>The aircraft, registered as VT-EHH, was a Boeing 737-2A8F from the Baby Boeing family. Delivered to Indian Airlines in 1982, it later operated with Alliance Air before Air India converted it into a freighter in 2007.>It flew with India Post titles but was grounded at Kolkata Airport in 2012. Instead of being sold, scrapped, or parted out, the jet sat idle in a remote corner of the airfield and disappeared from the airline's fixed-asset documentation.>Kolkata Airport officials eventually contacted Air India to request the removal of the abandoned jet.>This prompted a detailed internal check that confirmed the aircraft had been omitted from multiple documents for years.>Air India CEO Campbell Wilson informed staff that, in the years leading up to privatization, VT-EHH was repeatedly left out of internal records.>As a result, the aircraft did not factor into the valuation during the Tata Group acquisition. Before privatization, the carrier did not maintain the kind of structured fixed-asset registers that well-run airlines use to track depreciation, parking charges, insurance liability, and maintenance cycles.https://archive.ph/cYDOd
I'm visiting India rn and the difference between the level of air travel conduct in North and South cannot be overstated. On my flight from Canada it was all Punjabis and it was fucking chaos. They didn't care if you had your belt buckled, kids wandering everywhere, no sense of personal space, people playing music from their phone. But I had to get a connecting flight down south and it was completely different. Well-dressed, polite people, minding their own business, actually apologising in decent English if they need to get into the aisle or step on your shoe or something. The whole Gangetic plain gives this subcontinent such a bad rap
>>2061118Now compare the experience of working with north Indians vs. south Indians. I'm from Brampton and I've worked with a lot of difficult people from different backgrounds, from Guyanese to Jamaicans to rednecks from rural Ontario and crackheads from Kennedy and Queen, but average Punjabis make the absolute worst colleagues, bar none
>>2060587Fees get paid, no one questions.
>>2061141aye fair enough. but even parking lots will boot your car if you just leave it there for weeks on end even if you pay daily
>>2061141>Going for the banana gets us all hosed, and we don't even need to get hosed anymore because we stop the impetus in its tracks>Heh, stupid monkeys.
should i go with a flight on a 737-700 or an erj-135/erj-140/erj-145
Never going to fly on this. Fml.
>>2060301Post flight number
>>20605090.....0
>>2060473I have flown on both the BAe version of that and the Avro version. Have also flown on an IL-62 and L1011. Flew on a Pan Am 747 SP too. Am I cool yet /n/?
>>2060301That's a 732...
An entry level new bike, that is agreeable to ride, not dragged down by antiquated standards like QR, that you won't regret buying, nor immediately feel the urge to swap out half the components because of cut corners, cost approximately USD $1500 at standard retail prices as of late 2024, give or take a few hundred (depending on the finer details).Now, the prices are going to go up by at least 20%, and the smaller independent brands are going to go under as only the largest players will have the spare cash to ride out the sudden loss of consumer confidence. The most interesting and original bike products will simply disappear from the market permanently until the next wave of prosperity (which may be entirely concentrated somewhere far away and foreign, so that only the wealthiest of your peers will be able to import and use such goods).How does that make /n/ feel?
>noooo you dont understand I NEED thru axles because... I just do ok?!
>>2036140If it's just for transportation, always keep in mind that your bike can get stolen and you can get into an accident with it. Buy something cheap first and see if you use it. A 300 to 400 bucks bike will last you two or three years. Then buy a new one again. By then you'll know if you use it and if you do, you'll know exactly what you want and what you want to spend your money on.Whether you buy 3 or 4 new bikes over the course of 10 years or just one expensive one doesn't make a difference in the financial sense, but the cheaper options hedges your risk against damage and makes you more flexible later on.If it's for offroad sports you can go berserk, but there quantity also trumps quality unless you care competing, which lets face reality, you are not if you're asking here.
>>2060843Good point. Better stand in your nearest toilet and carefully watch all the kids urinating just in case one of those pervert trannies tries one of their perverted tricks!
>>2044726Better than 0km
>>2036140>not dragged down by antiquated standards like QRqr is fine unless it's carbon (and entry level bike won't be carbon)
Would anyone ever want to buy these books? It's a bunch of shit from wild swan. They cover how to paint a model locomotive, how to assemble locomotive kits, and scratchbuilding locomotives. Its all british steam locomotives mind you. It's a mix of currently in print and long out of print books. I don't want them anymore.
i mean you haven't even identified the books in questioni suggest going to second-hand book websites and seeing what the books in question have sold for
I'm also angry, but for me it's stereotypes of dwarves in fantasy. Elves can live in space or grow butterfly wings or whatever and no-one blinks an eye but as soon as you say "Dwarf" it's a drunk autist who lives in a cave.
