New Shirt Sponsor: £50mill A Year?

[ChicagoBlue]

Is that a Star Trek reference?

Nope. It’s the real McCoy!

 

[MeatHunterrr]

Citigroup has to be the sponsor, would look smart and fits the club perfeclty.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

It's a black rubber band to stop bits dropping off when yer fly over people's houses.

HAHA! Love it!

That’s the 777, not 787!

The 787 is the all-electric airplane with the batteries that catch caught on fire...hence the “Sparky” nickname it has!

 

[bumbleblue]

Citigroup has to be the sponsor, would look smart and fits the club perfeclty.

I always thought they would sponsor the new stand when it was built and it would be known as the Citi bank.

 

[aguero93:20]

HAHA! Love it!

That’s the 777, not 787!

The 787 is the all-electric airplane with the batteries that catch caught on fire...hence the “Sparky” nickname it has!

Boeing are working wonders with these new planes, I honestly can't decide whether I'd prefer to fly on the one with the bits falling off it or the one that catches fire, might even try the one with the unorthodox landing gear when it gets back in the air. Spoiled for choice.


To think you used to have to pay good money to go skydiving.

 

[nyCITY]

Citigroup CEO recently said they’re in the process of “simplifying” their organization. Maybe a global ad platform like CFG might be a way of BOTH simplifying and expanding their global presence?

After all, we are tailor-made for a global sponsor.

Funny thing about Chevrolet...in America, it is THE CHEAP BRAND under the General Motors corporate umbrella! Their only status vehicle is the Corvette. The status brand under GM is Cadillac, which isn’t really sold outside the US.

BTW, my understanding is that Chevy pulled out of the UK market. Are there any Chevys even for sale over there today?

The branding decision was for the chinese market where general motors (chevrolet’s parent) sells nearly 43% of its total vehicles.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Boeing are working wonders with these new planes, I honestly can't decide whether I'd prefer to fly on the one with the bits falling off it or the one that catches fire, might even try the one with the unorthodox landing gear when it gets back in the air. Spoiled for choice.


To think you used to have to pay good money to go skydiving.

To be fair, the bits falling off the 777 engines are NOT Boeing parts, the one that used to catch fire has been fixed (new battery technology and the heat of lithium fires make for explosive interactions!) and the new one with origami landing gear isn’t actually flying anywhere...yet!

Planes are, and have always been, engineering miracles. Getting 1,000,000 pounds of metal and Jet A into the stratosphere with an almost perfect safety record is amazing. Plus, the fact that you can then put 600,000 pounds of it gently back down to earth at 180 miles per hour...and then do it all again in a few hours without skipping a beat...is an absolute fucking miracle!

Throw in the fact that the whole machine is literally built to spend the vast majority of its working life on the edge of space, where the temperature is less -60C, there is only enough air for a few seconds of useful consciousness and the outside air pressure is less than 1/3 of that needed to live on the ground and one quickly realized that flying has been made so safe that we take the hazardous environment in which it operates an afterthought!

Engine failure and a bit of a fire?
No problem!

Rapid depressurization?
Put the mask on and descend, piece of piss, and a good story to tell the reporters who want to buy your cellphone footage of the masks dangling and people praying!

Fire IN the aircraft? OK, NOW you’ve woken me up and I’ve sucked my big comfy seat cushion half way up my arse!!! 8^O

The rest is drilled into us like driving a semi to a long distance lorry driver!

Boeing literally made aviation so safe that ANYTHING that happens today is a front page, above the fold, lead the TV news, story. That’s fine with me! I like those odds...even if the planes are now largely being built in a non-union plant in South Carolina, where “technicians” are rapidly outpacing the “engineers” that used to be far more prevalent on the factory floor, and aluminum riveters are being replaced by robots and carbon fiber autoclaves!

 

[ChicagoBlue]

The branding decision was for the chinese market where general motors (chevrolet’s parent) sells nearly 43% of its total vehicles.

Then, they should have changed the brand to BUICK or CADILLAC, but they weren’t being sold in the UK.


GM CHINA 2020:

Sales of its Buick brand grew 4% on the year and Wuling rose 9%, the statement said.

Luxury brand Cadillac's sales increased 8%.

Sales of GM's more affordable Baojun brand dropped 33% last year, while sales of its mass-market Chevrolet tumbled 30%.

 

[Corky]

How much to sponsor Pep's coat?

I was thinking a nice sheep skin number, would go down well with Findus Lean Cuisine on the back, in keeping with his current European getup.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Thrust reverser still out of the stowed position! ;-)

That's what my doctor told me after his recent examination, using his rubber gloves