The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Slasher]

Aye it was a wild ride indeed!

727's

Concorde's

Tu114's

VC10's

Convair's

Ilyushin's

Dubious speed claims

The Cacophonix Book of Speed

Errant Machmeters or should the Captain have gone to Spec Savers

Apartheid

Homeland leaders

Ciskei

White elephant airports

Elephant ears on rear fanned jet engines

American Conmen

South African Conmen e.g. "Highway Hennie" https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News ... d-20070228 https://www.iol.co.za/news/highway-henn ... ed-1532126

Goats butting the windows in control towers (did anyone catch that bit)

Guest Houses

The Bee Gee's

Jeffersen Starship

Elivs Presley

Swiss Air

Spantax

The precise layout of Zurich airport

Great Aunts

Oscar Wilde

Bucket and Spade Holidays

Barbequed Bodies

Vampires...

etc. etc. etc.

All perfectly normal, boring, run of the mill subjects...

Sh!t now did that ever make me laugh!

Caco you'd better get your arse over to the Sqn Leader's new thread. I feel your holy Book of Speed will soon be needed!

[Slasher]

Slash, was having a couple of beers last night, with a ex-dentist of Scottish origin who has just retired.

In 10 days he's heading in your direction to BKK then a Daffy somewhere north east to go backpacking for a couple of months.

Good time of year to come up this way Ibbie, and yes Daffy is a good outfit to take bang-for-the-buck wise. Safe too.

Northeast may indicate Udon. If he is tell him it's worth a sidestep stopping off at Loei a coupla days and taking a pontoon lunch at the lake. There were a lot of backpackers there last week so he should have no problem finding accommodation. I think the place caters well for 'em.

[OFSO]

Effing unbelievable weather in NE Catalonia. 150l m2 rain in 24hrs, 100kph E wind, 7m waves driving onshore, local towns cut off by flooding. However the brave drivers bought the 'Sunday Times' up from Barcelona I'm glad to say, altho I got drenched collecting it for the Mem' who stayed in bed.

[Ex-Ascot]

Golly OFSO. Sorry but FBMN 181000Z 01010KT CAVOK 37/08 Q1014. About the same at home. At least we have that breeze. Only thing I have done this morning is to fit a new security chain to the reserve outboard on the ship and fill up the house water tank. We have had no chain on the engine for 2 weeks amazing none of the thieving bastards took it. There is no way they could nick the main engine, the weight of it would sink their boat even if they could get it off but the small seagull is of course designed to be carried.

It is not the weather to rush around. Glued to the computer by the pool in the shade drinking ginger beer. All that sugar. I am sure that beer would be better for me.

25 1/2

[Cacophonix]

Absolutely lovely day here.

EGSS 180506Z 1806/1912 07008KT 5000 BR NSC TEMPO 1806/1809 3000 BECMG 1809/1811 CAVOK TEMPO 1817/1901 8000 BECMG 1900/1903 BKN018 PROB40 TEMPO 1901/1905 BKN013 PROB30 TEMPO 1907/1912 8000 -SHRA

Good work out at the gym. Off for lunch with my ex sister in law. Sunday, what's not to like.


@Ex-Ascot you can get sugar free ginger beer. (What a killjoy I have become)

Caco

[Ibbie]

Been to daughter's to collect some mail to take to UK.

Drove back through a torrential storm. Heavy rain, sheet and forked lightning, high winds, flooded roads.

Stopped off for a coffee and got soaked. Waterproof shoes leaked. Weather is bad all over Spain today. That OFSO has a lot to answer for! He started it.

Storm has moved off eastwards towards the Wodrick estate.

[Wodrick]

It has arrived. Internet only via 4g on phone.

[Groundgripper]

150l/m2

That's 6 inches, then, in old money (or 15cm).

GG

[Rwy in Sight]

Tis moonshine time and after that I might have a gander at Ex-A's new thread and let out some 727 trade secrets that'll make a VC10 look like Harold Steptoe's delivery cart.

Thanks in advance for that thread.

Big ones and the 727 are two landmarks of me. Actually the third one (Coffee) come long after those two. I still remember my first visit in a cockpit in 1975 a 727-284 and the stress I went through when its wings were flipping - a family friend an aeronautical engineer chez Bombardier assured me much later it was completely normal.

And I still have a question about why Boeing decided to put the main pax door on the 727-100 so far down the fuselage just aft of the wing.

I hope the weather does not cause too much of an issue to our West Med members.

[Ibbie]

I hope the weather does not cause too much of an issue to our West Med members.

Sun is now out in a blue sky!

Mrs IB has however lit the wood burner.

[G-CPTN]

I vividly remember taking off from Franfurt Airport in a B707 in 1969.
There was no 'standing start' the pilot simply increased speed (the runway is long) and I watched the wings flapping up and down as they struggled to get us airborne.

[OFSO]

Weather not an issue but lighting the wood stove is with advice from SWMBO. Such as 'try taking a log from lower down the stack, dear'. Oh sure, of course I take the wet ones from the top. New alert for this part of Spain: blow up inflatable kayak and don welly boots. Just found my neighbours telephone wire blown down and in the street. Can't escape as border crossing blocked by quelerous frogs.

[ricardian]

Lovely sunny day up here at 59 degrees north, hardly a breath of breeze. A bit chilly but OK for November

[Slasher]

I still remember my first visit in a cockpit in 1975 a 727-284 and the stress I went through when its wings were flipping

RiS - go get a long match and bend it. It snaps. Get a long rubber eraser and bend it - it doesn't. Flexible wings flapping around like a crazed duck are stronger structures and very comforting to see them doing so.

[Ex-Ascot]

What are the regs about wood burning stoves and smoke in the UK? I seem to remember a big fuss years ago about smokeless fuel.

Remote solar system monitoring has gone down. I hope that they are just doing maintenance and it is not our system.

Really quiet Sunday evening much. A loud water pump going up river just about drowning out some moronic jungle bunny noise from about a km down river. Just hope the bull frogs start up. They drown out everything and I can sleep through natural bush sounds.

[ricardian]

I still remember my first visit in a cockpit in 1975 a 727-284 and the stress I went through when its wings were flipping

RiS - go get a long match and bend it. It snaps. Get a long rubber eraser and bend it - it doesn't. Flexible wings flapping around like a crazed duck are stronger structures and very comforting to see them doing so.

Impressive test regime (and not just the wings)

[OFSO]

People using surfboards on the main street of Figueras. Houses evacuated as lower floors under water. Looking inland from my house at 600' level the 12 miles of farm land to Figueras is a sea. 48hrs more rain is forecast. Biggest problem for me is when the electricity pylons start collapsing, not unusual since they are never maintained.

[Groundgripper]

What are the regs about wood burning stoves and smoke in the UK

None, as yet. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is yelping on about banning them; DEFRA, or whatever it's called now, is busy devising Standards for new stoves with reduced smoke emissions; everyone else is ignoring them and carrying on using them as usual.

GG

[Wodrick]

Well you will sing !
Seriously got away lightly here with just short of two inches recorded by the local weather stations.
I will need to drop the level in the Cemen Pond mañana.

[OFSO]

Temporarily dry up here so walked today's kitchen rubbish down to the Bin. Roaring of streams and of wind in the trees. Russians next door have put a flimsy cover over their Moscow-registered four by four. Wonder what they know ?