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- Tue May 14, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: Boomps-a-daisy!
- Replies: 1
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Re: Boomps-a-daisy!
You're the expert, but it looks like #3 at fault to me too. Two right ( ;))) ) that Juan seems to get his 2/3 numbering wrong. I'm not convinced the #4 was either out of position or contacted. I think the pilot has seen #3 closing in peripheral vision and made some avoiding movement. I think the con...
- Tue May 14, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: RFA crew shortage as well as a Rear Admiral shortage....
- Replies: 110
- Views: 6185
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Re: RFA crew shortage as well as a Rear Admiral shortage....
The objectives of Ministry of Defence spending are to ensure the prosperity of senior MoD civil servants and their friends running defence industries, and it has always been thus.
Buying stuff is therefore what is needed, not actually using it.
Buying stuff is therefore what is needed, not actually using it.
- Tue May 14, 2024 1:02 am
- Forum: Gliding, Paragliding & Skydiving
- Topic: Skydivers Fly Wingsuits Through London's Tower Bridge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 82
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Re: Skydivers Fly Wingsuits Through London's Tower Bridge
Looks suspiciously legal to me..where's the fun in that?
- Mon May 13, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Where Are They Now
- Topic: Departed During 2024
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6686
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Re: Departed During 2024
When I did my scuba instructor course, we were shown that 1976, the year after Jaws came out, was the only year that the number of people learning scuba dropped.
It was suggested we didn't tell prospective divers this.
It was suggested we didn't tell prospective divers this.
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Electric Cars II - Not Silly!
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Re: Electric Cars II - Not Silly!
Pre-pandemic, it was the correct call to switch from low to high value vehicles (EV or ICE). Just goes to show how utterly and rapidly the governments of the world have f-ed up their economies. Idiots are actually quite clever - they are always coming up with new ways to screw things up that you had...
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
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- Mon May 13, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: Where Are They Now
- Topic: Departed During 2024
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Re: Departed During 2024
Must be me, but I didn't find The Great Muppet Caper at all scary.
Seriously though, there was some pretty amazing stuntwork during the 70s-90s.
It has to be said that CGI has saved quite a few stuntperson's lives since then, and I'm glad Susan got to live long enough to enjoy her fame..
Seriously though, there was some pretty amazing stuntwork during the 70s-90s.
It has to be said that CGI has saved quite a few stuntperson's lives since then, and I'm glad Susan got to live long enough to enjoy her fame..
- Mon May 13, 2024 12:03 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
A new definition of Having A Bad Day... A Russian soldier is caught in the open in broad daylight by an FPV drone, carrying nothing but two plastic 4l containers of gasoline. He lobs the first one at the attacking drone and actually hits it, knocking it back somewhat.... Unfortunately for him the dr...
- Mon May 13, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
It's selective. The Brits have allowed it, some others may have but haven't donated systems that can be without a ground invasion of Russia, others definitely haven't. The basic problem is that most western leaders are stupid, corrupt cowards. Fortunately Boris was generally stupid and corrupt, but ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
The Ukrainians will want to take the initiative and start diverting Russian resources themselves, but they don't have sufficient ammo and trained personnel for a sustained offensive yet. I would expect they hope to have by the end of June. Until then, they are just going to have to take the losses. ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
I think you are talking about Suppression of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD), which is also known (from the Vietnam era) as Wild Weasel tactics. The UKR fighters make themselves radar visible to the Russian search radars, usually by increasing altitude. The aim is to get the Russian missile guidance radar...
- Mon May 13, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Gerasimov was featured in a Russian media piece in February claiming he wasn't dead, but that was videoed in a building and not independently date-verifiable. Prior to that he hadn't been seen since September 2023, and he hasn't been seen since the February piece. He and Shiogu used to be a double a...
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:43 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1118
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
The most lethal species of every kind of predator, cyclones, and death by hyperthermia?
- Sun May 12, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The totally-totally non-political show of all times: 'united by music' - Eurovision song contest!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 672
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Re: The totally-totally non-political show of all times: 'united by music' - Eurovision song contest!
Your sacrifice in checking is appreciated by those of us who avoided it, thinking it would still be a load of rubbish.
- Sun May 12, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
As some had predicted Shoigu has been given the boot as Russian Defence Minister. In his place is a complete and utter banker, who like Shoigu knows sweet FA about the military. Which probably means putin is moving his little toy soldiers around a tabletop in his bunker and issuing stupid orders him...
- Sun May 12, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1118
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
Hello from Canada. No polar bears today. No snow either.
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Trivia Question of the Day
- Replies: 3111
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Re: Trivia Question of the Day
A witch is what is missing, PHX.
Rossian has it. The Inklings were a group of literary types, including CS Lewis ('The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe') and JRR Tolkein ('The Lord of the Rings'), who met in said Oxford pub.
OH declared.
Rossian has it. The Inklings were a group of literary types, including CS Lewis ('The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe') and JRR Tolkein ('The Lord of the Rings'), who met in said Oxford pub.
OH declared.
- Sun May 12, 2024 1:05 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Trivia Question of the Day
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Re: Trivia Question of the Day
I thank you.
What links a lion, a wardrobe, a ring, an eagle, and a child?
What links a lion, a wardrobe, a ring, an eagle, and a child?
- Sun May 12, 2024 12:42 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Trivia Question of the Day
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Re: Trivia Question of the Day
Well, I only follow hockey, but are the NBA finals also running about now and they are still in those also?
- Sun May 12, 2024 12:32 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Trivia Question of the Day
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Re: Trivia Question of the Day
The only US hockey teams still in the playoffs?