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Re: Departed during 2020

#181 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:40 am

Frenchman Vince Reffet the Dubai Jet Pack Man is dead...

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Vince Reffet, who wowed the world early this year with spectacular jetpack flights from a pier in Dubai, was killed in a training accident on Tuesday, according to his team. “It is with unimaginable sadness that we announce the passing of Jetman pilot, Vincent Reffet, who died this morning during training in Dubai,” Jetman Dubai spokesman Abdulla Binhabtoor told AFP news. No details on the accident were immediately available but it took place at the team’s desert base outside of Dubai. “We are working closely with all relevant authorities,” Binhabtoor said in a statement referring to the investigation.


Along with Yves Rossi, Reffet, 36, was among a select few skydivers and wing pilots who have flown jet-powered carbon-fiber hard wings. Reffet’s version, as shown in the video here, was equipped with four small jet engines. Although public displays of jetpacks have typically launched from helicopters or aircraft, Reffet stunned the world by taking off from a pier in Dubai, hovering briefly at low altitude, and landing under jet power. He then took off again and soared over the city skyline before landing under a skydiving canopy.
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Re: Departed during 2020

#182 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:47 pm

Diego Maradona RIP
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#183 Post by tango15 » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:10 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
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Diego Maradona RIP
Sitting next to the hand of God now, maybe...

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#184 Post by PHXPhlyer » Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:28 pm

Or the foot... o:-)

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#185 Post by G-CPTN » Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:57 pm

Wasn't DM God for the Argies?

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#186 Post by G-CPTN » Sun Nov 29, 2020 1:03 pm


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#187 Post by Woody » Sun Nov 29, 2020 1:23 pm

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Darth Vader.
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Re: Departed during 2020

#188 Post by ian16th » Sun Dec 06, 2020 1:58 pm

Peter Alliss

I've never played a round of golf in my life, but he made it sound interesting to watch.

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#189 Post by FD2 » Sun Dec 06, 2020 7:22 pm

More on Peter Alliss - always easier to listen to than the statisticians:

On the game of golf
“It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.”

On Jean van de Velde on the final hole of the Open in 1999
"What on earth are you doing? He's gone ga-ga. To attempt to hit the ball out of there is pure madness."

On Tiger Woods shooting an 81 at the 2002 Open
"It's like turning up to hear Pavarotti sing and finding out he has laryngitis."

On Faldo v Norman at the 1996 Masters
“Look at that. Faldo looks a young man again, and poor old Greg, well he looks ready for his bus pass.”

On the weather in Scotland
"One of the good things about rain in Scotland is that most of it ends up as scotch."

On the rough during the 2003 Open
"Looks a bit like Jurassic Park in there."

On the Ryder Cup
“It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is simply two teams trying to knock seven bells out of each other, in the nicest possible way.”

On some shouting “get in the hole”
“Oh, he’s here again. Chloroform please nurse.”

On Ernie Els talking to his mind doctor
"There's his man — the psychologist — just making sure he doesn't slip away before a little paper changes hands"

On Sergio García
"If he could just get over this shy part of his nature…”

Alliss will be remembered, ultimately, for this impeccable grasp of nuance, for his grip on golf’s tone and tenor, for his portrayals of its languorous rhythms and of the miseries it could inflict on the poor, bemused club hacker. Occasionally, his contributions flew in the face of contemporary sensitivities, not least when the BBC felt compelled to issue an apology for his remark about the wife of Zach Johnson, the 2015 Open champion: “She’s thinking, ‘If this goes in, I get a new kitchen.’”

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#190 Post by CharlieOneSix » Sun Dec 06, 2020 9:45 pm

FD2 wrote:
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...... Occasionally, his contributions flew in the face of contemporary sensitivities....
When I told Mrs C16 he had died she remarked that she never liked his attitude towards the fairer sex with some of his nuances.
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Re: Departed during 2020

#191 Post by llondel » Tue Dec 08, 2020 4:54 am

Chuck Yeager, first to break the sound barrier, has broken through his final barrier, age 97. The Right Stuff.

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#192 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:58 am

llondel wrote:
Tue Dec 08, 2020 4:54 am
Chuck Yeager, first to break the sound barrier, has broken through his final barrier, age 97. The Right Stuff.
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#193 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:07 pm

Capetonian would have known of whom I speak. Dawn Lindberg of Des and Dawn Lindberg has died as a result of Covid complications in Plettenburg Bay at the age of 75.



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#194 Post by ian16th » Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:00 pm

Very sorry to hear this.

Once attended a 'do' at their home. A work colleague of mine was a keen amateur guitar player and a mate of Des & Dawn.
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#195 Post by PHXPhlyer » Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:09 pm

Ah, The Good Old Days

On October 10, 1948, Yeager visited Charleston with a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. When he took off from the airport, he flew the jet west down the Kanawha River and under the South Side Bridge during a boat-racing event. Witnessed by the many boaters, audience and news media covering the races, it was never officially reported and has since become a beloved part of the city’s folklore.

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#196 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Dec 10, 2020 1:31 pm

A film the reminded another generation of Mr Yeager.

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#197 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:04 am

Dame Barbara Windsor.

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#198 Post by Karearea » Fri Dec 11, 2020 2:41 am

^ Aww. She was a darling.
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#199 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:12 am

'Yes, Madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly.' Sir Winston Churchill.

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#200 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:25 am

And a titter ran through the crowd,

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