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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread
They engineered-in redundancy in those days.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:29 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
My choice:- DE HAVILLAND DH.98 MOSQUITO The Mosquito (known affectionally as the 'the Wooden Wonder' and/or 'the Mossie') was one of the most versatile combat aircraft of WWII. The aircraft was used as a light bomber, fighter-bomber, night fighter, maritime strike aircraft and for photo-reconnaissan...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: Duxford.
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- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Baltimore bridge collapse
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Re: Baltimore bridge collapse
It is rumoured that those missing were workers filling potholes on the bridge carriageway surface. Paul Wiedfeld, secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation, says the crew on the bridge at the time of the collapse were working to repair potholes. The work had "nothing to do with a struct...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:53 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
Were you expressing your thoughts out loud?
It can happen . . .
It can happen . . .
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Aviation Design, Manufacture and Maintenance
- Topic: One Big Ass Plane
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Re: One Big Ass Plane
Years ago I travelled on one of the large hovercraft and jokingly asked the stewardess if I could 'go up on deck' to which she disappeared and returned with an invitation to accompany her to the 'cockpit' accessible by a ladder from the vehicle deck where I sat alongside the 'pilot' for the entire j...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: We need more
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Re: We need more
Isn't that what the Victorians were guilty of - the voracious collection of all sorts of flora and fauna?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:20 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
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Re: Friday Jokes
"Whenever I feel the urge to exercise I lie down until I feel better."
Quote from a work colleague who preferred to spend his lunchtime in the pub rather than playing squash.
He outlived the squash player (both in their 50s).
Quote from a work colleague who preferred to spend his lunchtime in the pub rather than playing squash.
He outlived the squash player (both in their 50s).
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:10 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
My choice of breakfast cereal is Weetabix.
I also indulge as a snack if I wake hungry during the night.
I also indulge as a snack if I wake hungry during the night.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: Aviation Design, Manufacture and Maintenance
- Topic: One Big Ass Plane
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Re: One Big Ass Plane
A maybe apocryphal story told by Christopher Cockerell (inventor of the hovercraft). He was visited by 'the MOD', anxious to secure the concept for military use. Cockerell asked what they would require it to do as they already had Land Rovers and 3-tonners. He explained that hover height was related...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:34 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
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Re: Chaos in USA
It seems that Donald is being Trumped.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: A cool morning in Ashburton...
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Re: A cool morning in Ashburton...
About 12000 miles . . .
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:52 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
My experience of Staffordshire bull terriers is that they are soft-natured (and always amenable to being stroked, often rolling over for a tummy tickle). Daughter acquired one when she worked as a vet nurse - which completely changed my opinion of the breed. I now approach any Staffie - even those b...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: A big undertaking
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Re: A big undertaking
Cremation funeral services that I have attended have involved a coffin, which may or may not have contained a body. The local crematorium has two chapels a short distance apart, but only one 'active' with an underground 'railway' to transport coffins from one to the other. I believe that bodies (in ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:11 am
- Forum: Fixed Wing Nostalgia
- Topic: Beverley moving to Carlisle
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- Views: 1045
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- Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread
Dog-gone!
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:13 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
I didn't realise that Ballarat was still 'active'.
Re: Electric Cars II - Not Silly!
I have recently moved into supported residential care. When I lived independently I was an (avid) recycler - including scavenging litter from the streets. I was puzzled to discover that the refuse from the 'care home' was only collected alternate weeks and all destined for landfill - no recycling. O...