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Old 4th Mar 2010, 13:38
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Ian Corrigible
 
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Originally Posted by S76Heavy
Probably safer than riding a bicycle in Beijing...
If you ride a bicycle in Beijing these days, you're likely to find yourself under the wheels of a BFD sedan in short order...

Originally Posted by Um... lifting...
and we all know about Uncle Igor
Is he the uncle who has "boundary issues"?

It's good to know that Chinese R/W pilots are able to teach themselves to fly. If the PRC really is going to add "10,000 helicopters by 2020," as the press keeps saying, most of the pilots will have to be self-taught, since there aren't enough instructors in-country to train that many.

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