There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Oh.. All he needs now is a data plate…………

Well he’s already got one of the rivets for it :p

Good luck to him.

So…having just watched the repeat of Sunday’s show. The ‘shootout’ was on an Army training ground, but at which disused aviation place was the Boxter v SLK slingabout filmed ?
Looked pretty derelict and completely vandalised to me.

Glad this has all finally worked out OK Andrew, must have been a worrying time for you.
Still…. we can all rest easy knowing that this sort of thing will all be history once we all have our £300 ID cards 😡

Capt Ball rests here.

Cemetery: ANNOEULLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND GERMAN EXTENSION
Country: France
Locality: Nord
Location Information: Annoeullin is a village in the Department of the Nord, approximately 10 kilometres east of La Bassee and 4 kilometres north of Carvin on the D41. The Communal Cemetery is in the south-east part of the village. The three Commonwealth war graves will be found on the extreme right of the Calvaire. The German Extension is adjacent to the Communal Cemetery.
Historical Information: The German Extension on the South-East side of the Communal Cemetery was begun in October, 1915, and enlarged by the French after the Armistice, when 23 British graves were removed to Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez. It now contains 1,600 German graves. There is now 1, 1914-1918 war grave in this site, that of Capt. Albert Ball, VC. There are also 3, 1939-1945 Commonwealth war casualties commemorated in this site.
No. of Identified Casualties: 4

Awwwwwwwwwwww thanks guys. I thought you had all forgotten.

Not a bad weekend, very wet on the inside !
Village regatta on the Saturday with loads of old wooden boats and fishing smacks, which take as much dedication ( and almost as many £……) to keep afloat as any vintage aeroplane in the air.
Followed by the annual event today which I find I advertise less and less with the passing years 😎
The satisfaction comes with embarrasing the offspring with an even wilder shirt every year 🙂
“Dad…. you can’t possibly wear……….oh sh1t…. he is going to ! ” 😀

P, x.

the field that it stikes is a horses paddock. if horses were on it at the time, would it have killed them if they were close enough?

Quite probably and it doesn’t take a direct hit. A ground strike can radiate sufficient charge to over 100 ft and do you serious damage, and the poor old dobbins wear metal shoes !

Adam,
I think what you may have captured is quite a rare sight on film, a type of lightning leader, in this case a ground streamer.
You probably had a very close stike just after you captured it on film.
Any way you can post the whole video or a clip somewhere ?

For an explanation of the phenominon see this link.
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/lightning/lightning_max.htm

and for an amazing clip involving an airliner see here.

http://flyingfischer.com/lightning%20strike.htm