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Offline Hush

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Bloody volcano
« on: April 16, 2010, 04:05:44 AM »
Guess where my 2 ordered clutch cables are sitting right now?
Some airport in jolly old England where the planes are not allowed to fly probably for the next 2 weeks!!!!!! >:( :(
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2010, 04:36:53 AM »
Quote from: Hush on April 16, 2010, 04:05:44 AM
Guess where my 2 ordered clutch cables are sitting right now?
Some airport in jolly old England where the planes are not allowed to fly probably for the next 2 weeks!!!!!! >:( :(

        Brother, it may not make you feel any better, but that sounds like something that would happen to ME!  I feel for you, I really do! Maybe they'll get off sooner. ;)

                                     
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2010, 05:14:48 AM »
I heard they cancelled something on the order of 6000 flights yesterday....
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2010, 04:54:18 PM »
said the cost is 220 million a day for the airliner companies
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2010, 05:18:57 PM »
I saw that the plume was at 20,000-36,000 feet.  Obviously the airline officials know more about this than me but why not just fly at a lower altitude for a few hundred miles till out of the zone.  It looked like much of the U.K was near the edge of the zone and parts of Scotland near Glasgow were outside.  Maybe the silica ash is falling into the lower levels?
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2010, 05:25:31 PM »
Quote from: srust58 on April 16, 2010, 05:18:57 PM
I saw that the plume was at 20,000-36,000 feet.  Obviously the airline officials know more about this than me but why not just fly at a lower altitude for a few hundred miles till out of the zone.  It looked like much of the U.K was near the edge of the zone and parts of Scotland near Glasgow were outside.
Sounds like a plan except the heavy plume may be easy to see, but there is a large amount of particles diffused around it that cannot be seen. I would not want to have that stuff coming into my engine as the pilot or passenger. If it does not cause an engine failure, it will cause premature wear. Very abrasive stuff.
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2010, 03:26:21 AM »
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Sounds like a plan except the heavy plume may be easy to see, but there is a large amount of particles diffused around it that cannot be seen. I would not want to have that stuff coming into my engine as the pilot or passenger. If it does not cause an engine failure, it will cause premature wear. Very abrasive stuff.

Pfft, just install pods on the front of the engines  ;)

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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2010, 04:04:02 AM »
You can't get clutch cables here?

You know- all this stuff seems biblical to me.  All these earthquakes, floods, and now volcanoes.  Is this all just coincidence?
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2010, 04:52:06 AM »
You know it's funny, I talked to Brit fitter once upon a time about flying in the desert, he was on a recovery team for downed A/C and he made the claim that when the engines were dismantled that all the sand did was polish them now this was about Venoms or Vamps or Hawker Hunters I don't remember, maybe the more modern Gas Turbines are different but he said the ones he worked on went better in the dust they picked up speed from the ones in the UK, so I wonder.
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2010, 06:04:27 AM »
Quote from: Uncle Ernie on April 18, 2010, 04:04:02 AM
You can't get clutch cables here?

You know- all this stuff seems biblical to me.  All these earthquakes, floods, and now volcanoes.  Is this all just coincidence?

According to the Mayans, the world will end in 2012!
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2010, 06:10:27 AM »
Quote from: meriggi on April 18, 2010, 06:04:27 AM
Quote from: Uncle Ernie on April 18, 2010, 04:04:02 AM
You can't get clutch cables here?

You know- all this stuff seems biblical to me.  All these earthquakes, floods, and now volcanoes.  Is this all just coincidence?

According to the Mayans, the world will end in 2012!

December 21 to be exact.  :D
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2010, 10:04:42 AM »
Quote from: Uncle Ernie on April 18, 2010, 04:04:02 AM
You can't get clutch cables here?

You know- all this stuff seems biblical to me.  All these earthquakes, floods, and now volcanoes.  Is this all just coincidence?

Tell that to the dinosaurs.  :D  And now that meteor.  Just lucky it was a small one. :D
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2010, 10:32:33 AM »
ssshhhh.  don't start the conspiracy theorists, or they'll start saying Obama is the antichrist... ::)
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2010, 11:24:14 AM »
He Isn't?  ::) :)
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2010, 11:43:21 AM »
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #15 on: April 18, 2010, 12:47:21 PM »
HA HA but where are my cables? >:( ;D
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #16 on: April 18, 2010, 12:49:45 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Ernie on April 18, 2010, 04:04:02 AM
You can't get clutch cables here?

You know- all this stuff seems biblical to me.  All these earthquakes, floods, and now volcanoes.  Is this all just coincidence?

It's because of that one time when you were young Ernie. God saw you touch yourself. Now we all are going to pay.
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2010, 02:01:41 PM »
Yeah Ernie, a thousand Hail Mary's should save the world. ;)
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2010, 03:47:09 PM »
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Sounds like a plan except the heavy plume may be easy to see, but there is a large amount of particles diffused around it that cannot be seen. I would not want to have that stuff coming into my engine as the pilot or passenger. If it does not cause an engine failure, it will cause premature wear. Very abrasive stuff.

Pfft, just install pods on the front of the engines  ;)

Brandon

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« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2010, 08:30:42 PM »
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #21 on: April 19, 2010, 03:34:06 AM »
Quote from: Uncle Ernie on April 18, 2010, 04:04:02 AM

You can't get clutch cables here?

Paul, why would he want to get them from NC, English ones are much nicer ;D ;D ;D ;D

Hush is in NZ, that's the little dangly bit under Australia. :D :D :D :D

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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #22 on: April 19, 2010, 09:49:14 AM »
Just received an email from friends who are stuck in Paris after a 6 day vacation from their jobs in Thailand.  Not a bad place to be stuck but it is expensive so they had to move to the cheapest hotel they could find at around $125 a night.
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Re: Bloody volcano
« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2010, 12:07:40 PM »
my Dad is stuck in Munich and he doesn't drink beer   poor guy he is the designated walker for the other people he works with :'(



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