lubbkis

The review says "vendor rated" battery life, so that figure is only good for comparison with other items from that vendor. The shop is telling you something realistic as they don't want an angry farang back in the shop demanding a refund.

If battery life is important go for SSD drive and run with a dimmed screen. My 4 year old macBook only gives 4 hours and I always completely drain before charge. It often fails to eject disks for a week or so, so I run with a USB DVD drive.

What is it that can only be studied in Thailand except for a language not used anywhere else? Blacklisted, scmacklisted.

Onions? Crying? Why is this news?

If you are energetic you can walk the David Wilson trail across the peaks of HK Island or if you are less energetic you can join it half way at Wong Nei Chong Gap.

The Maclehose Trail is similar but much longer across nine dragons.

Take the tube and light rail out to Tin Sui Wai. There you can find an educational park dedicated the migratory bird sanctuary. There is a lot of signed explanation and hides where you'll find retired HKers snapping birds on the Mai Po marshes with rather exotic and expensive camera equipment. The spotting monoculars provided by the park management are high end Swarovski so you are guaranteed a good sighting.

Have breakfast at the Kowloon YMCA. Possibly the best value view of the Harbour.

Here is my pic of the only other Dreamliner at LHR yesterday.

This other pic was taken at Gatwick today. It represents an incident that is the third of it's kind. What unusual event happened at Gatwick today? Why? (there is a clue in the filename) and what were the other two similar events?

CLB,

BNE has been that way since they closed off the shorter runway - 19L if I'm not wrong - which forces all the small fry onto the main runway.

Quite often and - even more now in winter - you'll see awesome contrails showing the aircraft tracking from way out west and into BNE, keeps the tinfoil hat brigade quite active...

lubbkis,

You sure that LOT belly landing was recent? That looks awfully familiar to an incident a few years back involving LOT...

For those playing along, would appear to be a 767-300...

That video with the LOT shot was not posted by me. I was quoting it.

I tried to post yesterday's pic of the Qatari Dreamliner landing at LHR but somehow it got embedded in my quote of the previous post.

Over London http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tFryhkM2Ims

I don't think Heathrow shut yesterday. About 200 flights from a certain airline were delayed about two hours . One suspects that some engineering checks were done hastily. Meanwhile a PIA flight was brought into Stansted with a military escort instead of continuing to Manchester. The story seems to be that two passengers were arrested having attempted to enter the flight deck following an altercation with cabin staff.

Meanwhile this was seen landing at LHR today, so the quiz question is - what is it and how many other aircraft of that type were at LHR today?

Glad they pointed out the one seated, I couldnt quite work it out from the picture.

Ah well more expense for the UK tax payer.

In a photo of 5 Thais and 1 farang, you couldn't work out which one was British? LOL.

People of many races have British nationality.

Here's one farang who lang syne gave up going anywhere near Thailand during Easter recess.

It was pleasantly sunny in Seoul this afternoon, but Sun Day is on Monday according to Kim Jong UN. Let's hope it doesn't get to hot here.

The Qatari Amari flight is more varied and interesting. I was recently asked by an acquaintence if he was being offered an investment scam as he was ostensibly being invited to buy a slice of NW England football club. (Not Mr Thaksin's former favourite MCity). Other investors were cited to be the Qatari Government. I suggested he track the Amari fleet airbus that frequently lands in Jersey to see if it also lands in NW England.

That is one of the VIP, Saudi Royal Flight b747SP's. They have 3 of them. There are 17 SP's registered around the world out of the 45 produced. Sexy beast in my opinion.

Iran Air still fly them Tehran to KL on the summer sked.

I have a vague memory of seeing those into LHR in the 1970s.

An oil tanker management friend from 1990s HK mentioned he used to be on one from Sao Paolo to HK via New York but I forget the airlines involved. He mentioned putting down in Okinawa sometimes to pick up fuel.

I can't ask him, as he's joined his ancestors, one of whom is credtted with sinking the Turkish fleet at Navarone. Ironically he spent much of his life in competition with Greek shipowners.

It just looks like a bog standard AirAsia Airbus a320-216 ?

