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Podge wrote:

"acl" wrote in message
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On Jan 19, 3:19 am, "Podge" wrote:
"Paul Heslop" wrote in message

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Paul Bartram wrote:
Don't think I've ever seen one go so long... And are we any the wiser
because of it? :-)

Paul

As the actress said to the bishop.

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I can't speak for others, but as the initiator of that thread, I have
certainly learned a great deal from it. There are a lot more issues than
meet the eye when you ask questions about photography on airlines.
Not the
least of which is the possibility that your camera might become a flying
missile if it parts company from you if you experience turbulence during
takeoffs and landings! But there is some good news, even though the
airlines
won't let you use your camcorder or digital camera to take pics during
takeoffs or landings, Air New Zealand, at least, permits you to use a
portable shaver at any time during the flight. So if you must fiddle
with
something during takeoffs and landings, you can have a shave.

http://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/trave...ectronicequipm...

But couldn't a portable shaver also become a flying missile if there is
turbulence during any part of a flight?

Hah, brilliant! I have noticed that many things related to commercial
flights (airports, airlines, at least some airplane toilets, the kits
they give you when they lose your luggage etc) seem to place curiously
high value on shaving. I mean, my beard grows so quickly you can
practically see it move, yet I've never felt the need to shave in an
airport, much less in flight (not to mention during takeoff or
landing!).

Now that I think about it, this is so bizarre and incongruous that I
wonder if there's some hidden message there just waiting to be
decrypted.

Here's some more inflight shaving news:

On the Cathay Pacific web site, it says that:

"Please note that personal electronic device cannot be plugged into the
aircraft's electrical power supply outlets.* This includes any type of
charging devices. An exception is made for portable shavers which may
only be used in the appropriate sockets in the lavatories."

http://www.cathaypacific.com/cpa/en_...ctronicdevices

Podge

One wonders why such outlets are provided....

For the same reason that there are still ashtrays to be found, despite
the practically total ban on smoking aboard. They're a holdover, and
they'll disappear soon enough as fleets are updated.

--Gene