Re: 10 dead, 25 injured after bus carrying wedding guests crashes in Australia

So what city do you drive in then, or country? Currently, Vancouver BC. Then you’ve gone across the Pacific Ocean and know what’s going on in my city every day? I see these things go past my window all day, I see how many people are on them. It’s not sardine cans like it used to be. I’ve had enough.

Re: Deleting Account

I emailed the support address. Thanks if you can do that.

Re: 10 dead, 25 injured after bus carrying wedding guests crashes in Australia

ACDC8 wrote:

cpd wrote:

Okay, I give up. What I see locally with my own eyes isn’t right. I only see my local buses daily.

And what I do for a living, every day, every week, every month, every year trumps the couple of minutes a day you see a bus

Re: 10 dead, 25 injured after bus carrying wedding guests crashes in Australia

[url][/url] It's not about enforcement, local buses don't even have seatbelts in them at all - not fitted. If they were fitted, signs and regular recorded announcements would be enough. I've been driving buses for the last 20 years transit/highway coach/remote site work - you can put as may stickers...

Re: 10 dead, 25 injured after bus carrying wedding guests crashes in Australia

All buses no matter what, pax should be required to use seat belts. Local buses like what we frequently use to go to the train station or to work, those should also be required to have seat belts and pax mandated to use them. Hi If there is an accident, the risks are too high. There is a reason loc...

Re: 10 dead, 25 injured after bus carrying wedding guests crashes in Australia

Some of the injuries were horrific, and DVI experts were brought in to identify some of the deceased, some of whom are still listed as 'unaccounted'.... The wedding couple were originally from Melbourne, not too far from where I live, some of the injured and one of the deceased are from Melbourne. ...

Re: 10 dead, 25 injured after bus carrying wedding guests crashes in Australia

All buses no matter what, pax should be required to use seat belts. Who's going to enforce it, how will it be enforced and who will be held responsible if a passenger decides to unbuckle their seatbelt or not wear one at all? It's not about enforcement, local buses don't even have seatbelts in them...

Re: 10 dead, 25 injured after bus carrying wedding guests crashes in Australia

Some of the injuries were horrific, and DVI experts were brought in to identify some of the deceased, some of whom are still listed as 'unaccounted'.... The wedding couple were originally from Melbourne, not too far from where I live, some of the injured and one of the deceased are from Melbourne. ...

Re: Contribution to 747 tribute website.

Dear 747 Fanatics! I am looking for contributors to edit my own Boeing 747 tribute webpage . I started collecting all the data and information about the fleet back in 1991 when I was 16 years old. I have found many valuable contributors over the years. I would like to continue the work, but the amo...

Re: 10 dead, 25 injured after bus carrying wedding guests crashes in Australia

Hunter Valley crash: Bus driver going too fast, police say https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65886519 The 58-year-old bus driver has been charged with multiple counts of dangerous driving and negligence, after being arrested on Monday. He was allegedly driving "in a manner that was inco...

Re: 10 dead, 25 injured after bus carrying wedding guests crashes in Australia

There are rumours the driver was going too quickly: https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/hunter-valley-bus-drivers-alleged-boast-before-crash-that-claimed-10-lives/news-story/fbb358c2722110388cfb2e51fb60b93f Different type of bus, but I used to use local buses quite a bit and I remember som...

Re: 10 dead, 25 injured after bus carrying wedding guests crashes in Australia

It's a very, very bad tragedy. The driver is in a lot of trouble. We've had these terrible accidents before, one of the worst being this terrible one at Kempsey: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-16/deadly-stretch-of-pacific-highway-to-be-bypassed-today/7416854 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempse...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

The best western fighter plane is the one they can use as soon as possible that does the job. F18 isn’t the greatest but it isn’t the worst either. Not necessarily. If you are going to invest in pilot training, you do not want to train for something that is available now but will be OBS later. F-16...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Better suited to Ukraine's need than F-16, isn't it? Each have ít pros and con. F-18 has the buddy refuel system. Great if you don't have tankers. Two engines makes for more maintenance. Having both give greater flexibility. I have a feeling they will get both. 50 years ago, the groundbreaking ITN ...

Re: Move the forum down in order

Heh, I didn't even think of that. But now that you mention it, users who get their information out of a straw really shouldn't have much to complain about given the insignificance of the complaint. I have never understood why some use the limited capability of a phone vs a full computer (other than...

Re: Space Shuttle Technology

It’s a bit of an urban legend, they tried in France still the technology gap and party demands were irreconcilable for the TU-144. After 1970 the mass KGB expulsion from the UK would have stymied attempts there. Later they actually asked for the air intake control computers, being a product of Brit...

