FTB,

You know how slow those things really are?

As revealed by the Miami Herald (when they completed their own recount of Florida) Gore won if you only recount Democrat districts and not count military absentee ballots. If you use that methodology, then yes, Gore would have been President.

Carl

Nah, Bush failed to understand how much he could have gotten for selling us to Al Jazeera.

Carl

Maybe TC can take over my job in Douglas Post Production Line Test Flight Re-Design Engineering and Certification. Somebody needs to, we are running out of overhauled, junk, DC-10 spares to keep the afterthought of a hydraulic system operating.

We are trying to recruit the guy who drives this to work. He'll be perfect if we can get him in the program.

Bar,

Do you know how slow I am?

It's a match made in heaven.

Not even close ...

Gore won the popular vote by more than a half a million.

Norwegian Air Targets California in Dreamliner-Led Low-Cost Push - Bloomberg


Norwegian Air Targets California in Dreamliner-Led Low-Cost Push
By Kari Lundgren & Veronica Ek - Sep 3, 2013 8:35 AM ET

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA (NAS) will offer flights from Scandinavia to California using the latest batch of Boeing Co. (BA) 787 Dreamliner planes it says have made long-haul discount routes newly viable.
Services linking Stockholm with Los Angeles will commence next March, to be followed by flights from Copenhagen in April and Oslo in June, with an introductory fare of $236 each way. Oakland will be served from Stockholm and Oslo starting in May.
“We believe that the U.S is low-hanging fruit,” Chief Executive Officer Bjorn Kjos said today in a press briefing in the Swedish capital, adding that there are few direct flights from Scandinavia to West Coast cities. “People love to fly cheap and they love to fly far.”

Norwegian Air is leveraging the all-composite 787’s lower operating costs as it seeks to offer discounted trans-Atlantic trips at a profit and succeed where long-haul no-frills carriers such as Laker Airways have failed. The company will hire as many as 350 U.S. staff and add bases at existing destinations New York and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Kjos said in an interview.
Fornebu-based Norwegian began long-haul operations in May and currently has five weekly services from Stockholm and Oslo to Bangkok and six from the two Nordic cities to New York.
Sales Success
Flights to the U.S. metropolis from Copenhagen will commence in February, according to a statement. The carrier will also add a second Florida destination, connecting Oslo with the theme-park resort town of Orlando from May, it said today.
Flights to Fort Lauderdale from the three Nordic bases have already been announced and begin in November. Ticket sales to New York, Bangkok and the Florida city have been “tremendous,” with most summer services fully booked, Kjos said, even after initial trips had to use Airbus SAS A340 jets when 787 handovers were delayed by battery glitches that grounded the Boeing model.
The CEO said in March that the longer-term aim for the Dreamliner, of which there are eight on order, is to focus on destinations in Asia, tapping demand for affordable long-haul trips among the emerging middle class.
The company has applied for a permanent air operator’s certificate in Ireland to establish a low-cost domicile for the long-haul unit that would permit the addition of flights to cities such as Beijing, Kjos said. Approval may take six months.
Norwegian, founded in 1993, switched to a discount model in 2001, emulating Ryanair Holdings Plc (RYA) and EasyJet Plc (EZJ) to sharpen short-haul competition with state-backed Nordic No. 1 SAS Group AB, and ranks as Europe’s fourth-largest low-cost airline.
The company last year ordered 222 Boeing and Airbus single-aisle jets valued at 127 billion kroner ($21 billion).
To contact the reporters on this story: Kari Lundgren in London at [email protected]; Veronica Ek in Stockholm at [email protected]

I will put it this way, you can be inside the final fix and still have time to get a complete approach briefing from a staff officer in the USAF, get your bugs set (if they haven't fallen off due to vibration & noise) and trim for the 15 knot change from max cruise to flare speed.

Interesting report. I like Lutefisk as much as anyone.

And as you know, the popular vote doesn't elect the President. Gore's claim to victory was his claim that he won Florida. He did not. Miami Herald funded their own recount after not believing the official Florida state recount. The Miami Herald found Bush won Florida. The only way one could show Gore winning Florida was by only recounting Democrat districts and disallowing military absentee ballots. Which, by the way, was exactly Gore's case to the courts as to why he claimed he won.

Carl