Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2024

Should be mx and Viasat mods. It's still a couple years away from retirement. Thanks! I have heard conflicting things. Someone said several 76L frames were retiring this year, others said early 2025. How long do these mods/mx take usually? I believe the 76L frames retiring this year are N176DN and ...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2024

35H 3520 third test flight yesterday at TLS https://aviation.flights/aib/A350/654 321N msn 11899 (tail unknown) taxi check at BFM yesterday https://aviation.flights/aib/A320/11899 76L 171 to being ferry tonight and then on to ICN tomorrow 75S 6814 to exit QRO-VQQ tomorrow. In addition to general re...

Re: Delta Air Lines Fleet - 2024

For those following 767ER ship 171, it completed it's first Trans-Atlantic flight in many months. Delta seems to be keeping this one stateside, adding more cycles than hours on the airframe. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N171DN Last SDR (Feb, 2024) showed 144k hours and 21k cycles on the ...

Re: Unite the Right / Jan 6 - Legal Impacts - A thread

In my view, it only happened because we have so few actual threats that the security directors treated their jobs as pure patronage jobs with no need to perform actual work. They were fat, lazy walruses collecting a paycheck for a threat they believed would never come. It's more than that. A distur...

Re: 45 Says Obama Bugged His Office

tommy1808 wrote:

Does Trump really not know that Germany contributes about three times as much money per Capita into the NATO budget than the USA?

Re: From Obamacare To "Wedontcare"

So what happens now ? They will gut it through the back channel silently (through HHS etc rather than through major legislation) to make it as big a mess as possible for everyone, then blame Obama and try again. Stay vigilant and we need to make sure the courts are involved. He is completely unprep...

Re: How fair are the laws in Israel

Elor Azara a medic in the Israeli force, who suppose to help injured people, with cold blood shoots a Palestinian already injured,disarmed and kills him. The fair laws in Israel sentences him to only 18 months of prison, only, in the same time Palestinian children get up to 3.5 years for throwing a...

Re: 'Trump slump' hitting air travel

These are great times in the stock market - largest percentage increase following a presidential election since 1928... 1928....that worked out real well long term, didn't it? :scratchchin: Looking at the leadership of Europe and the U. K., I would think you'd probably be better off here than there...

Re: Whitehouse Bans Press from Briefing

Many Republicans put party ahead of country. It would take moderates like John McCain and Lindsey Graham to break with the far right to do this. When/if they do, those two will be drummed out of the party. 1.) Just because they are criticizing Trump a bit doesn't make Graham and "Bomb Bomb Bom...

Re: The Netherlands introduces itself to Trump

AirPacific747 wrote:

Quite funny. I really hope Trump will watch it at some stage. Hopefully he'll be able to see the humor.

Re: The Scourge Of The "Fake News" Phenomena

The entire concept of fake news (as if you could contain or define it) is ludicrous. Notability, import, and context (significance) are the eye of the beholder. A news story is a point of view, but you want to reduce subjectivity as much as possible -- makes it more true. Alas, news writing involve...

Re: Northwest DC9's

LOL, this thread reminds me of the glory days of A.net when I joined 12 years ago, and half the threads were abour NW DC-9 retirements.

I appreciate that if you are going to troll, you should do it in a maximum-nostalgia way!

Re: Do you replay old games?

HA! I have the oldest games of you all...(I think) Archon on the Apple IIe. Now that's a game. And I dust it off sometimes. On a working IIe. I loved Utopia on Intelevision too. That was long before there was Sim City and Civilization and all that. But I don't have a working intellivistion, so that ...

Re: Several French mayors ban the burkini from their towns' beaches

What a stupid, provocative, counter-productive policy. I hope (and assume) it will be struck down by the court this week. You now basically have a French equivalent to Saudi etc. morality police telling women what they can and can't wear. In no way is this a public safety issue, like one could argue...

Re: What IS Trump's Game?

PVJIN has to be the greatest troll this website has ever seen. Over the last few months, it has become clear that he is not just a rightwing fearmonger, but that his arguments are so self-destructive and so contradictory, and so incendiary that he cannot possibly believe them. One minute, he is defe...

Re: Clint Eastwood Sounds off on the Millenials

[http://listverse.com/2010/10/26/10-ridiculous-cases-of-political-correctness/] [https://uk.news.yahoo.com/10-examples-ridiculous-political-correctness-150911412.html] Check these out and see how you feel on this topic. Quite interesting to say the least! My response about those lists: 1.) Half of ...

