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Air New Zealand Chief Executive Greg Foran announced: " It's a proud moment to finally unveil five years of hard mahi, in what truly is a cabin of possibility. One that will provide customers with options to get some shut eye wherever they're sitting. Innovation has driven the new cabin experience from nose to tail. For Economy customers, the Skynest concept, first announced in 2020, will be a world-first. We wanted to offer our Economy customers a lie-flat option and that's how Skynest was born. It's going to be a real game changer for the economy travel experience. " https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/press-release-2022-airnz-offers-best-slee…

I often thought about getting a Navigraph subscription for the sim integration it offers but always defer because the charts I need are available on SkyVector or AirNav. Actually I prefer to view the charts on my browser because they are scaled up so I can easily read them. Besides that they are free! 😊 Any other takes on the subject? sp

So I saw this on Steam and was really intrigued... Obviously this isn't feasible from a flightsim perspective and the cost seems a bit high but the technology was what really caught my eye. It's superimposing a simulator interface on top of a video background instead of using textured models or PG. It's like using Google street view as a trainsim. Like I said the price is high for just 2 routes and the cockpit seems a pretty basic 2D overlay but the technology looked intriguing enough I thought I'd share. I loved the Rail Journeys of Britain show and this is sort of an interactive version of that I suppose! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1761290/?snr=1_…

Don't be looking for commercial fusion reactors anytime soon. Seems there's a severe shortage of tritium. https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run-fuel-even-gets-started Noel

I suppose it would be too hard to give it back. 1.7-Billion-Year-Old Chunk of North America Found Sticking to Australia (geologyin.com)

Basically the title of my post. I am a real glider nut and I spent a lot of time in FSX glding, but feel like I'd like to take it more seriously. I'm wondering if any of you here has the same love of glding and have tried, or are currently using, Condor 2 and what your thoughts are.

Hi, I have always been interested in aircraft accident reports. Mainly in how aircraft accident investigations improved the safety. I guess almost every safety rule in aviation that we know was either influenced or initiated by an accident. A while ago I came across the acronym of "Admiral Cloudberg". He publishes a new aircraft accident report every week. And his articles are very well written, extensive and detailed. So I thought I share the link here: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/ Maybe some of you might find this interesting as well.

Has there been an evolutionary change in mouth size since I was born? I see commercials for enormous size hamburgers and one for a double grilled cheese burger. How do people get their mouths around them to eat them? Here are some examples: https://www.eatinglove.org/blog/cheeseburger-cheat-meals/ Noel

100 metric tons into orbit. 😯 Submersibles to Europa and Enceladus and the other ocean worlds to look for life. Exciting stuff. Telescopes three times larger than Hubble could be fit in Spaceship.

0.25" "Bru-ha-rhoom". Tolkien always said bru-ha-rhoom was based on C.S. Lewis' clearing his deep baritone throat self -importantly when he was about to declaim rhetorically at the Inklings club.

Just finished this one by Alex Stone (if that's his real name). A gripping, 100% true-to-life account of the trials and tribulations of a typical CFI at a typical flight school. Well, maybe not, but it's a short read, on Kindle Unlimited and made me laugh out loud. The reviews by outraged humor-impaired readers are even funnier.

Looks like it was the DC3. #2 is the B737 which is the most popular jetliner. Under 5,000 produced do not make the list. There is only one ultralight, the Weedhopper Cessna 172 C Utility / trainer 44,000+[1] United States 1956 present Also built in France by Reims Aviation. Ilyushin Il-2 M Ground-attack 36,183 Soviet Union 1941 1945 Most-produced combat aircraft; most-produced low-wing aircraft; most-produced aircraft for over half a century until surpassed by the Cessn…

Is probably this hamburger clown.

Can anyone help me with this AIG error? Ive already tried disabling character length limit of 255 characters but it made no difference. And ive tried moving the OCI folder elsewhere but then AIG tells me i need to install OCI. Maybe i relocated it in the wrong place? Maybe i did it wrong? Any suggestions?

Thanks for the memories buddy. There is nothing like real world flying so I know why you're going there. Good luck old friend. I wish you all the best........Doug

As every year in central Italy in Umbria in the plain of Castelluccio di Norcia located at about 1300 above sea level in the Sibillini Mountains Park, between June and July depends on the weather conditions, spontaneous flowering occurs due to the cultivation of the precious lentil which has the characteristic to be very small, without peel and cooks in about 45 minutes. This cultivation is strictly done without weeding, and it is precisely for this reason that this spectacular flowering takes place which makes the plan like a huge color palette that is visited during the three weeks of flower life by thousands of visitors. Unfortunately the small village of …

https://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=72920&start=435 A great loss for the flightsim community.

I'm sure this has been posted before, but some may not have seen it ---- The Beaver Ballad - YouTube Bruce

Video of the MD-82 of the Dominican Red Air from Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) to Miami, FL (USA) with 126 people on board, landed on runway 09 in Miami which suffered the collapse of its landing gear. The MD-82 came to a stop off the runway with a fire developing in the right wing, where a fuel spill occurred. The plane was evacuated via slides. Three people sustained minor injuries and were taken to hospital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLFNyBUa1H8

Is that the answer to the Fermi Paradox? It's just too word not allowed hard, so nobody bothers?

The first non-stop flight of Qantas QF05 from Perth YPPH to Rome Fiumicino LIRF has departed. The take-off from Perth took place at 22.34 (LT) and the landing is estimated at LIRF for tomorrow 23 June at 07.45 (LT). Currently the plane has passed Cocos Island in the Indian Ocean and exceeded 3000 km of flight and there are about 10,000 km to arrive at LIRF. (from Flightradar24)

I have written a bit about the Republic F-105D based at Takhli Thailand. But here's some stuff you probably didn't know about it. The Thud is famous for it's missions in Vietnam where almost half of the F-105s built were lost. It was a dangerous mission flying over Hanoi, sometimes twice in one day. I was a bomb load crew chief for the afternoon missions. I would wander up and down the flight line in my blue pickup making sure bomb loads were delivered to the right airplanes and help out if any of load crews were having problems. First lets remember the F-105 was not designed as a tactical bomber or a fighter. It was designed for a specific mission.…