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.
Jump to postACDC8 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
[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...
Jump to postAll 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...
Jump to postSome 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. ...
Jump to postAll 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...
Jump to postSome 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. ...
Jump to postDear 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...
Jump to postHunter 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...
Jump to postThere 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...
Jump to postIt'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...
Jump to postThe 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...
Jump to postBetter 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 ...
Jump to postHeh, 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...
Jump to postIt’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...
Jump to postThe 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...
Jump to postRiyadh 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...
Jump to postSomething changed in the file compression out of whatever photo software they used?
Looks very odd.
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 ...
Jump to postNobody 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...
Jump to postAn 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...
Jump to postThe 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...
Jump to postThis 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...
Jump to postThe 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.
[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...
Jump to postHey 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...
Jump to postThis 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...
Jump to postI 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...
Jump to postTwo 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...
Jump to postAnother 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...
Jump to post“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...
Jump to post[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...
Jump to postAM 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...
Jump to posthttps://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 ...
Jump to postTayo826 wrote:The Su-57 is so stealthy because no one has seen it in action over Ukraine.
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...
Jump to postCould these be worthwhile tanker conversions?
Like what Australia has with a few of ours?
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...
Jump to postT54A wrote:I assume that bogey was not locked down, and the resulting vibration caused detachment. That’s my uninformed guess.
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 ...
Jump to postsmokeybandit 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.
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.
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?
Jump to postIn 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...
Jump to postFlying 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. ...
Jump to postA 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...
Jump to postFor 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 ...
Jump to postThanks, 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...
Jump to postThanks, I won't spend any effort posting anything related to it or the submarines.
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