Re: Space Shuttle Technology

The Soviets did essentially the same thing with the Concorde, producing a lookalike aircraft in the TU-144, based on that project's research and development data. There were even informal meetings of French and Soviet engineers where they shared engineering ideas as well as technical concepts. If I...

Re: Riyadh Air reveals first of 2 livery designs

Riyadh Air has revealed its first of 2 livery designs Thoughts? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxyGM9nWYAAAKiI?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxyGM97WAAMpNpS?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxyGM-UXoAE5V6d?format=jpg&name=large https://twitter.com/aeron...

Re: Is it just me?

Something changed in the file compression out of whatever photo software they used?

Looks very odd.

Re: Global Airlines buys an A380 from Doric for UK - US service

Do you suggest that they want to allow smoking onboard? What's the source for this? Somebody up thread made a comment about them wanting to bring back the golden age of flying, which included ridiculous high fares and smoking. Decent seat pitch and legroom, meals in coach, 60% load factors instead ...

Re: What kind of vehicle do you drive?

Nobody now cares about lightness in a hot hatch. It’s only about how many exhaust explosions it makes in 30 seconds when lifting off, and how loud said explosions are. They could even improve such cars by making them with 2 speed manual gearboxes because the usual drivers don’t use anything more th...

Re: What kind of vehicle do you drive?

An eGTI would be absolutely pointless, not to mention a smack in the face of everything that a hot hatch is supposed to be. And, for those who wondered, a hot hatch is a light, relatively inexpensive, relatively small, front engined and front wheel driven thing you throw around corners at great spe...

Re: Harrison Ford's Strategy: Lengthen Your Timeline

The world doesn’t work like that for most people, things must happen now and if you don’t respond accordingly you are left behind or out of a job. And don’t forget the about every single detail having a KPI. We have KPI's in aerospace but safety (and economics) trumps KPI's! If we need another week...

Re: ANZ to weigh pax before boarding thru 2 July 2023

This is very intrusive. I am not sure if this would fly over here in the US. Is it really that intrusive? You can just look at someone and know if they are light or heavy, just not the precise number. I could even just tell them my weight and height. I check weight a lot because I’m recovering afte...

Re: Harrison Ford's Strategy: Lengthen Your Timeline

The world doesn’t work like that for most people, things must happen now and if you don’t respond accordingly you are left behind or out of a job.

And don’t forget the about every single detail having a KPI.

Re: Rocket Powered Plane Could Fly New York To Sydney in 90 Minutes

[url][/url] The climate nay -sayers will roadblock it. Think the laws of physics and economics already done that. I’ve heard about “London to Sydney in 90 minutes” (or variations thereof) for more than 40 years, and it has always stranded; the technology that’ll both make it happen, be economical en...

Re: Very large building fire - Sydney

Hey cpd and Kent350787, Hmmmm… sounds like an a.net meeting at Capella Sydney should be organised some day! Take care Bunumuring Yeah perhaps, when I get rich. ;) I can one up the pool, I've been in the apartment on the roof. :) https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-WZn3gP6/0/131aad7d/M/i-WZn3gP6-M.j...

Re: Rocket Powered Plane Could Fly New York To Sydney in 90 Minutes

This is interesting. According to this Travel and Leisure article Venus Aerospace in Texas is developing a passenger plane that could fly from New York to Sydney in 90 minutes. It would use regular Jet Engines for take off and landing but once airborne would fire the rockets. https://www.travelandl...

Re: Ford decides to keep AM radio on US 2024 models

I am not sure about this push to keep AM going. On the one hand, AM works better in the mountains, but that is because of the frequency it owns( the 530-1700 Khz) vs the 88-108 MHZ band that most FM operates on. Also FM to get what it needs to send signals needs a lot more bandwidth. So while you c...

Re: Very large building fire - Sydney

Two children have handed themselves in to Police and are assisting with inquiries: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/fears-surry-hills-building-could-collapse-after-major-fire-brings-cbd-to-standstill-20230526-p5dbfy.html https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/major-concerns-surry-hills-bui...

Re: Very large building fire - Sydney

Another update: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/fears-surry-hills-building-could-collapse-after-major-fire-brings-cbd-to-standstill-20230526-p5dbfy.html Phu Tang, who works at Hildebrandt Locksmith across from the Randle Street building that caught fire, said he saw a group of children running f...

