Airplanes & Airports
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That would have been simpler. In Japanese, "Kaboom" is カブーム (kabūmu). I wonder if there are Japanese versions of Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartoons.
Qantas apologizes after R-rated film plays on every screen during Sydney-Tokyo flight
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I would rather have no movie if one cannot select it than be forced to watch some artsie movie or even worse, a kids movie.
I remember taking a flight on Jet Blue, when the seatback screens were a novel thing. They had movies, and a selection of on-demand programs from various cable TV networks. The guy seated next to me was watching a TLC program where they were performing a gastric bypass operation on an (obviously) obese person. And I just caught a bit of them cutting through the layers of fat, and I resigned myself to looking in the other direction for the rest of the flight. I mean, talk about inconsiderate.
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Oy vey! Shares of Lufthansa closed today at €6.68 (the equivalent of $7.24), a gain of €0,21 (3.24%).
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Lufthansa fined $4 million for blocking 128 Jewish passengers from boarding flight
Fine is largest ever issued by U.S. Department of Transportation against an airline for civil rights violations.
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The United States will have no difficulty collecting that four million dollars, right? "Lufthansa" is German for "Hansa of the air." A hansa is a guild of merchants. "Hansa" comes from the Proto-Germanic hansō, which means "crowd" or "company." For further reading, education and enlightenment:
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How many planes do you think you see pass by on an average day. I don't mean how many planes total pass by in your area. I mean how many do you specifically see on an average day?
I would say for me it's probably three. And the fort Lauderdale airport is not that far from me. It's like 20 miles so there's way more than that but I notice three.
I would say for me it's probably three. And the fort Lauderdale airport is not that far from me. It's like 20 miles so there's way more than that but I notice three.
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That's a question with a lot of qualifiers. On any given workday, there are several military and commercial jets overhead, plus a variety of dickheads doing loop-de-loops in a prop plane. Sometimes, if they get close to the house, I'll take a look. I might see them, or not. We have the Portsmouth airspace nearby.
If I take a walk, I may see one, but usually not. If I'm not working, I'll probably see at least a few during my day. With the Flightradar24 app, I can see all the international flights passing over at 40,000 feet.
If I take a walk, I may see one, but usually not. If I'm not working, I'll probably see at least a few during my day. With the Flightradar24 app, I can see all the international flights passing over at 40,000 feet.
I love the Plane Finder app, but it gives you a scary amount of info on the plane flying overhead. Almost all the planes flying over me are East - West routes.
Florida to either Texas or California.
Florida to either Texas or California.
I probable see 10 to 15 commercial planes a day and at least a half dozen private/single engine planes a day. I don't live too far from a hospital so I see several life-flight helicopters a week.
Around 20 all together is kind of a lot that you notice every single day. I wasn't thinking about private or prop plans when I posed the question, but that's a good call.. I have a private airport on the same street as my apartment like 4 MI down the road so if I include the smaller private jets and single engine propeller planes, I probably notice about five planes per day total.
Also, I still kind of get excited when I see helicopters. Around here I either see the sheriff's ghetto bird or I see the news station helicopters But that's right. Once or twice a month maybe. I don't know, helicopters are cool.
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With the Toledo airport and Detroit airport only 45 minutes away, we get a lot of traffic.
We're at the crossroads of Detroit/Cincinnati and Cleveland/Chicago, so we get a lot of air and ground traffic.
When the sun is low in the morning, it lights up the contrails and I see a lot of commercial flights.
There are a few other small airports that put up a lot of small planes.
We're at the crossroads of Detroit/Cincinnati and Cleveland/Chicago, so we get a lot of air and ground traffic.
When the sun is low in the morning, it lights up the contrails and I see a lot of commercial flights.
There are a few other small airports that put up a lot of small planes.
IdRatherBeSkiing
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There are always a string of airplanes landing at Pearson and they line up over Toronto. About 30 seconds apart. I can't see them too well from my apartment as they are farther north where I am. What I see a lot of is trains as the tracks go right by me.
We are on the route of international flights going to JFK. Of course, they're 40k feet up, but they come from Berlin, Istanbul, Madrid, London, Cairo, Dublin, etc. It's neat to see it on the app.
Now that I posed the question I'm actually thinking about it. today at work I saw two planes and I didn't notice any when I was at home or before or after work and I only noticed the two because they were like crisscrossing each other at obviously very different altitudes but from that high up it kind of looked like they were going to smash into each other and it was kind of cool.
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2 people found dead in JetBlue plane landing gear at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
The bodies were found during a routine inspection after the plane landed.
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