Watching the Royal arrival in France, I just laughed at the Royal Standard and tricolour being 'shoved' out the cockpit window of the Voyager, then the delay for the stately arrival of some steps. Oh for the days when the flags were flown from the top of the Andover and the 748 had it's own air-stairs! Read More

Russia’s woes in building new tanks, repairing or even refurbishing old stocks, optics and ball bearings are all normally sourced from the west, so they have a severe shortage now hence the low output in armour etc.

Well, here we go. Read More

Pilot ejected - found in a residential city street in N Charleston, SC - transported Read More

I just had to laugh at the very British spectacle of our Sovereigns arrival to the airport being indicated by the captain of the aircraft holding what appeared to be a vase with two flags stuck in it. The royal standard fluttered obligingly but the French flag was plastered against the fuselage. Full credit to the guy if he had to taxi and wave fla... Read More

Thank you Wensleydale, I'll jump to it and find something suitable. Have a go at this one. Read More

And he’s gone. Good riddance! https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/announcement-on-qantas-ceo-succession/ Read More

There are a lot of soundings at the moment in relation to Eastern Ukraine and the possibility that Kiev Government will look to conduct a major attack on this area. In 2014 the people in this area disliked the Maidan Sq protests and did one of the own which was attacked by Kiev. As this area is populated by people with more Ethnic ties to Russia... Read More

Video footage of one of the pilots ejecting at very low level. [ame]https://twitter.com/ultimoranet/status/1703071596175294604?t=VD0aRiIit-DBpY8075jKxg&s=19[/ame] Read More

U.K. NATS down, Major system failure. Major disruption to both incoming and departing flights. https://news.sky.com/story/network-wide-failure-of-uk-air-traffic-control-systems-loganair-... Read More

China claims to have learned from SARS and not to be hushing up the current outbreak. A relative working in China has seen this notice. What should he make of it? Read More

I know there is a cohort of strong Putin supporters here, but this looks to be getting serious and his shtick might be going over for the home side, but maybe it is time for him to stop playing with matches. Lots of jaw-jaw going on at the moment as it should. Options, however, to give leverage to those talks seem limited in this scenario. Fo... Read More

I don't know all the ins and outs on this one but would someone with GA instructor experience care to opine? [QUOTE][h1]Meet the top gun CASA says is too good to train new pilots[/h1]​ [list] [*]EXCLUSIVE[h2]By [url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/robyn-ironside]ROBYN IRONSIDE[/url][/h2]AVIATION WRITER [*]

Is this a joke or is it really happening?😱 Read More

Qantas lost Read More

C1020/23 REVIEW C1015/23
TEMPO RESTRICTED AREA ACT
IN CTA CLASS A, C, D AND E AIRSPACE
ATS IN THE YBBB FIR SUBJECT TO CONTINGENCY DUE OPR RESTRICTIONS IN THE FLW AIRSPACE:
BRISBANE CENTRE 130.4 SPRINGBROOK. DESIGNATED AIRSPACE HANDBOOK (DAH)
SECTOR VOLUME NAMES AFFECTED ARE: 'GOLD COAST A, B, C, D, E, F'
CONTINGENCY MAP (LISTED UNDER GOLD COAS... Read More				

						
				
			

Kudos to the Ryanair crew! https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/ryanair-737-on-foggy-runway-urged-inbound-a321-to-abort-after-controllers-headset-blunder/155021.article Read More

What happens if a driver slow motion injures one of those idiots? Why aren’t the idiots removed from the street by the police? Isn’t being a public nuisance a crime? Read More

Am I missing the obvious, a thousand apologies if I am, but what happened to the original thread? Has it been moved? Has it been merged? On my computer it has vanished? I can't find it. Read More

[left]BBC exit poll giving Con 368 seats Lab 191 SNP 55 Lib 13 an 86 majority.. We have a couple of billboards up round here, large one for Con in the local horses field as normal, and a tiny one in a garden for Lab[/left] Read More

The Times newspaper 16th September 2023 David Chazan Paris A French gynecologist has prompted a national controversy by refusing to examine a transgender patient on the grounds that he is qualified to treat only "real women" "I have no expertise to deal with men, even if they have shaved their beards and tell my secretary they... Read More

Seems as though there are a ton of cancelled/delayed flights at LGW, with numerous diversions to LTN/other airports. Reportedly down to lack of ATC personnel.... anyone know more? Read More

Another miracle by Ural Airlines, Novosibirsk, russia. Video: https://t.me/Tsaplienko/39165 Read More

The EU has announced it’s launched an anti-subsidy investigation into China’s electric cars. So, without any real idea whether it was actually possible, or exactly how it would be achieved, the EU collectively agreed to ban ICE cars by 2035. In an attempt to show determination, UK and others decided they could achieve it by 2030. Increasingl... Read More