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[Bibs]

I looked at office space in the gherkin, it's a terribly designed building but the views are nice.

[rogerch]

I didn't say I liked it, though I do, it's a fabulous example of modern architectural, eco friendly building, no appendages to induce drag and reduce efficiency, just good clean lines. I like the blancmange over the other side of the river too!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/4606...007470794-1.jpg

Space, the final frontier.

Edited July 16, 2009 by Roger the Dodger

[Iconic Ride]

Zorgon! How many times do I gotta' tell you? Don't park the freeking spaceship in a metropolitan area!

[wookiecj]

Having taken the precaution of removing the wings, it blends in perfectly with all of the other spaceships that have been dumped there in the past 10 or so years.....

[rogerch]

The space freighter model.

[Iconic Ride]

No problem. A little Gherkin Viagra and it'll be shipshape in no time.

[Bibs]

Rad...

[rogerch]

Coming to you from a car park in down town Austin Texas.

[Iconic Ride]

Not on my watch, Roger.

On this example I think we are in 110% agreement.

[Bibs]

[Iconic Ride]

Pepsi Concorde - F-BTSD

1996

Picture - Christer Ostmark

Picture - Remi Dallot

Madrid visit Picture - Jose M. Palacios

Picture -Damiano Gualdoni

Dublin Visit Picture - Carl Ford

Stockholm Visit Picture - Stefan Bjaerkemark

Madrid Visit Picture - Ariel Shocron

Paris Orly - Final Festination - Dayot Jean-Charles

As its market shares were eroding on the soft drinks market, the US company Pepsi Cola undertook a major re-branding project of $500 million US which would be unveiled in 1996 after about two years of work. Pepsi therefore started to look around for a spectacular and efficient manner to advertise its new brand style and enhance its sales. It was eventually decided to have an advertisement operation involving the Concorde.

Pepsi started requesting proposals from both Air France (AF) and British Airways (BA), the sole two Sud Aviation/BAC Concorde operators. Eventually, the French carrier was awarded the contract (of which terms were not disclosed).

Because the new identity of Pepsi was based on the color blue, the aircraft would have to be painted alike. Therefore the Air France maintenance staff had to call Aerospatiale (successor of Sud Aviation) as the airplane, for which temperature is so important, was only certified with a white color scheme. They received approval to paint the fuselage in blue, but were advised to keep the wings in white (because of the fuel temperature).

It was advised to remain at M2.02 for about 20 minutes at most, but there was no restriction under M1.70. This was not a concern for Air France as the aircraft was not due to operate any scheduled flight to New York

[Günter]

so John does have all the free time to be an *spotter* too.. !? Have heard about groups of people who do nothing else than search and follow airplanes

[esprithk]

here are some pics from my trip to ALASKA

(1) HUBBARD GLACIER *from far away

remark: yes, that's a cruise ship in front of it!! (HOLLAND AMERICA)

(2) HUBBARD GLACIER *from ROYAL CARIBBEAN (where I and my family were staying)

remark: we are about 250 yards from it

the iceburg nearby

(3) ROYAL CARIBBEAN

(4) On the way to Seward

(5) View from a suspension bridge between Skagway, ALASKA and Yukon, CANADA

remark: in fact, we crossed the border of CANADA to get to the suspension bridge

(6) well, in ALASKA, 1 out 60 people knows how to fly, and 1 out of 80 owns an airplane

(7) another cruise ship nearby (when we were on the way to Vancouver, Canada)

(8) Mendenhall Glacier

remark: the lake was not there in the 60s.. (it was part of the Glacier back then)

talking about global warming.

(9) the Alaska oil pipeline in FAIRBANK

(10) Belly Button Brush

(11) Burger King's wife (Ketchikan, Alaska)

(12) Petro station on the water (Vancouver, Canada)

(13) Downtown Vancouver

[Bibs]

Some ace pics there

[Paul C]

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[Bibs]

May have been the case in the days before stealth Paul but it's a whole different ball game now...

[esprithk]

Paul

if you are in Alaska, planes are not too hard to spot.

oh...here are some more ices

[Laura]

[Paul C]

'Image' Died 3 days old june 2000. As with most two headed Kittens.

'Gemini' Lived for 4 days in 2005.

Not all sad news though...

'Frank and Louie' still going strong at 6 years old!

[Laura]

Just what were you searching for to come up with those pictures Paul?

[Paul C]

Just remembered 'Image' but thought i'd find a survivor

so we had a happy ending. We know a lady in town that

has cats with six toes which is very cool. But not as cool

as two heads (providing the condition is survivable!).

[Simon350S]

Something double headed and a little pussy cat?

The mind boggles! LOL

[Günter]

Paul -it's OK,as long as the old lady in town does not have three nipples...

Bud the other thing is totally serious: there are in fact people out there who do not go on ordinary holidays -instead of that all money is spend to travel from airport to airport and for photographic equipment. Same is on [historic/famous]-trains, boats and so on... .

http://www.aviation-community.de

http://www.reiselinks.de/airline-fan-sites.html

http://www.aviation-community.de/forum-nor...f=12&t=6081

vintage aviation

Edited July 23, 2009 by G

[bingoking]

I'm not smelling these!!!

[Günter]

-that looks like an szenery out of the old *Bandit* Movies