1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Insulting other people is all you got? 

 

You guys don't like having it thrown back at you.   how about one of your numbers who says, frequently, "Ya got nothin'", "Is that all ya got"?  You lefties are masters at name calling, abusing, and when that doesn't get what you want, riot in the streets.   Give it a break.   There are people with contrary,and valid, opinions.  

3 hours ago, 248900_1469958220 said:

Hello everyone....Just checking in again to see if Trump has been impeached yet.....No? Ok, wake me up when he is .....I'm off to sleep again. 

 

You're going to be asleep a long time!!

8 hours ago, simple1 said:

Thanks - keep on solely blaming the 'left', it's an excellent example of the Trump Administration idiocracy. Trump is his own worst enemy.

 

Perhaps, he is, and he will be for another 7 years!!  That's if he wants another 4 years, and he'll be mid 70's by then, so maybe not.

Thanks - keep on solely blaming the 'left', it's an excellent example of the Trump Administration idiocracy. Trump is his own worst enemy.

In YOUR opinion!

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13 hours ago, Bob12345 said:

Another brand i will "blacklist" and never buy. Same as Ford because of how they handled the transmission problems.

 

If they dont want customers i will comply with their request.

 

Your silent protest will have no effect.   You must tell them why you wouldn't buy a Mazda in the future.  Only when hundreds, possibly thousands (but that won't happen due to apathy) give them the message will they listen.

 

That's what I do with any product, lodge a protest with the seller/manufacturer, and tell them I will do a review/critique online.   I've had some remarkable results over the years, a lot of 'f*** offs' too, but I get enormous satisfaction from doing it.

4 hours ago, heybruce said:

Trump doing his best?  Are you referring to his best on the golf course or his best spending "executive time" watching television?  Why couldn't the man who wrote (or took credit for writing) "The Art of the Deal" cut a deal to prevent a government shutdown on the one year anniversary of taking office?

 

 

Why couldn't the man who wrote (or took credit for writing) "The Art of the Deal" cut a deal to prevent a government shutdown on the one year anniversary of taking office?

 

That's a simple enough question to answer.

 

Because he's dealing with the gross stupidity of the malicious left.  

No problem at all...lost one last year and the immigration officer at the airport at departure just gave me a new blank form...

Likewise, I've lost a few over the years.

Before computer processing there was no crosscheck of numbers, and now they probably don't, even though they can. If they do, what's the significance? The same info is on a new card.

Australia has scrapped departure cards. They serve no purpose, except as a reminder of more bureaucratic times.

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Could be applied to some "humans" also? [emoji2]

Starting with those posting on Trump threads...they need 'calming'.

Seriously, a small water pistol filled with ammonia will keep them at bay.

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no way i would bring priceless antique furniture here, the climate would destroy it...

Good advice....store it.

Taking European furniture to the tropics is inviting disaster. It will deteriorate from the day of unpacking.

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Well OP, I bet you wish you hadn't asked! Contrary opinions = confusion.

Do what you should have done before posting, see a lawyer in Thailand, and have an online consultation with a US lawyer in the state she's likely to go to, AND get their advice in writing.

Free advice, particularly from unqualified people, is worth exactly what you paid for it.

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Bangkok Post, I don't take one news source as fact or any for that matter. It was reported in the BP that it was believed he was chronically ill and taking medication for it. If this is true then i would think it was probably the most likely cause of death. Anyway. I'd rather not speculate or talk about the matter anymore as if his family are still here, then they may well read Thaivisa. May he rest in peace

It must be the word 'Post'. The Washington Post has something of a reputation for inaccurate reporting!

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14 hours ago, coulson said:

That's the only good time to have a wife with balls 

 

Perhaps he's married to a lady boy??

 
I had the finest dosa I have ever eaten in Singapore....it was divine.

Was it at Komala Vilas in Serangoon Road, Little India?

There is no finer dosa on the planet, not even in India.

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It has started already..

He could never have imagined the technology he speaks of could have gone so far, but what vision!!

 

The interesting thing about technology advances is that it's just starting, regardless of whether you're 1 or 100. What is yet to come will be unbelievable.

 

The 'good old times' don't exist.....life is going to get better and better.

 

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My experience of Air Asia is that if you are in a group and have someone hiding all your carry on  behind a pillar somewhere where the check in staff cannot see you) while each person takes it in turn to check in,  they won't enforce that limit when you and your friends eventually get to the gate, each with lots of hand luggage. Unfair, yes. Guarantees, none. 

