Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
I’m thinking maybe in addition to screening the cockpit crews a little better, the cabin crew needs to work a little on customer service skills. How many passengers were willing to take the “expulsion” option?
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O.K., this has nothing to do with this posting, but since you like posters so much – and there is a firearm being fired in this one – I thought you’d appreciate it.
Typical media accuracy there… 300 in a 767!? Standing in the aisles, perhaps? The picture with the story makes somewhat more sense but I don’t recall the pax load in a IL-96.
As for drinking and flying, no excuse. Perhaps one of the best motivational talks I attended was by Lyle Prouse, a Northwest Captain. Very inspirational man.
“Must have mistaken it for an Airbus…”
LOL!
This article is highly inacurate. What, a russian, drinking at work? No way, Not possible. Does not happen. They don’t drink that much…
NO, no, ya got all wrong son, ya got it all wrong– his face was flushed only with the joy of the prospect of seeing NYC and maybe defecting to Disneyworld! He was just “auxcited.” Doesn’t EVERYONE have heart palpitations at the thought of living in (or at least visiting) Obama-land?
Maybe he was just attempting a cheap knockoff of Dean Martin…
Palpitations ,Virg? That would be the caffeine.
“Typical media accuracy there… 300 in a 767!?”
According to Janes, “Maximum seating capacity in -300 models is 350 passengers….” so maybe 300 is correct although I wouldn’t be surprised if this meant a cattle-car configuration of narrow seats with little leg-room. But on a nonstop translatlantic flight? I’m not exactly an aviation expert so I’m very prepared to see corrections and clarifications.
Have a couple of cocktails, and everyone goes high and right.
Gees…
Nose,
That’s the Buffalo configuration, right?
You know… we are quick to talk about what is going wrong with this country, and there is an awful lot I don’t like, but good Grief, I read stuff like this and it helps me remember all that is RIGHT as well. Holy crap.
According to the pictures provided by the liberal media, it appears that the 767 also has four engines!
Might have been this guy: http://tinyurl.com/de5l78
“it appears that the 767 also has four engines!”
I too did a double-take, but when I hovered my mouse over the photo the following caption appeared: “An Aeroflot Ilyushin 96 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport”.
What an odd Russian flight. There is no mention of chickens or huge, giant sacks filledwith produce bursting out of hte overhead bins, or dried sausage under the seats. Aero-flop must be trying to class up. At least the pilot was not drinking the hydraulic fluid and was kind enough to leave that to the ground crew.
This is the reason I did not like to fly while in Russia and why I made sure we came to the State on FinnAir…
OT – Olga, do you have a web site? I’d be interested in hearing your story.
Pogue,
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No, I do not. You can find some of my story (not air travel related) at the B5 blog – I was a ‘guest writer’ on the topic of the Russian war with Georgia
pst314,
I have to confess that I got my wires crossed – I thought that Aeroflot flew the 767-200, when in fact it is the 300 they fly. That said,
wikipedia states that Aeroflot has theirs configured for 218 pax.
Nose,
Great find. Did you know Foster Brooks was an award-winning news reporter in Louisville, Ky., in his youth? One restaurant I used to frequent on Bardstown Road had a picture on the wall of him w. camera hanging from the cross-bars of a telephone pole on Main St. in the 37 flood with water inches from his body.
He established an annual charity celeb. golf tournament in Louisville which is still held with proceeds going to Norton’s Children’s hosp, IIRC.