I wonder if he had to cut a hole in the fence to get his camera lense through. 😀

They didn’t have wire fences around airports back then, or cameras.

Love the photos, and the ones on the Edinburgh site are super too. Love the Skyways and the Air Luton C-47s.

My name isn’t Keith and perhaps I should change my avatar now as, the”eh”team does lead anyone to think my name could be anyone.cheers kev:)alias Johnb.

Yes, or even a whole team of photographers.

Love the photos, John, even though I don’t know what these aircraft are. 🙂

I think you should have sent this to the webmaster, Vee One.

As PeeDee says, GA probably IS the webmaster! 😮

But I did express these views to him/her, but more strongly.

Well, its sad that these things should happen when we are all here to relax and enjoy sharing thoughts and info.

My main complaint against Grey Area is this, GA is a moderator and he is there to moderate members’ behaviour. This is an important job. But he has taken it upon himself to censor our beliefs and opinions and that is simply fascist and unacceptable in a free-speech society.

Worse, he deleted my reply asking him to take the subject up with me privately because I believe such arguments upset other members. He deleted that post and then attacked me for it accusing me of not being willing to take up his points. In my post I said I felt he was patronising me. He deleted my post and then threw that back at me. He wants it both ways. If you delete a post you should not then respond to it. He broke the site rules by calling me patronising but he deleted my post because I called him that.

So yes, GA, disingenuous is what you are because of this behaviour.

So ban me! I hate bullies. I don’t back down to them ever. I am dumb like that. I can appear under many avatars if the fight is just and right.

GA please just do your job and don’t try to enforce your views over other members’ opinions and views. It demeans someone of your obvious intellegence to behave in that way. I am sure you don’t need to bully people with your MOD powers to get your point of view across. If you are correct you will prevail, if not you will learn something new. Isn’t this the tried and tested free-speech society we are happy to live within?

I can repost this as many times as you delete it, sweetheart.;)

Sarah

I have heard that grey area has abused his moderator position in the past too.

He has deleted posts he doesn’t like even though they do not break any site rules.

He locks threads he doesn’t like.

He uses the ‘rules’ to support his bully-boy tactics but then breaks the rules when it pleases him.

In my case he is acting as a censor of my and other members’ opinions and beliefs. He uses the ‘rules’ to justify his censorship but this is disingenuous behaviour and others see what he is really doing.

He deleted my post in which I say I will not publically fight with him but will happily communicate in private. He patronised my posts and opinions so I called him patronising. But then he attacked me personally refering to the post he had already deleted. That is so wrong on so many philosophical levels.

I have been told privately to be careful because this is his modus operandi. But I think this bully is bringing the forum down and making people feel oppressed so I will not back down within the scope of civilised behaviour and the site rules. So what will happen is he will continuously delete my posts irrespective of whether they are within the rules or not and I will keep reposting them. Eventually this bullying will end with my being banned – not for breaking the rules but – for standing up for my right to free speech.

Moderators should moderate behaviour not censor our opinions and beliefs. If this man is a friend of yours then I guess he will be allowed to continue his overbearing behaviour to members and their opinions. I hope however, that you will take a fair and measured approach to this and bear in mind I am just one in a line of members who have become victim to this man’s condescending behaviour.

You will have to decide if you wish this forum to be a friendly and open one or one that which police’s our opinions and dominates beliefs.

If anyone has any comments to make regarding my actions as a moderator, they should make them directly to the Webmaster by email or PM in line with item 3 from the site owners’ Code of Conduct.

Back on-topic, please.

Thanks

GA

Thanks for censoring my reply to your attack on my posts. Your actions have highlighted where you are coming from. It is you who are the patronising one as my now deleted reply suggested. Are you going to remove your attack on me? You shouldn’t really remove my post and then respond to it calling ‘me’ patronising. You are a moderator not a censor of other people’s beliefs and opinions. Are you going to remove this post too?

I will be writing a complaint about your bullying and inappropriate conduct as a moderator.

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This Sun UFO photo looks like a bird to me. Some smaller passerines fly in a series of bounds and during this they pull their wings in fully. And this is what such a bird looks like at that stage, blurry because of movement and because it is close to the lens and not at infinity. I might be wrong though. Here are some more ufo birds…

Lengthy personal attack removed by moderator