Was meant to fly to Sydney this arfternoon to catch a flight to Amsterdam tomorrow for a 3 1/2 week European holiday....but now that I've just finished cancelling everything, I'll be back at work tomorrow instead........

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh well, back to the volksies.

Bah!!!

Oh well its much warmer over here anyway!

yep...carby turned up today. Be down on the weekend

And the Iceland volcano is only a tiny eruption by historical standards.

Just as well Mt Tombora erupted in 1815, and not 2010. It was the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history, many thousand times greater than the current Iceland volcano. Tambora (on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, only a few thousand km from Australia) ejected an estimated 160 cubic kilometres of material and caused a global climate change - 1816 was the 'year without a summer'. Ash hung in the air, all over the world, for more than a year.

It killed 70,000 people in 1815 so goodness only knows how many would die if it exploded like that again now. Plus all world air travel would be impossible for more than a year !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tambora 

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Originally posted by Stanley Was meant to fly to Sydney this afternoon to catch a flight to Amsterdam tomorrow for a 3 1/2 week European holiday.... but now that I've just finished cancelling everything, I'll be back at work tomorrow instead........

Imagine how much money you could make if you owned a coach over there.

I just came back from the UK in time not good to have to change yr holiday plans

Well here I sit in my office when I should be sitting on a plane bound for Korea....

I look at it as a small hicup. There are plenty of people in far worse situations than us. I'm just glad we had travel insurance.

Maybe you are lucky not to be strnded over there!

Hi

Bad luck with the travel plans.

I heard someone on the radio say the day how much cleaner the air will be now that planes aren't flying, what about the crap that the volcano just spewed out?

Steve

few grand spare now to put the SC on the mouse!

Bring back sailing ships

.....an air-cooled horses

and long haul piston engine aircraft that have an air cleaner

I cant quote the exact numbers but I read that the carbon emmissions created from the iceland volcano are much less than the carbon emmisions saved by having all these aircraft grounded over the same period.

here -> http://bx.businessweek.com/airline-industry/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.cleant...

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Originally posted by 68AutoBug Quote: Originally posted by Stanley Was meant to fly to Sydney this afternoon to catch a flight to Amsterdam tomorrow for a 3 1/2 week European holiday.... but now that I've just finished cancelling everything, I'll be back at work tomorrow instead........ Yes.. Bad Luck... There is a volcano on Vanuatu {I think] that is also erupting a bit of lava and smoke... and not forgetting New Guinea a few years ago when Rabaul disappeared.... [East New Britain] It was reported that the Capital City of Iceland which I cannot spell lol... but know how to say it..lol "Ret-U-Vic" lol its airport was open as the ash is blowing towards Europe.... lol You could have went to Iceland... and went by boat to Sweden or Denmark... lol... LEE

They have awesome cookies apparently.

Travelling from Amsterdam down to Rome with a Eurail pass. Wifes dad was from Amsterdam.

Yes the Tanna Is volcano is amazing. I went past it late at night on a cruise ship years ago - you could see an eerie red glow off the distance, miles away. There are a few other interesting continually active volcanoes around the world, such as Etna in Sicily, Kilauea in Hawaii, Erebus in Antarctica, White Island, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu in NZ, and Anak Krakatau in Indonesia. Mt St Helens is still active! Australia is the only continent with no active volcanoes, although Mt Gambier did erupt just 4500 years ago and could be considered dormant. Mt Gower on Lord Howe Island erupted just 3200 years ago, while Heard Island (Big Ben, Australia's tallest mountain) is active now. NSW's mosr recent active volcano was Mt Conobolas near Orange, just 13 million years ago.

Meteor showers are very interesting and can be spectacular to watch, but they're nothing to do with volcanoes. They are the Earth moving through the dust and grit-filled orbits of dead comets in deep space.

The airlines are being very cautious, and rightly so, about flying in volcanic ash conditions. The ash over Europe is very thin and spread out now, more like a haze than a cloud, and it will blow away in good time. The fear comes from the British Airways Flight 9 747 that flew into a fresh, thick volcanic cloud over Indonesia in 1982. The ash was dry, so it didn't show up on the weather radar. It sand-blasted the cockpit windows opaque, and all four engines failed! Yet the crew glided the dead jumbo out of the cloud, restarted the damaged engines and landed safely. It makes spectacular reading. How good were those pilots!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9 

How good are Boeing aircraft

Dunno


how good are they? We fly Airbus, Lockheed and De Havilland over here :P
Seriously Stan, bummer about that - got a bug you can work on instead if you want to fill in your time

They should have got Richard Branson to do the first test flights over the affected areas to see if the aircraft could handle the ash.


Then....... If it all went pear shaped...........

At least they could say they sacrificed a virgin to the volcano!



Regards,

Matt.