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Oswald Watt Gold Medal - thanks

I just wanted to thank you for your improvements to the Oswald Watt Gold Medal article. I did a bit of research but didn't find the AFC site you located that had the full list. Also nice work on wikilinking to correct articles for pilots. Keep up the good work! — Diverman 09:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner

YSSYguy, you're doing a great job on the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner article. I can fill in a bit from my own experiences with the Metroliner that has been the staple of the Perimeter Aviation company down the street from me (I work in the airport as the executive director of the aviation industry association in our part of the world) as well as the various Bearskin Airline Metros. I flew on one of Bearskin Metros this summer. Pilot bounced the landing, sometimes hard to be smooth in landing with those stalky legs! We've had a spate of runway excursions recently with the Perimeter aircraft mainly due to shaky landings – those stilts really snap nicely! The Perimeter birds are interesting hybrids with a company designed four-bladed prop that cuts down the howl and keeps the tips out of the gravel a bit. Yesterday, an old Merlin was warming up by my terminal and the scream from the old engine-prop reminded me why I didn't like that variant. I think the Perimeter folks still fly that Merlin on occasion but it may have just been doing an engine test. When a lot of engines are backlogged, they resort to the Perimeter "Airbus", a converted school bus with the engine exposed on a framework where the passenger compartment used to reside. It's a hoot to see the "bus" going up and down the taxiways with a Metro engine howling away (I think they use a cut-down prop for the testing). Nice talking to you, I look forward to seeing more of your submissions. I'll add some more Metro photos to spruce up the article. Bzuk 16:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC).

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B200

Sorry I didn't get back to you quicker. Thats good that you've confirmed 1981. Since all I have that says 1980 is the Janes book , I'll assume its got mistakes in it. As for the reference issue, the current trend for the best articles in Wikipedia is to have inline references (that whole <ref></ref> thing) everywhere, take B-52 for example. We could probably lose the one in the infobox, as long as the same info in the article body is tagged. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 15:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

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Hi YSSYguy

Just to let you know that I have uploaded your Image:Belfast@SYD.JPG image to Wikipedia Commons. BTW, they're great pictures on your user page. Regards, Ian Dunster 10:01, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Beechcraft Super King Air

Copyedit form my talk page: "G'day Bzuk, I've been working over in Beechcraft land for a while and have seen a couple of references to the Canadian Forces "CT-145 Super Kingair". Other than on Wikipedia I can find no evidence of the CT-145 in CAF service. Could you please confirm so I can make the necessary changes (of course you could do it yourself if you want to, there are a few different articles where the reference appears). YSSYguy 00:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't know about the site's reliability, but you might look at http://www.rcaf.com/aircraft/trainers/kingair/index.php . - BillCJ 00:39, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Now this is just off the top of my head (and you know how much that can hurt) but the Raytheon/Beechcraft (Beech) C-90B King Air (replacing earlier C-90As) used in training at Southport Aerospace (Portage la Prairie, Manitoba) by the No. 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School (3 CFFTS) is probably the only use of the King Air in the Canadian military. I'll check to see what their designation is but I always thought it went by "Beech C-90 King Air." FWIW Bzuk 02:47, 29 October 2007 (UTC)."

It's tricky to describe these as CF aircraft as they are essentially leased to the military by a private consortium, Allied Wings, which operates as an "arms-length" concern. FWIW Bzuk 12:09, 30 October 2007 (UTC).

Utah Completion list

Hey, I took a look at what you were talking about. Those should be links to disambiguation pages, because U-5 is an alternate name for Utah Route 5. What I'll do is rather than create a disambiguation page, I'll just keep it as is, but add something to the top of U-5, etc, for anyone looking for U-5 to go to Utah Route 5. --Son 18:44, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

G'day

Copyedit from my talk p[age" "Hey Bzuk, how's it going in sunny Canada? I've been keeping an eye on the Beechcraft King Air article, mainly because people keep on putting stuff in it which belongs in the Super King Air article. Anyway, I came across an interesting situation. Someone did an edit a day or two ago, adding info to the section about upgrades. The person did a poor job with the referencing and did some damage, so I reverted it. I did a little mouse clicking; this is the interesting bit - the person thoughtfully registered a user name, which is identical to the name of the manager of the company that the info was about. In other words, it looks like someone is touting for business using Wikipedia. Have you seen this before, and is there any need to do anything else? YSSYguy (talk) 00:51, 20 November 2007 (UTC)"

Hi guy! Thanks for your note. This is a new but not isolated instance of "pretexting" and I have read a bit about the legality if not the questionable nature of "sowing" information. Pretexting is the act of pretending to be someone who you are not by telling an untruth, or creating deception. Although the term is mainly used in customer contact by telephone where the company/organization uses deceptive means to elicit information and/or commitment from others, it can also apply here.