>>2060738Shut the fuck up you retard. You know exactly what I fucking have. I don't need to spell it out for your dumbass.
yeah
Old thread from 2023 finally hit bump limit >>1955863New thread. "Cycling infrastructure" is harm reduction. But not in the way you probably think. The anti-bike crowd considers riding a bicycle on public roads as an offense against the interests of motorists. An so, they wish to create infrastructure to reduce cycling (harm). Yes! Those who advocate for "separate but equal" are (whether they admit it or not) working against the interests of bicycle users:-The American Automobile Association strongly supports bike lanes-Countries that place responsibility on car drivers have 70-90% fewer fatalities per billion km traveled by bike. This is of course beyond the pale, drivers must always have total immunity. But hey, look, green paint! We solved safety!-The true purpose of bike lanes is to neutralize the opposition by corrupting the discourse. Don't support bike lanes? Then you must not care about safety!-Bike lanes have a curious pattern of appearing where they are superfluous, and vanishing as you approach potential traffic conflict zones. This way, when you get run over by a dump truck making a turn, it's your fault! You shoulda been in the bike lane that wasn't there!In conclusion: bike lane activists hate cyclists and want to eradicate cycling as a form of transportation.
>>2060998>get yelled at by a karen once a month>or get plastered by a truck 500 times your weightif you can't decide which one between those to choose you deserve what you get, simple as
>>2061004If you think a gun will help you with your road rage you're in for even greater distress and disappointment.
>>2061004This is the worst advice you can possibly take. This happened a few years ago in Florida where someone tried to wave a gun at a car that turned out to be an undercover police car. It didn't go well for him.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ddzYULHL8c
>>2061085There's a huge difference between carrying and brandishing you clickbait addicted faggot.
>>2061085this is why you dont just brandish it, you open fire
I'm having a difficult time deciding on what I'd enjoy most for a weekend/overnight fishing trip boat. I've kind of broken down my wants but its still kind of difficult>reliable enough to run trouble free for 6 month stretches >500 naut. Mile range>purchase price below $20k>space for a full week aboard with 4 people total if neededSo far my 2 top choices have been a bristol with a skeg rudder and fin keel, or a small bertram flybridge like a 28 or something close. Anyone have experience with either sailboats or offshore fishing? I've only been out a few times on a center console which was great to fish off but pretty much only had some bench seats to sit on and had next to no cover from sun.
>>2060804A good amount of smaller boats can be had below $20k. If you're plugged in with other boat owners, you can come across people who have more than enough money but no time or space and just want to get rid of their boat, and in those cases you can find really good deals, especially for sailboats. Free sailboats are never great, but you can find people getting rid of $30k sailboats for $5k just cause they don't have the drive to list it anywhere or deal with people and just want it to go to someone responsible. Boats are always gonna cost money, but with enough diy know-how, you can have a decent, reliable boat for the same as an older sports car.
>>2060806>a three hour tour.. a three hour tour...so comfy
>>2060805>Buying them's the cheap part.I'm tired of this myth. I bought a $15k sailboat (30 ft) two years ago and outside of moorage fees I've spent like $400 on maintenance and repairs, and that includes buying a polishing machine and servicing the sails.If you buy a good boat and take care of it, I really don't see how it can cost these huge figures people are talking about.
I wan't to go, pick me!>I can pull pots really fast>I can keep the bung from getting smoked in a mutiny >I can safely operate any vehicle except helicopter
>>2060949it's mostly shit like marina fees, how expensive "marine grade" consumables are, and first time buyers being like>i bought a boat! yayy it was only like 5 grand, that's less than a car!!>FUCK i dont have a trailer and need to buy that>FUCK it wont fit in my garage i need something built for it>FUCK i need all kinds of weird cables for shore power>FUCK i need to buy radios and epirbs and all kinds of safety shit>FUCK i need xyz because I'm an idiot and didn't do my researchsame shit happens to people buying their first car. they get a 300$ used corolla and then wonder why they pay 5400/mo in insurance and spend 300$ per week just on engine oil
>bulldoze land stolen from natives>build railroad on stolen land>use trains to take natives to residential schools>ffw modern day>run bomb trains hauling millions of gallons of oil through native reservesdw bro we care, see i painted it orange for u
>>2059134Love that pic. A calm soldier standing his ground against an italian organized crime cigarette smuggler masquerading as an aboriginal. And as a bonus: cowardly hides his face.C-liners are my favourite diesel locomotive.
