I'm soooooooooooooooooooimpressed Subby. The shiny plane goes reawwy reawwy faw.

_{/actually very cool}

Pvt. Snowball: ...set a brand new record for speed around the world (east-bound) of 42 hours and 27 minutes. There was no previous record holder in this category for this weight class.

Well that kinda deflates things a bit

In my mind, doing it first is more impressive than doing it fastest, not less.

PizzaJedi81: so...it was Dhaka...when the plane landed?

*golf clap*

On a side note, why the hell did they fly it to Dhaka? Couldn't they have flown it to somewhere God hates less?

/Bangladesh: contender for most disaster-prone nation in the world... It's so disaster prone, it could star in its own sitcom!

"Around the world" without crossing the equator or following a great circle route?

How do you measure that? I could do an "around the world" trip in seconds if I were close enough to the pole.

But the stripper wouldn't let me.

Lunchlady: That's why Japan Airlines is starting a non-stop Tokyo to Boston flight late next year with one of these.

At that point you sort of want to be stopping in Seattle or Vancouver.

Actually it's starting in April.

I've done Tokyo to Newark, JFK, and Boston maybe 15+ times in the last 7 years, and the transfer at Detroit or Minneapolis is a huge pain in the ass, from the tin can they put you on for domestic flights to having to put your duty-free booze in your suitcase.

The big problem is that despite requiring more fuel and more paperwork, it's inevitably always cheaper to change planes and I've never figured out why; even if you assume that you should have to pay more for the convenience, fuel is still expensive and so are crew hours.


/$1900 to fly straight to NYC next May
//$1480 if I'm willing to change planes in Shanghai
///seriously, fark airlines

limboslam: "Boeing's fuel-efficient golden child, the 787 Dreamliner, has earned two world records for speed and distance in the airplane's weight class (200,000 to 250,000 kg), according to the company."

"The plane is claiming the distance record by flying 19,835 kilometers...."

"CNNGo could not confirm which authority was verifying the claims at time of writing. "

"There was no previous record holder in this category for this weight class."

Err....is CNN now based in England?

Tonight at 11, Rick Romero shows us how large news agencies often have bureaus in multiple countries, each with their own regional style guide to give writers headaches.

/nearly every day of my first month writing for Goal.com included a reminder from my editor to use British spelling
//defence
///centre-back
////Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day