Wonderful ... a true harbinger of spring. :excited:Quote:
My Dad was a real birder. He'd have been proud of that post!!
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Wonderful ... a true harbinger of spring. :excited:Quote:
My Dad was a real birder. He'd have been proud of that post!!
morning Q-mates :happy11:
thnx for the winning words & trivia
DCG word is FISH
have a fantastic saturday :-)
Some David Wilcox to go with this picture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWfbaHgRGZE
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Very cool Loocie
Well, the A-340 is not the largest passenger aircraft ever built.
It was in fact an Airbus employee at the controls.
The investigation showed no evidence of a safety system being overridden.
It was fully covered in the media in France, just not that newsworthy elsewhere since it was not a plane crash in the conventional sense.
I have no doubt that it received minimal, if any, coverage in the UAE media since they do not report anything that reflects negatively on the government or on state-owned companies, like Etihad.
I had seen this before but didn't remember the details. I had to look into it again because it had that 'internet rant' tone about it, which almost always includes a shot against other cultures or religions. Big red there that someone has played fast and loose with the truth. Example - there is a very good chance that the employees of ADAT were not Arabs. Most UAE workers are from other countries. Most of the technical and engineering people I have met down there are from India or Eastern Europe.
Another big city memory for me was going downtown with my dad to watch the Skycrane helicopter as it lifted the top sections of the CN Tower into position. Totally cool!
http://www.cntower.ca/App_UserFiles/..._copter2_2.jpg
http://dcnonl.com/images/archives/2006/06/26/160.jpg
When the tower opened a year or so later, my dad took me downtown again for a ride up those speedy elevators. The best memory for me was watching the airplanes taking off and landing on the island airport from above. I'm pretty sure that's what got me interested in becoming a pilot.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/...8385fb.jpg?v=0
Good morning, everyone. Off to have a late brunch/early lunch with a friend. Maybe even people watch in the sunshine if it warms up a bit more.
Depending on what time I get back, I may take the cat out to sit on the front bench & entertain the tourists.
Have a great day!
Good point Peter. Most of the pilots and aircraft mechanics in the UAE, including those at Etihad and GAMCO, are expats from Europe and North America. As for coverage of the event in the UAE, even Etihad employees only learned of it second hand on the internet and from friends who sent them emails with pictures. A friend of mine is a pilot there and he didn't hear about it for almost a week, thanks to an email from me.
So why didn't you become a chopper pilot?
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/tin%20woodsman.jpg
nice is the q ww for psaturday at 10.15