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  • in reply to: General Discussion #334355
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    Celebrations at Ground Zero. But a lot of questions as well.

    I love the three-holer!

    in reply to: Osama Ben Laden is no more… #1868459
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    Celebrations at Ground Zero. But a lot of questions as well.

    I love the three-holer!

    in reply to: Novice pilot lands plane safely on busy highway #413950
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    A 180-hour pilot is hardly a ‘novice pilot’.

    A ‘novice pilot’ is someone who has a nice shiny new PPL, not someone with probably 140hours’ P1 logbook time.

    in reply to: IOW. Sandown and Bembridge both now open #414095
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    Sandown was a regular destination for me in the 1980s. Go there on a sunny, hot day and take a walk to the beach, you’ll love the whole experience. We used to spend the day at the beach and fly back with the sunset. A great way to get to a beach and avoid the heavy traffic of the mainland. Lovely memories. We sometimes landed at Bembridge too, but Sandown was the most enjoyable destination. :rolleyes::)

    in reply to: Glasgow pics from 30 years ago #492207
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    The Court Line L1011 is nice to see. I prefered the pink one. Used to see them over my home, coming out of Luton in 1973 I think, just before the airline went under. Trislander is nice too, in classic Loganair livery. The perfect Trislander!

    in reply to: Beagle Pup fails to explode #414113
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    A Beagle Pup had an untidy arrival at Panshanger on Saturday, but happily did not explode, a threat very much on the mind of the Welwyn and Hatfield Times

    The photo possibly indicates some failed catapult attempt, not surprising with fuel at nearly £2 a litre.

    http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/evacuation_over_fears_that_crashed_light_aircraft_in_welwyn_garden_city_could_explode_1_875652

    Yeah! British manufactured aeroplanes are too over engineered to explode on impact. 🙂

    They are designed that way as many of them are so underpowered that hitting a hedge before V2 is always a possibility. 😉

    EG: Sterling, Airtourer, Auster, Trident 3b (gripper). All horribly underpowered.

    in reply to: Roger Whittaker the pilot. #414141
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    I saw Roger W at White Waltham back in the early 1980s. He had flown in using his wife’s single engine aircraft (so we thought at the time). He parked next to the PA-28 I was trying to get started by bashing the hell out of an old and very stuck starter solinoid with my shoe, on a very old and stuck Cherokee 140. He gave me a very strange look. I guess it did look strange but what can a pilot do when faced with a stuck solinoid? RW’s aeroplane didn’t look like it had ever suffered a stuck starter solinoid in its short and gleaming life. 😉

    Sarah

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