We were and I was. This has to be my biggest pet peeve of grammar. It is so grating when you hear it used incorrectly. Why is this used incorrectly so many times in the UK? Is it a regional thing or educational issue? Read More

[QUOTE]A new aircraft type to Royal Air Force service is to be named the ‘Envoy IV’ in a nod both to its crucial role in defence diplomacy and to previous Envoy aircraft in RAF service.Two new Dass... Read More

I'm in the lucky position to rent out 2x 1 bedroom flats in the same building. Right now both have an electric immersion heater in the cupboard next to the consumer unit, this supplies all the hot water. Back when I lived in the one of the flats it drove me nuts to have to turn on the immersion an hour before wanting a shower, and heating a tank of... Read More

This is just too much.. Cathay staff required to upload details of activities in ‘Crew Activity Log’ app over first seven days of medical surveillance... [url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3179104/coronavirus-hong-kong-confirms-251-infections-and?module=lead_hero_story&pgtype=homepage]https://www.scmp.com/news/ho... Read More

There are a lot of soundings at the moment in relation to Eastern Ukraine and the possibility that Kiev Government will look to conduct a major attack on this area. In 2014 the people in this area disliked the Maidan Sq protests and did one of the own which was attacked by Kiev. As this area is populated by people with more Ethnic ties to Russia... Read More

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[left]BBC exit poll giving Con 368 seats Lab 191 SNP 55 Lib 13 an 86 majority.. We have a couple of billboards up round here, large one for Con in the local horses field as normal, and a tiny one in a garden for Lab[/left] Read More

[QUOTE=Kiltrash;10642121]Not a Caption. Buster has gone missing; he has had the call from Goodison Park[/QUOTE] Couldn't do much worse than the last 6! :mad: Anyway...many thanks Kilty. Always an honour. Seeing we're on a theme...

So the election is on us and now they are counting. I went to my local polling station and asked both the Liberal and Labour people about what their aviation policies were. I was thinking GA and small aircraft, not airlines. The answer from both was 'What'. I see that as a what are you talking about answer. In short GA and aviation in general... Read More

The scenario: unlicensed aerodrome with intersecting runways and different circuit patterns for each. Training aircraft doing circuits on cross-wind runway, no other traffic in circuit or expeected. I wish to do one circuit to check some engine maintenance, but require the use of an into-wind runway. I chose to wait until the training aircraft had... Read More

RAAF A330 and a BBJ en-route to NRT this evening, just curious- why two? Nothing to do with politics as the logistics must have been worked out some tine ago. media contingent?- I would have thought either A330 had capacity or enough local TYO coverage. Back-up , possibly? Political staffers? Possibly for G7 but Quad? And in reality no staffers yet... Read More

Was there any particular reason Aviogenex ordered the TU134 when their friends at JAT and Inex Adria were operating Western-built airliners such as the DC9 and Caravelle ? I imagine it was part of a wider trade deal involving the General Export organisation and the Soviet Union. Eventually, the Tupolevs were pensioned off and Aviogenex became an al... Read More

I'm hoping to find some guidance for some starting points for suitable planes for me to research. This started by planes for sale coming up on my feed for what I thought were reasonable prices. Current wish list.... [list] [*]Under $80,000 [*]Safe and reliable [*]4 seats and room for some luggage, not deal breaker, 2 seats with some space wo... Read More

I understand that part of ticket price made by manny factors, but one of them is fuel, and more load means more fuel consumption. Why somebody 50 kg weight is paying same price as somebody who is 170 kg, but if the person with 50 kg weight want to get an extra bag of 10 kg must pay for it, if it's 20 kg pay even more? Read More

[h1][url=https://news.yahoo.com/u-commission-recommends-renaming-nine-191130231.html]U.S. commission recommends renaming nine Army bases to strip Confederate legacy (yahoo.com)[/url][/h1]

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How do you think the Army, Navy and the RAF Chiefs of staff are feeling after Boris agreeing to come to Sweden and Finland's aid if attacked. Are they saying this gives us a good chance of having an increased Defence budget or OMG we given most of our kit to the Ukrainians, any chance of setting the LDV again in case we're invaded by, say for argu... Read More

Firstly I would like to start off by thanking anybody who replies to this thread as in this day and age forums are one of the last few places where you can find valuable information from industry experts and people with real-world knowledge rather than YouTube, Twitter and Facebook where adults and children seem to blurt out any old rubbish about a... Read More

Various reports on social media of an incident involving China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 operating flight MU5735. Some reports - unconfirmed by news sources as I type - state that the flight has supposedly crashed near Wuzhou. Read More

Should we be scared - or should we be stock piling bananas? It appears that the smallpox vaccine gives protection so those of a certain age who received it routinely - before it was phased out in the U.K. in 1971 - won’t be the priority group this time. Read More

It didn’t take long for loops - mini loops in this case - to be normalised on our rosters. No consent required and no quarantine compensation for Q3 duty on your roster, besides cashless hotel allowances. You live in HK and your employer orders you to stay in a hotel for three days, for no pay, after carrying passengers, so that it can make a... Read More

Totally disappearing to the events of Mowgli and Ex Fast Jets have described on this day in 1982, it is also the day that the only RAF Jaguar ever to be shot down and the only RAF Phantom ever to shoot down a manned aeroplane happened. XX963 chopped up by a 9 Golf fired from XV422. Steve Griggs account is in the Jaguar Boys of course. Read More