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From: Mike on 17 Apr 2010 07:13 On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:44:20 -0700 (PDT), Surreyman <alandavid.spencer(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >No air flights not nowhere in or out of the UK today. heres the answer:- "http://www.amphicars.com/acpics.htm" -- Mike "if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down" Warren Buffett
From: Mike on 17 Apr 2010 08:15 On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:06:48 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <see(a)sig.nature> wrote: >There are volcano eruptions all the time somewhere in the world, many >of which much worse, but they don't each time shut down air traffic >over entire continents; most of the time they don't do it at all. The >fact that Europe decides to be more cautios is due to cultural >differences, but not because this eruption is particularly bad. Once >the ash of the Iceland eruption is attenuated below a certain >concentration they can start flying again, even with the shy European >mindset. there are frequent volcanoes in Iceland, mostly not of this type and not with a NW wind, this one is a problem, ask an aero engineer. -- Mike "if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down" Warren Buffett
From: Mike on 17 Apr 2010 08:16 On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:07:54 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <see(a)sig.nature> wrote: >> the previous eruption from this one lasted years. > >You're right, no aviation in Northern Europe through the entire 19th >century. I hadn't thought of that. the check in queues must have reached hundreds of miles. -- Mike "if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down" Warren Buffett
From: Tom P on 17 Apr 2010 12:21 Wolfgang Schwanke wrote: > "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> > wrote in news:hq81gq04tv(a)news6.newsguy.com: > >> Interesting that the news story mentions the effects of an >> 1821 eruption lasting for two years - that was before jet aircraft. How >> might a similar situation affect worldwide air travel, now? > > That was probably about the climatic effect. It's unlikely that > aviation will be affected longer than a couple of days. > Looking at flightradar24 it's staggering to see the impact, the only traffic in the air is in Turkey and the Western Mediterranean. T.
From: d4g4h4 on 17 Apr 2010 12:36
Tom P <werotizy(a)freent.dd> wrote: > Wolfgang Schwanke wrote: > > "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> > > wrote in news:hq81gq04tv(a)news6.newsguy.com: > > > >> Interesting that the news story mentions the effects of an > >> 1821 eruption lasting for two years - that was before jet aircraft. How > >> might a similar situation affect worldwide air travel, now? > > > > That was probably about the climatic effect. It's unlikely that > > aviation will be affected longer than a couple of days. > > > > Looking at flightradar24 it's staggering to see the impact, the only > traffic in the air is in Turkey and the Western Mediterranean. It's pretty startling looking up at the cloudless skies in Manchester and not seeing a single vapour trail... -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009) |