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Kevin Costner Prince of Thieves iconic tree cut down.
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G-CPTN » Thu Sep 28, 2023 8:17 pm
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Living in Tynedale, just a few miles from 'the Sycamore tree in the Roman Wall gap', this is a local issue, yet interest is national and also...
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Unfortunately
No good deed goes unpunished. ~X(
PP
Just as well he didn't plant any more trees, as Sheffield council might have sent a...
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Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:17 pm
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John Hill's Ashburton Aviation Museum DC3
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OneHungLow » Sat Sep 30, 2023 6:27 pm
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As mentioned by John Hill in the link above. Some good photo's on the Facebook page Mr Hill mentioned in the link above...
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One of my friends, now departed, told me how his Corsair had a propeller hitch when his flight was departing for the end of war ferry flight from a...
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Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:52 am
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The Fox Hunt
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OFSO » Mon Sep 04, 2023 5:21 pm
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Where is Fox Three? Sadly missed..
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Ach zu!
So I see that some potential doppelganger, perhaps masquerading as the Fox, has appeared on the site, and that the denizens of this site,...
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Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:19 am
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Chemtrails
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OFSO » Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:42 pm
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My house lies under the N to S track of aircraft flying from Europe to Africa over the Begur beacon (112.20 BGR). Just before lunch today, within a...
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I may have missed some out...I leave it to the other weather fundis here to add to the list...
You omitted cirrus flatulatus
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Last post by Hydromet
Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:14 pm
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Re Link Trainer project.
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John Hill » Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:55 am
We are now trying to get the software sorted before final assembly so that someone can climb in as soon as the paint is dry.
I want to use the four...
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Last post by John Hill
Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:55 am
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Progress on 2023 Subs
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admin2 » Fri Sep 08, 2023 8:23 am
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Thanks to all responders - going well, but a possible 22 'non-responders' leaving us on 29th! (That's site notice, posts and PMs)
Hopefully not.
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Sub sent this PM.
The Ancient Mariner
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Last post by Rossian
Fri Sep 15, 2023 5:37 pm
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Proctor Adventure
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John Hill » Wed Sep 13, 2023 7:59 pm
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ProctorInFlight.jpg
I was going to post an article about this aircraft(?) but have not found a way to do it, .ODT file of about seven pages. :( I...
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Jean Batten flew a Percival Gull from England to NZ in 1936 setting a world record and in a time that would not be bettered for a solo flight for 40...
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Last post by John Hill
Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:43 pm
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Unforgettable
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Karearea » Thu Sep 14, 2023 2:24 am
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For me, so far, and omitting family milestones and sentimental occasions:
Looking for and finding Halley's Comet, naked-eye visible, low to the...
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The sight of the Concorde coming in low over Zoo Lake Swimming pool while it was undergoing hot and high trials at Jan Smuts airport. Everybody in...
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Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:18 am
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Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:23 pm
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The coolest accents...
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OneHungLow » Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:35 pm
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I have aways been partial to the New Zealand accent, which is even slacker with regard to diphthongs than my Capetonian slackness would ordinarily...
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We used to have a card carrying communist deliver the frozen shift meals to our oil terminal. He was hilarious from the midlands very excitable and...
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Last post by 1DC
Sun Sep 10, 2023 3:35 pm
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Train Crash in Aberdeenshire...
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TheGreenGoblin » Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:22 pm
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‘Serious Injuries’ and fire as ScotRail train crashes near Stonehaven
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Network Rail guilty of safety failings over crash that killed three
Company admitted it didn’t impose an emergency speed restriction or warn the...
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Sat Sep 09, 2023 3:09 am
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Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:46 pm
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Disreputable bars that you have enjoyed...
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OneHungLow » Sat Sep 02, 2023 11:14 am
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No, I am not necessarily talking about the Whiplash Bar at the Karl Lagerfeld bondage dungeons in Bremerhaven. I was apt to think of Pete's Bar on...