Stop naming mass murderers in the press?

With all these recent mass murder events, there have been many overlapping factors that are discussed to death. Some have been politically motivated (by people proclaiming their allegiance to ISIS, or the far right, etc.), some have been facilitated by access to assault weapons and other guns. Perso...

Re: Unarmed black man shot while laying on ground, hands in the air

http://usuncut.com/news/north-miami-cop-charles-kinsey/ And here's this year's award winner for the worst excuse: the cop was actually trying to shoot the Autistic man playing with the truck, AFTER the care taker told the cops that the man was Autistic, but missed and hit the care taker in the leg....

Re: Did Melania Trump plagiarize Michelle Obama ?

Old white dirtbag claims America is a flaming dump that he wants to "make great again" = patriot! Black woman says she's proud of a country making a comeback = communist sympathizer that needs to be drawn and quartered. Damn. You nailed that...but Dreadnought will never see this double st...

Re: Did Melania Trump plagiarize Michelle Obama ?

At least she actually likes her country, unlike Michelle. You have the most fantastically (and terrifyingly) distorted understanding of this that I can possibly imagine. You talk about liberal thought police? Yet you are the most thought policing person imaginable. You seriously are unable to allow...

Re: Trump selects Mike Pence for Vice Pres candidate

MaverickM11 wrote:

Looking forward to seeing how this evangelical turd bucket and recently saved Trump plan to attack the major threat of porn and electromagnetic pulses.

Re: Yet another terrorist attack hits France

I'm an educated person and I realize what kind of effects social and economic factors have on a population and more specifically minorities, but you don't see African Americans plowing trucks into people and shooting airports and other public spaces up with AK-47's. Why do I mention African America...

Re: Yet another terrorist attack hits France

Does it matter if their parents had status of being refugees or immigrants? Their genetic, religious and cultural background is the same and it can't be a coincidence that its time after time again people with the same religious, cultural and genetic background committing these horrible crimes. You...

Re: Yet another terrorist attack hits France

And I just logged into my Facebook account and turned on the TV. Total silence on both fronts. Last week there was nonstop news coverage and outrage expressed on both. I guess lives don't matter to people in the US unless they are white US citizens. I am sickened by this. Seriously? There is alread...

Re: Bernie endorses Hillary

I'm not calling him a sellout, but I would've liked to see him run independent and shake the foundation of the 2-party system we are so used to and complain about, but don't do anything to change it. I could not disagree with this post more. This is exactly how Nader handed us 8 years of Bush. That...

Re: Shots fired during Dallas Black Lives Matter protest...

BLM is a terrorist organization. This is a war on White people and White European-American Society. 2+2=5! 2+2=5! People who say that 2+2 is 4 are trying to commit genocide against white people!!! You know what the sad thing about what I just wrote is? It is more true than your post. But I think yo...

Re: Elie Wiesel, Nobeloriate and Holocaust Survivor, dead at 87

Elie Wiesel was an interesting phenomenon: an example of how horrible suffering at the hands of an inhuman, evil government, coupled to literary talent, still does not make you a good person by default. He used his victimhood in the most self-serving way--fighting for years to keep other victims of ...

Re: Mass migration to a new website?

However, In the end, people get used to it and adapt. I can get used to the new colors and the new format. In fact, I already have. What I can NOT get used to is having to sign back in multiple times per day and getting my posts deleted because the website randomly logged me out. Now, if DM were in...

Re: EU referendum today

It's Gove being PM I worry about It's my view that Gove's hatchet job will have done himself as much harm as it did BoJo. I'm of the view (hope) that Theresa May will win the contest. Honest question: how do you picture her leadership would shape up. She's scary to me. I'm slightly encouraged by he...

Re: EU referendum today

The Uk will come out of it stronger than ever. Free from the chains of the EU and still the most exciting and interesting place for business in Europe. There is a reason why all successful airlines in the EU have their roots in the British market. And London as a global financial hub will just laug...

Re: Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion

Ongoing problems: Cannot stay signed in, on any browser. Have to re-sign in every time I come to the site/forum. Then, if I was reading a thread, can't go back to where I was before I signed in without navigating back there step by step and searching through the replies. I miss being able to respond...

