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Forum: Military Aviation
12th Mar 2016, 08:28
Replies: 46
Views: 9,739
Posted By rmac

@tourist Not the same thickness of tinfoil...

@tourist

Not the same thickness of tinfoil as my HK Chinese colleagues that just cancelled a trip tp Seoul while K-J-I was threatening to play with his toys ... :-)

And I haven't written off...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Mar 2016, 00:26
Replies: 46
Views: 9,739
Posted By rmac

@ tourist I also believe that the Russians...

@ tourist

I also believe that the Russians have calculated, from evaluating our previous responses to their actions, that they could get away with a low yield tac-nuke strike in an emergency and...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Mar 2016, 00:18
Replies: 46
Views: 9,739
Posted By rmac

[QUOTE=Tourist;9307429]rmac Just let me get...

[QUOTE=Tourist;9307429]rmac

Just let me get this right.

When planning your business trip routings, you are taking into account not just the usual SAM attacks, meteor strike etc but also taking...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Mar 2016, 00:08
Replies: 46
Views: 9,739
Posted By rmac

Yup . . . agreed

Yup . . . agreed
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Mar 2016, 02:49
Replies: 46
Views: 9,739
Posted By rmac

Thanks Monk and TD for the feedback. Good enough...

Thanks Monk and TD for the feedback. Good enough for me to make an informed risk analysis on air travel in the region at the moment. Cheers. Rmac
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Mar 2016, 11:20
Replies: 46
Views: 9,739
Posted By rmac

Not really a question of happier or not Tourist. ...

Not really a question of happier or not Tourist.

I fly Asia-Europe-Asia at least twice a month and have come to enjoy the convenience and service of the Gulf carriers.

However, its just another...
Forum: Fragrant Harbour
10th Mar 2016, 10:51
Replies: 36
Views: 22,740
Posted By rmac

I hope there is a special place reserved in hell...

I hope there is a special place reserved in hell for corporate management types that regularly trot out their "passion" for something, without any other evidence except their word that it exists at...
Forum: Fragrant Harbour
10th Mar 2016, 09:26
Replies: 10
Views: 5,036
Posted By rmac

I've just had a look at the board of CPA on their...

I've just had a look at the board of CPA on their website. Combination of long serving "company" management from all corners of Swire Group, mixed with some politically expedient appointments and a...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
10th Mar 2016, 09:01
Replies: 4,104
Views: 2,540,905
Posted By rmac

I would think that their primary market would be...

I would think that their primary market would be high level sports teams (international, premiership, six nations etc, Champions League etc), I imagine it could be kept very busy just in that market...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Mar 2016, 08:55
Replies: 46
Views: 9,739
Posted By rmac

So to be more specific, if I am sitting, sipping...

So to be more specific, if I am sitting, sipping champers in row 4A of a Qatar Airways 787, somewhere over northern Iraq/Iran or Eastern Turkey, and the Russians light up a tactical nuke in Northern...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Mar 2016, 04:25
Replies: 46
Views: 9,739
Posted By rmac

Effect of EMP on modern airliners ?

Just a small question to throw out for general comment.

It would seem to me that the risk of use of tactical or low yield nuclear weapons in some part of the world may have gone up.

Example 1. ...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Feb 2016, 23:07
Replies: 87
Views: 17,832
Posted By rmac

Danny, I'm only 52 and already nostalgic for...

Danny, I'm only 52 and already nostalgic for "better days", christ knows how you must feel mate....


(ps. check your PM's)
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2016, 05:55
Replies: 16
Views: 3,357
Posted By rmac

Just had a run through the comments on your...

Just had a run through the comments on your thread Coff, and I have to say that I concur with the analysis that much of the plot was..er..borrowed, for Top Gun :-)
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2016, 02:49
Replies: 16
Views: 3,357
Posted By rmac

Found this 1957 gem on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l4byhJVA8o

Some very interesting flying sequences of classics :-)

Nice to see the graduation music at Cranditz hadn't changed between 1957 and 1985 :-)...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Jul 2015, 00:13
Replies: 27
Views: 9,637
Posted By rmac

When the germans opened up the IGB to free...

When the germans opened up the IGB to free travel, I rented a local plated car and took a drive across to the east for a couple of days. Almost everything Russian I saw was FUBAR and it had me...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Jul 2015, 14:34
Replies: 62
Views: 23,138
Posted By rmac

Maybe time to take the economic wind out of the...

Maybe time to take the economic wind out of the sails of the Russian rich (including Nekrassov). Freezing and seizure of bank accounts and assets as well as deportation in the event of overtly...
Forum: Private Flying
24th Apr 2015, 16:40
Replies: 13
Views: 4,631
Posted By rmac

Pummel, My information is a few years out of...

Pummel,

My information is a few years out of date now, so there may be some changes.

