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16  All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: Newquay and Plymouth Airports - their rise and fall - ongoing discussion on: November 30, 2008, 16:58:43
Quote from: eightf48544 on November 30, 2008, 13:21:51
Smokey may not be so far off the mark. I know an aero engineer. He never flys his own airline.

if that's the case, then his airline shouldn't be flying Wink

Oh and i know a number of Engineers/ workers for Airbus. And suffice to say i know it takes substantially more than 2 bolts to fall off for a wing to go Wink
17  All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: Newquay and Plymouth Airports - their rise and fall - ongoing discussion on: November 30, 2008, 01:00:34
Quote from: vacman on November 29, 2008, 21:00:35
Quote from: Shazz on November 29, 2008, 14:08:41
Quote from: smokey on November 29, 2008, 11:45:33
I'll never be happy flying, it's bad for the Planet, and secondly planes are built almost on Breaking strain, one bolt holding a wing on breaks and it's very likely the whole wing will fall off shortly after!

because if that was the case, they'd defiantly be allowed to fly  Roll Eyes

Your average short range passenger jet costs $50-100mil, and a long range jet costs $200-400mil for a reason. They're built with many fall-back systems, and are incredibly structurally sound. Why you think if 1 bolt goes the whole thing goes i don't know...
smokey is generally full of crap  Wink

You make it sound like i hadn't noticed Wink
18  All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: Newquay and Plymouth Airports - their rise and fall - ongoing discussion on: November 29, 2008, 14:08:41
Quote from: smokey on November 29, 2008, 11:45:33
I'll never be happy flying, it's bad for the Planet, and secondly planes are built almost on Breaking strain, one bolt holding a wing on breaks and it's very likely the whole wing will fall off shortly after!

because if that was the case, they'd defiantly be allowed to fly  Roll Eyes

Your average short range passenger jet costs $50-100mil, and a long range jet costs $200-400mil for a reason. They're built with many fall-back systems, and are incredibly structurally sound. Why you think if 1 bolt goes the whole thing goes i don't know...
19  All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: Newquay and Plymouth Airports - their rise and fall - ongoing discussion on: November 28, 2008, 21:37:55
Quote from: John R on November 27, 2008, 20:27:56
I can't understand how an airline is able to get away with treating its customers like that given the financial commitments that people willl clearly be making in conjunction with their flight bookings. 



Because there is no cheaper alternative, and it will damage any airport they do it to. Hence why the majority of them back down and sort there problems out.

That and they can quite easily afford to, having around ^2bn in the bank
20  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture - related rail and other transport issues / Re: Network Rail chief^s pay rockets to ^1.2m on: November 26, 2008, 10:06:01
But they do something a lot more useful than Gordon Brown Wink
21  Journey by Journey / Wales local journeys / Re: Action demanded over rail overcrowding on: August 26, 2008, 23:57:40
Not forgetting Arriva have already the doubled up the 150's on every service
22  Journey by Journey / Plymouth and Cornwall / Re: Newquay on: June 28, 2008, 17:25:32
It's only a model Wink
23  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Pacer trains on: June 19, 2008, 08:16:02
I hate to speculate, but his entire post reads like someone at customer relations at northern  Roll Eyes

Welcome anyway!
24  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Station usage figures on: June 16, 2008, 21:52:30
Nice to see my local station (cam) went up another 20k this year!
25  Journey by Journey / Swindon to Gloucester / Cheltenham / Re: New plans for the Gloucester railway triangle on: June 13, 2008, 21:15:10
...no it won't

The station proposed by the above is still firmly in gloucester.
26  Journey by Journey / Swindon to Gloucester / Cheltenham / Re: New plans for the Gloucester railway triangle on: June 10, 2008, 22:52:56
I give it a few months before it gets scrapped again.
27  All across the Great Western territory / Introductions and chat / Re: Desktops on: June 08, 2008, 20:38:15


One of my many personal photos of the Andees Wink
28  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: How many carriages can your nearest station(s) take? on: June 08, 2008, 19:24:24
Quote from: swlines on June 08, 2008, 17:51:59
Gloucester is the longest continuous platform, Colchester doesn't have a continuous platform as it loses a track in this sort of layout... Although I see that Wikipedia says that Colchester is the longest I'd be quite happy to take that up to debate as it most certainly isn't a continuous platform IMHO▸ (in my humble opinion) (ie, if trains from the up Sunshine Coast were to cross and stop half way between both platforms there'd be about 2 coaches off platform).

Neither does Gloucester, as it's technically 2 platforms.
29  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: How many carriages can your nearest station(s) take? on: June 08, 2008, 11:53:04
Quote from: Btline on June 08, 2008, 10:55:03
Does Gloucester have the longest platform in the UK▸ (United Kingdom)??

Second Longest, @ 602.69

Longest is Colchester @ around 620
30  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: How many carriages can your nearest station(s) take? on: June 08, 2008, 10:25:11
Gloucester: over 20?
Cam & Dursley: 4/6
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