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Quite rich coming from you-A more adult like way of doing it would have been to have kept 3 Quid and repay the rest but you had to prove your point absolute authority ,didn't you. I clearly said in the pay notes that this was "for me plus bit more for those who did not want to pay"-but you are conv...

VP - for some ??inexplicable reason?? you have only partially quoted my message to you (to which you failed to respond), hence the total refund - as I do not have time for prima donnas to strut around the stage. For the benefit of accuracy so all can see what you are up to, this was the second part...

I really, really don't understand why all the bickering. What is it that you don't like? the "sub/donation?/ the fact that admin2 has said who has and who hasn't dobbed in? I belong to several small organisations (Men's Sheds) and we all chip in to the tea swindle and some need regular contribution...

admin2-To assume we intended to "Virtue Signal"is somewhat of a narrow viewpoint.We were simply upholding the principles under which Alison created the Forum and clearly by her recent comments, wishes to see continue. You seem to have some personal issues with those who donate ,without expecting an...

In case anyone believes that I am one of the "awkward squad", then I would like to make it clear that I have absolutely no issue with donating to keep this forum running, and have, to the very best of my endeavours tried to help whenever I can, perhaps not always with the desired outcome, including ...

But this isn,t a golf club.It is a forum with very few active members.From the first day Alison started the forum there was never a requirement to pay subs,fee,s and they were never asked for. When yearly costs were mentioned a few wealthy patrons virtue signalled that they would cover the costs.I ...

If there is a brake booster of the old-school type, that uses manifold vacuum to provide the assistance, then it's not at all unknown for them to leak internally, or get air leaking in from the servo.

I have been a member of many forums over the years an I'm still a member of a few now.Never in that time have I or other forum members been aked to donate as much as a penny. Long may it continue. The alternative to self-funding is surely to accept advertising - do we really want that? Is 0.82p a d...

But where's the PayPal email address? We've exchanged PMs about this, it's not there, and it's not in that thread either. I've resorted to PM'ing someone that's already paid by PayPal (according to your list) in order to try and get this simple bit of info. There's zero need for it to be a secret li...

VP - you need to read up on the thread about funding. I keep reading it every day (it is flagged at the top of the page, so hard to miss), to see if the payment details are there yet. Just read it again, twice, and maybe I'm getting senile but for the life of me I can't see either a PayPal address ...

VP - you have told me several times that you would either do Paypal or bank and I have equally asked you several times which you wish. You are now saying PP - thank you. Just let me know the PayPal email, that's all. It could be in the thread and then anyone could chuck a few quid in as they wished...

By the way, I did say some time ago that I'd cough up a donation either by PayPal or by bank transfer (PayPal is slightly simpler). If the PayPal donation email address was published here then we could just chuck some dosh in when needed. A tip for anyone using PayPal, make sure to select the "gift"...

I have no recollection at any time of agreeing to members having to pay to use Ops Norm. People can contribute IF THEY SO WISH BUT IT IS NOT COMPULSORY. Significantly reducing the membership is also pretty stupid. I've had three enquiries from old members who have now found themselves kicked off du...

Hedgehoppers should really be wall hoppers. I swear that aeroplane would climb over sheep if the TFR picked them up. The ride was bloody awful at first, especially in the back where I had sod all view of the outside world. If the TFR detected an obstacle it literally pulled hard back, then hard forw...

I can confirm what @Ex-Ascot has posted. The message I get is this:

Why are so many people you get in to do work so absolutely f'ing useless? Earlier this year we got a bloke in to "professionally" clean our patio (sandstone slabs with mortar pointing). He turned up with an industrial pressure washer and an attachment that looked like a rotary lawn mower. He fired t...

VP959: Were you able to do anything beyond your PPL? PP Not really. Lots of wholly unofficial hours flying a fair few of the aeroplanes that we were doing trials with, during the transit time to and from the ranges or trials areas mostly. Fair bit of flying in later years, all right seat, when I wa...

What a great life history, changed perhaps by a presentation, if not a present. How many hours did you accumulate in the "coal hole" VP959? Not many. Total Vulcan hours flown is 9 hours 15 mins, all from Scampton, all flights over the moors at low level, trialling a jamming system. My colleagues we...

Funny how sometimes we are celebrated, even presented with an award, as VP959 notes above, for that one mistake we made, when we got so much more right! Two of my best friends (they still are as it happens) presented me with a heart shaped mirror with the inscription "I love you" when I turned 21. ...

Not sure it counts as a present, but I was presented with it, so perhaps that counts. It was a larger than life size polished cast aluminium penis and testicles, artfully mounted on a varnished wooden base, with an engraved brass plaque listing the names of all those that had been presented with it ...