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  • in reply to: Mosquito Crash… #1367337
    Andy in Beds
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    Nothing in ‘Bomber Command War Diaries’ that ties up with a Mosquito lost on this date, Andy. Sorry.

    Hi Mike
    yes, my first stop was BCWD and as you say nothing.
    Was 2 Group part of 2TAF by then? Would that make it outside bomber command?
    I don’t know.
    Moggy, I think you may well be looking in the right place.

    The story behind this is that a French acquaintance of mine has parts from the aircraft in question and would like to know more about them.

    So, can we help.
    Cheers
    Andy

    in reply to: Next Forum Meet… #1367348
    Andy in Beds
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    Went out with Mrs Fence last night to a local Restaurant. The Foie Gras was wonderful as ever (you think I’m kidding).

    Now who else is up for it.

    Why would you be kidding?
    I love Foie Gras.
    I actually love good food–well you know that you’ve seen me.

    Where we’re going tomorrow they do a killer Mussels in Garlic sauce.
    My wife’s fav.

    If you get to Normandy this Summer with DB and HP please try the local cuisine.
    You won’t be dissapointed.
    A…

    in reply to: Next Forum Meet… #1367479
    Andy in Beds
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    Oh good he can count, that makes four sad gits with nowt better to do on a Saturday night than trawl the forum 🙂

    Tart
    however I admit that as I approach middle age talking to you lot on a Saturday night via this thing is about as exciting as life tends to get!!

    Sad b*stards, is I think the correct descriptive term.

    However tomorrow night, I will be eating out in a very nice Italian restaurant as Mrs AiB and myself celebrate St Valentine’s Day a day early.

    Cocoa and hot water-bottle time here shortly me thinks.
    Later
    A…

    in reply to: Next Forum Meet… #1367501
    Andy in Beds
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    Aye

    Four then…

    in reply to: Next Forum Meet… #1367510
    Andy in Beds
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    Please sir, me sir, can I come too sir?

    Yes,if you’re allowed out for the day. 🙂 😉 🙂

    I’ve just E-mailed both places to confirm opening times etc.
    Although as I said above, their web-sites say they’ll be open that weekend.

    That’s three of us then, any more??

    in reply to: Next Forum Meet… #1367543
    Andy in Beds
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    Right you idle shower.
    This thread started with the proposal that we have a forum meet to Harrington and Twinwoods farm.
    I’m now officially proposing the weekend of the 19th and 20th of March.
    Subject to the museums being open-the websites for both say they are.
    That’s the weekend before Easter.
    Anyone prefer Saturday or Sunday?

    Apart from the usual suspects can we have some new people too please?
    You might find that you enjoy meeting like minded enthusiasts.
    All you need to bring is yourself, the entrance fee and a thick skin because the p*ss taking can be thick on the ground.

    Put your mark here if you’re interested.
    All welcome.
    Cheers
    Andy

    in reply to: Duxford 12th February pics #1368446
    Andy in Beds
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    Well done Martin.
    They’re very good.
    Enjoying the new camera?

    in reply to: Health and Safety strikes again… #1368464
    Andy in Beds
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    You all seem to be missing the point.

    If I have to pay for that “education” or “information” in order to be able to excercise my right to freely determine what I can or cannot do, then sobeit. If I am required to pass a test of some kind in order to etc…, then again, sobeit. But to throw a blanket over my right to determine what I can or cannot do is wrong in, and of, itself.

    Now, I understand that this cannot always be the case, for logistical and many other reason, so I accept the status quo on those grounds, and those grounds alone. But please, saying that we all need to be nannied because we cannot, even with proper information and education, be held responsible for our own decisions is utter nonsense IMV.

