Re: RIP Angela Lansbury

Noone's mentioned "Bedknobs and Broomsticks"!

She was a big part of my childhood, far less so in the "Murder...." years. But a full life with many achievments.

Re: Tennessee governor signs bill restricting drag shows

Can't deny that Australia also has ignorant people, but no-one seeking a legislative agenda to ban dress-ups....

Re: Tennessee governor signs bill restricting drag shows

I'm very thankful I live nowhere near deeply ingnorant TN. The advertsing displays in my local shopping mall were promoting drag events, as part of my city's current hosting of World Pride. The last fundraising event my wife and I attended at our youngest son's primary school was Drag bingo. I do n...

Re: Tennessee governor signs bill restricting drag shows

I haven't accessed the Bill, but does it also require pink triangles to be worn? Seems consistent. What ignorant bigoted backwardness. How has the Tennessee education system failed so miserably that those displaying this level of ignorance can be elected and this level of discrimination can pass int...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2023

Agree, commonality is beneficial, but QF have had mixed engines previously. The majority of their 767 fleet was GE powered but they did acquire some ex BA 767's that had RR engines. Can't recall the exact number though. I guess it depends on how long QF expect to maintain them and what sort of main...

Re: Qantas European routes

Back in the 80s and 90s, Qantas used to fly to European destinations like BEG, FRA, CDG, and FCO Nowadays, they only fly to LHR What happened to those routes, why were they cut Many of the cities served were part of a flight that stopped at more than one European city. I can't remember actual fligh...

Re: Qantas European routes

[url][/url] ME3 Well, mostly at least. Same reason why BA is the last airline from greater Europe flying to Australia. BA stopping flying to Australia/ Far East has very little to do with any ME airline. But the relative geographic advantage of the ME3 meant the long route wasn’t worthwhile for the ...

Re: Dominion v Fox Lawsuit

Is all the evidence Dominion has gleaned available to Smartmatic ? IIRC their suit claims USD 1.4 bn. Does Fox News require a licence to broadcast in Australia ? I would have expected the Labour Party to have started rumblings about withdrawing one, especially as I recall Murdoch did not make many ...

Re: Qantas European routes

Back in the 80s and 90s, Qantas used to fly to European destinations like BEG, FRA, CDG, and FCO Nowadays, they only fly to LHR What happened to those routes, why were they cut ME3 Well, mostly at least. Same reason why BA is the last airline from greater Europe flying to Australia. Too much metal ...

Re: SUVs and emissions.

We are seeing the awful impacts gas powered SUVs have on the environment. Electric powered SUVs also use more resources to make a battery than a smaller electric car. SUVs combined emit more emissions than countries. We know that human caused climate change is a huge problem. Will we need to ban SU...

Re: Top 3 Favorite and Top 3 Least Favorite Presidents in the U.S.

DH106 wrote:

No supprises here, a fairly polar split in opinions reflecting the current polarization of politics in general

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2023

Results are in $1.43 billion underlying before tax Has exercised 9 purchase rights for A220-300 for delivery F26 and FY27 Sourcing 5 A319/320 for Network 3k to add 2 A320's Add 3 A321p2F's exercise options for another 12 E90's from Alliance https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-gr...

Re: Why do Mainland Chinese tourists only want direct flights?

N1120A wrote:

I mean, CAAC and their insane slot process could just have a teeny weeny bit to do with that...

Re: Rep. Greene calls for "national divorce"

Going back to Greene's absolute nutbaggery, what's red and what's blue? In her own state, the Senate is blue, although 9 out of 14 congressional districts are red. But drilling down further in 2022, the GOP won those 9 districts with 52.3% of the statewide vote, again showing the impact that distric...

Re: Intra-European quad widebody flights?

IIRC last summer LH was flying the 747 (cant recall whether 400 or -8) to Palma from FRA. No idea whether this will return in 2023 given the pent-up demand last year.

Re: Rep. Greene calls for "national divorce"

Clearly GA is more a blue state than a red one now. Georgia is hardly a blue state. In the most recent election, Republicans would have swept all the statewide races if it wasn't for the fact that Herschel Walker was a historically terrible candidate. And it still went to a runoff that Warnock only...

Re: Arkansas legislator inquires about genitals in hearing

It's kind of Sad how the Republican party today turned into a Christian Party instead of a Liberal Party. Reagan really bring down the party huh. Not really a Christian party; I would call all of these interlopers CINO's (Christians In Name Only). Some left wing commentators are calling Republicans...

