Last two letters start the next word v2.

[603DX]

A quite usual practice of an over-talkative mother-in-law is to frequently point out the shortcomings of her son-in-law to all within earshot. The solution is to keep out of audible range. (Based on hard experience over many years ...)

[Rwy in Sight]

One of my desires is to spent a day by the banks of river Aliakmonas the larger river in Greece.

[603DX]

If you aspire to visit the banks of the river Aliakmonas, then perhaps you will. There is also a fine long and high bridge over its Polyfytos lake to admire ... (In the opinion of this retired civil engineer!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Polyfytos_Bridge

[Slasher]

Reach For The Sky! is one of my old-time movie faves.

[Rwy in Sight]

Chevalieux du ciel a nice French film with strong aviation content

[603DX]

Uxbridge RAF Station was the important headquarters of No.11 Group, responsible for the aerial defence of London and the south east during the Battle of Britain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Uxbridge

[Slasher]

German invasion imminent.

In August 1990 during a 5 day overnight in London (back in the days when airline flying was fun) I wended my way to Dover and stood on the beach looking across the Channel. I was all alone, and imagined it was actually August 1940. It is August 1940 right now I told myself. All of a sudden it hit me what it felt like to know there were a million Nazis over the other side waiting to come over and kill you one way or another. I looked upward half expecting to see a few Spit and Hurri contrails and huge dark clouds of Luftwaffe formations crossing the coast. It was almost terrifying and it took a 727 inbound to LHR to bump me back to 1990.

Going to a place and imagining oneself back in time helps one to appteciate the era, why people did what they did and why things were done the way they were done.

[603DX]

Here's another aviation-linked anecdote about Dover, Slasher:

On 25th July 1909 Louis Bleriot landed in a clifftop field near the castle, having completed the very first Channel crossing by an aircraft. Exactly 80 years later, just over a year before your visit, there was an anniversary mass crossing by microlights to commemorate his historic achievement. By sheer coincidence I was working there on that day, carrying out a close inspection by climbing one of the four original 360 foot Chain Home radar towers, to gather data for a structural analysis by our firm of consulting engineers. The large formation of microlights (both French and English) arrived while I was still up on the tower, and began to circle, below my height! It was weird, like being buzzed by a swarm of giant hornets.

This link gives a lot of info about the towers, which played a vital part in the B of B:

https://doverhistorian.com/2015/02/07/s ... he-towers/

[probes]

O Tempora, o global surveillance!

[Opsboi]

Radar - a palindromic signal from M*A*S*H

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

argolid area in the Eastern Peloponnese including Mycenae.

[Rwy in Sight]

The fruit that identifies that area FOX are citrus (orange mainly). However it is more famous for its archaeological significance and Nafplion the first capital of Greece. And a place I met a member of TOP who made a short appearance here. And if we include an aviation content a bomb on a TWA 727 blew over that place in 1988.

[probes]

Escamillo - a young stallion

[603DX]

Iota - the ninth letter in the Greek alphabet, taken to mean a very small amount of something, in English.

Nice to see you here again, probes!

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

Tarantula a hairy scary spider.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula

[Slasher]

Landing phase - where one transitions from complex whizzbang automation to actually being a pilot. Terrifying for some, a joy to others.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Seamanship - airmanship on the big, blue wobbly thing.

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

IPA India Pale Ale.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_pale_ale

[Rwy in Sight]

PAN PAN PAN for the site.

[Slasher]

It's been "Pan pan...pan pan...pan pan" for some time now RiS, not that anyone has waffled on with that in practice. Usually it's "We are declaring Pan."