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Spartan
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by henry crun » Sun Oct 11, 2015 4:48 pm
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Two Spartan Executive Aircraft
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Can't see your pics with this crappy link but I can guess at standard workhorse images. Always found them far more interesting than the effete hangar...
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Last post by A Lutra Continua
Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:49 pm
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What it's like to drive the worst car in the world
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Stoneboat » Mon Oct 12, 2015 8:22 pm
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I'm sure someone thought it was a good idea at the time. :-o
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My interest in the history of bubble cars and micro cars means I know of several considerably worse machines than the Hoffman.
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Last post by Joy ride
Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:49 am
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Who uses a smart phone and connects to the net
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500N » Thu Sep 17, 2015 4:11 am
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Just a quick survey across members here.
Who uses a smart phone and connects to the net, either inside or more particularly outside the house
as...
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Don't do much on line banking but it would be useful.
Really? I do 100% of my banking on line. I don't remember the last time I set foot in a...
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Last post by rgbrock1
Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:32 pm
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Chemtrails - Proof as an FR forgets to turn 'em off....
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OFSO » Sat Oct 10, 2015 3:12 pm
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The crew of a Ryanair NG landing at Girona forgets to turn off the chemical spray nozzles from final to touchdown...
(Vortex, yeah right ! I hope...
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At least the auto shut-off valves worked as soon as was WoW ;) Pilots - can't they ever get the pre-landing checklist right :))
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Last post by david1300
Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:11 pm
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Schengen Suspended (sort of)
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OFSO » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:21 pm
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Heading north from Spain into France at 20:30 tonight, police roadblock at the frontier, all cars being stopped, some searched: I was asked my...
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Used to be the same at Heathrow on Virgin from HK,which was second flight in at T3.
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Last post by Ibbie
Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:59 am
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Car rental T&Cs
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Tall Bird » Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:16 pm
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On checking my Dad's car rental agreement before pick up, I came across these T&Cs and wondered why the places were singled out:
* Drivers age...
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I hired so many cars from Avis and Hertz in Hilo, and they knew I regularly drove up Mauna Kea (official 4WD vehicles), that they waived the T&C...
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Last post by Magnus
Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:39 am
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Task
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tony draper » Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:10 am
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I need some skilled computerizer to turn this image negative so the text can be read.
I know there is a way to do it but I have no idea how. O:-)
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From info elsewhere I'm sure it is. I wrote years ago to the National Trust re the opening hours to Lindisfarne Castle. It had stuck rigidly to their...
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Last post by Tall Bird
Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:36 pm
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Happy Thanksgiving.....
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Tall Bird » Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:05 pm
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.....to all Canadians here. Set the scales back ten pounds and celebrate :)
Curiously, I have been invited to attend Stephen Harper's going away...
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A tactical vote eh?
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Last post by Tall Bird
Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:03 pm
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Today Is Your Last Day...With Whom, Where, What ...?
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CityofFlight » Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:17 am
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Got to thinking that we always know the day to day topics that raise our awareness, our blood pressure, our frustration. Our quest to right all the...
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To get away from all you naughty frisky people and your sexual fantasies with multiple partners. Let's discuss one's last meal.
I think mackerel...
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Last post by OFSO
Sat Oct 10, 2015 2:39 pm
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FIFA
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Woody » Thu Oct 08, 2015 2:13 pm
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Just so we can keep up with the latest goings on ,arrests, banning so etc, here's my starter
A statement issued by Blatter's lawyers said the...
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Don't dictators usually end up getting hung?
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Last post by Ibbie
Sat Oct 10, 2015 8:44 am
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It Gets Better - New Horizons
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Tom Joad » Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:32 pm
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They just keep getting better - this has been an amazing mission.
Pluto's blue atmosphere.
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Great photo, like minimalist art! Amazing to find an atmosphere on such a small planet.
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Last post by Joy ride
Sat Oct 10, 2015 8:23 am
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Terror at 3,500 Feet!!!
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by Happy SLF » Wed Oct 07, 2015 9:11 pm
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A newly opened glass walkway, suspended 3,500 feet above a canyon in central China, cracked on Monday to
the terror of thrill-seeking tourists....
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rgbrock1; The picky of the 25,000 foot jumper. T'is you, yes?
And the blokes going out off the ramp of the Transport A/c......Struth but I wish I...
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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:51 am
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Questions for the ladies
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by Happy SLF » Thu Oct 08, 2015 1:19 am
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How come SWMBO can have the TV on with a favorite program showing but still watch and listen to something on her
iPad at the same claiming she can...
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I forgot about the poster (s) that were shipped as well, Linda Lusardi and that octogenarian babe, Queen Elizabeth. My sister threatened divorce when...
