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It amazes me sometimes with the quality of some of the Thai musicians guitars, My old bass players bass was about 200000bht.
The only one with lower quality guitars is Lam Morrison BUT he can make them sound like nothing the others can do.
Dave I agree with you 100% on Lam.
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The last time I was there, it seemed that EVERY guitarist played nothing but a Fender Stratocaster. Finally somebody is playing a Gibson. Not that Fender's are bad. It just seems like the majority of Thais like Strats. :
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Outdated sad old pensioners,,,good for the nostalgy... I can understand.it ...but not for me....I look better forward.... ( OK.. to be honest... when I was young even then, they were more noise for me, than music.....up to me... many others like this noise nuisance... up to them...
Gabor, go listen to Justin Beiber then.
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If they ever went to war with Vietnam back in the 70s, LOS would have been under communist control, with all those antiquated aircraft. Most of the jet fighters are early USA cold war warriors.
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IMHO, they've been crap since about 2006. Bring yourself some good Trojans from home.
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You guys will have to carry on this ridiculous topic without BigD, but rest assured, he will be able to read it.
Do I take it you're sending him to purgatory again?
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co on Saturday afternoon rolled out the first 787 Dreamliner to be delivered to launch customer All Nippon Airways , decked out with the blue and white colors of the Japanese airline.
Boeing presented the plane to ANA executives and crew under clear skies at its Everett factory north of Seattle. The first domestic flights are set to start in Japan in September.
"The plane is being certified to the highest FAA standards," said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager, 787 program. "But the real focus of the traveling public will likely be on customer satisfaction and the elegance of the flight."
The 787 Dreamliner is a lightweight airplane that promises 20 percent greater fuel efficiency to operators than similarly sized planes. Boeing says as much as 50 percent of the primary structure will be made of composite materials instead of aluminum.
Aviation experts expect Boeing to apply the technology to future airplanes.
The interior of the first aircraft includes 264 seats -- 12 business and 252 economy -- with personal television sets, roomier seats, an automatic toilet with a wash function, more storage, an arched entry way with a beverage bar, dimmable windows and larger lavatories.
Boeing, the world's second-largest plane maker after Airbus EADS , is about three years behind schedule in delivering the first 787 largely because of snags in the unusually complex global supply chain.
The 787 is almost finished with flight tests and is set for delivery to ANA in September.
Boeing has taken 827 orders for the Dreamliner, a record number for a Boeing plane still in development. ANA has ordered 55 Dreamliners. The planes list for about $200 million.
Boeing is developing two versions of the Dreamliner. The first version, the 787-8, will carry 210 to 250 passengers on routes of 7,650 to 8,200 nautical miles. A second version, the 787-9, will carry 250 to 290 passengers on routes of 8,000 to 8,500 nautical miles.
Boeing also has been talking about a third, larger variant, the 787-10, and says it is seeing strong airline interest in the plane.
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Didn't you say it was going to fly in 2007? Try 4 years, if I remember you starting this topic, that Tom had to resurrect, after I had asked you to rename it. Anyway, now the meat and potatoes will now occur, and we shall see if the claims are true that it has "20 percent greater fuel efficiency to operators than similarly sized planes."
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So you would buy a helmet in the US, you would carry it to Pattaya and you would probably chicken out of riding in Pattaya.
Why are you in this thread?
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Joe, don't you know BigD is the pattaya talk resident know it all? nuff said.
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Come on, How can you blame Boeing for a bunch of Union thugs asserting their muscle?
Mango, the Unions in private industry don't have the muscle like the ones in the public sector. After all Boeing union members don't get 90 to 110% of their salaries in pensions when they retire, like some of my old county cohorts.
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No one left to blame, genius, but those who orchestrated this disaster. You could place
a good portion of the blame on the boy wonder from Boeing, now at Ford, who approved the
cataclysmic worldwide supply and assembly chain for the 787.
Had the the major components been designed, built and joined as they have with all previous Boeing
aircraft, it probably would have been put in service with little to no delay.
Here we go, now blaming Alan Mulaly, when he brought Ford back from the grave. Why don't you blame Harry Stonecipher, the exec that couldn't keep his dick in his pants, and his raunchy emails?
Maybe Boeing should have given Alan the CEO position instead of McNearny.
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About the same time as D's 'Big Move', I suspect.
That probably means never.
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Boeing's biggest problem is senior management. Not middle managers, but those in the executive suite at H.Q. Any executive left over from McDonnell/Douglas should be placed in a position where he can't do anymore damage.
How about the unemployment line? That's a perfect place for them.
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We have three quality airlines and they all ignored maintenance bulletins on a new series of engines? I could go along with one airline with shoddy maintenance practices but three all at the same time. I don't think so.
Who was it? United, American, and Delta?
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The continuing saga of the Nightmareliner delays must be costing Boeing big time.... especially after the latest saga of the incendiary electrical panels.....
It's already hit Boeings share price.
Looks like I'll have to vote against the Board of Directors again in 2011 for any of their recommendations on my 9 puny shares they gave me.
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So why aren't they building the Nightmareliner???
It's garnered a new name in the media, it's also known as the
7L87
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wrong post, sorry tom.
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I don't think potential life threatening incidents are good news for anyone. That said, QANTAS suffered an identical incident on a 747-400 out of San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.
On a brighter note ...
"Singapore-based aircraft leasing firm BOC Aviation announced on Wednesday it had ordered 30 Airbus A320 medium-range airliners for delivery between 2012 and 2014.
The company did not say how much it was paying, but the average price of the aircraft on January 30 was about 80 million dollars (57 million euros)."
Good business for Airbus, and with the Chinese in Paris this week, there could be more to come.
Just wait till they start falling off the 787.
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Well, at least with BigD banished to the virtual sensory deprivation suite, we won't have another "Boeing on Schedule to ....." thread to contend with.
What was that quote again? "On time and to budget"?
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. He started a topic in the "silly topics section." Looks like like no one is paying any attention though.
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By the time deliveries start later this year Boeing will deliver more 787s in the following few months than airbust has delivered a380s in the last 2 1/2 years.
"Are you sure?" My coworker always says that to me when I'm too lazy to look up an accurate answer. So I pose the same question to you
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It's called xenophobic protectionism.
"Todd Tiahrt, a Republican congressman from Kansas, said it was “outrageous to even consider outsourcing thousands of jobs to a foreign company” when the unemployment rate was close to 10 per cent.
“We need an American tanker built by an American company with American workers,” said Mr Tiahrt."
It would have been built with American workers in Alabama, hadn't Northrop bailed out of it. Boeing on the other hand is good at sending jobs abroad.
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Well, Hi all you guys,
From what i read so far I gather that most of you are "Farang" that ome to visit Pattaya and enjoy the time spent here, and perhaps come back a few or more than a few more times. But would you ever consider living here on a permanent basis. Kinda retire in Pattaya???? ( although a lot of you may not consider yourselves as getting close to retirement age for at least a good few years at least!!!
Affinity One
NO!
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Can you imagine a Thai submarine......?
It certainly would be along the lines of this
Or this
But not this
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I wonder if Airbus has reached the break even point? How much more EU taxpayer money are they going to pour down that rat hole?
I wonder how many more US taxpayer dollars are paid on pensions like yours?
Do you have a preference what time you fly?
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Out of all the trips I've taken to LOS, 7 have been on the red eye. The food is much better too when it came to breakfast. Sorry EVA but your dinners sucked. The only time I left in the afternoon, I was jetlagged for 2 days upon my arrival, and for a week on my return.