A380 launch etc (Merged)
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Euronews has the best pictures right now:
501 Sky News - covered in DOGs
507 BBC News 24 - couldn't be arsed to provide full coverage
510 CNBC - Nothing
513 CNN - Usual poor definition picture, but good coverage
525 ITV News - A joke
528 Euronews - excellent. Shame it isn't WS though....
531 Fox News - Not invented here. Not interested.
501 Sky News - covered in DOGs
507 BBC News 24 - couldn't be arsed to provide full coverage
510 CNBC - Nothing
513 CNN - Usual poor definition picture, but good coverage
525 ITV News - A joke
528 Euronews - excellent. Shame it isn't WS though....
531 Fox News - Not invented here. Not interested.
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From: Scotland, UK
go to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4183201.stm
open the 'veiw news player'
chose the airbus live index
David
its on live through bbcnews site
Davdi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4183201.stm
open the 'veiw news player'
chose the airbus live index
David
its on live through bbcnews site
Davdi
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BBC gave up ages ago on what must be the most boring stage show I've seen in ages. In fact, I gave up when CNN (who have plodded on with the blue Colonel Sanders lookalike muppet intoning on ... and on... about every aircraft in the Aerboos range) announced that we'd have to sit through speeches from Tony Blair and the three European partners' leaders before we get a peek at the KonkHorde.
Anyone like to guess at what posessed Airbus to use a skinny Colonel Sanders as their front man?
Anyone like to guess at what posessed Airbus to use a skinny Colonel Sanders as their front man?
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From: UK
I am not a great fan of all this theatrical and bombastic self-importance. Was it me, or was the applause decidedly muted when the curtains finally dropped and the plane was revealed? Can't say I blame the crowd - they were probably asleep.
And can we now see the plane properly please, rather than some dark shape in the back. Enough already!
And can we now see the plane properly please, rather than some dark shape in the back. Enough already!
Scourge of Bad Airline Management!
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From: Global Nomad
Welcome to the Victor Meldrew thread...
Will you lot get a life please, and celebrate something really rather special here??
Shows like this have been a feature of this sort of launch forever. They fill in time whilst the assorted bigwigs are escorted to their seats, when they can be torn away from the press.
As for the coverage - for those of us who do speak foreign languages, please can they use subtitles, rather than the amateurish translation that was used today?? So we can get a real translation ourselves of what was actually said.... the guy translating the German on Euronews was hopeless....
As for Sky - never heard such negativity - you guys would have enjoyed it. One person called the A380 the Titanic. Nice, guys. Do you want to run us down all the time, or are you just happy to hear your own voice even when it is talking defeatist drivel?
The applause was NOT muted - that is one huge mother of a building. You would have a job making any noise in there sound amazing.
Now guys - say something nice about this topic, and positive, or go and run along and see how your Boeing shares are doing.
Shame on you all.
Will you lot get a life please, and celebrate something really rather special here??
Shows like this have been a feature of this sort of launch forever. They fill in time whilst the assorted bigwigs are escorted to their seats, when they can be torn away from the press.
As for the coverage - for those of us who do speak foreign languages, please can they use subtitles, rather than the amateurish translation that was used today?? So we can get a real translation ourselves of what was actually said.... the guy translating the German on Euronews was hopeless....
As for Sky - never heard such negativity - you guys would have enjoyed it. One person called the A380 the Titanic. Nice, guys. Do you want to run us down all the time, or are you just happy to hear your own voice even when it is talking defeatist drivel?
The applause was NOT muted - that is one huge mother of a building. You would have a job making any noise in there sound amazing.
Now guys - say something nice about this topic, and positive, or go and run along and see how your Boeing shares are doing.
Shame on you all.
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From: Sky
Somebody please tell me they are going to put the lights on in a great 'finale'........otherwise, it's just a big lilac silouette. Typical that the pompous bigwigs ensure that they are the centre of attraction and not the aircraft.