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  1. Aug 25th, 2009, 12:15 PM #1
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    Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    90 years of air travel

    The best bit: In 1935 it was possible to fly from London to Brisbane for £195. The journey took 12-and-a-half days.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    That's a rather low average velocity for the trip. If the price included meals that's not bad. Just the cost of 12 and a half days of meals would be considerable.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    195 GBP today is about 320 USD. 320 USD back then, after inflation, becomes $4790 today. My method of approaching this is probably wrong though.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    I once drove from Derby To Melbourne in about half an hour. California and New Zealand are even closer.
    I don't live here any more.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    That must have been some car you were using. Did it look something like this?
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    Actually that car would only get you a measly 763 mph. You'd need to multiply that a number of times to cover the distance you're talking about in half an hour.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    It's only about 15 miles or so. Thrust SSC is possibly not the most efficient mode of transit for such a brief journey.
    I don't live here any more.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    Oh Wossy you jester!
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    I can drive from Adelaide to Dublin in under an hour!
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    Adelaide Co.Offaly you mean? Don't bother looking up Offaly nobody comes from or goes to Offaly!
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Ade...A+to+Dublin+SA
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    I can drive from Venice to Beverly Hills in under 30 minutes but that's not Venice, Italy.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    Quote Originally Posted by penagate View Post
    http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Ade...A+to+Dublin+SA
    Touché!
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    I have never been in a plane with 3 sections (Sides and Middle). I have only been on planes that are 3 seat rows on one side and 2 seat rows on the other, and 3 on each side.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    I read the first part of of the title and thought oh bugger were in trouble if Mendhak is coming!
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    I once had a Jamaican taxi driver take me from Chicago Union Station to my apartment in Elmhurst in under 10 minutes.

    Down the Eisenhower Expressway.

    During rush hour.

    In a giant Chevy Caprice.

    As I was digging my fingernails into the back seat upholstery I couldn't help thinking "this guy deserves a seat in Formula One." His tip was more than generous.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    Palin can get to Russia from her home in Alaska in just a few minutes, walking.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    I tend not to visit Brisbane under any circumstances, they have Queenslanders and drop bears up there
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    Koala bears? Dropping bears is something only someone who is very clumsy would do. Bears do not appreciate being dropped.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    No, koalas aren't bears... Drop bears are altogether more ferocious.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

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    Koala bears? Dropping bears is something only someone who is very clumsy would do. Bears do not appreciate being dropped.
    Another potential tourist that we go missing in the outback ... we blame it on serial killers rather than the local fauna, which of course is all cuddly and nice
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    I see. Drop bears are a type of creature of some sort. Not something you'd want to run into unless you're having suicidal tendencies.
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    Re: Flying from London to Brisbane - TWELVE DAYS

    http://www.cfr.com.au/dropbears/index.html

    The full terror of drop bears
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