26 september 1973 – Concorde slashes Atlantic flight time
Concorde has made its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time. The French model of the supersonic airliner flew from the US capital, Washington, to Orly airport in Paris in three hours 32 minutes.
RO & BG vs. United Kingdom
Okay people! Its a fact! We and the Bulgarians will join EU within 1st January 2007. I’ve read a lot on this theme today and I am starting to feel frustrated. We do not want to emigrate to UK … And all that we want is to be respected! Right? You can read some comments...
Yahoo! Customer Care – are they stupid or are they stupid?
I want to use Yahoo! Voice Out services. I’ve bought credit of 10USD. I got this e-mail: “We appreciate your recent purchase of Yahoo! Phone Out. To protect you from unauthorised credit card usage we first need to verify a quick fact before we can turn your service on. We recently added a small credit...
Laptop revolution!
This is the second post today that has nothing to do with flights, planes and airliners. )) Strange! Today I’ve made a complet format of laptop’s hard-drive. It was necesary. This also gave me the posibility to put some order in all the data mess that was on the drive. And because I wanted something...
Hotel Rwanda – not just a movie
I’ve watched last night Hotel Rwanda. It’s a story about what happened ten years ago, when some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda; and in an era of high-speed communication and round-the-clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In...
Orange Concept Store – Not another phone shop
Maybe you have asked yourself what are those outdoor ads from Orange Romania saying “share”. Or, what “Not another phone shop” means? It’s a new Orange smooth rebranding of some services they have. If will be how it was in Polnad, Netherlands and U.K. then there will be a change for their site webdesign, some...
Aviation “gadgets” (II)
I’ve received today two aerophilately envelops made for a specials events: - 1991, TAROM – first flight Bucharest – Calcutta, operated with Ilushin 62 aircraft - 1995, TAROM, special flight to Bologna for Fiera Campionaria
Aviation “gadgets” (I)
As I am crazy about pins and plastic airplanes model, recently I’ve started to search arround for some old aviation products. I found some at okazii.ro and because they were not expensive I’ve decided to order some of the things there. Below you can see one photo (from three) and a pin, that were in...
