Planespotting
Must have been quite a sight from the pub at the end of the runway.
An enthusiastic crowd greeted the first Airbus A380 to land at Manchester Airport earlier this afternoon, marking the end of an 18-month, £10m upgrade of the airport to accommodate the beast. Emirates will operate a daily Manchester-Dubai service, meaning the former has the honour of being the first regional airport anywhere …
"One could also argue "Is there really nothing better to do on the internet than come to El Reg and write inane comments?""
Um...nope. Or at the very least, I haven't found anything better (on the internet) to do with my time. There's plenty of stuff IRL that's far grander but almost all of it involves, well...REAL PEOPLE. On the Internet though...where's better than here? This is my electronic home-away-from-home, sort of like a digital pub. I venture out to other pubs periodically, try for variety and such like...but I always keep returning here.
Where do you know of on the tubes that's a better place to be than here?
Pint for all my mates on this here internet pub.
Do you think they sat there all day, or maybe just knew when it would arrive and turned up just before? I remember Concorde's last flight and from my office a few turned up early but most about and hour before and left shortly after.
If you read the article the wings are made in Cheshire so many of these would be workers proud to show of their work to family and friends, like in Filton when it was built there and I worked for their then shareholder BAE.
And lastly security threat, what with hundreds of people there somebody to walk around with a large shoulder mounted weapon? In an area I guess is regularly open to the public regularly anyway. Don't worry, security assessments would have been done by somebody with a few more skills in the area rather than forumnaysayer.
So like the one above me, did you really have to come on here and post inane moaning posts about something others might have enjoyed or do we just all have to do what you view as fun?
No - it took a bit longer to write the article prior to the landing (that's calling thinking ahead), then around seven minutes to assess via Granada's live vid feed that the crowd was indeed "enthusiastic" (I had "disappointed" on standby, just in case, and also "hostile", this being Manchester), then a couple of minutes to publish the piece.
We don't muck about, I can tell you.
is that no matter the publication, its importance or integrity, many if not most of the articles it publishes are rehashed from the press releases the publication receives.
Or do you think El Reg is such a huge newsgathering organisation that it actually has a tentacle physically present at Ringway today?
The UK is an example of a country with a primate city (London). All other major cities in such countries are so far behind the primate in size and influence that, yes, they do just count as "regional" cities. See <http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/primatecities.htm>
Good point well made.
It will only be short hops to Europe then, what with the death penalty in US.
Actually aren't France banning the burqa (spelling...sorry!), scrap that.
And Italy turning back the Libyans.
So we will only be able to go to Germany (whose constitution was part made by us and US) and Switzerland...hang on they allow euthanasia.
As I said darn good point well made! Beer for you!
"It will only be short hops to Europe then, what with the death penalty in US.
Actually aren't France banning the burqa (spelling...sorry!), scrap that.
And Italy turning back the Libyans.
So we will only be able to go to Germany (whose constitution was part made by us and US) and Switzerland...hang on they allow euthanasia."
So what's Canada, chopped liver?
Is that chopped baby seal liver? Even their 2010 Miss Universe national dress costume had a fur.
(Note that I don't oppose seal clubbing - s'not for me, but is it really any worse than most farming practices? where baby bull calves are shot at birth and even if they do grow up they get turned into bullocks and get their horns cut off before turning up on my plate. but wow! how did a story about the A380 to Manchester turn into this comment thread??! And why am I contributing?!)
Given that climate change has erased most of the things that eat seals, SOMEONE Has to keep the seal population down. Elsewise the horny buggers would breed unchecked and devastate the marine ecosystem.
Besides, even if you care about seals “because they’re so damned cute,” there’s no human rights violation occurring there. The discussion was about human rights violations. I can remember a few incidents with our troops abroad, and some pepper spraying of protesters. The troops got into a WORLD of shit when they got home. That leaves pepper spraying protestors.
CANADA: We’ll violate your human rights! With PEPPER SPRAY.
(Ignore the whole Mohawk incident in the 80s. We’ve come a long way since then, and learned a great deal.)
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I work on the flight path for Manchester, and grew up on it too, so I spent ten minutes in the sun waiting for it to pass over. It's big. Very big. There was a surprising number of people in the Tesco car park nearby stood watching too. If I'd have had my way, I'd have been in the pub beer garden at the landing end of the runway.
I'm delighted that Emirates is making this investment and commitment in Manchester, unlike our supposed national flag-carrier. The only destinations which BA now serve out of Manchester are Heathrow and Gatwick, both of which come pretty low in my preference for airports at which to connect with onward flights. Unfortunately that is fairly typical of the current British malaise of concentrating resources on London at the expense of the regions.
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