>>2054948Do they need more space and money to get drunk on/with?
>>2059134>>open illegal casinos, sell drugs, firearms, cigarettes, alcool, etc to everyone including minors.Thats actually based though and reminds me Im due to drive up to the Rez to top up on Backwoods and Tomahawks
>>2059421Canadians are truly the most powerful zoophiles on earth.
>>2059134>alcoolfrenchie spotted
I think the states whose population don't care about public transit (Dallas, Houston, etc) should get stripped of their federal transit funding and be rerouted to fund the existing transit/infrastructure in Chicago, New York, Boston, Philly or DC.
>>2060536How can anyone vote for a thing that hasn't been a practical reality in 50+ years? Also my unit (like most owned by individuals and not multifamily developers) isn't subject to any rent stabilization laws, not that I object to those laws, since large landlords are cancer
>>2060455What new rail in Texas? The DART line no one will ride? The Chicago Red Line extension will probably generate more ridership than the entirety of public transit in Texas
>>2060135It's a civil preparedness issue only. There is nothing in the constitution about a right to cheap oil.>>2060137There is no bigger commie in the history of the world than the happy motorist.
>>2060929>There is no bigger commie in the history of the world than the happy motorist.The irony of a communist urganigger accusing everyone else of being like him isn't lost on me.
>>2060135sure, and it should be FREE!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBYsQE4Pxb4
>wears a rolex daytona while driving, just like paul newmanFine>wears a rain coat when it's raining, just like gene kellyFine>wears gym shorts at the gym, just like wilt chamberlainFine>wears aviators just because, just like val kilmer in top gunFine>wears tacticool ballistic nylon cargo pants when working, just like steven seagal in under siegeFine>wears cycling shorts when cyclingWhoa wait WHAT NOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU TRYHARD WHAT IF SOMEONE THINKS YOU'RE LANCE ARMSTRONG AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO TELL THEM YOU'RE NOT A PROFESSIONAL RACING CYCLIST THEN THE UNIVERSE WOULD EXPLODE NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
>>2058748quality post to bump this thread withyou twat
>>2055945also anyone who buys bill gates reasonable richman act is stupider the those who believe warren buffets charade.
>>2058762you mean the people who are like "actually warren buffet eats mcdonalds so the reason you're not rich is you don't eat low quality garbage"?
>>2058764No I mean the people who believe his I still live in the same house and overall lower lifestyle projection mcdonalds breakfast included. Yes he still lives in the "same home" that he had expanded to over 6 thousand sq ft.
>>2058750thanks
How do you react when you see a landwhale approaching your seat?
I assume everyone is always saying mean things to their friends about me. It only matters if they say them to me directly. I promise I am mentally well.
>>2060209That a completely unself aware whinge about not designing the world around a hyper minority is imminent.
As a society we're doing a piss poor job of finding a reasonable middle ground between gratuitously mocking and humiliating fat people, and giving them candid feedback on the negative impact that they have on other people (and themselves) for not taking care of their disease. It doesn't help anyone to be a dick to them and make them all defensive and non-compliant, but all the people promoting this healthy at any size bullshit need to be charged with some kind of crime, and if none exists a new law should be passed making it one.
>>2060962If they're not losing weight from stress and aren't ashamed to show up at the convenience store then we aren't mocking and humiliating them enough.
>>2060980Stress makes them just landwhale harder, the reason ozempic works is it completely rewires their internal reward system. You can't berate a fattie into becoming less of a fattie, they're fat because being fat is how they cope for everything
>be American minding your own business in your car>randomly get crushed under a flying deathtrapSomething needs to be done about this
>>2060827Just a bit further and that prop would have gone right into the driver.
>>2060764I'd be okay with it happening a lot more often tbqhtwo birds for one stone kind of thing
>>2060764were the engines stalled?how do you NOT hear a plane
>>2060938It’s on the pilots to avoid the traffic on the road. It’s not a runway. There is no way the car could have seen the airplane to avoid it.
