Re: Cruise Ship / Ocean Liner Thread -2023

Well… I’m sitting in Canada instead of on the Carnival Spirit right now…

We had to cancel our cruise over new years…

Sucks… really really sucks…


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Re: TWA Flight 800 - Revisted

When relieving posts, you have to clear your weapons. You take the 9mm rounds out of each magazine, rack the slide 3x to the rear and lock the slide. You then count each round before reloading the magazines. You do the same for the M-4/M-16 and Shot gun. Any missing rounds or rounds that eject down...

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

The Star Cruises fleet continues to be scrapped. Superstar Libra (formerly Norwegian Sea) has just arrived at Aliaga, whilst Superstar Aquarius and Superstar Gemini (formerly Norwegian Wind / Norwegian Dream respectively) are at Alang, India. https://www.cruisehive.com/former-norwegian-cruise-line-...

Re: Records snow in Western, north Central NY State

Im sitting i a hotel near BUF airport right now, drove in today... just north of here, Tonawanda, there's almost no snow, grass is visible through the small amount on the ground... Here there's a couple feet that feel judging by the amount on cars in the long term lots. just a couple miles east on T...

Re: Brand loyality

Brand loyalty is a dying idea… and it’s dead with me. I will buy the best option for me (Quality vs Price vs whatever) at the time. Logo on it is irrelevant to me now.


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Re: Separate airports connected by a taxiway

Once upon a time in the early 90s there was a "sand/gravel taxiway" (really it looked more like a rough bulldozed route sprinkled with gravel) between the end of runway 13(might of been 12 still at the time) at Cochrane Airport (CYCN) and Lake Lillabelle/Cochrane Waterdrome (CNN5). It wasn...

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

I’ll say this again… No one wants ships like the Fantasy Class or Sovereign Class. They are the wrong fit for luxury lines and the small lines have already either bought newer/more appropriate /bigger ships OR can’t afford them. Face it there have been too many ships available and the lines with th...

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

The Regal Princess/Ambiance found new life for Ambassador Cruises last year despite being the same age as Carnival Ecstacy. I’ll say this again… No one wants ships like the Fantasy Class or Sovereign Class. They are the wrong fit for luxury lines and the small lines have already either bought newer...

Re: Driving habits of US citizens

And how about the drivers stopped at green lights, just chilling? Meth and fentanyl. Texting, whiskey, meth and fentanyl. US drivers in a nutshell. My experience… texting far far far more often than any other… and most of the others taking on the phone… Anyways if anyone likes congestion and insani...

Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

Carnival Ecstasy had a farewell cruise unlike her sisters that were withdrawn. This ship had like potentially 10 years of life left with another line. Clearly either no other line bid, or the scrapper bid more. The Regal Princess/Ambiance found new life for Ambassador Cruises last year despite bein...

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

Carnival Ecstasy quietly slipped out of the Port of Miami overnight and is on the way to the Med... to Aliaga to join the fate of 4 sisters there. Sad... last cruise I was on was Ecstasy in Jan 2020. At least they raised money for a good cause auctioning off items: https://www.cruisehive.com/carniva...

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

The Marella Celebration, which was built in 1984 has headed to the scrapyard at Aliaga, Turkey to be broken up after being laid up since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. This ship had been sailing for Marella since 2005 and still had like 5 years of service left with a minor cruise...

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

The Marella Celebration, which was built in 1984 has headed to the scrapyard at Aliaga, Turkey to be broken up after being laid up since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. This ship had been sailing for Marella since 2005 and still had like 5 years of service left with a minor cruise...

Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

Carnival has historically kept ships in service over 30 years. Elation and Paradise are going currently on the fleet plan until at least 2030 on their trade information. The only 2 ships that are leaving Carnival officially are Ecstacy in November and Luminosa that will be returned to Costa in Q2 20...

Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

So why is it being scrapped?. Similar to the airline industry, for the cruise industry, the COVID downturn has triggered a purge of older vessels that represent excess capacity in the current market. Newer ships coming online can carry more passengers at higher profit. So the scrap rate is high rig...

Re: De Havilland to announce new manufacturing complex

The CL-215/415 were manufactured historically first in Montreal and then North Bay ON I believe. I know the Montreal facility has long been closed but what happened to the one in North Bay? The Twin Otter (Twotter) has been dormant for a few years and I hope to see it revived. The Dash-8-400 is cur...