The great philospher Stephen Colbert has a "take" on this. (Do you get his show, BTW, it's a riot as he viciously eviserates the Conservative talk show blowhards, whoops, forgot you have Howard there...) He says this: "In a July 2006 episode of the satirical TV comedy, The Colbert Report, Colbert announced the neologism wikiality, a portmanteau of the words Wiki and reality, for his segment "The Wørd." Colbert defined wikiality as "truth by consensus" (rather than fact), modeled after the approval-by-consensus format of Wikipedia. He ironically praised Wikipedia for following his philosophy of truthiness, in which intuition and consensus is a better reflection of reality than fact:

You see, any user can change any entry, and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true. ... If only the entire body of human knowledge worked this way. And it can, thanks to tonight's word: Wikiality. Now, folks, I'm no fan of reality, and I'm no fan of encyclopedias. I've said it before. Who is Britannica to tell me that George Washington had slaves? If I want to say he didn't, that's my right. And now, thanks to Wikipedia, it's also a fact. We should apply these principles to all information. All we need to do is convince a majority of people that some factoid is true... What we're doing is bringing democracy to knowledge.

According to Colbert, together "we can all create a reality that we all can agree on; the reality that we just agreed on." During the segment, he joked "I love Wikipedia... any site that's got a longer entry on truthiness than on Lutherans has its priorities straight." Colbert also used the segment to satirize the more general issue of whether the repetition of statements in the media leads people to believe they are true. The piece was introduced with the tagline, "The Revolution Will Not Be Verified," referencing the lack of objective verification seen in some articles.

Colbert suggested that viewers change the elephant page to state that the number of African elephants has tripled in the last six months. The suggestion resulted in numerous incorrect changes to Wikipedia articles related to elephants and Africa. Wikipedia administrators subsequently restricted edits to the pages by anonymous and newly created users.

Colbert went on to type on a laptop facing away from the camera, claiming to be making the edits to the pages himself. In addition, initial edits to Wikipedia corresponding to these claimed "facts" were made by a user named Stephencolbert. Thus, many believe Colbert himself vandalized several Wikipedia pages at the time he was encouraging other users to do the same. The account, whether it was Stephen Colbert himself or someone posing as him, has been blocked from Wikipedia indefinitely. The account was blocked for violating Wikipedia's username policies, which state that using the names of celebrities as login names is inappropriate. The account will be reopened if and when Colbert or Comedy Central confirm its identity."

Now using the Colbert treatise, this company representative has made an effort to create a favourable impression for his company. Was he right to do it? Don't know. Was he accurate? Maybe. Was it legal? Probably. Was it ethical? Nope. It now enters the Colbert vocabulary of "truthiness" or sort of the truth, depending on who says it. FWIW, keep an eye on the article, if it becomes blatant "advertising" then a tag of {advert} or {COI} (conflict of interest) can end any more shenanigans. Bzuk (talk) 02:21, 20 November 2007 (UTC).

Hi Guy, thanks for your recent note. As to the shifting of gravity in your end of the world; I came across this quote: "A few days before the election, I wrote that I found the now-defeated Howard Government "corrupt and incompetent". Philip Adams reminds me that I should have added "bigoted and immoral." Was it that bad? Us colonials in the British North Americas simply thought of him as a buffoon that had tied, like Blair, his fortune to a particularly dumb (read: dangerous, catastrophic) geopolitical view. As to the hissyfit over fuel starvation, your pimply adversary could have been stopped with a 3R tag. Reverting three times in a 24 hour period is tantamount to engaging in an edit war and brings admins out jiffy quick. They use a big hammer on these types. FWIW Bzuk (talk) 15:37, 28 November 2007 (UTC).

Please check these articles

Guy, I would like to talk to you about the Magellan Aerospace and Haley Industries articles. Please email me. FWIW, LJB may not have been oafish but he certainly came across that way in the media. His cloying deference to the world's biggest fool also was not an example of smarts. Bzuk (talk) 04:38, 29 November 2007 (UTC).

