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Free thinking people...

We either live in a free society where all have the right to have their own opinions, within the bounds of civilized stricture, or we are not democratic (no pun intended). I give huge credit to the Met for their approach over the weekend.

In 1993, I flew jump seat in U2's aircraft from Cardiff Wales to a maintenance shop in Bournemouth. The band had a concert in Cardiff, and the aircraft was scheduled for some maintenance, prior to their departure later that week, in Bournemouth, a short hop from Cardiff, but one I will never forget....

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) Ricky Nelson Montana John Denver Jim Croce, Maury Muehleisen Patsy Cline Will Rogers Just a few that I can think of off the top of my head. PP We could add John Denver Jim Reeves... Stevie Ray Vaughan... Like John Denver, Jim Reeves was...

Why aviation and the sometimes "irregular" nature of a musician's life are sometimes not a safe mix. The statistician in me just says, musicians fly more often than most, and often with rogue outfits. Lynard Skynard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_7IjuiAFuk If somebody posts, I will attest to my ...

What an interesting, if poignant story. I am delighted that his ID tag has been recovered and that he and his crew are remembered, and thus in some small way alive again, at least in other's minds and hearts... The crew's provenance, hearkens back to a better time when the British Empire meant somet...

The pot holes! Are these the first signs signs of our collapse as a 1st world c@n. (excuse me) country?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... le-britain

A good female friend! A Finnish born half Hawaiian lady who served honorably as a member of the US Marine Corps...

Not so much a Lillehammer moment. Me and my forebears being Norwegian mostly.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 0CDxDOcmlt

Ask this man. Retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel James H. Harvey III, 100, boasts many military honors to his name. Harvey was one of the first African American fighter pilots with the Tuskegee Airmen, the famous World War II military aviators who opened doors for Black pilots in the U.S. He ...

As one of my father's ex-business partner's found, it can all go tits up in a moment in a cloud...



I will talk about UK weather later, If I am allowed...

Ozzy Osbourne gave up taking acid while the recording of Black Sabbath's Volume 4. He said, “I took 10 tabs of acid, then went for a walk in a field. I ended up standing there talking to this horse for about an hour. In the end, the horse turned round and told me to **** off. That was it for me.” E...

South African Company Producing New COIN Aircraft The first Mwari surveillance and precision strike aircraft, originally known as the AHRLAC, has been spotted in Mozambique, sporting Mozambican markings. In March 2023 the aircraft, which can be used in counterinsurgency or COIN operations, was spott...

Another WTF UK weather moment. Funnel cloud spotted on final to runway 21 at EGSG.

Boac wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:56 am

In all my years aviating I don't think I have ever seen a TAF for a UK airport (Jersey) like this "Tornado or Waterspout....."

High end EF2 damage...

In all my years aviating I don't think I have ever seen a TAF for a UK airport (Jersey) like this "Tornado or Waterspout....." Official Met Office warnings and reports of tornadoes and waterspouts are rare as hen's teeth, as Boac notes, but, in reality, for the size of its landmass, the UK along wi...