TopGun

This all sounds brilliant to me. Hats off the JP, the coaches and players. Isn't it great to have something to be happy about. Puts last season into its true perspective. The last great Saints game I recall was not the 80s but when we beat Spurs 4-0 in our cup final season under WGS. I recall the Coldplay bloke calling it "liquid football". Sounds like today was the same. Lets have more of the same.

Ha ha! I did the same in the Peak district. Wish I had gone the extra few miles to Derby now.

Boom boom

I remember Keegan saying BWP was one of the best natural finishers he had ever seen as a teenager at Man City. He must have gone backwards since then. The only thing he has developed is too much of a liking for the bright lights. Well, he's welcome to the ones at Plymouth and will then likely move on to Grimsby, Bristol Rovers or Bury.

England looking good for the win. KP has 90 and 2 wickets. He's had a cracking start as captain.

Davies said he sees himself as a PL player. What more convincing do you need?

Bye bye Bradley. Hurry along now.

Don't know why but Eau Rouge is my favourite name of all grand prix corners :confused:

I expect your £1 is helping prop up Saints' overdraft.

Yeah, the US DC-10s are stored but I imagine a number of them have air worthy certificates kept up in the hope that they can be flogged to cargo operators rather than just scrapped. I suppose certain elements can be cannibalised also such as engine parts.

So true. I used to sit opposite a woman who slurped yoghurt each lunchtime and then used her lizard's tongue to lick the foil top of the pot at the end. It was ****ing gruesome but also strangely mesmerising.

Lol. None of them fly DC-10s by choice now although there are still quite a few on their books. AA has 20, North West has 30 and Continental have 20. **** knows why. Not sure about MD-11s but by and large they are more modern than MD-80s. Quite a few veteran 747s still about and you can also add into the elderly active planes list some of the older 757/767s that are used regularly. US Airways has a quite large fleet of early 80s 757s in active service for example.

AA, Delta and North West are all in the poop cash wise so they continue to fly older aircraft like the DC-10 and early version 747s. As well as MD-80s on regional routes. I wrote an article for a US enviro mag last year that assessed how to cross the pond from an enviro point of view. Delta's long haul average fleet age is something like 17 years, Air France by comparison is only seven years. BA was about 11 I think.

It would make no difference at all as EU legislation covers all EU skies regardless of operator. The more tricky aspect that will likely be tested in the courts eventually if the EU Emissions Trading Scheme is introduced in 2012 is whether non-EU airlines should be subject to the tax. Funds raised from the tax will be put into modernising EU air facilities, particularly a project called Single European Sky (SES) that intends to unify the current 58 EU ATC zones into one pan-EU system that would mean less zig-zagging about for planes in EU skies as currently happens. So less fuel used and less emissions. But the US airlines in particular are kicking off about it and threatening to use airports such as Dubai rather than Heathrow or Charles de Gaulle as change hubs for long haul flights to Asia. So BAA etc also has concerns.

I would contact magazine publishing companies in the area. They are always happy for extra hands at little cost and you would learn a lot in a short time as it is generally always hands to the pump. It won't be journalism immediately but you would get to learn how the publishing process works. Can't offer specific companies as I am based in the north but go to a central or university library and read their up to date copy of BRAD which lists all media firms, make a list and call up the editors and publishing directors (don't email them).

No worries there. The Easyjet fleet is one of the most modern in Europe. They are also calling (along with Flybe) for the EU to ban all planes that are older than 15 years from EU skies by 2012. Obviously it is also to the commercial advantage of both airlines should that happen as none of their planes are that old but many competitors would not be able to afford or take delivery of newer replacements in that time period.

They still fly a few 707s commercially in Iran. Last place in the world apparently.

Not sure whether you are referring to Saints or England but in both cases I am in agreement.

Very true.

It's most probable that MD-80 series planes will leave the skies in larger numbers when aviation emissions trading schemes kick in as they will become too expensive for airlines to operate. The EU scheme is schedululed for 2012 so that should see the end of the ones operated here by likes of SAS and Alitalia mainly. US is a different kettle of fish entirely as I doubt that they will get an emissions trading scheme going this side of 2020.

Yep. Chapter 11 recently etc. They'll be flying MD-80s until they are banned from the sky for emissions purposes.

The MD-80 series is a development of the DC-9 but no real reason to slate it for old technology. Over 1,000 were built and most are still flying. Thay have been involved in 56 notable incidents and 23 hull losses. 1,056 fatal casualties. A lot of the crashes are because many MD-80s are owned by crappy airlines in Africa etc. They are being withdrawn quickly now but that's mainly because of their poor fuel economy. A Flybe Dash-8 turboprop can achieve 30% more efficiency on the same short-medium haul flights. But American Airlines still has over 200 MD-82s.

How do you know when it's bedtime at Glitter's place? When the big hand touches the little hand.

An innocuous 36.

Excellent. Thanks