The General News/Current Affairs Thread

[Dr. Zoidberg]

[Bandit]

Lovely!

[Hawq]

seems more connected to the news in here than the vid board, shift it if you disagree its fine

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[Dr. Zoidberg]

[ian]

A mid air collision is quite unusual. (Compared to any other aviation incidents)
The investigation into what happened on this one should be pretty quick though.

[Bandit]

[ian]

Y'know, untill he mentioned Obama and Biden, he was actually doing a decent job at that press conference, and you could almost for a few moments believe he was a human being...

Explaining how a helicopter can turn, or stop or go up or down multiple times though was brilliant.

[Bandit]

We've had understaffed air traffic control in the US since the 80s. Funnily enough the airport is named after the guy who started it.

[ian]

Hey America, we're supposed to be having the Australian International Airshow at Avalon in late March...

If you keep this up all we're going to have is Generic Boeing 737-800's in Quantas Livery for the whole thing.

Between military jets and helicopters, commercial planes other than the god damn 737, and private jets, is there going to be any aircraft left for you to send us?

The ultralights and and hundred year old planes were all well and good the last 2 times I went to the airshow, but the highlights were always modern American jets... Please save some if you can, In the past it's been a fairly expensive event, but worth it. but if all your planes crash, what will deafen me when I look down for 5 seconds and miss a plane going past only to hear the crowd cheering and then have my ear drums blown out 3.5 seconds later?