Ireland's railway expansion and new Stock!

 Re-opining old lines with re-fits and the new 9000 Stock? 

Ireland is moving on with many improvements and connections to its system, the re-building of Kent street station in Cork city and the line open to Middleton has brought more business!

Meanwhile the line from Limerick to Galway, via Shannon airport also much ease and options to travel without the need of roads and now moving on to Galway via Taum for Clairemorris another new connection.

But it is the ageing stock on the DART Dublin area rapid transport that needs upgrading with the new trains to replace the German and Japanese stock!

Fun fare Disasters!

Bad maintenance and Negligence?

Most of us have been to a fun fair, circus or a pleasure park to enjoy the latest rides and the thrill of fear!

But when these rides go wrong fear of falling out of your chair from a height or being crushed is another matter of real fear and probable death?

The more complex the ride is the harder it is to maintain it and areas will be overlooked and not deliberately, since this is a family business that has to make the owners their worth of time and effort!

Many people still believe that show people are travelers or Gypsies, but they are seasonal contractors who entertain the public during the summer months.

There is a plethora of machines on the market, with new one coming out every year and contractors visit sites across the country to view and buy or sell older ones on to others who cannot afford the latest?

China cancels all new Boeing Orders!

 Hitting back at U.S. Tariffs?

Boeing itself could soon become history, because of Chinese rejection of new sales, for more European types such as the Airbus A350-900/100 that is now taking over long-haul operations around the world, but it will be loss of sales of the Boeing 737-MAX-8-200 that will knock the U.S. and the Chinese influences on SE-Asia!

Europe can also offer China their new Airbus A321-200NX to compensate the Boeing MAX and other sales from Russia, with joint developments mean no one will need American aviation in the civil market, and for now the U.S. will just have to depend on the military market for its Jets and systems, but for how long?

The demise of the Boeing 757 from civilian Service!

 Another long running success for Boeing?

What now for the 757, perhaps another ten to fifteen years as freighters before they end up being broken up for parts!

The success of the type was due to its long range and passenger capacity, but not before long it was in competition with the European Airbus A330-300/900 that is still flying and making waves with many airlines around the world?

Boeing still has the 767-400 and the 737-MAX series, but they are not wide bodies and the 777 needs a longer runway than what the 767 needed, with no provision for a replacement as yet, the market is now open to Airbus to introduce a newer A330-900!

Farming Robots!

 Automated Machines Progressing in Agriculture?

Naio Orio is a French company making waves with its 700Kg tool carrier that can work with brassicas and carrot and a host of other crops and coming in at 200,000 Euros for the big farmers is a splash in the pan!

Four models are now available working with a Dutch company they can offer a large selection of tools for automated work on the farms and is one of the many break through's that are being made in the field?

Solong Stena Immaculate!

 North Sea Incident?

Deliberate was it negligence or deliberate, one has to wonder and why at this time did it happen with the loss of one merchantman and two ships the SOLONG cargo carrier under a Portugese flag travelling from Scotland to Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Aviation fuel carrier STENA IMMACULATE under a U.S. flag on contract for the United States air force, anchored after arriving from Greece!

What could have been far worse, has not come to fruition as yet, but a danger to wildlife on East-Yorkshire coastline remains to be seen?

It remains unclear what was happening on the bridge of the SOLONG, while the STENA IMMACULATE was on an anchor ten mile east of spurn head and an inquiry will eventually tell us the truth of the matter?

U.S. Leading the way in the new Super-Sonic Age!

 Smaller business class Jets?

Britain, and France lead the way with the one-hundred seat Concorde until a crash in France twenty-five years ago ended a most successful trans-Atlantic affair, meanwhile only Singapore airlines operated the type and the Soviet-Russians operated their Tupolev TU-144 between Moscow and the far east, but the demand was not strong and the type was retired too!

On the other hand the U.S. has gone it alone with several larger Boeing concepts, but this new type will allow a one third version to be built more so for private and business flights and to be employed world wide, the secret to this type is perhaps alternative fuel, speed and operational costs being much lower than the original types?

One will just have to wait and see what will happen, or is this another red herring, pink elephants ect, that we will never see the light of day as so many went before!