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    China's solution to flooding.

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    Boston Dynamics at it again....

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    Exiled Afghan President appears on video.

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    World's largest Sphere being built in Las Vegas.

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    The rise and fall of Polaroid.

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    Will high speed rail materialize in America?

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    Affordable housing ...Vienna, Austria

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    Sam Chui flies onboard An AN-32P Fire fighting aircraft.

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    China pressuring and cracking down on TECH with new regulations...

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    The Tunnel That's Failing New York City

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    Landing at Paro Airport in Bhutan.

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    Bloody hell!!!

    I hope this airport (airfield) is VFR approachable only. I could not think of any safe IFR approach procedure for this landing strip. Also the A-319 is a very easy and safe to fly aircraft, those pilots are either very skilled or suicidal.

    I have taken my little Jet into 3.000 ft runways and some strange mountain airfields in Switzerland and France but an Airbus with a lot of passengers in the back into this airfield, is a totally different story.

    Hats off to the aircrews.
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    Here is another arrival in Bhutan.

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    The new 1.2 trillion bill to save much of America's infrastructure, is it enough?

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    Viasat is looking to acquire Inmarsat. Once successful the two will become one a powerhouse of a sat-coms company. The pending acquisition is said to be worth north of 7 billion dollars. "Inmarsat's dual-band global mobile network, unique L-band resources, skills, and capabilities…are powerful complements to Viasat's business. Together, we can advance broadband communications and create new hybrid space and terrestrial networks that drive greater performance, coverage, speed, reliability, and value for customers," said Viasat executive chairman Mark Dankberg.

    https://www.viasat.com/about/newsro...inmarsat-combine-creating-new-leading-global/

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    Look at this naval gun for smaller surface combatants.

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    Any joke has some truth behind :p.

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    A peaceful and happy Christmas to all Yacht Forums and Jet Forums members from this guy (me!) below. This picture was taken, what felt like 100 years ago, during my UPT in Sheppard AFB, Texas.

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    And many thanks to the moderators Carl and Jet News for the great jobs they are doing for both fora.

    And btw. one more :D.

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    It is great to be a member of YF and JF !

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    Merry Christmas HTMO! Some of the finest people I've met were aviators. The rest were down to earth... :D