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by fortytwoeyes
Sat May 06, 2023 3:58 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: What kind of vehicle do you drive?
Replies: 165
Views: 20226

Re: What kind of vehicle do you drive?

2021 Ford Focus ST Wagon. Petrol (they did make a diesel one, so that needs specifying), manual, blue.

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by fortytwoeyes
Fri Mar 04, 2022 2:03 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed
Replies: 360
Views: 104228

Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed

This is very sad indeed! Now i wonder, could they have flown it out on 5 engines with no payload and just enough fuel to reach a safe airport? It's missing the inboard right one, so i don't think asymmetric thrust would be a big issue. There is a pic of a 747-100 flying without the #3 engine at all...

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by fortytwoeyes
Mon Feb 28, 2022 4:04 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed
Replies: 360
Views: 104228

Re: Ode to Mriya, AN-225 confirmed destroyed

Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Sunday that the only An-225 aircraft had been destroyed. There is a tiny little detail. Very few people know that there were actually TWO An-225s. One flying example that we all know. And one unfinished frame. The latter was stored at the "Ant...

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by fortytwoeyes
Sun Nov 14, 2021 2:27 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: BBC: Should England's top football teams be flying to domestic fixtures?
Replies: 49
Views: 7932

Re: BBC: Should England's top football teams be flying to domestic fixtures?

Now the Netherlands is a small country, but let's look at our neighbors. I mean the Germans, they got a whole bunch of top clubs all over the country. Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, etc. And mostly they go by coach as well, which is no surprise given Germany's excellent highway network. Anyway, ...

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by fortytwoeyes
Fri Oct 29, 2021 2:08 pm
Forum: Military Aviation & Space Flight
Topic: German Government A340
Replies: 2
Views: 1838

Re: German Government A340

President Steinmeier is visiting Ireland, I assume he used the A340.

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by fortytwoeyes
Sat Aug 28, 2021 9:57 pm
Forum: Military Aviation & Space Flight
Topic: First C-130J-30 for Germany painted
Replies: 21
Views: 7678

Re: First C-130J-30 for Germany painted

https://esut.de/2021/08/meldungen/29157 ... -transall/
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JetBuddy wrote:
Are the Transalls being retired?


The last Transall was retired a couple of days ago. Source in German with picture of the farewell tour livery: https://esut.de/2021/08/meldungen/29157 ... -transall/

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by fortytwoeyes
Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:16 pm
Forum: Military Aviation & Space Flight
Topic: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!
Replies: 100
Views: 12782

Re: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!

And unfortunately they have to be strict. Imagine you have empty space so you let a few hundred refugees on, and then last minute a bus load of your original manifested pax show up. Do you want to be the one to go back there and tell 50 of the refugees to get off? Think that’ll go down well and not...

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:06 pm
Forum: Military Aviation & Space Flight
Topic: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!
Replies: 100
Views: 12782

Re: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!

flyingturtle wrote:
It's confirmed that the German A400 only rescued 7 people.


Yes, I know. That wasn't the point.

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue Aug 17, 2021 7:30 pm
Forum: Military Aviation & Space Flight
Topic: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!
Replies: 100
Views: 12782

Re: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!

flyingturtle wrote:
And before that, people died clambering to a C-17. I hope their souls will torment the German armed forces.

Care to share your intelligence? I mean, with words like those you must have a pretty solid picture of the situation at the airport when the German plane was there.

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by fortytwoeyes
Mon May 24, 2021 11:46 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
Replies: 1121
Views: 81709

Re: F1 - 2021 Season

It’s Monaco, what did you expect? My expectations were low, but this was an awful "race" that failed to even meet my expectations. I really didn't miss Monaco last year. Have it as a exhibition event, but it's a complete joke in a modern F1 car. There were excitement further back in the p...

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by fortytwoeyes
Sat May 22, 2021 11:32 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
Replies: 1121
Views: 81709

Re: F1 - 2021 Season

Good, no great loss there anyway for any of them. And I have no problems with a six team grid - if the other teams are just there to make up the numbers, then they arent contributing to anything but noise, bustle and crowding on the circuit. Backmarkers get in the way, get blue flags and then get o...

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by fortytwoeyes
Thu May 20, 2021 3:15 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
Replies: 1121
Views: 81709

Re: F1 - 2021 Season

Have to say I'm disappointed, but hardly surprised, to lose the Turkish GP, but adding a second at the Red Bull Ring is good - it rarely fails to provide some interest and/or excitement. An improved RB team will be desperate to get good results there. I think having 2 races at the same circuit on t...

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by fortytwoeyes
Wed May 05, 2021 8:50 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Do you have a tablet?
Replies: 22
Views: 3443

Re: Do you have a tablet?

