Took me a few seconds to work out that by meant buy.

(Written on 2015年 06月 25日)(Permalink)

I seem to recall seeing an article that said they were going to put an electric drive into the nose wheels that would achieve the fuel savings without having to clutter the place up with a bunch of driverless tractors.

(Written on 2015年 03月 12日)(Permalink)

Up the "anti". Oh dear, do journalists not have to study any vocabulary as a part of their training.

(Written on 2015年 03月 05日)(Permalink)

There's a time and place. That particular fool chose the wrong time and the wrong place. A smart operator would have been concentrating on the job at hand not sending texts to his photographer friends trackside.

(Written on 2014年 12月 18日)(Permalink)

And to think I had the heat put on me for doing the same thing while driving a train. Like the pilots, I knew when it was safe to 'be distracted'. And don't anybody for one second think that I'm comparing my skills to that of a commercial pilot.

(Written on 2014年 12月 18日)(Permalink)

Same deal with rail fans. We can be the extra eyes and ears contributing to security. We would be the first ones to notice anything wrong but more often than not are treated as a nuisance.

(Written on 2014年 09月 13日)(Permalink)

Why would an airline even fly over a conflict zone ?

(Written on 2014年 07月 17日)(Permalink)

I suspect this kind of stuff up is more common than we know. Anecdotal stories of similar events have been around for years. I live in Melbourne but I sure as aint in Florida.

(Written on 2013年 05月 29日)(Permalink)

"Photoshop: Eagle-eyed observers claim the Iranian jet was superimposed upon a generic picture of Mount Damavand" How fucking eagle eyed would you need to be to see that the cloud formation is identical in both shots. What's the odds ?

(Written on 2013年 02月 14日)(Permalink)

Reminds me of an old saying about a dog that liked killing snakes....it eventually got bitten and died.

(Written on 2012年 12月 20日)(Permalink)