Volcanic ash

[Messie]

3 of our teachers are stuck in New York with 30 13 - 15 year olds.

Don't know which is worse really, being stuck there with that lot, probably getting bored/homesick/stircrazy or actually coming back to school and teaching them!

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by Nobbylad

Has meant my eldest son has still not returned from skiing in Whistler.

He got to Amsterdam yesterday afternoon and then had to go to a hotel in Rotterdam, where it's looking like he'll be until tomorrow sometime.

Last night his Facebook wall read along the lines of "Stuck overnight in Amsterdam...looks like I'll be doin' a bit of window shopping".

He's 14

Ha haa haaaaa

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Dangerous to assume they are girls! For some it is questionable.

Ooop.

Rich and I have just been for a run and it was really misty. Then we saw a wave of what looked like fine mist going across the lake near us. When I got closer the smell was horrid and my eyes started to sting. Was weird - you couldn't see the top of the high rise flats. Bit spooky really.

[Stu]

Today I saw...








An aeroplane*

was a small jet at low altitude





*My spellchecker says I've spelt it wrong giving me the choices hydroplane, monoplane aerospace or cropland wtf

cropland lol, i love spell check.

[keith_d]

Well, I was due to fly out to Holland tomorrow (tues) but even if they open Heathrow in the morning I doubt the shorthaul flights will be getting slots. I looked at taking the bike over instead but I can't find a space for it on the ferries. So it looks like two days of crappy conference calls instead. Poo!

I think the government has been spectacularly inept over all this. No leadership, no testing of the scientific evidence, I think the airlines are right to complain. Seems nobody considered the impact on people stranded around the world, we can hardly send the Ark Royal to New York to rescue the teachers and schoolchildren Messie refers to

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Ed

we can hardly send the Ark Royal to New York to rescue the teachers and schoolchildren Messie refers to

Exactly, have they even considered sending some Hercules or other turbo prop planes - are they affected ???

Originally Posted by Ed

I think the government has been spectacularly inept over all this.

Did you expect better?

[TSM]

Originally Posted by Stu

Exactly, have they even considered sending some Hercules or other turbo prop planes - are they affected ???



Did you expect better?

I would say all engines that use a compressor would be affected thus turboprop planes would be.

Turboprop engines are similar to a turbofan engine found on most airplanes, diffrence being it has no large fan making the core engine smaller, the output shaft going though a gearbox and into the propeller.

There is more to it but thats the simple exp.

Will they wont they... seems no ones quite sure if flights are going or not.