Galaxy Tab A 10.1, which is pretty much always mounted to our elliptical trainer for entertainment. With my phone being a Galaxy Note 10+ I don't really need a tablet in other situations.

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by fortytwoeyes
Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:12 am
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: F1 - 2021 Season
Replies: 1121
Views: 81709

Re: F1 - 2021 Season

moo wrote:
I agree, its going to be gimmicky crap and its not going to "improve the show" at all.

I just don't understand how "must improve the weekend format" is the hill they've chosen to die on for years now. F1 has problems that need solving, but the format isn't one of them.

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by fortytwoeyes
Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:35 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Controlling a Soundbar with TV, Cable, or Universal Remote Control
Replies: 10
Views: 1347

Re: Controlling a Soundbar with TV, Cable, or Universal Remote Control

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Harmony-Companion-Control-Entertainment-Black/dp/B014GXQ3S4/ref=sr_1_1?ascsubtag=tomsguide-row-1322384502249947100-20&dchild=1&geniuslink=true&keywords=logitech+harmony+companion+all+in+one+remote+control+for+smart+home+and+entertainment+devices+hub+app...

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by fortytwoeyes
Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:34 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Your favorite wiper blades
Replies: 32
Views: 2751

Re: Your favorite wiper blades

Bosch Aerotwin. Not used anything else for years, unless it was a car that still had the OEM blades.

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue Feb 16, 2021 1:19 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: User's rides
Replies: 83
Views: 5858

Re: User's rides

2013 Ford Focus Estate in white with the 1.6l 150 hp Ecoboost engine, manual transmission. Soon to be replaced with a new Focus ST Estate with the 2.3l 280 hp engine, manual, in Performance Blue.

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by fortytwoeyes
Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:29 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Have we started liking Lufthansa's new livery?
Replies: 49
Views: 4624

Re: Have we started liking Lufthansa's new livery?

The old one was quite dated and ready for a refresh. The new one is a competent design that provides the needed modernization, but I still think it's missing something that would make it unique.

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by fortytwoeyes
Thu Feb 04, 2021 6:58 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2021
Replies: 382
Views: 54162

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2021

Concerns are growing over the future of the famous ocean liner Queen Mary, which has an impressive history in both wartime and peacetime. Concerns have rose about the upkeep and condition of the famous ocean liner now in Long Beach around the complex of businesses operating her. A group of supporte...

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by fortytwoeyes
Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:32 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: How did tattoos become so popular?
Replies: 72
Views: 4136

Re: How did tattoos become so popular?

FTMCPIUS wrote:
We find ways to not employ those who mutilate their body. I often wonder if they'll ever figure out the real reason for not getting the position.


I don't think I'd want to work for an employer who made me strip off my suit during the interview anyway.

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by fortytwoeyes
Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:08 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Most geographically nonsensical routing?
Replies: 106
Views: 12712

Re: Most geographically nonsensical routing?

Best one for me would be PER-SIN-HKG-LHR-DUS. Not on one ticket though, I had booked a return DUS-LHR-HKG to spend a semester in Shenzhen, and at the end of that time I went to Singapore and Australia with a couple of friends. Since I already had the ticket from HKG I stuck with that, also allowing ...

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by fortytwoeyes
Mon Jun 11, 2018 6:19 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: LH A340 damaged by pushback tug fire at FRA
Replies: 233
Views: 55754

Re: LH A340 damaged by pushback tug fire at FRA

Or a 340-300. Enough of them are stored. As far as I can see there's not a single LH 343 stored. Looking further in LH group, Airfleets shows a few Swiss ones stored, but those all seem leased, so it's hard to say whether it would be viable to reactive one of those - and they might even have been s...

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by fortytwoeyes
Fri Apr 06, 2018 4:02 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: QR 777 loses FC Barcelona livery
Replies: 15
Views: 4482

Re: QR 777 loses BCN livery

zkojq wrote:
Eh? Lufthansa just repainted an A340-600 into the Bayern Munich livery.

As far as I know that was applied in 2016 and removed in July 17 after Bayern's tour of Asia. QR will replace LH as sponsor from July 1 this year.

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:53 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: LH new livery to be ‘revised’ after only three weeks
Replies: 154
Views: 40384

Re: LH new livery to be ‘revised’ after only three weeks

It would look better if the logo was in yellow. I am fine with the blue tail but the white logo is hideous. Here are 2 quick edits https://i.imgur.com/wDa7JBe.png https://i.imgur.com/Sw7T9om.png (Unfortunately, I can't edit/ fix my previous post, so I apologize if people consider my post spam.) Why...

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:49 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: LH introduces revised livery
Replies: 1106
Views: 234075

Re: LH introduces revised livery

TurboJet707 wrote:
The communication that Innsbruckflyer refers to also mentions that an alternative livery variant will be developed in which the 'Lufthansa' script will be joined by the crane logo.

