Belgian police seizes 27.6 tonnes cocaine in 40 days.

A few weeks ago the Dutch and Belgian police managed to decrypt the SkyECC chat service. This chat service was popular among criminals, because it was believed to be well encrypted and secure. The service worked only on specially prepared phones that could be bought for 729€, and that only worked wi...

Re: Georgia Election Law Controversy

bigGAplane wrote:

4. The bill doesn’t specifically say that nobody can give water to anyone in line. The bill says you can’t give (...) drinks to someone waiting in line to vote.

Re: Are things once again heating up in the Ukraine ?

readytotaxi wrote:

It is frightening how much the EU is dependant on Russia.

Re: Mitsubishi SpaceJet — Development & Production Thread

The issue is the GTF engines weigh 50% more than the CF34s so it's probably not feasible to come up with a scope compliant RJ using GTF that also doesn't get its butt kicked by non-scope-compliant aircraft using the same engines. This is why EMB is able to sell E1 (scope compliant with CF34) and E2...

Re: Mitsubishi SpaceJet — Development & Production Thread

Mitsubishi is no aviation "newcomer" for sure. I wonder would a close company cooperation of Mitsubishi and Embraer make sense? Why would Embraer be interested in supporting a company that builds a (potential) direct competitor? If Embraer goes for Mitsubishi, then it will be to take out ...

Re: Avanguardia superyacht

readytotaxi wrote:

And all that glass to keep clean

Re: Updated: Broken down ship in Suez Canal on the move again

They could put in wind deflectors. Something similar was done at the Caland canal that leads into the port of Rotterdam. Tom Scott made a short video out this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkdwK_74eEs https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rozenburg/@51.8966176,4.2268433,141m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0...

Re: Suez Canal shut down by broken ship

They said she is now "partially afloat". I thought that has always been the situation (i.e. not sunk) Afloat = there is water below the ship Sunk = there is water above the ship Beached/stranded = there is no water below the ship, neither above the ship. The ship is resting on the bottom ...

Re: Georgia Election Law Controversy

AirWorthy99 wrote:

they fled as political refugees a communist country and loved the freedoms this country afforded to them.

Re: Ten murdered in Boulder, CO by shooter 3/22

The background check system worked like it was supposed to. His family failed their son. Perhaps so, but medical bills are well known to put families into bankruptcy, thus ruining Iives. With that in mind it is perhaps understandable that people are not flagged for psych evaluation at the first sig...

Re: Election time: the Dutch version

How hard can it be to put your sensitive notes in a little sleeve, so journalists can't make photos of your notes while walking to the car? Amateurs.

Re: Ten murdered in Boulder, CO by shooter 3/22

Notwithstanding mass shootings and suicide, U.S. death rates due to gun violence would be REMARKABLY lower if inner-city gang shootings were not included. By that logic, you shoukd also remove drug related shootings from the European statistics. I am pretty sure that will make the US figures compar...

Re: Ten murdered in Boulder, CO by shooter 3/22

It sounds like the shooter was of Middle Eastern descent. It doesn't say whether he was a citizen, resident alien or foreign citizen. https://nypost.com/2021/03/23/police-identify-ahmad-alyssa-21-as-suspect-in-boulder-shooting/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwi...

Re: Trump's Parked 757 N757AF

Revelation wrote:

I am no expert but I doubt RR has a spare 757 RB211 in stock.

Re: Netflix

There are five theatre shows of Jochem Meyer on Dutch Netflix that are pretty good.

Re: Election time: the Dutch version

I mean the last major polder was reclaimed from the 'sea' is over 50years ago, I mean let's go and reclaim some more. The derde maasvlakte gave quite a lot of land. All of it industrial though. Well, mostly industrial, a small beach was thrown in to keep the NIMBY's satisfied. ;) Also, in the Marke...

Re: Election time: the Dutch version

Overwhelming victory = 35 seats out of 150 ah ah. You have to consider that 37 parties where running. It was never gonna be anything near 50%. Having nearly a quarter of the votes is a good result. At the moment it looks like the VVD got 35 seats, with the runner up D66 having 24 seats. A nearly 50...

Re: Election time: the Dutch version

For me, a small benefit from the pandemic, I will be casting my vote in style: My local polling station was in a church. Nothing special. On the other side of town an art gallery was used. They had just changed their exhibition a few weeks ago. The new exhibition is called "For your eyes only&...

AB Airlines

Not sure if this is a bug, or if this is a data entry mistake, but I noticed several photos that mentioned AB Airlines (in brackets) behind airplanes that clearly are not related to AB Airlines. For instance:

Re: Election time: the Dutch version

I already voted today. My vote went to the party animals. Is that De Feestpartij that petertenthije referenced? I think he might mean the Partij voor de Dieren (EN: Party for the animals). They are a left leaning party that places the environment, including animal welfare, top of the agenda. In the...

Re: Election time: the Dutch version

Question: How many questions are on a Dutch ballot? Is it just a single vote for your local representative? Strictly speaking there are 20 districts, but few people (and parties!) take this into consideration. In fact, had I not been looking up a copy of the ballot paper for you, I would not even h...

Re: 25 years Fokker bankcrupt

Fokker went down because of hubris and arrogance. Their first mistake was developing two aircraft families at the same time. The F50 and the F100. They simply did not have the financial resources to do so. The government had to step in repeatedly to let Fokker go on. Then the merger came with DASA. ...

Re: Election time: the Dutch version

Are you going to vote, Peter? And would you disclose which party earned your vote? I am going to vote, it will be on either D'66 or GroenLinks or a small chance on VOLT, have yet to decide. Yeah, though not sure yet for whom. Usually I try several kieswijzer , and then browse the key points of the ...

Re: Election time: the Dutch version

That's a big ask: one million new homes by 2030! :shock: I think you'll need to start reclaiming some more land! Plenty of water left to fill in. Let's get Doggerland back! :) But it will most likely be achieved by getting rid of farming and building housing there. There's a LOT of farming done in ...

Re: 707 in 1994 movie "Speed"

I think it might have been a "frankenstein" plane made up out of several others. According to this photo the vertical stabilizer is from N198CA. This tail started life on TWA N734TW. However, the fuselage shows 4X-JYZ. This means the fuselage started as TWA N736TW. https://www.airliners.ne...

Re: Cockpit photo looking back?