I used to keep my own aircraft at Seletar. Using club aircraft is just too difficult for regular flying and...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Jan 2015, 11:27
Replies: 1,628
Views: 482,414
Posted By rmac

Sad to note during the recent Air Asia search,...

Sad to note during the recent Air Asia search, that even Indonesia has a couple of well equipped MPA, while we have zero and reduced to begging from allies :-(

Indonesian Navy receives first...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Jan 2015, 18:49
Replies: 58
Views: 7,166
Posted By rmac

While I think "Two's In"'s comments are perfectly...

While I think "Two's In"'s comments are perfectly valid regarding the variability of individuals in the armed forces, I don't believe that Tony Ward is saying anything that doesn't apply to the...
Forum: Fragrant Harbour
11th Dec 2014, 05:06
Replies: 9
Views: 6,742
Posted By rmac

Never a truer word.... Good business is a...

Never a truer word....

Good business is a four legged chair.

Customer, Employees, management & shareholders

If the interests are not balanced, the chair tips over !!

A decade ago I was on...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
27th Oct 2013, 12:32
Replies: 11
Views: 2,818
Posted By rmac

Young aircraft, well trained crews, great...

Young aircraft, well trained crews, great service. Enjoy !
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
26th Oct 2013, 03:44
Replies: 7
Views: 5,773
Posted By rmac

Great well done to all. Done professionally with...

Great well done to all. Done professionally with humour and collegiate spirit, looks like a great bunch of guys.
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
26th Oct 2013, 03:34
Replies: 16
Views: 3,194
Posted By rmac

does it look a little designed to be a red...

does it look a little designed to be a red version of the BA design and in someway trying to convey an IAG consistency ?
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
26th Oct 2013, 03:18
Replies: 48
Views: 8,306
Posted By rmac

@ Dave Reid "You can rest assured that...

@ Dave Reid

"You can rest assured that Jazz......will have done their sums"..

No you can't !

I'm in private equity and we invest in a broad spectrum of industries and more often than I like...
Forum: Private Flying
20th Oct 2013, 19:30
Replies: 10
Views: 1,335
Posted By rmac

and what makes it all so risible, is that someone...

and what makes it all so risible, is that someone with a "clean" background, or indeed a "clean" fake background, can pass the checks, give their fingerprints, get trained and then fly something in...
Forum: Private Flying
20th Oct 2013, 15:02
Replies: 9
Views: 2,881
Posted By rmac

Planes - the movie

Took the kids to see "Planes" this morning ...actually quite good and should get a lot of little minds thinking about GA :-)

Airbus must have paid for product placement...almost every airliner in...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Oct 2013, 11:18
Replies: 58
Views: 20,188
Posted By rmac

I see that the music selection for the 1957...

I see that the music selection for the 1957 graduation at Cranditz was pretty much the same as it was in 1985.

Oddly enough, the parade was filmed in front of the new college, which is where we...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Oct 2013, 11:09
Replies: 13
Views: 5,216
Posted By rmac

The arsse thread was hilarious, as Burns put it, ...

The arsse thread was hilarious, as Burns put it,

"oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us"

It often looks as if the army banter is more cutting and less...
Forum: Private Flying
16th Oct 2013, 11:28
Replies: 41
Views: 6,990
Posted By rmac

You could end up at Tayside, which has an...

You could end up at Tayside, which has an "airline" training type set up with lots of uniforms and gold bars, where your club check may find you with someone who tries to teach you to fly the pattern...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Sep 2013, 21:23
Replies: 57
Views: 14,847
Posted By rmac

There are many places on the M5 where a truck...

There are many places on the M5 where a truck jumping the central reservation and hitting you head on would not be good either.....but people drive on it every day without giving it a single...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Sep 2013, 18:02
Replies: 27
Views: 6,290
Posted By rmac

Depressing that the Chinese have now got stuff...

Depressing that the Chinese have now got stuff with better capability than we have...although keeping salt water corrosion at bay must be a nightmare..
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Sep 2013, 17:59
Replies: 27
Views: 6,290
Posted By rmac

Just looked it up online, it is amphibious, thats...

Just looked it up online, it is amphibious, thats the one then, thanks guys..
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Sep 2013, 17:54
Replies: 27
Views: 6,290
Posted By rmac

Coffman, I posted just before you did. About...

Coffman,

I posted just before you did. About the same size, no prominent radome on the front though.
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Sep 2013, 17:53
Replies: 27
Views: 6,290
Posted By rmac

Sorry I was on the treadmill at my gym in the IFC...

Sorry I was on the treadmill at my gym in the IFC and watched from afar..big, green and floats on water (on purpose) is the best that I can manage.
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Sep 2013, 17:46
Replies: 27
Views: 6,290
Posted By rmac

Chinese Amphibious Helicopter

Something big and green (Merlin size or larger) flew straight down the middle of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong today and landed on the water next to the conference centre in Wanchai.

Was on the...
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