Fuel starvation

Thanks for the message, no real axe to grind either way and I am happy with your points you made. I have added Lady Be Good back in but just added that it is not proved they jumped because of lack of fuel. I am pretty sure they are a number of other notable cases that could be added I will do some digging. MilborneOne 14:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Survival in the Sky

Thanks for your recent tweaks in the article on Survival in the Sky. They appear to be helpful.Rocket Laser Man (talk) 20:26, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

List of Air Crash Investigation episodes

YSSYguy, I would like to complain about the rude comments you said about me on the history page of the Air Crash Investigation episode list! You said that I have no technical knowledge of aviation and that English isn't my first language. WHAT A LOAD OF JUNK!!! I have technical knowledge of aviation and much more!!! I bet you don't know why Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed!!! And I bet you can't spell "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" from your head!!! Anyway, English is my official language and I don't speak anything else!!! Because you are being rude to me, I'll be rude back at you, something I don't want to do but must!!! So WATCH IT!!!

75.153.85.120 (talk) 02:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

List of Air Crash Investigation episodes

YSSYguy, I would like to complain about the rude comments you said about me on the history page of the Air Crash Investigation episode list! You said that I have no technical knowledge of aviation and that English isn't my first language. WHAT A LOAD OF JUNK!!! I have technical knowledge of aviation and much more!!! I bet you don't know why Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed!!! And I bet you can't spell "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" from your head!!! Anyway, English is my official language and I don't speak anything else!!! Because you are being rude to me, I'll be rude back at you, something I don't want to do but must!!! So WATCH IT!!!

75.153.85.120 (talk) 02:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

(Possibly...) Wrong grammar on the Trapped (National Geographic Channel) article

I saw my own written Trapped topic few hours ago. There were some edits. I appreciated them. But I spotted some possible grammar errors. Did you make them?

I'm the owner of the account Steven_Andrew_Scarface_1995. 222.124.110.215 (talk) 09:54, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Mayday

Thanks for the heads up. I'll just tell the guest to stop what he's doing. Resistance will lead to a ban. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:29, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Sequences

Hi YSSYguy - yes, we're replacing all sequences with navboxes as part of a more general re-arrangement of aircraft page content to avoid WP:AIR having to fight and re-fight the same old battles over "See also" vs "Related content" and the position of this material on pages. As things stand right now, all "Sequence" data is staying put in articles until a suitable navbox is in place, but has been turned off at the template-level so it's not displaying. The hard work that you (and many others) have done in ensuring that these sequences have been entered correctly in articles is making the job of navbox creation very easy indeed - maybe you would like to chip in? Let me know if you'd like to help and if you need a hand in getting started. Cheers! :) --Rlandmann (talk) 00:17, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

There are two bits of clean-up needed straight away: Like I said, we need new navboxes to replace the various navigation sequences out there. There's a list here of footers already known to be in existence (there's bound to be a few others): so you can just pick any one of the many notably absent manufacturers and use an existing template as a model, create a new navbox to insert into the relevant articles. If you're not comfortable with that, or you feel like something a little more mechanical, there's a glitch that's been created when translating certain articles to the new format. This has occurred where editors have inserted navboxes into the {{aircontent}} template itself, mostly manufacturer sequences. This really messes up the bottom of the article (see here for a fine example). Another "interesting" variation on this is where certain editors have not only inserted navboxes, but attempted to tinker with the output of the template by (for example) commenting out the "See also" parameter (see here). In both cases, the {{aviation lists}} navbox and any other navboxes need to be placed together at the bottom of the article, immediately before the Categories. I'm getting a list soon of all articles known to be affected, but in the meantime, it's a simple case of following the links from the list of manufacturer navboxes and seeing which ones are affected. Thanks for putting your hand up! --Rlandmann (talk) 02:50, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

You liar!!!!!!!!

If you don't stop making such rude and untrue comments about me, you will suffer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! English is my official language as I was born in Australia!!!!! I have extensive knowledge of aviation as well, you twit!!!!!!!!! If you keep on poking your nose into everything, you will be swarmed by rude messages by me on your talk page!!!!! THIS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER, YOU ANTIDISETABLISHMENTARIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

--202.95.200.17 (talk) 08:32, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

PS: Give up, loser!