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Judging from the day I was at Chek Lap Kok last month, Mr. Fernandez is bog standard on the Aircraft type but paints the Malaysian ones as flying billboards. Notice the Thai registered one in bog standard Air Asia colours. Don't ask me "why".

Thai AirAsia have the following liveries.

"Thai AirAsia Airbus A320-200 Old Titles"

"Thai AirAsia Airbus A320-200 Chiang Mai University"

"Thai AirAsia Airbus A320-200 Truely Asean"

Good grief, man. Is that an acceptable spellingof "truly" in some version of my native tongue? Peepil like this, distorted "kecap" to "ketchup" and look what Herr Heinz did with that! Colonial responsibility never really ends does it.

"Thai AirAsia Airbus A320-200 New Titles"

"Thai AirAsia Airbus A320-200 2012 Year of the Dragon"

"Thai AirAsia Airbus A320-200 Carabao"

"Thai AirAsia Airbus A320-200 Visit Chiang Mai"

"Thai AirAsia Airbus A320-200 Bodyslam"

"Thai AirAsia Airbus A320-200 Skytrax World's Best"

"Thai AirAsia Airbus A320-200 New Colours"

Channel 3 Thai repeated the line that it was a drunken 'farang' causing damage and having to be restrained.

However, part of the video shows the guy lying on the ground and being booted in the abdomen by one of about 8 Thai men on the scene. One of the motorcycle dudes also pelts him with his helmet...

Amazing Thailand. Sawatedee Crap.

Here's a hint Right engine falure......

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Raiders of the Lost Arc - perchance?

the best passengers are boxes.

But passengers are self-organising walking freight.

Suspect nobody is interested in legalities (as with hospital not reporting) due to his age and condition so perhaps better to keep on back burner as he does not appear to have much of an option with return to home country even if able (although not sure if he would then have free treatment/housing perhaps)?

Certainly would be entitled to treatment, accommodation and shelter in UK.

What? Did someone say this guy is British? The popular conception that the UK has responsibility for the world's itinerant population is one we need to divest. It isn't true!

Is it my turn to ask a question? Somebody mentioned part of this fellow's name here recently, but was incorrect.

What is it and who is it flying for?

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Bombardier Q400 for Luxair, I am guessing from LCY.

Aye, weel. Ah huv it doon as a deHaviland Dash 8 but ah' think it's the same thing, ye ken.

Of course it's my local airport, LCY. This is the most exotic liveried aircraft going in and out of there.

Is it my turn to ask a question? Somebody mentioned part of this fellow's name here recently, but was incorrect.

What is it and who is it flying for?

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Very distinctive livery ...

I think it might (?) be a Hong Kong Airlines A320-200 like this one.

What a super shot.

china eastern airlines

You and smokie36 are on the right continent and there or there abouts for the right area.

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So China Southern. I've been on China and they did have a bit more bulkhead descortion than shown here, though as it was Christmas they did insist on playing a a repetitive medley of "seasonal jingles" including one with very morbid lyrics.

Air Force One used to be a Boeing 707....

...just saying

Yes, I agree ... but I was looking at the colour clues and the nose job is different on the subject as opposed to the photos I looked at.

That must have been a long, long time ago. I have a vague memory of taxiing past a 747 our pilot said was AF2 at Lyon just before the Albertville Olympics, which seems a long time ago.

This looks like a C-47A Dakota to me from Derby airways

Date stamp around 1962 i reckon.

Also the design of the C 47 B undermines the purity of the original intent to develop the C 47 A, IMHO

Gawd....too easy by half!

Your turn Dancealot!

You guys threw me for a loop. I could have sworn that airplane looked exactly like a DC-3. So after a little bit of haphazard research my ego is back in check as the Dakota and the DC-3 are essentially the same.

As an aside, is it known as a Dakota generally where you are from or as a DC-3? I think most here would call it a DC-3. By the way, it is still in use here as a passenger and freight plane. I think mostly between Hay river and Yellowknife, NWT.

There is a TV series, currently being shown on some obscure channels here in the UK, featuring this airline. They seem to fly in exciting conditions.