Sunday (March 16) KSTL ==> KRDU, Mid day departure. You know the livery and the stop over. However, at this time, I have not checked the aircraft types...they are sometimes RJ's or Boeings :( Regardless of the type, flap usage will be monitored; however, I think I'll forego the drink-service p...

A young woman claims she was entertained in the cockpit for an entire flight back in 2011 by the co-pilot who was on board the Malaysian Airlines plane that went missing on Saturday. (Scroll down) Jonti Roos, who lives in Melbourne, came forward with photos of her posing with a man she claims is 27...

That, or formal proofing (which, yes, until we find how P = NP, is not factible in any software that is more complicated than the Space Invaders) Even Space Invaders had a bug. It wasn't intended that the game speed up as you shot more aliens, but as there were less aliens to draw, there were less ...

Apparently feeding time for the Lions at the zoo in CPH is a little different.

Back on topic. So when I am at FL390 over the Pacific Ocean near the ETOPS180 point, and the battery has its event in its compartment, what is going to happen?

More views here, and no doubt more will appear over next week when the holiday makers return home with their footage http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c85_1389333472 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=21d_1389330882 A good example of things not to do ... should've waited for the tide to go out should've us...

I wonder how good their eyesight is?, and whether it was tested post the incident? http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F55000-55499%2F55433%2F544904.pdf 10:49:21.1 CAM-1 {I understand that people, who have many outdoor activities, are recommended to wear them to protect eyes. But I can't wear sunglasses. I ...

The video is a few years ago, and so the approach you are looking at isn't on the recent charts. After this incident http://www.taic.org.nz/ReportsandSafetyRecs/AviationReports/tabid/78/ctl/Detail/mid/482/InvNumber/2010-007/Page/1/language/en-US/Default.aspx?SkinSrc=[G]skins/taicAviation/skin_aviati...

http://youtu.be/7mxmFCw-Dig

Enjoy

You cannot be at CDG or ORY then for that to be true! Indeed CDG 119 m RO'G 112 m ORY 89 m LHR 25 m Whoops! (Altitudes courtesy of google) LHR is near the Thames when it goes out to sea so figured it was close to sea level. With Paris, the Seine still has a fair way to go to get to the sea so I fig...

This article is noteworthy for its nearly complete lack of relevant information.

At one point they were only 100ft apart vertically..

I am currently less than one hundred feet apart vertically from all the aircraft at CDG, ORY ...

You cannot be at CDG or ORY then for that to be true!

Something Norway was not good at http://www.radicalcartography.net/index ... iscoveries

More exceptionalism

http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=5285

Surprised they never found a niche operating around the Southern Ocean. LAN Chile are keeping 3 just for SCL AKL SYD

Happy Birthday Verbal,
Per Down Under

You should be half a day ahead, not a week late, or are you in Queensland?

Apart from looking across the Tasman thinking how you poor buggers have to choose between Rudd and Abbott, then discover that 8% of NSW don't check a voting paper correctly and end up electing someone you did not intend to.

Qantas have a promotion where if you download a browser toolbar and us it for all your searching, you are rewarded with Frequent flyer miles. In the meantime gathering a profile about yourself that will probably be entered into such devices in the future.

How long till this happens to a planespotter... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11121720 A Greymouth train buff killed when he was struck by steam train may have thought the engine was further up the tracks because his perception had been skewed through his camera, ...

There was a headline suggesting that Qantas were trialing exiting from both ends ... http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/qantas-passengers-struck-down-with-gastro-on-flight-from-chile-20130802-2r2wh.html Twenty-six passengers on a Qantas flight from Santiago to Sydney were struck down with...

Southwest loses nose gear in New Yark 7-20-2013. ...however, with the tendency for planes to burn up and have minimal evacuation times...If I was by a window exit, I might just pull it and to hell with what the crew wants. Doing that while the engines are still running would not be ... entirely cle...

Has anyone heard the term "end-of-line carrier" or is this the WSJ creating more bullshit jargon?

Yes.

Synonymous for losing market share to Emirates who are the opposite of an "end-of-line" carrier