Sorry

I just want to say sorry about the stupid insults and personal attacks I have said to you.

--202.95.200.17 (talk) 02:31, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Heads-up

Hi YSSYguy, just a quick note to let you know that it looks like the pest has got a new identity. He is now 202.95.205.74. 220.233.196.216 (talk) 14:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and another request...

Hello there. I saw your edits to Indonesian history articles - thanks. Do you fancy a similar clean up at Indonesian National Revolution? I did a major re-write and expansion last year. It’s all quality and comprehensive info but the article probably needs some polish and some exacting fresh eyes. Hope you can help. --Merbabu (talk) 22:52, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot - looks good. I fixed up that reference. When I get another article into better shape I must just swing by here again. many thanks. --Merbabu (talk) 09:03, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Convair

Hi again! Just caught your edit in the List of aircraft and thought I'd just point out that replacing working redirects is considered counterproductive (and actually against policy). There are two reasons for this:

1. the redirects show us the prevalence of a particular link across the project. In this specific case, it shows (well, used to show!) how many and which articles link directly to (for example) "Convair 540". This fact would be an important consideration in any future decision about whether the 540 should be split off from the 240 into a separate article.
2. and more importantly, if someone were to go ahead and create a "Convair 540" article out of the present redirect, the relevant links throughout Wikipedia would already be pointing to the new article. By replacing the links with piped links to another article, it means that anyone creating a "Convair 540" article would then need to trawl through all the links to the 240 and decide which ones should actually point to the 540 instead.

Cheers --Rlandmann (talk) 23:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Linking to article sections

In which page and which section does it state this? Is the page a policy or a guideline? WhisperToMe (talk) 06:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

• EDIT - I found Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(links) - but I am still trying to find the relevant guideline. Remember that it is a guideline so on some occasions we can use common sense. Remember that since some specific subsets of aircraft like the Boeing 747-400 have their own articles I suppose we could do the equivalent for other types. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:35, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I will try to find it again as well, but in the meantime consider that the section on the 747-100 doesn't actually say what a 747-100 is, it merely compares certain features with other models. YSSYguy (talk) 22:14, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Qantas fatal accidents

Hi, you added some great references to this article last August, but do you have the page numbers within the books that you used? I'm trying to get the article up to featured list standard, and it's been suggested I need them, but I don't have access to the books. If you do, it would be good if you could add them the references column of the table. Thank you. TarHippo (talk) 22:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Beechcraft Twin-Quad

G'ood day,mate. I tweaked this article a bit, but I wonder if you can give it a look see, and if possible, provide some page numbers from the Beech history book. I just happened to find an old magazine that comprehensively detailed the unique but abrupt life of this "one-off." FWiW Bzuk (talk) 17:22, 9 August 2008 (UTC).

In answer to some of your questions, whatever sets me or others off on an article? In this case, just finding an old magazine lying around led me to look at a very detailed account of the Beech Model 34 "Twin-Quad" of all things. As to sources, unless I have some comprehensive source materials, I usually back off, and only fritter away at the "edges." FWiW Bzuk (talk) 01:09, 12 August 2008 (UTC). BTW, all things will pass... my homily for today. Bzuk (talk) 01:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC).

Check out the article now. I finally found a PD image that works. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 01:59, 14 August 2008 (UTC).

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Cyprus Airways

I believe you were correct to delete the two aircraft said to be operated by other airlines. Although [1] claims that Hellas Jet A320 SX-BVD and [2] claims that Aurela 737-300 LY-SKA are operated for Cyprus Airways, I could not cross-check this info with another page like [3], for example. Hellas Jet and Aurela webpages provide no info. Also, this is a slow season and it's unlikely that the airline wet leases aircraft to increase its capacity. On occasion a 737 is mentioned in [4], but it's a Eurocypria 737-800. Q43 (talk) 14:42, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Qantas Article

Hi YSSYguy,

Unfortunate I do not agree with you recent revision on the Qantas article. The fleet number which I have adjusted in the infobox and the overall fleet size mentioned in the paragraph underneath the Qantas fleet table is accurate. Unless their are inconsistent numbers in the Qantas fleet table (on the article) then I strongly believe the figure I adjusted are accurate, if you would like, can you please add up the total number of aircraft on the table.

