“While the rest of us were just thinking about it…Ferris borrowed a Ferrari and did it…all in a day.”

“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. Great film and one of my all time favourites. Like yourself duxfordhawk, I was 17 when it came out, and it and the other films bring back memories of those teenage years. I agree with you, Hughes did seem to have an ability to capture the spirit of the times.

Happy ( mostly ) days !!! Good chance of the DVD getting an outing tonight again !

Bueller ?….Bueller ?…Bueller ?…!!!

“Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. “

I had the undoubted pleasure of meeting Sir Bobby at a dinner in Aberdeen about 3 years ago, where he was guest of Honour and after dinner speaker. Though there was 250 people plus in the room that evening, he had time for a word with anyone that approached him.

His speech was excellent, regailing the highs and lows of his career. Informative and extremely funny in places, but tempered by a sense of sadness in others. What really came across was his total love and enthusiasm for the game, and his belief for values that sometimes seem to be missing in it today. As Pete Truman said, “a good old sincere bloke” and a man who possessed a character that we could possibly do with having more of in sport today.

Loose Head, Hi (and/or anybody else for that matter).
Does anybody have a good contact in the Irish Air Corps on historical matters? I should point out that my interest is in some detail(s) before the Irish Air Corps (or, indeed, even the Irish Free State – as it then was) was invented!!

Resmoroh

Resmoroh

Don’t have any contact as you request, but there is some potted history here http://military.ie/aircorps/history/index.htm though guess you’ve probably seen it already.

The only other thing I can suggest is that you use one of the contacts here http://military.ie/dfhq/pubrel/contact.htm as a starting point – you never know, it might lead you on to what you wish to know.

Apologies to all for the slight thread creep !

Slightly different, and not sure how much interest they’ll be, but here’s a couple of me and where I’m at at present (off the North West Coast of Australia).

Love It !!!:D

Currently sitting on a large floating lump of metal about an hours chopper ride to the North West of Karratha, Western Australia, trying to revive a flagging oil well. On the rig we have about 100 guys. Of that 100 there is a broad mix of backgrounds, histories and personalities. Humour is a necessity on these places, you won’t survive without it, and sometimes it can transcend what is percieved to be normally acceptable bounds, but that’s the nature of the beast.

What I can say however, is that even in this last bastion of male domination and bawdiness, there has been nothing but widespread disgust at the sketch. Aything that can illicit that response in this environment, must be considered disgusting.

Perhaps not quite historic yet, but the prototypes of the two contenders for the USAF’s Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST) competition of the 70’s, the Boeing YC-14, and McDonnell Douglas YC-15 still survive.

Both YC-14 prototypes survive, one stored by AMARC at Davis-Monthan AIr Force Base, and the other at Pima Air and Space Museum.

Both YC-15’s also survive. After the programme was cancelled in 1979, the aircraft were stored at AMARC. One was moved to display at Pima, but the other was returned to airworthiness in 1997 to evaluate technology for new tactical transports. Unfortunately the aircraft suffered engine failure and was assessed as being too expensive to repair, susbesquently being returned to storage at the Boeing facility in Palmdale, prior to a further move to Edwards Air Force Base where it is now on display.