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Hong Kong is a hub. Bet on the ‘wet weekend’ scenario and planeloads of people might fly in for a connecting flight that is no longer operating. Instead, they’d be stranded in an empty terminal with shuttered shops and no transport options into the city. With man...
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Q: During turbulence, why does the plane not always change altitude? Sometimes it seems that we fly in a cloud that creates turbulence, and it confuses me why we can’t change altitude. A: Airspaces we fly in are strictly controlled for safety, and if we want to change a flight...
Hawk says: ‘We get them used to the crate, and the noises of forklifts, buzzers and beepers. We try to desensitise them as much as we can to make the journey as stress-free as possible.’ Discoverycaught up with Gao Gao and his team at the Large Animal Handling Centre, a special...
How much does it cost to fly from London to Edinburgh? Most of the flights from London to Edinburgh are with budget carriers so they are not usually very expensive. If you book well in advance and don’t need to check luggage, you can snatch a flight for as little as £15 one way...
If you find a nice long log you can't break, just feed it into the fire little by little. A good rule of thumb for gathering wood is to get as much as you think you'll need — then double it. You'll go through wood much faster than you think, and the last thing you want ...
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It’s the general surreptitious nature of the airplane engine that means airline passengers, unless they’re self-confessed AV Geeks, probably don’t think much about the mechanics of what’s getting them off the ground. “A lot of people get on the plane, they don’t know who makes th...