Cheers, Sheepunderscore (talk) 23:12, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi YSSYguy, thank you for the reply and the explanation, I just wanted to apologize for my own misunderstandings. Regards,Sheepunderscore (talk) 01:26, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Heads up

Thanks for bringing the vandalism to my attention. - Ken keisel (talk) 01:21, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

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Convair 580 images

Hi YSSYguy a bot will probably inform you in time, but I didn't want an impersonal bot be the first to tell you that two of your images File:N141FL.JPG and File:VHPDL.JPG have been copied to Wikimedia Commons and that they can be found at Commons:Category:Convair 580. The images retain the licenses you uploaded them under however a minor change has been made to the names so as to be less cryptic. Images on Commons can be used in exactly the same way as images loaded directly to en:wikipedia with the important addition that the images can now be used by any sister wiki. To allow this the images have to be free to use which is what you have granted with the addition of the GDFL licence. If you are happy to continue making your images free under the GDFL licence its worth considering using Commons for your future uploads, with SUL you've probably already have an account with Commons, and the upload and editing process there is pretty much the same as it is here. Thank you for your images and wishing you a happy new year. KTo288 (talk) 14:45, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Virgin Blue

I still think your comments are wrong with Virgin Blue Events..... I don't understand how you can have this "power" to control the content on that page even when you post articals that are subjective........ I'm a very disapointed wiki reader

Barnstar

		The Citation Barnstar
		For finding great refs for the Cessna 180 article to replace some pretty old fact tags - Ahunt (talk) 02:30, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, no problem you deserve some recognition, good work! - Ahunt (talk) 13:50, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

List of short haul aircraft

Given the recent page history of List of short haul aircraft, I've asked for more info here on the reasons for the dispute. Cheers. The Parting Glass (talk) 23:45, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Scenic Airlines

YSSYguy: Why did you delete the 1996 fatal accident involving the Cessna 207? The accident meets the notable criteria for Wikipedia. 1) Fatal Accident 2) Complete hull loss 3) Accident higlighted company procedures for night flying. The accident was also referenced with the NTSB. Your deletion of this particular accident makes no sense whatsoever.--Canyonair (talk) 23:15, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I warned Canyonair for being uncivil bit I was a bit dismayed by your reply to him/her. I know you were annoyed but I need to remind you of WP:CIVIL as well. You can either make up and work together or it may be better if you avoid each other in the future. MilborneOne (talk) 17:31, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

RAF Articles

Thanks for the minor edits and the polite note on my talk page to let me know what you were doing. Seems like a little flaw in my first article continued onwards when I used that as the template for the later ones and got called off the task before it was complete. That's the trouble when WikiProjects start demanding attention in the middle of attempts to create articles I guess! Regards, DiverScout (talk) 23:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

United States Army Air Forces in Okinawa

First of all, I want to thank you for your assistance in editing this article. It's far from complete and right now I'm going though the units pages and writing/editing those. There is a series of articles I wrote about the USAAF in the Pacific War and I'll be working on them for some time to come. Take care and thank you again for your assistance :) Bwmoll3 (talk) 05:30, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

File:Australian Beechcraft B300 King Air 350.JPG

Hi. This picture, uploaded by you, has been moved to Commons, and there are little issues about it. Are you the photographer, and under which license have you originally released it? The current license tag has been added by someone else and I cannot check that it is the one of the original image on en.WP. Thanks in advance. --Eusebius (talk) 06:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

File:Pelairbrasiliamascot.JPG

I've noticed that the Pel-Air EMB-120 Brasilia freighter is parked at Wagga Wagga Airport (Poor image as these are parked at some distance in which my DSLR and Digital Camera can't reach) along with other Pel-Air and Australian Air Express metro's. Bidgee (talk) 12:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Got around to uploading a photo of some Pel-Air aircraft at YSWG! File:One Embraer EMB-120ER Brasilia and five Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners, former Pel-Air fleet at YSWG.jpg, taken in October 2009 but as of January 2010 (no photos) the aircraft were still parked. Seems like they will be staying there rather then being sold off. Bidgee (talk) 12:56, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Kuzu Airlines Cargo

Company has been rebranded ULS Cargo, change article title please.115.42.67.65 (talk) 14:27, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Strike aircraft

In relation to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Airlines#Australian_Aviation_magazine_-_perhaps_others thanks for providing the list and references of the aircraft operated during that time. It's appreciated. Cheers, --Russavia ^{I'm chanting as we speak} 01:33, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

