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TAR14 EP1: 'Don’t Let a Cheese Hit Me' (Switzerland)
apskip:
Forgive me if I am duplicating something that has been said earlier in this thread. I have looked at this thread, but zinging through at top speed I could have missed something. In one of the EXTRA VIDEOS, there was a very large watch on someone, I think Kris, that read 350pm while at the pit stop. He and Amanda finished 5th in episode 1 and this was at Stechelberg. Let's assume that setting up the camera after Phil checked them in took about 2 minutes and then work backward:
Taxi from cheese task in Interlaken through Lauterbrunnen to Stechelberg - first segement is 10km, so say 15 minutes; 2nd is a 15 minute drive; total time = 30 minutes + 5 minutes to find the pit stop time leaving Interlaken 3:13pm
Cheese Task - this one is hard to say, but I will go with 45 minutes for a relatively efficient team time getting to cheese is 2:28
Walk to Kleine Rugen Wiese from Interlaken train station - my Interlaken map does not have Kleine Rugen Weise on it, but I can infer where it is due to the location of the Rugen Woods just above it. They are 400m from Interlaken West station, so it would be about 500 m to the farthest point on a road running parellel to the ridge on top and perpendicular to goign up the hill. I say it's about a 5 minute walk once teams get their bearings, so maybe 8 minutes total 2:20 aqrrival at Interlaken West
Now, Kris and Amanda were in the 745am group, so theywould not have made the 903am train. They would have been on the 1050am with Brad and Victoria arriving Interlaken West at 2:23pm. That's a pretty good convergence.
cba:
--- Quote from: apskip on February 28, 2009, 08:05:49 AM ---cba, while what you say is technically correct, again I find it misleading. Voting down the EEA was equivalent to not proceeding with the European Union in 1992. The bassi for my conclusions is:
Switzerland is a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). It took part in negotiating the European Economic Area agreement with the European Union. It signed the agreement on 2 May 1992, and submitted an application for accession to the EU on 20 May 1992. However, a Swiss referendum held on 6 December 1992 rejected EEA membership. As a consequence, the Swiss government decided to suspend negotiations for EU accession until further notice. Its application remains open.
I am going in my airline flight information to call their flights "LX", their airline code. I can't remember exactly back to my travel agent days, but I do not think it used to be LX.
--- End quote ---
You are correct in everything you're written. From how I read your previous post, the way I read it, it sounded like the 1992 referendum was directly about accession to the EU, what it wasn't. Maybe I read it wrong. :)
Huh, I believe the last paragraph is on the Swiss / Swissair topic from the other thread?
Swissair used to have SR as their airline code. LX used to be Crossair's code and is the one now used by Swiss.
As already written over there, Swiss was built by combining Swissair and Crossair. Meaning taking over planes and (most) personell from them both. However, Swissair was bancrupt and Crossair wasn't. The Swiss government supported the start of the new airline with (lots of) money (and basically payed for Swissair from October 2001 until March 2002 to prevent it to all go down including many associated firms that would be able to survive on their own) and one of their demands was that the basic structure of the airline was taken over from Crossair, not Swissair. This decision was a mixture of a) Crossair not being bancrupt like Swissair, meaning their strategies seem to be better and b) demands from the Crossair owners and CEO as a compromise for them giving up their successful airline to save the other one.
(I'm sorry for my choice of words here, it's a bit difficult to expalin such things in a language I'm not native in :-[)
puddin:
I understand you perfectly cba ;)
DrRox:
Danke, cba!!
I understood you too. What you found is called in the TV/movie biz as a "continuity" conflict. WRP/CBS used stock footage of an old Swissair DC10/MD11 in that shot. The plane belonged to the old Swissair, not the new Swiss.
I have learned over the years to not pay to much attention to what type of aircraft that WRP/CBS uses in the airport sequences. They rarely match actual aircraft type. They like to get the name of the airline out there. I doubt very seriously that any airline would use a DC10/MD11 on a fight from Zurich to Munich. If the did, they wouldn't be around much either.
cba:
--- Quote from: DrRox on February 28, 2009, 04:40:57 PM ---I doubt very seriously that any airline would use a DC10/MD11 on a fight from Zurich to Munich. If the did, they wouldn't be around much either.
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Oh look maybe you just found the reason for them going bancrupt! :lol:
J/k .... I know for a fact they didn't. My dad was a engine technician specialized on Swissair's (later Swiss') MD-11's. ;)
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