Little planes are pretty tuff desu I don't know why but in my mind I imagine it just folding up into a ball on impact
What is the intent behind statements like "I'm not a cyclist, I'm just a person who gets around by bike"?At a surface level it is obviously meant to (proverbially) throw other cyclists under the bus, but to what end? Would it somehow appease the anti-bike people if the person "blocking traffic" didn't agree to be referred to by the word "cyclist"?
>>2027704the usa has no sweet crude oil left, wars are being started around the world so you can have cheap gas. Isnt it weird how biden dipped into the reserves when Saudi jacked up opec prices, then oct 7th happened, and then suddenly prices went back down again? Weird huh?Yah sure, I'm insane. Im cuh-razy, cookoo.
>>2057477No you see the reason we have to invade venezuela is that they sent us over 500 grams of cocaine in the last year alone
>>2000001To evade being labeled a yuppie, market polluting tourist, stealing yet another "should be practical only" thing from real people.
>>2059331>they sent us over 500 grams of cocaine in the last year aloneThat’s nothing. Nick Rekieta, his whore wife, and his whore side piece went through 500 g of coke together.
>>2012663Yeah, he got railed.
The Electra Townie is apparently the best selling bike in America. I figured it would've been some gravel bike or hybrid but nope, it's actually just a cruiser/commuting bike with a really weird seating position (even for cruiser standards). Anyone ever ridden one? I just got one used for about $150 as a daily urban rider but the weird tube angle is starting to give me second thoughts but I haven't had a chance to ride it yet. What do you velophiles think of these things?
>>2060878>Please for the love of God everyone stop sperging over every aspect of your livesBut what if all my cool cycling friends laugh at me? :(
>>2060788>Electra>not electric
>>2060895They were founded before e-bikes were even a thing, not that it matters much anymore since they're now just a subsidiary of Trek
>>2060896>Trek>made for city commuting and racetracks, not long overland treks
>>2060903they are literally a mtb focused brand who had one of the best selling longest sold XC bikes.
How in the fuck are they pulling this shit off? These commies are making us look like clowns! What is the reason for this?!
>>2031666They hated him because he told the truth
>>2031666nice digits
>>2035189what conclusive proof do you have that only 100 people died. You are basing this off accident statistics in the being moderately reliable for the last 80 years.
>>2053483Are you implying there isn't an active organ harvesting operation in china?
>>2031662americans do mass transit (among other things) badly on purpose to "prove" that these things MUST be in the hands of private industry alone so that number go up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWQ3iLVr-0E>That cylinder is a mass dampener also known as a J dampener in physics.The purpose is to neutralize high frequency low amplitude oscillations.Mass dampeners are currently used in Moto GP and were banned in F1 in the mid 2000s.The mass dampener can also be placed on the fork,above the bottom bracket and as shown on the rear swing arm/triangle on a full suspension bike.have these been used on road bikes yet? i have a stiff track bike fixie, anything that could improve performance or comfort would interest me. i haven't paid attention to bike stuff lately so idk if it has been mentioned on GCN/GMBN yet. GCN has done a lot of videos on tire pressure so i could see them experimenting with tuned mass dampers.
>>2056005You can tell this guy is smart because he's explaining it in a tone of voice like he's telling a toddler he needs to pull his pants down before peeing and I'm just not following at all>the first thing to understand is it's power preserving because the product of voltage and current is a power and anything that's passive in the electrical domain is... oh but there's 2 analogies and the first one that's about 2 and across variables and series connections and topologically identical and ground is a datum voltage and...
>>2019204Lol just lolYou best thing you could do is sell that single speed shit and get something with gears, and 32-40mm wire tires unless you only ride on glass smooth velodromes, in that case, keep your 23mm ice skate tires. Pros are setting records on 28mm tires now, the world has changed, more rubber is sometimes better. I think XC MTB uses 2.3" now, 2.5-2.8 trail.
>>2058735sir this is a thread about tuned mass dampers
>>2019224Damper. Unless you're talking about making it wet.
>>2019204>have these been used on road bikes yet?yes, you literally posted a picture of such. but it's snake oil, your bike doesnt vibrate at a high enough frequency for such a small weight to matter and in general vibration is mostly caused by external factors like road surface or you being too stupid to maintain your bike properly >>2019229f1 tracks are also flatter than your sister thoughbeit and f1 drivers complain incessantly about road circuits where the asphalt isn't better surfaced than airport tarmac>>2019237this but for my shitty ebike. the 90kg of batteries make me go like 30kmh on the gentlest downhills without doing anything.>>2019396compound bows rule, i own one and it owns in general