ADF Aircraft navbox

Hello YSSYguy I have questioned the use of the ADF aircraft navbox on aircraft articles at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Aircraft#ADF_aircraft_template your comments would be appreciated. MilborneOne (talk) 12:36, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Lawrence Wackett

Hi there, I notice you've done a fair bit on this article so I just wanted to let you know I was looking at copyediting for prose/style and adding info from references that I've used for other bios (e.g. his brother Ellis), with a view to taking to GA and/or MilHist A-Class level in the next few months. Given your input thus far, I'd be happy to share credit for any promotion that it attains. I have a few other articles on the boil right now so wouldn't be starting too soon, but thought I'd mention what I had in mind.... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:54, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Xmas

File:Christmas Barnstar (aviation).jpg

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Bzuk (talk) 01:03, 25 December 2009 (UTC).

AfD nomination of Langley Flying School

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File:VHATO.JPG

Hi, for information, I have uploaded your image on commons under the name File:GAF Nomad VH-ATO.JPG. Regards. Duch (talk) 14:05, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Regions of NSW

If you seriously think that Western NSW is defined by a north-south line passing through the midpoint of the state, you are seriously deluded. Please stop such nonsense immediately. -- Mattinbgn\^talk 10:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

And no doubt Roma isn't in western Qld as it is further east than Cairns, Wisconsin is not in the Midwestern United States but the Mideastern and Balmain is in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Geography is more than mere geometry and most people understand that terms such as "west" etc. when used in geography have a meaning enhanced by usage, custom and history. Still, I can't be be bothered arguing further. If you want to centre NSW geography on Nyngan, be my guest, just be aware it simply makes you look silly. Mattinbgn\^talk 06:30, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikiwings

		Wikiwings
		For extraordinary contributions to Aircraft in fiction, thus improving hundreds of aircraft type articles along the way! - Ahunt (talk) 15:19, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

No problem - credit where credit is due! It is getting on for lunch here in Ottawa, Canada! - 15:40, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

"Incident" Vs "Accident"

I am sure your edit of the UAL 232 article [[5]] was made in good faith, so please don't take this correction as being personal. I am aware that accident was referred to in the popular press as an "incident," but Wiki Aviation articles use the ICAO definitions, not those of the popular press. The NTSB labeled it as an "Accident" on their title page of that report, as well as throughout the report. You can find the definitions in ICAO Annex 13, [6].

Although I live in America (California), I have been to Australia many times. Sydney is one of my favorite International cities. Cheers. EditorASC (talk) 23:41, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Sorry to hear about the increase of crime in the SYD streets. Can't help but suspect that has a lot to do with your govt taking away your gun rights. Our crime rates have been dropping for some time now, which I tend to connect to the spread of our right to carry concealed weapons, to the majority of the States in our Union. I never go to town without at least one gun on me.

I have several hundred aviation books in my library. A lot of them came from bookshops in SYD and AKL. It was always kinda fun, when I would come back thru US Customs, and they asked the usual "do you have anything to declare?" and I would answer, "yes, books." That always got their curiosity up, so they insisted on looking thru my bags. Fun to watch their eyes, when they found my bags loaded with 10 to 30 books. I loved the Power House and Maritime Museums, and the Sydney Aquarium. Of course, always enjoyed the "views" at Bondi Beach too... Got lotsa photos of Sydney in my collections. Cheers, EditorASC (talk) 09:54, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Re: Toronto streetcar system line articles

How did you like my fixes on the infoboxes for the Toronto Streetcar System articles? ----DanTD (talk) 15:51, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

FYI - regarding Pacific Blue

• This section (Premium Economy) outlines the Pacific Blue flights operated by DJ Australian crews. I realised Port Vila isn't in this list, but Australia-Denpasar, Port Moresby and Honiara are operated by VB crews using Australian registed a/c.

Further to add, per Wikiproject Guidelines, wholly owned subsidiaries which use their own aircraft but uses their parent's code (or another airline); for example, QantasLink using the QF code or Pacific Blue using the DJ flight code, in those cases they are usually listed under the parent company's name, per Airport Wikiproject's guidelines. Separate airlines which are owned by others, but are independant and use their own codes (eg Jetstar or V Australia) are listed on their own.

So pretty much Port Vila (and all other Pacific Blue destinations) are still listed under their parent airline per guidelines. Sb617 (contribs) 09:45, 27 February 2010 (UTC)