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by DarrenL
13 Jul 2013, 11:48
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Nightmareliner Fire Closes LHR
Replies: 50
Views: 9339

Re: Nightmareliner Fire Closes LHR

Word is it was a water boiler that was left on that boiled dry and caught alight and the cut out didn't work. If that is true then Boeing must be sighing with relief!! as will its' customers!! But the question must be why did the cut-out not operate? Nigel. Not the first time it's happened - http:/...
by DarrenL
13 Jul 2013, 10:21
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Nightmareliner Fire Closes LHR
Replies: 50
Views: 9339

Re: Nightmareliner Fire Closes LHR

Word is it was a water boiler that was left on that boiled dry and caught alight and the cut out didn't work.
by DarrenL
12 Jul 2013, 21:29
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: She deserves better than this
Replies: 16
Views: 2726

Re: She deserves better than this

It's uncannily like the end of the original Queen Elizabeth, being towed to Hong Kong for a refit and then suffering a suspicious fire. It sank in the harbour where it rusted away and the owners walked away with an insurance payout. Would the same plan work twice? :doh: Ian ;) Just in time for the ...
by DarrenL
10 Jul 2013, 18:27
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: She deserves better than this
Replies: 16
Views: 2726

Re: She deserves better than this

It'll be like that Ex-Soviet Aircraft Carrier than the Chinese bought to be a floating hotel and casino, that suddenly got refitted and became China's first Aircraft Carrier.

It'll become the SS Mao and take Chinese millionaires around the Eastern Pacific.
by DarrenL
09 Jul 2013, 20:29
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: I say, we've prang'd the kite again skipper!
Replies: 7
Views: 1604

Re: I say, we've prang'd the kite again skipper!

Beer adverts do seem to be of a better class of writer, I like the Bombardier ones with Rik Mayall as well. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQBAH_rfWLM
by DarrenL
06 Jul 2013, 21:18
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Asiana Crash Landing San Francisco
Replies: 55
Views: 9204

Re: Asiana Crash Landing San Francisco

Garry Russell wrote:From reports it was a low and slow high AOA undershoot that took the tail off.
Quite a hefty breakwater at the end of the runway impact marks and lots of debris

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by DarrenL
01 Jul 2013, 11:57
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Prime Minister....................
Replies: 3
Views: 1009

Re: Prime Minister....................

Airspeed wrote:I heard on the radio that Kevin had returned to the Prime Minister Ship, and I didn't know he even had one.
That'll be the Ship of State, the only ship that leaks from the top.
by DarrenL
28 Jun 2013, 22:40
Forum: The Virtual Spanner
Topic: Windows 8.1
Replies: 29
Views: 6130

Re: Windows 8.1

On win 7 I use "Libraries" and put the icon on the task bar at the bottom alongside, Thunderbird, Firefox, IE, XBMC and iTunes. I click the "Libraries" icon and in that I have all the folders I need, plus navigation with My Computer/network on the left on the column list. It's th...
by DarrenL
27 Jun 2013, 19:25
Forum: The Virtual Spanner
Topic: Windows 8.1
Replies: 29
Views: 6130

Re: Windows 8.1

I don't like Windows 8 let alone 8.1, so I'll be sticking with 7. Whoever designed it must either be colour blind or mad. Live Tiles is a confused mess (below) the MS tiles are horrible solid colours with white icons on them, but the non-MS items are full colour. It's a user friendly nightmare. And ...
by DarrenL
24 Jun 2013, 22:02
Forum: CBFS Forum
Topic: Freeware Fs9 Vulcan
Replies: 8
Views: 2401

Re: Freeware Fs9 Vulcan

migman29 wrote:Holy Cow !!!!!

69 lookers and no comments?,it's either very few of you run Fs9 anymore or very few of you have tackled
a Vulcan or a combo of both *-) :lol: .
Probably with that title people thought it was going to be about a new freeware FS9 Vulcan available, not requesting one. :)