Perhaps we can turn this to our advantage, we could introduce some these activities into olympic events.

We may even get the odd gold medal too.

I’ll start the ball rolling:

1. Running 100m whilst carrying a 42″ plasma screen TV.

Baz

I have a dishwasher and I worship the ground it sits on…………….:)

There is a show this weekend at Newlyn East (4 miles away) and the second Spitfire will be attending. Sometime tomorrow, a convoy of WWII vehicles and the Spitfire will do a ‘run to the sun’ around Newquay to advertise.

Special guest star will be the forums very own Graham Adlam with his Willys Jeep. He will be handing out free Wurthers originals to any one over the age of 30 who use the phrase ‘that is the best looking Spitfire I’ve ever seen’.
thanks Graham.

see how it pans out.

Baz

There will be no excuse for poor cgi, it has been around for decades and has been successfully intergrated into great films without criticism (Apollo 13) If they pander to rip roaring with ‘over clocked’, wrongly marked and make of aeroplanes and huggy kissy shouty negro’s whilst changing historical facts, it deserves to bomb. A year after release we will know, if it ends up in the under £5 basket in Morrisons and you still won’t buy it.

However,…………….

During the 60s in Maidstone many people were struck by Trolleybuses as you couldn’t hear them coming. I once read the number of pedestians killed by them in London during the 40s/50s exceeded diesel/petrol buses that greatly outnumbered them (4 to 1) The problem will be, people crossing the road usually use sight and hearing in the thought process to step out. A silent car will disable the hearing bit and the number of people knocked down will increase.

A way round this of course is to fit these vehicle with a couple of external 400 watt speakers and have V8 petrol engine noise (coupled to the accelerator pedal):D

Baz

Haynes Dambuster manual

Baz

………thought I was suffering deja vu:p

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=97564

Baz:rolleyes:

Good post chitts

The first problem was a “turf war” with Flybe on the Newquay to Gatwick route. This route was the most popular of Air Southwest’s routes but Flybe persistently operated its aeroplanes over that route at very low fares. The effect of this was to force Air Southwest to offer similar fares or come off the route.

I worked there for over eleven years and was made redundant two years ago,(one of the first) I had a unique insight into the running of the airport as one of my various jobs was to chauffeur the top brass around the airfield prior to meetings involving expansion, etc. I did notice how the feel good factor dissolved when Flybe jumped on the Gatwick route, they didn’t know how to deal with it. Flybe knew this of course and ran this route cheaper to deliberately push ASW out of the competition.

More here

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=106077

Once John Humphreys left as Airport Director, management became totally inept and the fate of the airport was sealed. Questioning obvious poor descisions opened people up to bullying and staff feared for their jobs.

Throughout 2010 Air Southwest (and the airport) was starved of investment by the owners. The airline had plans for a sixth aeroplane, new routes (the London City route was one) and to bring the maintenance of the aeroplanes into Air Southwest (it had previously been contracted to British International at Plymouth). All these were abandoned by Sutton Harbour Group.

you could add to that 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009…….

I remember the radar topic some years ago and watched that swept under the carpet (down to money)

It was a great little airport to work on, I enjoyed it very much, I feel sorry for the staff who are about to join the job hunting queue. I hope the guy at the top retires and stays retired. Once the airport has shut down, we will hear more of the reasons why.

Baz