Re: Very large building fire - Sydney

“Heritage Buildings”. Is that like in the US where busybodies love this or that structure and so use the badges and guns of government to prevent tear down, or extensive updates? Some of these are already listed since a long time ago, then developers sometimes decide they don't want to respect that...

Re: Very large building fire - Sydney

[url][/url] Hey cod, I stayed just recently in a hotel right across from where the fire was, and yes it is a crazy built up area. I coincidentally am staying in a Sydney CBD hotel tonight and experienced first hand the utter chaos the fire caused to traffic and public transport. The sight of the smo...

Re: Car dependency

AM exists in the US due to the rural areas. Much of the Midwest and Mountain West have nothing without AM or Sirius. Ford kept whip antennas due to the pickup demographic. I have a fairly modern radio that gets AM / FM and all the other things, but most of the time I just use CarPlay. I’m usually i...

Very large building fire - Sydney

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/a-major-fire-has-erupted-in-sydneys-cbd/news-story/ae1eef31eeaed8c17cf24997fa19fd50 That building not far from Central station in Sydney (Surry Hills) went up very quickly from around 4pm. It has collapsed completely and a neighbouring building has also gone ...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Tayo826 wrote:

The Su-57 is so stealthy because no one has seen it in action over Ukraine.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

Where there's smoke, there's fire. I don't know this source, but would not be surprised if this is how UA gets its first batch of F-16s. DK and NL are both F-35 customers so don't really need the F-16s going forward. Once some approach like this breaks the ice, I think we'll see many others includi...

Re: Low Age A332 without buyer?

Could these be worthwhile tanker conversions?

Like what Australia has with a few of ours?

Re: Cargolux 747 landing incident @ LUX

I’m not sure of the structure of that, but surely there would be a sensor on something like that as a safe guard. They had already declared an emergency due to the fact they were unable to retract the gear. So there was definitely something wrong with the landing gear. In the 747 series a gear leve...

Re: Cargolux 747 landing incident @ LUX

T54A wrote:

I assume that bogey was not locked down, and the resulting vibration caused detachment. That’s my uninformed guess.

Re: United & Rhapsody In Blue

Getting away from the dumb fights over royalty payments, some of moving away from classic themes can be marketing people trying to reframe a brand, ie, that’s legacy branding, we are new and modern, that’s old fashioned and outdated. Yes, that’s how they think sometimes and then after a while there ...

Re: Cargolux 747 landing incident @ LUX

smokeybandit wrote:

It was tough to see the issue on first watch of that video until the one bogey started bouncing around after the jet was off the screen.

Re: Guilty plea in YouTube deliberate crash

WayexTDI wrote:

cedarjet wrote:

DeltaRules wrote:

How much monetarily is that even worth?

About $21,000

Fine him $21 millions then; that'll teach them so-called influencers.

Re: Proposed Rulemaking for Controllable Disruptions in the USA

Would airlines just add another 3-5 hours to timetable times and therefore every flight has exceptional on time performance or is consistently arriving ahead of time?

Re: Las Vegas to LA rail project

In Europe it is quite common to have two TGV or Railjet coupled together for a distance and then somewhere along the way they will split up with one going to a different destination. So you always pay attention to being in the correct section (which is on the screens anyway). Most of those high spee...

Re: Craziest things you’ve heard on Guard?

Flying over the South and East China Seas. Guard is an intermittent barrage of People's Liberation Army Navy, Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, US Navy, and a variety of others yelling at each other with no actual effect except filling the air. Lots of posturing. "We are US Navy Aircraft. ...

Re: Plane collides with aircraft tug on airport tarmac in Colombia

A Boeing 787 collided with an aircraft tug after the towbar snapped while the aircraft was being towed along the runway at El Dorado International Airport in Colombia on May 4. The collision caused significant damage to the aircraft's fuselage https://www.msn.com/en-ca/travel/news/plane-collides-wi...

Re: Restrictions on Political Discussion discussion thread

For those of you interested, here is the link to the political forum: Political TownHall Sorry if this is a stupid question, but if the political threads on this site become so toxic that they are all going to be moved this new platform, won't this town hall forum quickly turn into a dumpster fire ...

Re: Restrictions on Political Discussion discussion thread

Thanks, I won't spend any effort posting anything related to it or the submarines. Considering this is an aviation message board, that seems like a good idea. Well people are discussing cars and trains and they don’t have wings or fly so… I won’t be going near the political town hall forum - it wil...

Re: Restrictions on Political Discussion discussion thread

Thanks, I won't spend any effort posting anything related to it or the submarines.