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Belated Happy Birthday Martin!

The bounce was hard and would have increased landing distance (not slowing down much over the distance between touchdown point one and two). As for testing the remaining undercarriage, it carried the risk of stressing the wheels even more than was necessary. I think personally the bounce was accidental, just forgetting the slight loss of elevator power. It was still a landing that everyone walked away from with no major damage to the airframe (visible anyway), so in the overall scheme of things it was a good landing. Come on, look at Chuck for bounces!

Yum!

Skybolt (proposed replacement of Blue Steel as a nuclear stand off weapon)

The first incident was 17 years ago - I would heartily agree that maintenance could be an issue if this was the second time in two years. However, there have been more engine failures (I suspect) than landing gear issues such as this. Unfortunate but related? I don't think so. Apparently this is the 14th time a wing gear hasn't lowered on a 747-400 type aircraft, something to do with the No. 4 hydraulic system. The last one was on October 24th - http://avherald.com/h?article=47c3dc71 A quote from PPrune: Just my opinion as always

Tea

Merry Christmas - see you all in the new year for ATWC 6!

Happy Birthday!

Pollution

Come on, the Irish Aer Corps only have PC-9s!

Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas John!

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What's afoot?

Geoff - an e-mail I got on Saturday:

Yes it can dbe daunting. I had control over about 320 rail vehicles and trying to get them all on the right diagrams and in for fixing etc was fun!

Welcome back Ed! I'm currently at uni doing a course in Transport Operations and Tehchnology (if anyone wants to look, here is the course details) after doing fleet control for two weeks and loved it. Study pays off!

Looking at this section Dai, it certaintly has the Acceleration aircraft:

The only other product which we can compare what has happened is Railworks/Train Simulator 20XX. There was a detailed and scored 'career' mode which for a long time only they [Dovetail] could edit. About a year ago they released the editing options to everyone. This morning I saw an add-on that was to be released via Steam but will now be released by a third party, so in that regard they are willing to allow third parties. However - it was a step change in graphics and a completely new product to what it was (in effect) replacing. Of interest is that the original Rail Simulator published in 20

Yes, it is OzNog's turn

Joe - that might be just development costs (such as design). A model train costs about £25,000 to get into production, but many have a target such as raising the money to get a laser scan and CAD models completed (which can be around £5-10,000). Then another target for tooling costs (suprisingly high) etc.

Interesting idea, but wouldn't want to do it myself without knowledge of what is being offered. In my eyes, it's a bit like crowd-funded models or add-ons

I really do owe my existance to Mr. Hitler - my great-grandmother was evacuated from Jersey in 1940. Have some great stories from my grandfathers about the Cold War, including causing various incidents whilst stationed on Gibraltar!

Think it was my great-great-grandad that fought at Paschendale. Came from Jersey, trained in Ireland (Newbridge, about 25 miles from here, and in Co. Cork) and survived (luckily for me!). I know one of my ancestors died at Monte Casino on 26th February 1944 (again, I think) whilst another ancestor was there as a Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineer. Amazing how history inter-wines!

Bugger! Over to you Andrew!