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I bet they were paying a hejj of a lot more for their tickets than people now do. NZ to London when it first started was the equivalent...

My thought too

Luckily the rain mostly fell on the other side of the hills, so no need to evacuate. Bluebird day here today.

Heavy rain overnight. They've issued an evacuation notice for a township about 10 minutes out of Blenheim as they're worried about the...

Beautiful weather. Very few clouds. 78 degrees. 100% eclipse totality

No. ATC are the exact opposite of what you want from a Display Director. ATC try to keep aircraft as far apart as possible. Display...

Nothing to forgive. We're all time-poor at one point or another.

Sounds worse than what I understood of the prelim. I'm surprised none of the pilots suddenly "found defects" with their aircraft.

Lack of vertical separation, fighters crossing the bombers during the turns. Airboss using non-standard phraseology, and doing things...

Juan Brown has done a dissection of the NTSB docket released recently here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4FP4VZOd8&list=WL&index=9

Looks like it was an intentional touch and go. I had this happen with a student once. Things started to go wrong with a bit of drift off...

From the Danube Commission treaty: My understanding of it is that they have to be informed, but cannot block the transit.

And Zelenskyy knows that he needs to keep Ukraine in the news cycle.

My thought exactly. It's information that everyone would be expecting.

With Peggy? Worth it!