Unfair......and irresponsible!! Carry on bags become missiles in many emergency events.
Such people are known as 'me firsters', couldn't give a $hite about their fellow pax, inconsiderate, ignorant, arrogant pigs.

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3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

 

Blowing money is just par for the course.

Newly revealed orders show that the Secret Service had to chip in $7,470 to rent golf carts while President Trump spent Thanksgiving at his private club Mar-a-Lago.

According to USA Today, the expense added to the already sizeable amount the agency has had to spend on renting the diminutive course-covering vehicles, with the current total reaching at least $144,975 so far.

The contract to rent golf carts in Florida is not with a Trump-branded course but rather the Miami-based Golf Cart & Utility Distributors.

 

This charlatan is so lazy, so slothful, he will not even walk around the White House grounds-

 

President Donald Trump is no fan of physical exercise, having stated during the campaign that waving his arms during speeches is just about the only exercise he thinks he needs, and he is not a fan of simple, self-propelled bipedal mobility either. To save himself the physical trouble of having to walk his own body throughout the hallways of the White House, Mr. Trump has reportedly had several golf carts brought inside in order to more easily transport himself between White House rooms and offices.

White House custodial staff are not impressed with the golf cart’s wear and tear on the carpets, and have expressed frustration with Mr. Trump’s driving abilities.

“The hallways were designed and built 200 years ago, and, to be frank, a golf cart has no business being in here,” said White House custodian Rob Warner who works the day-shift. “And, to make matters worse, the President is not a careful driver. The walls have scuff marks and dents, every hallway corner has been beat up, the exhaust is darkening the walls a few shades… I don’t want to think about the cost of these damages.”

The worst drivers, however, are reportedly Mr. Trump’s children. “It’s alway a catastrophe when Donald Jr. and Eric come to visit,” said Deacon Packman, the graveyard-shit custodian. “They race each other down the main hallways and are always breaking antique furniture pieces that are often gifts from other nations. The President just laughs it off and then writes the White House staff a check for any damages, but the checks always bounce. And it’s not like you can put a price on these historical antiques anyway.”

 

https://halfwaypost.com/2017/07/23/walk-hating-donald-trump-drives-golf-cart-through-white-house-hallways-now/

 

 

 

Mike, I';ve read a lot of your posts over time, and whilst I don't always agree, I have liked your input, but...............

 

This thread is becoming more petty by the post.   Now it's the driving ability of his kids, in golf carts, in the white house???   

 

Come on guys.....please be serious.   This has degenerated into a childish attack on anything/everything that ther Trump family have done, and do.  As I said in an earlier post, if Trump f**t*d, you would be complaining that it wasn't a middle C, but D.   Tragic people with nothing in their lives.  Get a hobby, go for a walk, smell the roses, get off the F****** keyboard.  It won't get him out of the office, and you're harming only yourselves.

1 hour ago, maxpower said:

QUOTE AIRBUS A380

Truth be told, in the megaliner’s braking system, thrust reversers are the least critical components. Airliners are not required to have thrust reversers, and only the two inboard engines on the A380 are equipped with them. The decision not to install reversers on the A380’s two outboard engines saved weight and lowered the chances that those engines, which sometimes hang over runway edges, would be damaged by ingesting foreign objects.

The two reversers do help slow the A380—but not by much. In fact, unlike the thrust reversers on most airliners, including the Boeing 747 jumbo, they do not stop the aircraft in a shorter distance than brakes and spoilers alone. They do, however, take some of the strain off the brakes and are useful if water or snow makes the runway slippery.

 

Reverse thrust does slow the aircraft appreciably.  On the A380, with only two engines equipped, not so dramatic, but an aircraft can be brought to a stop using reverse thrust alone.   The effect diminishes dramatically with speed, most effective at high speed, less so at low speed, and Boeing calls for reverse to be closed by 60 knots, about 110 km/hr.  It does still work below that, but the engine is ingesting hot air from the exhausts which is being drawn forward by the reverse.  Reverse on modern aircraft, with the high bypass engines, is effected by 'vanes' which direct the fan air forward, but like a car on a muddy road, some of what goes out the back is drawn forward, and can cause engines to 'over temp', an undesirable situation.

