TheFiend

This one fine for me.... on my 20 Meg connection.

So the airlines have known for 2 years about a problem but failed to rectify it? That points to a lax maintenance culture at the airlines concerned. Surely their E,I,M & T (Examination, Inspection, Maintenance and Testing) process should have been modified to include those areas of concern.

How about this article or this one An on board fire is dangerous..... That sounds like an fault condition has caused the fire. Surely power supply equipment should have been designed and specified to be able to react to large fault currents without causing fires. And how pathetic are Boeing for not wanting photos of the panels published in case competitors saw them...... If it means the electrical distribution system needs to be redesigned then this will cause another major delay to the Nightmareliner.

The higher thrust Trent 972 variant is used on the Qantas and Singapore A380s. Luftansa A380s use the 970 variant.

49 747s have been written off in accidents... 3% of the total biult..... perhaps that is no big deal to you. 148 737s have been written off...... perhaps that is no big deal to you.. The A380 didn't crash as a result of the catastrophic engine failure.... it landed safely. No body was injured but the way you Boeing fanboys are going on about it it is a real "big deal" One engine has suffered a catastrophic failure..... 6 have been discovered to be suffering from oil leaks. Surely these oil leaks should have been picked up during the normal regular maintenance inspections. Oil leaks are repairable.

You're right Tommy....... he seems to struggle to understand certain things....... you would have thought somebody who claims to have been to Cambridge would be able to comprehend English better than Denny does.

Thought you were clued up on all things about planes... the A380 uses 4 engines!!! That's more like 7 out of 80..... hardly the large percentage you are claiming....... and that doesn't include engines that will have been swapped during maintenance.

Sow how big do you call a large percentage? Oils leaks have been found on 7 engines....... 7 engines from a total of 20 RR engined A380s in service is hardly a large percentage!!! If the airlines are only finding oil leaks now.... then surely it show their maintenance regimes need looking at. Oil leaks should have been picked up long before now. And it's not as though P&W, or GE engines have never had an oil leak or a catastrophic failure, is it?

And Kissinger is rumoured to be making an appearance!!!

Boeing obviously think it is a serious problem if they have halted all test flights.

For all you American scaremongers.... Full article here First of it's kind since 1994..... so not exactly a regular occurrence, is it?

The way you yanks are going on about it, you would think American Built airplanes or engines have never had a mechanical failure!!!!

So why aren't they building the Nightmareliner???

And when was the last time an American Companies Engine won the F1 World Championship? Answer - 1994 And 1994 was the only one since 1982!!! So European companies can't cut the mustard....

Drink Singha in Thailand.... and Singha in the UK!!!!

Last time I was in Nana some bars were allowing smoking..... and some others told me to go outside....

I don't have a bike license but have ridden a scooter in Pattaya.... But I wouldn't do it when drunk!!! And we keep a scooter up north for getting round the village when we are there.

You will find a lot of the mafia in Pattaya has a tie-in with the police.

And he only needs one shot!!!

I know there is some Indian mafia operating in Pattaya.

All the British Airways Concordes are preserved. Of the Air France Concordes,, all but two of them have been preserved. F-BTSC was destroyed in the Paris air crash) F-BVFD was stripped for spares in 1982 and scrapped in 1994 There is even plans to to restore one of the Concordes to flying condition with the goal of flying for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.

Just to pay for the bar you need to be making 600 baht every day. Do-able? Probably, but it's not in the best of locations. and there are a lot of extra costs on top that need to be considered. Location, location, location is the best principle for choosing where to have a bar. Otherwise you can struggle. I used to have a bar on New Plaza...... not a bad location, but it was hard to compete with the bars down the middle. I was lucky, we sold that bar for a profit. On moving to a complex on Second Road we got much more passing trade and didn't need to compete with the neighbouring bars so much. Yes, the costs increased a bit, but the increase in turnover was able to cover those costs easily.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Google is your friend!

I use OpenOffice if I need to use an office suite, which isn't very often.