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  • June 29, 2011 at 8:37 am in reply to: XG 325 Lightning cockpit for sale #1053494
    spitfireman
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    Sold the dinner table and filed for divorce 😀

    I match your divorce and raise you my collection of Flypast magazines…:D

    June 28, 2011 at 11:27 pm in reply to: south georgia RAF airbase? #2381657
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    Ahh, patrol out Stanley 82.

    Baz

    June 28, 2011 at 11:19 pm in reply to: XG 325 Lightning cockpit for sale #1054053
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    Sent money, left leg and pet cat.

    Looks nice.

    Baz

    June 28, 2011 at 11:14 pm in reply to: south georgia RAF airbase? #2381666
    spitfireman
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    …. the whole godforsaken place

    😀

    ….try evicting that lot!

    Was you on a C130?

    June 28, 2011 at 11:00 pm in reply to: General Discussion #309967
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    Some people would get outraged at anything really…

    Precisely.:rolleyes:

    June 28, 2011 at 11:00 pm in reply to: War dead to be driven down side streets "to avoid the public" #1852702
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    Some people would get outraged at anything really…

    Precisely.:rolleyes:

    June 28, 2011 at 10:47 pm in reply to: south georgia RAF airbase? #2381679
    spitfireman
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    First of all, there is no political or social will for a new war……

    Oil

    June 28, 2011 at 10:44 pm in reply to: south georgia RAF airbase? #2381680
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    Been there, too right!

    I would guess the Argentinians would garrison the Island a lot heavier than ’82.
    I remember a sub badly parked in the bay and a wrecked (Wessex ?) up a mountain, anyone know if they’re still there?

    I can’t recall an area that would be suitable with the prevailing winds that an airbase could be easily constructed.
    Unless you’re thinking outside the box.

    Baz

    June 27, 2011 at 7:56 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1056602
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    Sure Baz, see attached. Its lovely but I rarely get to see it

    That is a nice cockpit, are you going to try ebay and test the water?

    Baz

    June 27, 2011 at 7:54 pm in reply to: Seen On Ebay Thread #1056603
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    Have to say, the proof is in the pudding.

    We’ve just had several cockpits go through without selling, some were priced to sell and I thought reasonable. The Bucc cockpit in particular was very cheap and still no one bought it.

    Is it because there’s still no money around for museums to go for them or they’re just not sexy enough? Are there so many cockpits extant in the UK, people have become choosey about what or what not to buy?

    Are the privateers waiting for more exotics to come up on the market, or has the market ‘peaked’?

    Baz

    June 27, 2011 at 2:00 pm in reply to: General Discussion #310707
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    I am very happy to watch Top Gear if its good.

    The problem has been that for the last how many years it has been dull, repetitive trash TV.

    Yet the drivelling sycophants that make up the audience, and many others, seemed to accept it uncritically.

    I’ll catch it on iPlayer or whatever

    Moggy

    I refer to my previous post #3!:D

    Baz

    June 27, 2011 at 2:00 pm in reply to: Top Gear – new season #1853183
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    I am very happy to watch Top Gear if its good.

    The problem has been that for the last how many years it has been dull, repetitive trash TV.

    Yet the drivelling sycophants that make up the audience, and many others, seemed to accept it uncritically.

    I’ll catch it on iPlayer or whatever

    Moggy

    I refer to my previous post #3!:D

    Baz

    June 27, 2011 at 1:50 pm in reply to: General Discussion #310712
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    SH, you have my sympathies 🙁

    ..don’t start him off again!

    …….too late:D

    June 27, 2011 at 1:50 pm in reply to: What made you (want to) Swear Today III? #1853188
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    SH, you have my sympathies 🙁

    ..don’t start him off again!

    …….too late:D

    June 27, 2011 at 8:09 am in reply to: Grace Spitfire told ''You're too noisy ! '' #1057574
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    takes me back to the woman that protested about concordes noise going into JFK

    We used to get the Concorde double boom in Cornwall 9pm every evening. On ‘quiet’ evenings we would sit outside to listen to it. One evening it stopped and we never heard it again, sometime later in the local rag in the letters column, someone asked why. The following week this was answered by a gentleman in St Ives who admitted gleefully it was him. He had complained to the council, who had followed it up. Concorde could only travel supersonic once it had passed Cornwall, so the joy of our window rattling was lost forever:(

    What I’m trying to say here, sadly, it only takes one complaint for a knee-jerk reaction.

    Baz

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