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You are ending up where everyone seems to. For such an historically important document, I am surprised it has not been put into online archives like the Avalon Project.
Hello all I have searched theforum and internet for the 1941 Butt Report on RAF bombing success and I find references and extracts to it on web sites, articles and videos but I have not found an electronic version I could read. People refer to going to Kew to get a copy. Anyone know of a downloadabl...
Jump to postThe old white with red stripe on the 707 was nice. I do not mind the existing one although a bit too much grey. This one-- blue? It looks like a conservative party election plane. Canada colours people recognize are red and white. Do a white body with big letters saying Canada like the government lo...
Jump to postFlew the last one to Toronto. Had watched her for years at <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>. You could be in a hotel or terminal and you knew it was her from the sound if you did not see her. Something like a <acronym title="Royal Air Force (United Kingdo...
Jump to postThe discussion seems to be focusing on routes and the replacement of <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym>. We started on the labour issue. Are <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> employees in the various roles paid (base and benefits) a comparable pay to similar carriers? If yes, then the i...
Jump to postwhat you are saying is- open more slots in Canada for foreign carriers and this forces the hand of <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym>. I do not know how that works in Canada and if it is as tight as <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> for example. I gu...
Jump to postElPistolero You hit many thoughts and realities I experience. Try getting a J upgrade on the <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> run out of <acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Malton) (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario">YYZ</acronym>. You ...
Jump to postI think we could check discussions back to the early 1990s and the same discussion will be there. I fly betwen 50- 80K with <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> a year and another 40K or so with other carriers each year. They are not much more expensive for the benefits I desire. I expect to hit...
Jump to postHello all I am wondering if all on-line booking systems work the same. I book almost all my flights on line with AC. Today I ran into an oddity and spoke to the AC representative (who was very nice) and who is looking into resolving the situation over the coming days. Situation: A coworker and I are...
Jump to postLooking back from the safety of today is much different than living within the event and decisions that must be made while all is happening. This can not be looked at as an isolated event. No one disagrees the end of the war in Germany was near. No one knew how fast and at what cost the end would co...
Jump to postSeems the <acronym title="Euralair (France)">RN</acronym> and Argentina brought many a lot of lessons. I am reading HMS Warspite, a 1957 book on the famous ship. The author makes a great point of how the <acronym title="Euralair (France)">RN</acronym> was able to have superior ships as they were con...
Jump to postWould a ship borne gun value not be to "hit" the target but being able to put up shrapnel infront of the flight path would do a lot of damage to a jet or physical body. Also I wonder if a bunch of things shot into the flight path with the ability to mess up electronics could work, if they exist. So ...
Jump to postXT6Wagaon - you commented on something that was a learning moment- "that said, there are no armored ship in active use by any navy and center of mass shots tend to be center of what you want to blow up given how much vital components are located in the superstructure." So my idea of a ship having vi...
Jump to postHow much of air fired weapons are aimed at the shp compared to a vital area. Does a missile aim or get aimed for a selected area compared to density or heat? Then, also, how much would Argentina know of where to aim? I gather the soft points of ships would be know in naval areas to a level of detail...
Jump to postThanks folks- good information. Vulcan 607 was an amazing read. I can see how this conflict would be a great example of "what if" in that success could have been turned to defeat. From Vanguard to Trident I understand several <acronym title="Euralair (France)">RN</acronym> submarines were coming int...
Jump to postI am reading Vangaurd to Trident, which is an excellent book on the post war Royal Navy. It walks through the great debates of the fleet air arm in a way a pedestrian like me can understand. In reading the sections on the Falklands, I get the impression the Argentine Airforce did an outstanding job ...
Jump to postI always felt the L1011 was barely moving when she lifted and outside of STOL planes was the slowest I experienced everytime I flew.
Jump to postIt all seems we are revolving around the fact it was the most important victory in many ways. If I were Germany, I have absolutely no reason to invade the UK if I had air superiority. As noted, if I wanted to invade, I could take a slow boat across the channel on my time table since no one can bomb ...
Jump to postCalling it the most important battle is obviously subject to how one looks at the situation. Midway, Kursk, Stalingrad, Moscow and many others could be put on a list. I do think there is merit in calliing it "the most important". If the German airforce had been successful in eliminating RAF strength...
Jump to postis only the q400 in production? the 300/200/100 of the dash 8 are gone?
Jump to postThe more I read on Apollo (Man on the Moon, How they Flew to teh Moon, Saturn V, numerous NASA reports), the more I watch (I rewatch Shadow of the Moon over and over), the more I am amazed on what was pulled off. I think it was the beginning of Saturn V where they say the time from the first flight ...
Jump to postThis leads me to a somewhat off topic question. Knowing the delicate nature of targetting the moon orbit and how a degree of slippage could be death, I was thinking of the horrific situation occurring that if the command module shot/wandered off into space and control back into a lunar or revised ea...
Jump to postIf Apollo 10 failed in its mission. I think of the lunar docking as a key step it demonstrated and the chance the docking manouver after the lift off from the moon misfiring. Would 11 be another proving mission and 12 be available before year end?
Jump to postThanks for the reminder. I am reading the book How Apollo Flew to the Moon right now and I am surprised 2009 is passing with little fanfare on all the Apollo anniversaries. The more I read (books like Saturn V and Man on the Moon), the more you realise the unbelievable feat all missions were for all...