 

They're another stopping aid, but one which will disappear in time.  Another braking system, making it four different systems on some aircraft, and perhaps a couple more discs on each wheel with make reverse redundant.   Many operators, particularly Airbus, now don't recommend use of reverse, e.g., if you're on an A320, A330 or A340, it's not common to hear the roar of reverse after landing, also depending on a lot of other factors of course.

52 minutes ago, DipStick said:

Pilots today reported one engine "powered up" which caused the incident .....

 

 

Well, in that case, it's pilot error, in that they didn't power it down.  The support pilot should have called it as soon as it was noticed on instruments, but it would have been noticed by the turn of the aircraft by both pilots, but particularly by the pilot flying the aircraft because his eyes would have been outside.  If something unexpected happens in an aircraft, as you do something, or immediately after, you 'undo' the last thing you did, because there's a fair chance that action caused it.

Think about this a little more runways are directly adjacent to bodies water all over the world.

CML, I don't know where you get your info, but aircraft use both wheel braking AND reverse thrust to stop, and the trend is away from using reverse, rather than not using brakes. In fact, it's likely reverse won't be installed in future generation aircraft. The weight penalty is about a tonne per engine on a 747, and they burn a lot of fuel, hence emissions. 

Flaps aren't used as a stopping aid, speed brakes are, deployed automatically (but 'armed' by pilots prior to landing) on touchdown, dumping lift and transferring weight from wings to landing gear.

 

Water doesn't make runways 'slippery'; the danger with standing water is aquaplaning, minimized by runway grooving.

 

A failure of the reverse thrust would be the least likely scenario. It's most effective at high speed, i.e., just after touchdown, and would have had almost zero effect at that point on the runway. Prop reverse is quite different.

 

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1 hour ago, Auriane said:

How is it possible to have an airstrip so close to the water?

Look at post # 20, and this...................

 

2 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Terrorist or freedom fighter?

 

Maduro have probably done more damage to Venezuela than any professional terrorist could ever dream of.

 

 

You're almost certainly right.

 

I used the headline terminology, and should have read the entire article.

Why weren't they all killed.   Take NO prisoners when it comes to terrorism!!

18 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

Have re-edited my original post.

 

I thought potential overshoot at first, then saw that a/c landing in that direction (and taking off in the opposite) have to do a 180 before/after backtracking to/from the terminal.

 

 

 

Overshoots happen at the runway end, and if a 180 was required the aircraft would have turned at the turning node, being so close.

 

 

18 hours ago, tifino said:

The report is titled with "... skidded..."  but are you suggesting it was a Taxiing/Turning circle accident?

 

 

16 hours ago, Argus Tuft said:

In various photos, the tracks from the aircraft undercarriage leaving the runway on to the grass can be clearly seen

 This was no taxi/ backtracking accident.

 

Not a taxying incident in my opinion.   It looks like it went off the runway at considerable speed, even though it is a looong way down the runway, and perhaps should have slowed considerably by then.  The wheel tracks look similar, so almost certainly not a collapsed left landing gear.  If the left gear had collapsed, there would have been considerable 'tearing' of the grass surface visible.

 

The report did say 'skidded off the runway', and I think I read icy conditions.  If the anti skid was not operating correctly, and reverse thrust wasn't handled judiciously in icy conditions, this could have been the result.

 

But....there will be an investigation, and it will no doubt make a conclusive finding.

23 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Crazy place to have a runway, i.e. to the side of the sea

 

20 hours ago, JoePai said:

Presume you never used Hong Kong Kai Tak  

 

And dozens of other runways in the world, including ones I know well, Sydney, Australia, Denpasar, Bali, Haneda and Kansai, Japan, Kai Tak, Hong Kong (now closed), among them.

 

Runways in close proximity to, and jutting out into the sea are common.

 

Try these............

 

33 minutes ago, Credo said:

Again with the misinformation.   Do you remember when he was on his first trip to Europe as President and all the other leaders walked and he took a golf cart?   And the government has had to spend $150,000 on golf cart rentals for him:

 

Trump Golf Trips Have Cost Nearly $150,000 in Cart Rentals for Secret Service

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-golf-trips-have-cost-nearly-150000-cart-rentals-secret-service-727933

 

 

I don't remember his last trip anywhere, let alone his first trip.

 

I don't track him like you guys do, waiting for him to f***, and complain it's the wrong note.