Re: EU referendum today

British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes and to settle down. https://abload.de/img/aliwrzsa.jpg best regards Thomas It is truly amazing to me that Boris can still be spouting these 100% outright and immediately disprovable lies--that Bri...

Re: EU referendum today

It seems Roy Hodgson is a man who believes in the democratic will of the people and has taken England out of Europe before Boris...

Re: EU referendum today

Braybuddy wrote:

Em . . . you obviously don't see the irony of using a picture of that well-known democrat and champion of free speech, Vladimir Putin, in your profile . . .

Re: EU referendum today

It seems that Brexit has brought out the nutters in the UK to the fore. Good luck, those who have voted to remain and the immigrants who thought Britain was a place to get a fresh start. http://www.facebook.com/sarah.leblanc.7 ... 985&type=3 That is devastating. It is important for cynical poli...

Re: RE: Presidential Veep-stakes: Place Your Bets

I am of the belief that for the first woman to run for President in the US to pick another woman and create an all female ticket might not be too smart. It just might cause a male backlash. It might even cause a few divorces. Not a good idea in my mind.    Anyone who is misogynist enough not to vot...

Re: EU referendum today

scbriml wrote:

RobK wrote:

Is that the best you could do?

From a country that could yet elect Trump as president?

Re: EU referendum today

My depression over this is sinking in, but here is a little dark humo(u)r for the occasion:

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber

Re: EU referendum today

2 things saddened me today a) A guy in the office shouting that we can now 'send them all back' and then turning to the German girls sitting next to him an saying 'Erm not you off course' b) Someone I know who has moved to Europe and only speaks English and has no intention of learning the local la...

Re: Friend Flying FL FLL-ATL Friday.

Best...bump...EVER

Re: Another Case of Shooting - This Time In The UK

I'm actually happy to double down on my original reply. You're talking absolute nonsense. It's scary you think that way. How exactly is it nonsense? Are you saying that Breivik had no political motive? Perhaps you should do some research before writing nonsense, now you are just being a stereotypic...

Re: Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion

Two issues, already mentioned in passing by others, but I don't see any response when I search: 1.) My followers and following lists were switched, definitely, when the website upgraded. And I believe this may be true with everyone. That's a big thing that should be fixable with a quick fix. 2.) Won...

Re: Radical MALE Extremists

Don't believe me? Just compare Europe and the US. We here in Europe tend to have more liberal attitudes on prostitution, the business being legal nearly everywhere, while in the US it's legal in just couple of counties in Nevada I believe. We also have significantly less gun violence. Similarly in ...

Re: Netanyahu responds to Orlando

But call me skeptical for believing this is just a "you see? we also suffer from 'radical Muslims'" moment. That sums up my thoughts. I am very upset by the sudden outpouring of "sympathy" for LGBT people by conservatives who only care because they are using the situation to pro...

RE: Another USA Mass Shooting - Gays This Time!

<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/13/orlando-massacre-omar-mateens-ex-wife-says-he-beat-her-and-held-her-hostage" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...s-he-beat-her-and-held-her-hostage</a> Excerpts: <i> Omar Mateen’s former wife says the man responsible for Amer...

RE: Another USA Mass Shooting - Gays This Time!

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jfklganyc" class="quote" target="_blank">jfklganyc</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>Actually, it seems that this one will be...

RE: Pets In Cars Debate

What is it about dogs in particular that makes people so extraordinarily extreme on all sides, because they are cute? I don't know why but the hypocrisy gets me. Many of those who would bust windows, call 911, key cars, and generally go all vigilante because of a dog left alone for three minutes, or...

RE: Do We Show Fellow A-Netter Respect?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/flyingturtle" class="quote" target="_blank">flyingturtle</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>for example "Do we need pigeons?...

RE: What Will You Do If Trump Wins The Presidency?

I will be truly scared. I really wish I liked Hillary, but it is extremely important for all those die-hard Bernie people now to hold their noses and vote for her, because she is not by any crazy stretch "the same as Trump." <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font si...

RE: Do We Show Fellow A-Netter Respect?

The search function has not worked for years now. It does not show any posts for me less than three years old. There is a thread in site-related about this, but they clearly have no intention of fixing it. I don't ever even bother with it anymore, except now and then (like every couple of months) I ...