    Yes Rob I’m willing to leave the argument.
    However, you too miss a point. You may be able to afford to pay for this training you refer to.
    However, what happens when someone can’t afford to pay or aren’t bright enough to learn it?
    Are we to assume they just have to go without?
    Another can of worms opening there I feel.
    Later
    A…

    in reply to: Health and Safety strikes again… #1368643
    Andy in Beds
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    Its nice to see we’re talking about Heath & Saftey, radium or whatever you want to call it. What do we have stored at the good old USAF airbase in Suffolk – probably the largest collection of buckets of sunshine for miles around.
    We have more pieces of depleted uranium flying around as ballast and mass ballancs weights than we can shake a stick at and all these arse wipe H&S experts seem to worry about is old clock faces – jeees,

    keep on talking, its entertaining if nothing else………

    have a nice day – now f%&k £$f

    I’ll put this in ‘the more knee jerk and unthought out reaction’ category if you don’t mind AF.

    You make the assumption somehow, that two (or in this case three) wrongs make a right. Which of course they don’t.

    To describe people that work in H&S as bunch of a*se Wipes is quite frankly puerile (look it up if you don’t know what it means).

    I’d be interested to know where you get your apparent strong dislike of H&S people from.
    Is it the gutter press perhaps?
    A press run predominantly by people who staunchly supported the industrialists who opposed all H&S laws originally because it harmed profits. After all what if few members of the lower orders get wiped out for a bit of profit?
    There’s always plenty more where they came from.

    I’m quite happy to argue this one all weekend.
    What I’d really like are some reasoned arguments not just the sameold cr*p.
    Later
    A…

    Andy in Beds
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    Fantastic stuff.

    We might even be inclined to say
    Awesome!

    in reply to: Health and Safety strikes again… #1369096
    Andy in Beds
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    No, and that is the exact opposite of what I am saying. Are you reading my posts, or someone elses and attributing them to me?

    But that is what you’re saying.
    You feel you know better than the law.
    You’re saying the law is an ass (someone once said that–maybe Dr Johnson) and I know better. The same as the electrician did–just a different point along the same scale of degrees.
    Why do you know better than the law?

    I think I know better than the law when I drive at above the legal speed limit, but do I really? I do until I kill someone.
    We all think this all the time.
    But laws a very rarely enacted unless there’s a good reason.
    They are quite difficult to pass–believe it or not.
    A…

    in reply to: Health and Safety strikes again… #1369143
    Andy in Beds
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    It isn’t a matter of whether one knows better or not, in my view. It is a matter of individual freedom and choice. Guidelines are one thing. Making them laws interferes with the freedom of the individual, and where it is unnecessary must be avoided.

    So Rob, you’re telling me now that it’s acceptable that, for instance someone who’s totally unskilled can set himself up as an electrician for instance (because he feels he knows better) and go into someone’s house and kill them and their family through negligence and it’s better for all of us if there’s no law to protect us from that because otherwise it’ll interfere with his personal liberties.

    WOW!–if you ever get swept to power on a tide of popular support I imagine it’ll be an interesting place to live.

    I’m sorry but your argument doesn’t hold water.
    Andy…
    PS If you think I’m exagerating about people being being killed, the above story has already happened.

    in reply to: Health and Safety strikes again… #1369297
    Andy in Beds
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    Ian
    I agree with everything you say.
    At present I’m involved in helping (in a very small way) to implement the latest round of Health and Safety legislation for the electrical industry.

    Every day I get somone on the phone bleating about how they know better.
    The usual argument being ‘I know better, I’ve been doing this every day since 1492 and when I was an apprentice we even used to connect this stuff up standing naked in a bucket of salt water etc, etc’.

    What of course they don’t see is the file of accidents that my engineering manager keeps in his desk drawer that are currently trundling through the courts.

    Gives one a very different perspective.
    Later
    Andy

    Andy in Beds
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    This really is superb stuff.
    I’d give this thread five stars but I’ve already been beaten to it.
    Please keep posting.
    Cheers
    Andy

    in reply to: Photo Quize For AIB #1369670
    Andy in Beds
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    No1
    Mike J knows that.

    No2
    Sikorsky Ilya Murometz

    No6
    Something by Glen Curtiss

    No7
    Bleriot Type XI Hydro.

    Working on the others.
    Cheers
    Andy

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