FWIW in WWII, the way to tell an ME262 strip from one with piston engines was the ME262 had concrete runways because the engines tended to set asphalt runways on fire. So the Alled fighters hung around the concrete strips to catch the ME262 when they were landing or taking off. Mind you those engine...
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Jump to postNote sure I follow much of this. One source suggests the following CASMs all for the same mission (note I added a small constant to each figure so the order is likely to be correct, but the real ratio is higher than in these data. A332 0.384 A333 0.358 788 (goodness knows what weight or SFC by now b...
Jump to postLots of "morons" and "idiots" and inappropriate references to handicapped persons in this thread, it must be about the US. Someone should bring back Mr Tweedly from Elderly Man River together with Stan Freeberg. "Politeness I think Mr Tweedly". Also there is an obscure reference to oil not "being ar...
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Jump to postAn appropriate tribute to Roebuck from Cathy Wilcox in the SMH today. <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/opinion/cartoons/cathy-wilcox-20090909-fhd6.html" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/o...ns/cathy-wilcox-20090909-fhd6.html</a> 55 out. But that hat says it all. Also som...
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Jump to postQF31/32 has been codeshared with a number of others (three I think). I forget what they were except there was a <acronym title="British Airways">BA</acronym> in there. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Qu...
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Jump to postI think we had some poll results earlier, so this is Hartcher's take on a H/Nielsen poll <i> QANTAS has emerged as the chief villain after the dispute that momentarily paralysed the nation, with a new poll showing more voters disapproving of its actions than those of any other key player. The latest...
Jump to postIt seems that it gets worse: <i>PETER ROEBUCK, regarded by many as the finest cricket writer of his generation, fell to his death from a hotel window in Cape Town on Saturday night after being questioned by police about an alleged sexual assault. Roebuck, who had written on cricket for the Herald si...
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Jump to postSad postcript to the test with the sudden death of Peter Roebuck. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-13/peter-roebuck-dies-at-fifty-five/3663176?section=sport" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-1...t-fifty-five/3663176?section=sport</a> <i> Roebuck dies aged 55 ABC cricket ...
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Jump to postThe funniest comment over that totally amazing day must be that from Mark Taylor. Apparently with <acronym title="South African Airways">SA</acronym> in innings 1 at about 49/1 he went to bed and sleep. A short time later, he got a phone message that indicated Aus were 15/quite a few. He assumed his...
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Jump to postOver in Civil, RR are saying that the bigger engine has the same SFC (must mean TSFC) as the smaller engine. Previously a 1% or so penalty had been assumed. Does this make any difference?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mariner" class="quote" target="_blank">mariner</a> (<a href="#263" class="quote">Reply 263</a>):<br/><i>Quoting Baroque (Reply 262): If you want...
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Jump to postMust introduce you to a gentleman called Occam, he had a razor. Or the law of parsimony. That should appeal to <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> management. If IFSD after overseas stops : IFSD after leaving Aus normalized for the numbers of each type of departure differs markedly then...
Jump to postAt 219/1 it is a slaughter. I thought is might be tense. Not a bit of it. Not much room for Smith to get a ton though!
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Revelation" class="quote" target="_blank">Revelation</a> (<a href="#59" class="quote">Reply 59</a>):<br/><i>I'd be just as happy to be at <acron...
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Jump to postWe seem to be arguing two different points. You seem to be trying to demonstrate that A-based engineers are making unreasonable claims. I don't know whether they are or not. What I am interested in is do the IFSDs have a different pattern leaving overseas stops compared with Australian stops? AFAI c...
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Jump to postFrom Cricinfo <i>Australia 284 & 47 South Africa 96 & 63/1 (13.2 ov) South Africa require another 173 runs with 9 wickets remaining</i> In the Australian second innings #11 with 14 topscored. SAfrica lost their last 9 wicket in the first innings for not many. And Australia were 9/21 in their...
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