That reads to me as not referring to the livery, but to other forms of marketing material.

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by fortytwoeyes
Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:59 am
Forum: Site Related
Topic: NEW FORUM RULES
Replies: 118
Views: 52843

Re: NEW FORUM RULES

I don't really see the need reason for the bureaucracy caused by section 1.g 2-4. If it's relevant information, it should be fine to post it even after the six months have passed. If it isn't, it falls under other rules (1.i for example) and should be removed anyway.

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by fortytwoeyes
Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:03 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: LH introduces revised livery
Replies: 1106
Views: 234075

Re: LH introduces revised livery

Qantas uses a very similar scheme to Lufthansa (apart from the colours), yet it's highly respected and even considered iconic. Nobody has every accused it of looking like a LCC. With Qantas it makes sense to extend the tail colour down the fuselage, because the logo does so as well. The LH logo doe...

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by fortytwoeyes
Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:59 am
Forum: Technical/Operations
Topic: Southwest trying to get rid of bugs in reservations
Replies: 32
Views: 7089

Re: Southwest trying to get rid of bugs in reservations

http://www.southwest.com will not work from overseas IP addresses. So when I book travel to the states I can't book additional flights on Southwest unless I use a VPN to alter my IP address.... just nuts.

Seems to be working fine for me from Germany.
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vegas005 wrote:
One HUGE bug is http://www.southwest.com will not work from overseas IP addresses. So when I book travel to the states I can't book additional flights on Southwest unless I use a VPN to alter my IP address.... just nuts.

Seems to be working fine for me from Germany.

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by fortytwoeyes
Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:48 pm
Forum: Technical/Operations
Topic: Novel: realistic pilot calls to tower(s) after forced diversion
Replies: 57
Views: 4759

Re: Novel: realistic pilot calls to tower(s) after forced diversion

Don't suppose even a magic plot-convenient .45 cal slug or two piercing the cockpit floor and zipping through the avionics bay could plausibly suffice to disable all protections... hmmm... Maybe revert to the 737? Is it less self-protected? Maybe a bizjet version of a 767 if the plot requires a roo...

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by fortytwoeyes
Wed Sep 27, 2017 6:59 pm
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: New Star Trek: Discovery
Replies: 15
Views: 1940

Re: New Star Trek: Discovery

Very unhappy, I can't get over the visuals - I know it can't look like TOS, but then why do they have to set it at that particular point in time? Go into the future, post TNG, and have some new aliens instead of changing the Klingons into something unrecognizable. At this point The Orville is the be...

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue Aug 15, 2017 3:25 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Eurowings Cancelled Flight - HELP !!
Replies: 39
Views: 14016

Re: Eurowings Cancelled Flight - HELP !!

It's changing, credit cards are becoming more accepted in Germany, but my advice to any traveller would still be "they might take them, but do not expect it and always have an alternative on hand"

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:12 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Horizon Air scheduling havoc will continue into the fall
Replies: 82
Views: 10130

Re: Horizon Air scheduling havoc will continue into the fall

What "major international airline" is still flying Q300s?

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by fortytwoeyes
Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:42 am
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: German Parliament finally voting on gay marriage
Replies: 44
Views: 2171

Re: German Parliament finally voting on gay marriage

I wonder if Merkels comment was deliberate or actually her Schabowski-moment. I'd file it under election tactics. With every other democratic party making it part of their election program, and the majority of voters in favor, this was a chance to remove the topic before it becomes relevant for the...

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by fortytwoeyes
Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:39 am
Forum: Site Related
Topic: Announcement: Airliners.net has been acquired by VerticalScope
Replies: 417
Views: 246721

Re: Announcement: Airliners.net has been acquired by VerticalScope

Wow, seeing it again now really drives home how outdated it was.

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by fortytwoeyes
Wed May 24, 2017 10:01 pm
Forum: Site Related
Topic: Multiple Screen Names
Replies: 1
Views: 4292

Re: Multiple Screen Names

No, because many people don't have static IPs.

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue May 09, 2017 6:42 pm
Forum: Site Related
Topic: Paid Membership
Replies: 10
Views: 5510

Re: Paid Membership

Whatsaptudo wrote:
Stop the free membership now, you're advertisers will thank you.


Yes, because the one thing advertisers just LOVE is reducing the number of visitors.

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue May 02, 2017 10:53 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: German airlines drop safety rule prompted by Germanwings crash
Replies: 90
Views: 12126

Re: German airlines drop safety rule prompted by Germanwings crash

dtw2hyd wrote:
It will be reported under GermanWings AOC which is defunct now.

It isn't. Eurowings wet leases Germanwings planes.

