Paris Air Show

Matt Barrow writes:

Um...maybe, just maybe, I COULD break away and go there...

http://varifrank.com/archives/2007/0...s_air_show.php

The show is interesting but with the increasing heat of recent years it can be
physically exhausting. There are only a handful of overloaded portable
toilets, and virtually nothing to drink to rehydrate, and the airfield of
course is just an open area in the blazing sun that can surpass 100 degrees F
during the day.

If you can brave all that, plus the extreme security paranoia of the
organizers and the considerable difficulty in even reaching the show, the
planes are pretty interesting.

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Mxsmanic wrote:
Matt Barrow writes:

Um...maybe, just maybe, I COULD break away and go there...

http://varifrank.com/archives/2007/0...s_air_show.php

The show is interesting but with the increasing heat of recent years it can be
physically exhausting. There are only a handful of overloaded portable
toilets, and virtually nothing to drink to rehydrate, and the airfield of
course is just an open area in the blazing sun that can surpass 100 degrees F
during the day.

If you can brave all that, plus the extreme security paranoia of the
organizers and the considerable difficulty in even reaching the show, the
planes are pretty interesting.

Live in Las Vegas for a summer. The airshow is nothing compared
to that.

BL.
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A Guy Called Tyketto writes:

Live in Las Vegas for a summer. The airshow is nothing compared
to that.

The air show is worse: no air conditioning, and temperatures comparable to
those of Las Vegas at times, with much higher humidity and 16 hours of
daylight.

There aren't too many airshows that are air conditioned and indoors. Being
outside is part of flying and working on airplanes.

Viperdoc wrote:
There aren't too many airshows that are air conditioned and indoors.
Being outside is part of flying and working on airplanes.

Funny, I don't recall too many deserts in France, especially at a latitude
further north than Switzerland.

ManhattanMan writes:

Funny, I don't recall too many deserts in France, especially at a latitude
further north than Switzerland.

Then you haven't been to France recently. Climate changes in the past ten
years have been dramatic in much of the country. Paris has gone as high as
115 degrees, whereas the historical normal high for the year is around 76
degrees.

Hi,

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wrote:
ManhattanMan writes:

Funny, I don't recall too many deserts in France, especially at a latitude
further north than Switzerland.

Then you haven't been to France recently. Climate changes in the past ten
years have been dramatic in much of the country. Paris has gone as high as
115 degrees, whereas the historical normal high for the year is around 76
degrees.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/desert

The only one of those definitions you could perhaps argue as being
applicable to France is:

"5. any place lacking in something"

but somehow I don't think that's quite what you meant...

Andy

Mxsmanic wrote in
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ManhattanMan writes:

Funny, I don't recall too many deserts in France, especially at a
latitude further north than Switzerland.

Then you haven't been to France recently.


I have. Wantg me to drop in nextg time?





Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

ManhattanMan writes:

Funny, I don't recall too many deserts in France, especially at a
latitude further north than Switzerland.

Then you haven't been to France recently. Climate changes in the past
ten years have been dramatic in much of the country. Paris has gone
as high as 115 degrees, whereas the historical normal high for the
year is around 76 degrees.




Oh, and BTW, bull****. Paris has not reached 115 this year.

Which makes you a liar as well as an idiot

Bertie

In article ,
says...


ManhattanMan writes:

Funny, I don't recall too many deserts in France, especially at a latitude
further north than Switzerland.

Then you haven't been to France recently. Climate changes in the past ten
years have been dramatic in much of the country. Paris has gone as high as
115 degrees, whereas the historical normal high for the year is around 76
degrees.


Just a reality check here - temperatures throughout June 2007 in Paris France
have been running five to ten degrees (C) below seasonal norm. The Paris Air
show this year suffered from poor, rainy and unseasonably cold weather. It
rained every day of the ten-day event except for two professionals-only days.
The three days when public were invited had temperatures in the 60's (F) and
rain.

The assertion "Climate changes in the past ten
years have been dramatic in much of the country" is demonstrably false, and has
no basis in fact.

It is unclear whether this contributor is suggesting the past ten years have
shown desertification process in France, but in view of his (her) disdain for
truth and reality one would hardly be surprised. . .