Makes me fair want to get into astronomy, it does.
The 'ash crisis' - I noticed something weird
Re: The 'ash crisis' - I noticed something weird
I noticed this too. Went out with a pair of binoculars last night and knowing there were no planes in the sky managed to identify what could only have been numerous satellites in low Earth orbit
Makes me fair want to get into astronomy, it does.
Makes me fair want to get into astronomy, it does.
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Re: The 'ash crisis' - I noticed something weird
YEA!!! No chem trails!CJ wrote:Yep. We get used to seeing them all the time.
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Re: The 'ash crisis' - I noticed something weird
I heard a report on the news this morning that the German airlines want the ban rescinded; they sent up some test planes, then checked the engines, no sign of any problems...
The continuing ban may well be an over-reaction - if the cloud has thinned out, there may not be sufficient dust to cause any problems...
The continuing ban may well be an over-reaction - if the cloud has thinned out, there may not be sufficient dust to cause any problems...
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I hope for War Arrows sake the ban is lifted soon. He has been trying to get to the US for the past couple days.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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Re: The 'ash crisis' - I noticed something weird
I was down in Kent during the whole fuss. I actually saw some jets flying over the house, albeit small low-flying private jets (presumably making small hops to/from Biggin Hill) but they didn't leave a contrail.
The first contrail I saw was on the last day of the restriction, it came as quite a shock as the news had not yet announced at that point that BA was attempting to bust the ban by flying planes into London anyway, although in retrospect this must have been one of those planes.
What I also didn't know at the time was that an old friend of mine was on another of those flights and landed that evening. He'd already twice tried to fly back from San Francisco with his fiancé, only for the flight to be turned-back both times (he'd spent a total of eleven hours in the air combined in those two flights, and gone no-where).
The first contrail I saw was on the last day of the restriction, it came as quite a shock as the news had not yet announced at that point that BA was attempting to bust the ban by flying planes into London anyway, although in retrospect this must have been one of those planes.
What I also didn't know at the time was that an old friend of mine was on another of those flights and landed that evening. He'd already twice tried to fly back from San Francisco with his fiancé, only for the flight to be turned-back both times (he'd spent a total of eleven hours in the air combined in those two flights, and gone no-where).
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