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by fortytwoeyes
Sun Apr 30, 2017 12:16 am
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Best Looking Government Liveries?
Replies: 13
Views: 1527

Re: Best Looking Government Liveries?

I may be biased, but I think the German livery is extremely classy.

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by fortytwoeyes
Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:38 am
Forum: Non-Aviation
Topic: Is it worth going into politics?
Replies: 20
Views: 1875

Re: Is it worth going into politics?

As to being astounded that anyone can believe that the entire US political spectrum is shifted far to the right, as a result of my visits to the US and my wife having close relatives living there, I'm astounded that any US citizen who has spent more than a short while abroad could be in denial over...

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue Apr 11, 2017 11:01 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Another United gaffe - forces doctor off plane
Replies: 2119
Views: 158182

Re: Another United gaffe - forces doctor off plane

I think it's been clarified that the employees showed up during/after boarding, not before. They weren't originally expected. Has it? The report quoted here http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1360189&start=450#p19467489 says that they were already looking for volunteers befo...

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by fortytwoeyes
Mon Apr 03, 2017 11:29 pm
Forum: Military Aviation & Space Flight
Topic: Operating on another countries Aircraft Carrier
Replies: 12
Views: 3817

Re: Operating on another countries Aircraft Carrier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st85Z4mrExc)

Seems like at least the refueling crew for the Hornets was flown in, if I read the French subtitles right.
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apfpilot wrote:
F/A-18 on the Charles De Gaulle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st85Z4mrExc)

Seems like at least the refueling crew for the Hornets was flown in, if I read the French subtitles right.

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by fortytwoeyes
Mon Apr 03, 2017 10:35 am
Forum: Site Related
Topic: Announcement: Airliners.net has been acquired by VerticalScope
Replies: 417
Views: 246721

Re: Announcement: Airliners.net has been acquired by VerticalScope

As for search, us old folk knew that the right way to search was to use Google and make sure to put airliners.net in the search field along with your topic. That's not the "right" way, that's a workaround for a broken feature that often doesn't produce the desired result either. Try findi...

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by fortytwoeyes
Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:46 am
Forum: Site Related
Topic: New site still doesn't do it for me, still.
Replies: 3
Views: 1462

Re: New site still doesn't do it for me, still.

I don't. The technical issues with the old site always kept me from handing over any money - why pay to post if basic functionality isn't working?

Also, as far as I understand they stopped taking payments for first class almost a year before the relaunch.

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by fortytwoeyes
Mon Mar 27, 2017 7:15 pm
Forum: Site Related
Topic: Announcement: Airliners.net has been acquired by VerticalScope
Replies: 417
Views: 246721

Re: Annoucement: Airliners.net has been aquired by VerticalScope

JohnKrist wrote:
I agree, all the crashes, data losses, join date issues and other things we had before made the old site perfect.


Not to mention the forum search never finding anything. Utter perfection :lol:

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:53 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Ever fly on the same plane twice?
Replies: 138
Views: 14009

Re: Ever fly on the same plane twice?

Flew Ryanair's EI-DHN on NRN-TLL in September 2015 and it operated the return flight a week later as well.

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by fortytwoeyes
Sat Mar 18, 2017 7:46 pm
Forum: Site Related
Topic: Announcement: Airliners.net has been acquired by VerticalScope
Replies: 417
Views: 246721

Re: Announcement: Airliners.net has been acquired by VerticalScope

On the flag front: I'd rather have a "Location" field that's displayed in the info area underneath the avatar. Those who want to state their location can fill it, but it wouldn't be mandatory.

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by fortytwoeyes
Mon Mar 06, 2017 11:23 pm
Forum: Site Related
Topic: Announcement: Airliners.net has been acquired by VerticalScope
Replies: 417
Views: 246721

Re: Annoucement: Airliners.net has been aquired by VerticalScope

Your vote of confidence in us is appreciated. We are pretty deep in repairs today, please do keep the requests and bug reports coming. We are indeed listening. Jeff M So, any thoughts or plans of moving on to something more advanced than phpBB? It seems the old owners chose phpBB because it was sta...

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by fortytwoeyes
Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:56 pm
Forum: Technical/Operations
Topic: Manual timers in the flight deck
Replies: 9
Views: 3036

Re: Manual timers in the flight deck

There's a Pilotseye film where a Swiss crew uses it to keep track of time limits while having an engine issue.

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by fortytwoeyes
Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:33 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: German government thinking about saving former D-ABCE "Landshut" from scrapping
Replies: 76
Views: 19950

Re: German government thinking about saving former D-ABCE "Landshut" from scrapping

Ronaldo747 wrote:
With the history behind the "Landshut", Bonn indeed makes by far the most sense to me because there is the german museum of contemporary history called Haus der Geschichte. Don't know if they can accommodate it though.

I can't see any way to fit a 737 there.

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