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"That's right, Ice Man. I am dangerous."

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During lunch last week my colleague @runwaycontact and I were standing around Changi Business Park waiting for some passport photos to be developed - just part of the significant waiting required for attending Aero India.

We noticed a trailer for the 2012 South Korean movie Soar into the Sun playing outside a video shop.  Although I've become used to inaccurate depictions of military equipment - aircraft especially - over the years, this video really takes the cake. 

That said, I'd love to see a T-50 - or any jet, for that matter - do a last minute tail stand in the middle of a city, blowing women's skirts all over the place. I've also never seen a jet's afterburners shred an office building's windows.  That would be a neat trick at an air show.

And if the fighter action is no enough, the film also appears to offer good dialogue:

Officer 1: Why did you accept such a troublemaker?

Officer 2: Because he's too good.

Hmmm, what 1980s film could have inspired those lines? 

COOL PHOTOS: Satellite images of Xian Y-20

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Satellite imagery firm GeoEye has produced an image of what appears to be the Xian Y-20 strategic transport at China's Yanlian air base.

The image shows the aircraft situated on the base's runway 06 L, surrounded by what appear to be support vehicles and personnel.  The resolution is sufficient to discern the aircraft's yellow prototype colour scheme, its twin-tail, and four engines.

GeoEye says the image was taken using the company's GeoEye-1 satellite. 

Last week, Beijing actually confirmed that it is working on the Y-20, a big surprise given that they are normally tight lipped about this sort of thing. 

I must admit that these images really gave me a boost on what it the first working Monday of the year. With luck, GeoEye will one day send some photos of J-20 happenings at Chengdu and of the Liaoning at sea with several aircraft aboard. 


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Kingfisher lounge at DEL a symbol for carrier's condition

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I recently happened upon Kingfisher's first class lounge in New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport.  Though the carrier seems adamant about resuming service at some point, its abandoned lounge presents a gloomy, run down prospect. 

I swear: I didn't steal the missing letters for souvenirs.

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Cool chairs. Will there be a liquidation sale?

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Any chance of a free Kingfisher beer?

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Hope springs eternal. 

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