I still haven't found any logical, reasonable explanation for Michael O'Leary's, Vice President of the European lowbudget airline Ryan Air,  recent statement that remove the first officer on all their flights in an attempt to reduce operational costs, quoting "the flight is mostly run by a computer anyway". Hello?!  Mr O'Leary? Have you even stopped to consider airsafety and airline regulations? Does Mr O'Leary even have the faintest idea what the first officer do? On the bright side though, several Ryan Air pilots have, for the first time, openly commented on their managements decision.  In a letter addressed to the Financial Times, Ryan Air pilot Morgan Fischer has his own idea on how to cut operational costs by "replacing the Vice President with junior cabin crew (which earns about 13,000 British Pounds annually after taxes). Ryan Air would thus earn millions in wages and bonuses every year".

Finally, the time has come..  the time to get stung by wasps and bitten by mosquitos.. the time to get baked by the scorching sun and become crispy golden! To compete with the flies for the lemonade..  It's vacation time!

3.5 weeks of an (almost) empty schedule beside spontanous daytrips.. oh joy, summer is finally here for me to enjoy!

John and Joe from americablog.com have discovered that BP have doctored photographs on their offical webpage from their Crisis Command Center in Houston, TX, as information to their emergency response after the oil spil. Apparently, BP replaced empty, off-line screens with images from ROVs (remote operated vehicles) in a very sloppy way. For example, white fringes and outlines around a man in the controlroom and around the replaced monitor screen can clearly be seen. Also, BP claimed that the photograph was taken in July 2010. However, the photographs metadata showed that the picture was taken in 2001.

I'm not a health nut. No, I'm definitely not a health nut, you know, one of those guys who's spend 90% of their awake time in a gym, pumping iron and use all kind of obscure machines to keep their bodies fit, eat nothing more than perfectly measured diets ect ect.

What I do like though, is to keep my body in shape in a more friendly and laid-back way; I run about 2.5 miles every second day, I do pushups and I do situps. And I do hate those products so tooted by commercials, those contraptions that promise to keep your body slim and beutiful with nothing but wearing it, then sit down, for example, in front of the TV and let the thing do it's work..  what's the point with those product? Strapping a belt around your belly and have it contract your muscles while you're sitting in front of the TV and still promise that you'll develop a great body and get toned into fitness by it? A 30 minute walk would give better results than using such a gadget..  there's a whole lot more to fitness than shaping muscles by electrical stimuli; what about the rest of the body? What about the cardiovascular system that plays no little role when it comes to fitness?

For example, take this lady..  (s)he really know how to take her training seriously!

If someone is even remotely interested in aviation (and I'm a fair bit lot more interested in it), they have probably heard about the city of Farnborough in the south part of England and their annual airshow, the Farnborough International Airshow. It's the airshow where the big boys play, and this year, there's bound to be a showdown in attracting potential buyers between Boeings new 787 Dreamliner versus Airbus new military transport plane the A400M. This years airshow will be even bigger than the previous 61 years, with a total exhibition space of 110,000 square meters of floor, 1,400 exhibitors expecting around 150,000 visitors.

During last years airshow, a total of $88.7 billion worth of orders were placed. Naturally they're hoping to break even higher than that during this years exhibition.