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Shalvenay
Shalvenay
00:01
they themselves are a charter/LCC carrier that does flights for package vacations in the European market (they're a total unknown to us USians)
Thomas Cook Airlines
Thomas Cook Airlines (UK) Limited, is a British airline based in Manchester, England. It serves leisure destinations worldwide from its main bases at Manchester and London Gatwick Airport. It also operates services from eight other bases around the United Kingdom. It was formed by the rebranding of JMC Air in 2003. Following the merger of the MyTravel Group with Thomas Cook in 2008, Thomas Cook Airlines UK Ltd was merged with MyTravel Airways. Thomas Cook Airlines is part of the airline division of the Thomas Cook Group, which consists of several sister airlines, all of which have a joint fleet...
TomMcW
TomMcW
@Shalvenay It'd be my bet that if the pentagon wants to do something like that that the FAA wouldn't want to have anything to do with it. They'd put responsibility for the whole operation under DoD
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@TomMcW yeah -- Omega (the only North American contract tanker operator) is in an awkward spot from a FARs perspective (the NTSB investigation into the crash of N707AR pointed this out)
TomMcW
TomMcW
@Shalvenay I'll have to look that one up. Sounds interesting
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAB1301.pdf
TomMcW
TomMcW
00:28
@Shalvenay Ran across an interesting little piece of trivia last night. Braniff Airlines flew the Concorde. The Concorde went to DFW, but since neither BAW nor AF had rights to fly domestic routes in the US the Concorde was re-registered to Braniff at DC. The AF or BAW tail number was covered up and a Braniff tail num was applied. Braniff pilots flew it to DFW and back to DC where it was again re-registered back to BAW/AF and the tail number changed back.
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
LOL
TomMcW
TomMcW
@Shalvenay The Braniff pilots were limited to .95 M but apparently they cheated a little bit on that
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@TomMcW heheheheheh
TomMcW
TomMcW
@Shalvenay Seriously, if you put a guy behind the yoke of a mach 2 capable aircraft... he's gonna push it to mach 1 just to say he did
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@TomMcW hahaha.
TomMcW
TomMcW
00:33
You can drive my Lamborghini as long as you promise to obey the speed limit
 
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Notts90
Notts90
19:45
@mins good answer on my seals question, thank you. I wonder if anyone will ask why there are two types of bearing...
PerlDuck
PerlDuck
20:13
@Notts90 Ahh, yes, now that you mention it. I forgot. It's part of BMW now. Such a shame.

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