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Last post by Miss 007
Sat Oct 10, 2015 12:57 am
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Vacancies 100; Applicants 22,000
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CharlieOneSix » Thu Oct 08, 2015 11:23 am
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From the Aberdeen Press and Journal newspaper this morning - 22,000 people have applied for 100 train driver jobs with ScotRail.
The RMT union said...
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A WO Royal Engineer I knew applied and became a train driver about 15 years ago. He said the training was not a walkover, and the guys who thought it...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:40 pm
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Afghanistan where nothing gets any better..
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John Hill » Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:07 pm
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The medical charity MSF says at least nine of its staff were killed in the Afghan city of Kunduz after a clinic was hit by an air strike on Saturday....
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chuks wrote:
Things here are just not working out with Najibullah, so that I may be able to provide you with a Pashto-speaking assistant, John....
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Last post by 500N
Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:26 pm
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What comes next ?
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OFSO » Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:41 pm
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Saddam Hussein , killed December 2006, perceived as a truly terrible man by the West, but now it's accepted he was keeping terrorists under control,...
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As for Putin's mob firing missiles from the Caspian Sea. If you look carefully at the missile launches going by the labels at the bottom they were...
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Last post by Alisoncc
Fri Oct 09, 2015 10:09 pm
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Am I my brother's keeper ?
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OFSO » Tue Oct 06, 2015 5:30 pm
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A lot of the threads here hinge on personal responsibility (that means you) to other members of the human race (that means them). Which of course...
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I would counter, the ultimate pleasure is seeing a automotive Frenchman indicating on a roundabout, turning the way he indicated, and then being run...
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Last post by OFSO
Fri Oct 09, 2015 5:24 pm
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Sandals and Socks
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OFSO » Wed Oct 07, 2015 6:01 pm
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I am currently baby-sitting an exhibition of my wife's paintings and sculptures. As usual, some days we get a few visitors and some days a lot....
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Prefer going barefoot me. Crocs make me smile. I bought a pair in Canada some years ago because they were so comfortable. Back in the UK everyone...
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Last post by Tall Bird
Fri Oct 09, 2015 4:27 pm
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Horribly terrifying landing, aircraft lurches
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by
probes » Fri Sep 25, 2015 11:30 am
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Dramatic footage has emerged of the world's largest passenger plane battling fierce crosswinds during a dramatic landing in Germany.
The video shows...
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Yup. He also had a Yak-3 which one coveted. Spit doesn't really do it for me TBQH, but there are a couple of other types which could lead to an...
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Last post by A Lutra Continua
Fri Oct 09, 2015 7:33 am
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Ppruned has become PPRuNe
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by ControlTower » Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:15 pm
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I noticed that my mod privileges were taken away. When asked the admin if that was the case this was the answer:
"Yes.
Early Saturday I had an...
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Wot, get 3 wimmin to agree?? =)) =)) =))
OK, OK, I'l come and join you on the naughty step . . .
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Last post by Magnus
Thu Oct 08, 2015 11:58 am
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Captain drops dead during flight. "Catastrophe" averted
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rgbrock1 » Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:47 am
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An American airlines pilot dropped dead of a heart attack, on the flight deck, during a flight from the US State of Nevada to Boston Massachusetts....
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Wa-a-a-ade onna water chilluns....! :x
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Last post by A Lutra Continua
Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:29 pm
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Radicalisation - Indoctrination. Is it any different now to then?
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Alisoncc » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:56 am
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Radicalisation - Indoctrination. Is it any different now to then? Something for the pundits to sink their teeth into.
Growing up in the forties and...
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Rwy in Sight -Bravo and symphony! :YMHUG:
Also want to apologise to all for my brevity but working on a Samsung 4 mini! ^:)^
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Last post by Mrs Ex-Ascot
Wed Oct 07, 2015 3:38 pm
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Eggs
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by
wings folded » Mon Aug 24, 2015 1:54 pm
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I feel minded to start a thread on the topic of eggs.
Veterans of a similarly named site may remember the egg thread thereupon. ( I now find this...
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We used to fly into some place regularly, may have been Aldergrove, where you could get a tray of free range eggs very cheaply. One of my colleagues...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Wed Oct 07, 2015 8:59 am
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I am proud to be British...
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by Cacophonix » Sun Oct 04, 2015 9:26 pm
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Are you?
Caco
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I was until that arsehole Blair took us into Iraq.
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Last post by frostbite
Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:51 pm
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Alternate identities
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by
BenThere » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:40 pm
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Just had a brain epiphany.
If people can steal your identity, why can't you create a new alter-identity of your own. Set up a bank account,...
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We have not had a UK address for 15 yrs. We have three bank accounts there using our Greek address. We pay tax there as my UK pensions are taxed at...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:57 am
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