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by CharlieOneSix
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:41 am
Forum: Aviation Incidents
Topic: Duxford.
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Re: Duxford.

A Cirrus SR22T (G-RGSK) suffered an accident while performing touch-and-goes at Duxford Airfield.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/372326
by CharlieOneSix
Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:15 pm
Forum: Military Ops
Topic: USS Nimitz
Replies: 11
Views: 361
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Re: USS Nimitz

Boac wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:36 am
Amazing pic, C16. Where were the two boats in the pic?
It was at Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia.
by CharlieOneSix
Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Views: 978906
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

In our rural setting the roads are few and far between. In their wisdom Aberdeenshire Council Roads Department have notified two separate diversion routes to avoid two places near home where two separate roads are closed for maintenance this week. The only problem is that both diversions take you to...
by CharlieOneSix
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:55 am
Forum: Military Ops
Topic: USS Nimitz
Replies: 11
Views: 361
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Re: USS Nimitz

A size comparison of the Nimitz and Ark Royal R09. Ark was around 54,000 tons displacement.
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and Ark during a storm in the Indian Ocean in 1966...
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by CharlieOneSix
Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:31 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Octopus Agile electricity tariff UK
Replies: 23
Views: 620
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Re: Octopus Agile electricity tariff UK

....Regarding electricity tariff is it worth then to have a smart meter to take advantage of the hourly fluctuating prices? The Octopus Agile tariff requires a smart meter to be fitted in order to take advantage of the half hourly prices plus my usage is transmitted to Octopus at the same frequency...
by CharlieOneSix
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:23 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Octopus Agile electricity tariff UK
Replies: 23
Views: 620
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Re: Octopus Agile electricity tariff UK

The electricity board tree cutter guys seem to come round about every four years and have a look at where our line runs next to the adjacent small wood. I phoned them a couple of years ago as about 6 sycamores had grown up in our garden and were within falling distance and close to the line as well ...
by CharlieOneSix
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Octopus Agile electricity tariff UK
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Views: 620
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Re: Octopus Agile electricity tariff UK

Just received tomorrow's prices for 24 hours for our UK Octopus Agile tariff. Here's a snapshot from my phone for 0600-1600. Many hours of 0p/kWh and two half hour periods where they pay us to use electricity. Looks like there will be a couple of washing loads done, plus the dishwasher run and a fiv...
by CharlieOneSix
Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:31 pm
Forum: Where Are They Now
Topic: Departed During 2024
Replies: 32
Views: 2566
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Re: Departed During 2024

Capt. Eric Moody (84) - who in 1982 suffered the loss of all four engines on his 747 due to flying through a volcanic ash cloud. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trus...
by CharlieOneSix
Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: Military Ops
Topic: USS Nimitz
Replies: 11
Views: 361
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Re: USS Nimitz

That is scary looking at the apprehension of the pilots in the crewroom and watching those night landings in that sea state. So much easier in similar conditions for us helicopter guys to stop and land rather than to land and stop like the fixed wing pilots.
by CharlieOneSix
Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:36 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Views: 978906
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

The UK £0 annual car tax for electric cars becomes £158 in April 2025. My £0 annual car tax expires in July this year. Just retaxed the car online at £0 for another year. It now expires in March 2025 at which point I'll retax it for another year at £0 a few weeks before the expiry of £0 rate. Saved ...
by CharlieOneSix
Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:01 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

.....The fire service came and checked the house out to see if we were safe enough apparantly smoke alarms et al were all working ok. Suggested we got an extra carbon monoxide detector for upstairs, so we have..... Fire regs changed in Scotland a couple of years ago. In every home you legally now h...
by CharlieOneSix
Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:46 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Grand Orange Lodge loses appeal over Stonehaven parade ban
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Grand Orange Lodge loses appeal over Stonehaven parade ban

Phew - thank goodness! The views of over 9900 locals (Stonehaven population in 2021 was 11,060) who signed a petition or who formally objected against this march have prevailed. No closures and boarding up of shops tomorrow so we can go shopping, peace reigns. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-...
by CharlieOneSix
Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: Military Nostalgia
Topic: Navy Wings on BBC2, Tuesday 19 March at 1830
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Re: Navy Wings on BBC2, Tuesday 19 March at 1830

Yes, noticed that. Surely that should have indicated in the cockpit and put an end to the formation bit whilst he sorted it out. Presumably being a late mark the u/c operation would be hydraulic as opposed to flying with the left hand and pumping with the right hand as per the very early versions.
by CharlieOneSix
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:07 pm
Forum: Military Nostalgia
Topic: Navy Wings on BBC2, Tuesday 19 March at 1830
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Navy Wings on BBC2, Tuesday 19 March at 1830

Navy Wings will be featured in a new episode of Michael Portillo’s Great British Railway Journeys on Tuesday 19 March on BBC2 at 18.30. Whilst flying in the Harvard he is joined in formation by the Navy Wings Seafire Mk XVII and Chipmunk and later visits the Navy Wings hangar at Yeovilton. A 2 minut...
by CharlieOneSix
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:55 pm
Forum: Space Related (& Freight) Ops
Topic: SpaceX
Replies: 946
Views: 41003
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Re: SpaceX

T-30 minutes....maybe....

by CharlieOneSix
Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:50 pm
Forum: Space Related (& Freight) Ops
Topic: Retired RAF pilot recognised for capturing space image from back garden
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Retired RAF pilot recognised for capturing space image from back garden

Graham Hazlegreaves's picture of the Orion Nebula M42 has received a prestigious award from the Guild of Photographers.

STV News with video
by CharlieOneSix
Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:10 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Views: 978906
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

One of our local "poo people" has "We are #1 in the #2 business" emblazoned on his truck. Catchy. We had a local guy out to clear the pipe between the house and the septic tank as unmentionables were bubbling up though a rodding point. His van had "My business is going down the drain" on the sides.
by CharlieOneSix
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:52 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Views: 978906
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

Sympathies to Mrs Hydro - the pain can be excrutiating. My knee was drained on two occasions before I had the op, with two steroid injections at the same time which worked for a few months each time. Hope she feels better soon.
by CharlieOneSix
Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Friday Jokes
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Views: 470335
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Re: Friday Jokes

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by CharlieOneSix
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:16 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

….. Scottish Water have a cunning plan to install a giant septic tank but every year it falls off the bottom of Scottish Water's schedule because of "higher priority schemes". I have a contract with Scottish Water to empty our septic tank every three years - the longest period they will accept for ...