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Botswana offers to send 20,000 elephants to Germany.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68715164

Dushan wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:45 pm

Unless it’s made of styrofoam, I don’t think so.

Here's a two year old video - it's real enough! The bit at 3:12 is impressive.

When I was at woodwork school the asbestos wall behind the table saw operator had a number of holes in it, each signed by the operator who had experienced the kickback. Some of those names went on to become quite acclaimed woodworkers. I've also seen a tooth come off a blade and go through the wall...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck5w9zlg1r7o

Perhaps they need Sleipnir. Two revolving cranes can lift up to 20,000 tonnes in tandem. In my day I thought Hermod was big but this is huge. Edit, posted the Hermod photo in error - here's the Sleipnir, decommissioning the Brent Alpha in 2020. The jacket weighed 10,100 metric tons. Sleipnir (1).jpg...

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

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/372326

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.

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...

A size comparison of the Nimitz and Ark Royal R09. Ark was around 54,000 tons displacement. .
and Ark during a storm in the Indian Ocean in 1966...

....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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

.....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...

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-...

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.

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...

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