Jump to postWell, this is all an interesting discussion. I found this site: <a href="http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_tables.html." target=_blank>http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_tables.html.</a> that indicated impact speeds were in the 5500mph range on impact. The interesting ...
Jump to postThe release of the stage would be at a high speed. Then it would slow down at the point where the gravity pull switches to the moon and start to accelerate again. The impact speed I expect would be less than the release speed although my minor knowledge makes me think there is a complex formula due ...
Jump to postI was digging around and read that the third stage of the Saturn V was jettisoned either into space or towards the moon. Apollo 14 onwards were directed to the moon. On several occasions seismic systems registered the impact on the moon. My digging here and elsewhere has not brought up an answer to ...
Jump to postPGNCS Hi- I was thinking of the progression of other control mechanisms in life. The telephone went from cranks, dials, touch buttons, to screens. I know tactile feeling is important to control, thus the problems of touch screen typing. If a stick movement is just actuating an electronic connection,...
Jump to postThought- If a plane is fly by wire-or all electronic and no direct link from stick/yoke to the moving item, then could you replace both with effectively a computer button or set of buttons and just tap which on you need a reaction from (like the arrow keys on a computer). You stick them on the arm r...
Jump to postThanks to all who have written info on visiting <acronym title="Philipsburg / St. Maarten - Princess Juliana (SXM / TNCM), Netherlands Antilles">SXM</acronym>. Jumped off a cruise ship this week, grabbed a cab and with my arrivals schedule and other information provided by you all, I had one of the ...
Jump to postWT+ is the 12volt car lighter plug in my experiences with 777 and 744s
Jump to postThanks for this - 607 was a fantastic book with great insight into a mission that today is still amazing. I will be off to the store tomorrow for this new one. We always get books on big things that do not capture the complexities involved. British or not, the author's ability to project the human, ...
Jump to postBest US: <acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Malton) (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario">YYZ</acronym>,. yes not in USA, but you can fly non stop to so many places and if you have NEXUS you zip through customs/immigration like it is not there. Worst: <acronym title="Chicago - O'Ha...
Jump to postHi all I searched the forums for postings and the internet and could not find a posting on arrivals after March 2009. The airport schedule is still the winter one although the link says summer. I am going on a cruise with my family at month end and have a day where I can spend "me" time on Maho beac...
Jump to postOn the Atlantic flights we sometimes arrive 30 or so minutes early to the <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym> area. We joke that there is a race across the Atlantic and first there avoids a hold more than 1 lap. When we arrive "on time" or I am on a later fl...
Jump to postI will have to look at those trees at Wendys, never occurred to me- thanks. You get a multi set of thrills there in the afternoon with the Europe flights coming in and you see them approach over the light stands slowly growing in size, the low pass over, then the vortice sounds.
Jump to postWoodbine golf course in Toronto is a great place to have fun hearing them when planes are landing to the west on the south runway-although you do cause a delay in play because it is too much fun hearing them. The description of a wire being pulled/whipped is exactly the sound you hear. You sometimes...
Jump to postNever say never. I would suspect Mr Wittle never thought a GE90 was possible. Compare a DC7 to a A380. Is it possible in the next 5 or 10? I could not see the interest and market. 15-20 years.... 15 years after the 707 was the 747.
Jump to postListening to the Health and safety on every flght is always important. I was on an <acronym title="Air Canada">AC</acronym> 777 recently where the FAs said there were exits on each side (they did give a number) and at the front of each cabin. The odd thing is prior to that they talked of business cl...
Jump to postThesonntag- Yes- A Man on the Moon is outstanding. The other book I will have to look up and buy. The movie Shadow of the Moon is a must. Turn it up loud for the launch sequence.
Jump to postNot being a aerodynamic specialist- the discussion above seems to be bouncing on several topics around the same concepts. If the roll on the ground is above a certain speed, the plane will lift up into the air. Thus unless you force the plane onto the ground, it will lift off at a set speed every ti...
Jump to postI would think as a one time event the Concorde take off in October 2003 from Cardiff would be the fastest civilian one. That was the one where they hit Mach 1 in less than 5 min and Mach 2 in 7 min. I would expect the "roll" part on the gorund was blistering fast. As I recall this is where they had ...
Jump to postMy understanding is in the UK people pay a licence to see <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym>. Thus the show is restricted to UK where the public fee is used to fund public tv channels (BBC). Those of us outside the UK do not have an ability to pay to watch a UK based show, which ...
Jump to postThanks - I will have to search the internet for a version to watch since it is not accessible outside the UK
Jump to postAs we digress and divert off the topic, I am of the opinion terrorism in most forms can be managed. It has in the past and can be now, and in the future. The issue is not all types of terrorism can be managed. The situation that has developed in the last 20 years is that a form of terrorism has come...
Jump to postReading the great information, I see how dependingon the lens, a crash could be viewed as sigfnificant or not. Would a better split be crashes that changed ops and crashes that changed engineering/design. Some of the crashes listed and discussed, to me had important operational impact - i.e. how the...
Jump to postThe list is a good list and is a valiant attempt to narrow the list to 10. I find it odd that there is not a list of international situations. The Comet I would submit is not changing aviation, if I interpret this article as changing aviation operations. I would say it altered the industry as a whol...
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