Superjumbo to touch down in Sydney....

[SeatBackForward]

Re: the superjumbo..are there any flying icebergs yet?

 

[NM]

Re: the superjumbo..are there any flying icebergs yet?

Nahh, just the floating types off the coast of NZ.

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

I get another chance to see them soon. Some are less than 100km south of Christchurch! Biggest one is still south of Dunedin so they will be around for a while yet.

 

[NM]

Biggest one is still south of Dunedin so they will be around for a while yet.

Ahh, that confirms my belief that Stuart Island is not really an island but an iceberg that floated a little further north than usual.

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

That be Stewart Island, unless you mean this place

 

[NM]

That be Stewart Island, unless you mean this place

That be the one. All I know is that when I visited Bluff a few years back, one trip in the middle of November the island was covered in snow. When I was back two weeks later, it was still cold but the snow was all gone. I asked a local if they had experienced a heat wave while I was away, to which he shook his head and said "Nahh, we hid a geele and the snow wes all blown off the northern seed of the island".

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

either that or the rrrrrain washed it all off the grrrrround

 

[codash1099]

Lets not forget how the 747's were first marketed:

Ah for the old days. I recall the Lockheed Electra (circa 1960 - I'm not old enough to have flown the ealier one!) with a lounge seat arrangement at the rear.

I even seem to recall early 747 flights in the US carrying a piano bar. Didn't last long, though.