Feel free to add yours, and we will check again in precisely one year's time, (unless of course one of the predictions is the end of the world, and it comes true.....only need to get that right once
).Ray's 2016 Predictions
1/ ISIS will be resoundingly defeated on all fronts after the world finally get's serious and takes out these dicks once and for all.
2/ The Essendon Bombers will return to greatness, (without chemical assistance), and win the 2016 Grand Final.
3/ Following the overwhelming success of the introduction of the high performance Ford Mustang into the Australian market, General Motors will be forced to counter this, and announce that the Camaro will be bought to Australia wearing Holden badges, thus maintaining Holden dominance in the High Performance and Motor Sports arenas.
4/ Qantas will finally acknowledge that the A380 has failed to live up to economic or operational expectations and withdraw the type from service. They will be traded to Boeing, (who will immediately scrap them to prevent their re-entry into the market), and be replaced by a fleet of technologically-superior, ultra long-range, and super fuel-efficient Next Gen Boeing 777s
. Following on from this Airbus will announce the premature closing of the A380 production line due to complete lack of orders for the type. Boeing will say "We told you so" . Qantas will donate one A380 to the Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach, Queensland. Boeing will halt production of the 747-8 shortly after the A380, thus ending the era of the four-engine wide-body "jumbo jet". 5/ Indisputable and concrete evidence of alien life will finally be discovered. This will fundamentally change the way humanity views our place in the universe, and how we treat our home planet.
6/ LATs/VLATs will have proven themselves indispensable in dealing with Australia's bushfire threat, and large fleets of these remarkable aircraft will be deployed every fire season from now on.
7/ Malcolm will be returned to Government in a land slide Federal Election victory. Bill will disappear into political obscurity.
8/ A Next Generation replacement for Concorde will be announced.....this Hypersonic Transport Aircraft (HTA) will be the first commercial joint venture between Boeing and Airbus, (other project partners will include Embraer, Bombardier, Ilyushin, Tupolev and Mitsubishi). Launch customers will include: United, American Airlines, Delta, British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa, Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Japan Airlines, Aeroflot , and Cathay Pacific.
9/ The Earth will have a very close encounter with an up-to-now undetected asteroid. This "extinction event-sized" asteroid will come closer to the Earth than even the moon during it's high-speed fly past. This will be the closest "near miss'" of it's kind in human history and will have the world scrambling to come up with a legitimate and viable global "asteroid defence plan" to cater for similar future events.
10/ Capt Eric will take first place in the Airliner and Civil Aircraft category's at Model Expo 2016 .
11/ A/CAM, LSP, and AMI will merge creating Australia's first ever modelling "Super Site". This new modelling mega-site will be jointly owned and managed by Ray Woodford, Kev Futter, and Dave Harvey.
12/ Paul finds his dream job in Melbourne (test driving the above-mentioned Holden Camaro SS at Lang Lang perhaps??), and will make it to Model Expo 2016.
So there is mine.....let's see how many of these come to pass.
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