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

Introducing Sun Princess[emoji2400] Next Generation Ship | Princess Cruises https://youtu.be/6rUgPva9hWo The new ship for Princess cruises . Please tell me there a "Pacific Princess" ship in the works. Considering they just sold the most recent Pacific Princess it’ll be a few years away. ...

Re: Vintage Airline decals (A300, A310, ATR-42, F27, Brunei..)

Depends on the size, but the 7 decals I own are all intended for use on ground equipment (carts, cars, tugs, etc) or structure elements (doors, signs) Larger Vehicle ones tend to be reversed on a paper backing and heat activated adhesive. Smaller ones are more peel and stick or peel-stick-peel. Smal...

Re: World’s Thinnest Watch

For 1.9 million you could buy a whole collection of high end watches AND the house to put them in.

And I agree this thing is ugly. The actually watch face is a tiny circle on a huge flat surface. It’s bragging and nothing else.


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Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

Yesterday was an unfortunate day for cruise ships… Carnival Freedom had a fire while arriving in Grand Turk yesterday https://carnival-news.com/2022/05/26/statement-on-carnival-freedom/ https://cruiseradio.net/carnival-freedom-cruise-ship-catches-fire-grand-turk/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdWaRfnj/?...

Re: 10 killed in Buffalo mass shooting.

The report I read said after this a-hole shot up the place, he put the gun to his chin but the cops talked him out of doing himself in. Too bad - nothing would be more deserving than this piece of filth to be removed from the planet. There are no words in the English language to strongly enough con...

Re: 10 killed in Buffalo mass shooting.

He is from the southern tier of NY state (not more specific than that) Souther Tier would include Allegany, Broom, Delaware and Steuben Counties. It’s right in the PA border and shares a lot in common with the PA counties adjacent to it. I think Binghamton is the largest town there (I could be mist...

10 killed in Buffalo mass shooting.

Watching the presser: 10 dead 1 was security guard who was a retired BPD officer. Security guard did land at least 1 round on the shooter but seems to of hit body armour. 3 other store employees were injured. Location is Jefferson Ave and Riley St - Tops Market Shooter is alive and in custody, 18yea...

Re: Buffalo Airways bought their first jet, A 737-300SF

I’m still surprised Buffalo hasn’t converted a few of their DC3s to PT6s, or finding some used Cv580s with the same engines as the LOEs. The only other option would be going more modern with cargo ATRs or Dash 8s to replace the C46s and DC3s once AVGAS is gone.


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Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

In most cases a suit jacket over dress shirt will be fine. There are alternatives that some fashions can provide as well.


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Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

Just back from a short cruise on QM2. Nice pictures. I'd love to do a sailing aboard the QM2 but I've grown too used to NCL's Freestyle Cruising and I can't see myself going back to anything else. Plus, given that Cunard likely expects its guest to dress a little more beyond jeans and tennis shoes ...

Re: The Antonov AN-22 "Antei"

There were reports it was at Hostomel and destroyed but I haven’t seen and can’t find confirmation. Everyone is concerned only with the Mriya apparently.


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Re: Who are your LEAST favorite sport teams?

Boston Red Sox MLB Boston Celtics NBA Boston Bruins NHL New England Patriots NFL Ok yea any team from Boston and area Also RIo Grand Vipers NBA GLeague Detroit Pistons NBA Spanish National Football Team FIFA Hamilton Tigercats CFL Baltimore Orioles MLB Toronto Make Believes err Maple Leafs NHL And M...

Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed

Ok so as a rundown... from the photos: Forward Fuselage and right wing root are burned out. Right wing inboard is fire damaged and on ground Engines 4-5-6 probably destroyed Left wing seems intact, but probably has some damage, wing root is blackended, hard to tell if smoke stain or fire damage... c...

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

What is the oldest ocean liner still in service? I googled this and here's the top 10 oldest : https://www.cruisebe.com/10-oldest-cruise-ships-that-still-operate-cruises That list is old. Two of those ships have been scrapped in the last couple years. Marco Polo and Boudicca are scrapped. Ocean Maj...

Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed

Spetsnaz55 wrote:

Saw this on Twitter


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Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed

canyonblue17 wrote:

I snagged this shot of AN-124 tail UR-82027 at Nellis Air Force Base less than two weeks ago. She was doing a roundtrip from IAD in Washington DC. I hope she stayed in the States.