Re: Rep. Greene calls for "national divorce"

This woman (I deleted arange of negative adjectives) won her district with 69.5% of the vote last year. The neighboring 13th district to the SE was held by David Scott (D) with 81.8% of the vote. In fact only one of the 5 D held districts in GA was held with a margin less than Greene's. 3 of the 5 D...

Re: Qantas Launches Contest for A330 Replacement

What are the chances that down there line the 737 fleet is replaced entirely with XLRS? I know some mentioned earlier that QF may get the A321/320NEO’s… but won’t having XLR’s make it a very flexible fleet? (I.e. can do some domestic hops one day, then a flight out into Asia the next) OF has often ...

Re: Mass shooting Michigan State University

I was musing on this thread earlier and it dawned on me that no normal person owns a gun for self defence or needs to in my country. Guns are for security and law enforcement, or heavily controlled sporting shooting. As with most countries, we do have an issue with guns owned for legitimate farming ...

Re: Qantas Launches Contest for A330 Replacement

What are the chances that down there line the 737 fleet is replaced entirely with XLRS? I know some mentioned earlier that QF may get the A321/320NEO’s… but won’t having XLR’s make it a very flexible fleet? (I.e. can do some domestic hops one day, then a flight out into Asia the next) OF has often ...

Re: Mass shooting Michigan State University

The 2nd A was enacted between the War of Independence and the 1812 war. Any simple reading of history sees that its aim was to ensure the populace had ready access to arms so that a militia could be raised against the British (or Canadians if you accept the northern reading of the 1812 war). You've...

Re: Qantas Launches Contest for A330 Replacement

To folks Australia that is regional . Europe and North America are long haul. Regardless 8-11 hours flights are right in the 787-10 wheelhouse. North America and Europe are better served by the A350 family or 789 depending on gauge needed imho. I can't believe what I am reading here. I don't think ...

Re: DC to NYC Train vs Flying

Well, I for one love planes, and trains, and automobiles. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a decent amount of overlap between people who love planes and people who love trains. Sure, I have taken lots of short hops like that as one leg of a longer trip -- I've flown SMF-SFO many times. But if m...

Re: Scrapping the 100ml rule - progress?

Australia doesn't have the 100ml rule for domestic flights.

Re: Mass shooting Michigan State University

[ The main reason for the Second Amendment (as currently understood by the Supreme Court) is to protect marginalized people against police brutality and police crime. The powerful (and the government) are already okay. It’s not about them. This is easily refuted by...history. This really is where I...

Re: Burt Bacharach Dead at 94.

He was in the top drawer of songwriters, for sure. RIP. The music director of my choir compared him very positively with Franz Schubert (of which he is a fan) the other night, and one person's response was "but he lived almost 3 times as long as Schubert!". I often dislike Schubert's lied...

Re: Mass shooting Michigan State University

You forgot that for some students at MSU, this is already the second mass shooting they've experienced. The first being the Oxford (MI) school shooting in 2021. With sufficient experience, the survival rate may actually improve. Also, at the rate this is happening, a megathread would make more sens...

Re: Qantas, Air France in talks over direct Australia-Paris flights

I don’t think the perth hub will really happen (and I say it as a perth resident) - Qantas a very Sydney centric business. Perth should improve, yes, but I don’t think it would make much difference. Will PER-LHR survive sunrise ? It seems so - along with the launch of syd, Mel and sin-lhr. But - gi...

Re: Journalist Who Broke U.S. Torture at Abu Ghraib Claims U.S. Blew Up Nord Stream

The pipeline that blew wasn't being used to ship anything. And according to Russia it was the UK that blew it up https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/1/russia-accuses-uk-of-directing-nord-stream-blasts Think Russia is playing mind-games, they pretty much use, learn and share with China how to do ...

Re: Journalist Who Broke U.S. Torture at Abu Ghraib Claims U.S. Blew Up Nord Stream

Biden isn't the pushover people think he is and he's always been a pro-action do what I say I will do sort of guy. Russia was still exporting gas to Germany almost entirely through said pipelines up to the point of sabotage. Those revenues were keeping Russia going. On the balance of probabilities ...

Re: 10% of all new new vehicles sold were EV's