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The old 'long bar' in the old Chevron hotel. Out the back doorled to a demoltion ground, and you could pretty much buy anything there.
I once...
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Last post by EA01
Mon Sep 04, 2023 5:42 am
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Jimmy Buffet, dead at 76
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EA01 » Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:40 am
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So sad, loved the carefree beach bum lie in a state of 'Margarittaville'......
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Per obit on his website it was Merkel Cell Skin Cancer that took him.
Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare type of skin cancer that usually appears...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Sun Sep 03, 2023 3:21 pm
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Law Enforcement Behaving Badly
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PHXPhlyer » Sat Sep 02, 2023 5:03 pm
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Delaware man who police blocked from warning of speed trap wins $50K judgment
After Jonathan Guessford raised a middle finger at troopers while...
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Well done Mr Guessford.
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Last post by OneHungLow
Sat Sep 02, 2023 5:53 pm
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What was he thinking?
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OneHungLow » Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:19 pm
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Any other examples, aviation wise or not where one might ask what was he/she thinking?
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Aka the scream liner, for those of us living under LHR departures.
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Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:15 am
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Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:43 am
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Strong winds blew my balls off
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OFSO » Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:27 pm
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One of the large concrete balls topping our five gateposts was blown off last week during gale-force winds and ended up twelve foot below in the...
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In the Australian outback, it gets so cold it would blow the walls off a bark humpy.
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Last post by Hydromet
Thu Aug 31, 2023 1:12 am
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You know you are getting old when...
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OneHungLow » Thu Aug 24, 2023 7:08 pm
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Your good friend accuses you of going senile when he mentions some bloke in your class in 1977, and you say you can't remember the dude, and...
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....when all four chairs in the optician's waiting area are occupied and a young lass in one of them offers you her seat. ^:)^
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:50 pm
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Tourists Behaving Badly
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PHXPhlyer » Thu Aug 24, 2023 3:29 pm
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Tourists arrested for spraying soccer graffiti on 460-year-old Italian landmark
Not again! Yet another Italian historic landmark has been...
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Yellowstone visitor charged after going off trail in thermal area and burning himself
The famed national park routinely warns its millions of...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Fri Aug 25, 2023 2:59 am
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It never rains in Southern California...
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OneHungLow » Mon Aug 21, 2023 4:06 am
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It pours, man, it pours! To quote the title of the Albert Hammond song .
Tropical Storm Hilary and now a magnitude 5 earthquake.
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I expect PHX is getting his tootsies wet across there in Arizona too! =))
Walking the one mile home from dropping D#2's car off at the garage to...
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Mon Aug 21, 2023 5:35 pm
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Give me C, give me a D. Limeys, scurvy, all that jazz!
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OneHungLow » Sat Aug 19, 2023 5:27 am
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Vitamins, I mean, and not the notes!
I was fascinated to read this historical vignette about Vitamin C and its role in a little known Antarctic...
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Even in my early days at sea,the late fifties, I remember occasionally on a long voyage running out of fresh vegetables and a bottle of Board of...
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Mon Aug 21, 2023 12:46 pm
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Something found...
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OFSO » Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:29 am
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I found this card among my fathers papers. It's embroidery, RFA must be Royal Field Artillery, and on the back is written...
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^ limeygal - interesting :)
and thank you for that link.
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Last post by Karearea
Mon Aug 21, 2023 12:01 am
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Pacific Airshow
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EA01 » Thu Aug 17, 2023 3:02 am
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Will go check it out from Mrs Fliegs Office tower on Saturday
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The Winter months are a great time of year here in SEQ....
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Last post by EA01
Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:27 pm
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Stupidity goes deep!!!
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John Hill » Wed Dec 02, 2015 5:19 am
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“We were too dumb,” Flynn said. “We didn’t understand who we had there at that moment. When 9/11 occurred, all the emotions took over, and our...
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A man who was one of three hikers who died together walking the Aonach Eagach in Glen Coe last weekend has been named by his family as Graham Cox.
A...
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Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:05 am
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