From: Mike on
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"
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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
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
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
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
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...

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