Can I just say I have two vivid memories of XH558 1st was i think some sort of aniversary at Waddington and I was about 14 i think at the time anyway it was in the echo that there would be a display by the red arrows to celebrate so i cycled up and watched from the main road outside waddington at the end of the runway (between the traffic lights if you know the area) after the arrows 558 came in to land and i was right underneath her did that scare the shi*e out of me or what!! the noise was incredable!

The second was her last flight this time i could drive up i skived of college to be there horrible day and seeing her take off as she does and looping round and waving good bye will live with me for ever i hung around and waited for her last fly by before she went to bruntingthorpe then got bollocked for being late for college.

I still live in the area so i can not wait for waddington next year where i am sure she will be the star attraction I hope there will be a photo shoot of her next to 607 lastly well done to all the people at bruntingthorpe who never lost faith or hope that it could be achieved the club deserves huge credit they were magnificent the lest said about F I the better i think!

Thats my memories i hope all the knockers will now shut up she is going to fly and there is nothing you can do to stop it!!!!

P S Being from Lincolnshire I love the Lanc aswell so I wish i could have been there yesterday to see her flypast I have seen it on tv must have been amazing.

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I am right with you XH558, apart from the Lightning, Harrier and Hunter, very few other RAF jets impressed me more than the Vulcan. Too think this Aircraft was designed as a Nuclear Bomber, with the sole intention of delivering a devastating blow too Russia, is an awesome thought. Fortunately MAD worked and we didn’t get there. I hope the Airshows next year will be packed with like minded people, who love this Plane.
youngsters who have never seen this Aircraft before ,will be in for a treat… 😀 :diablo: :diablo: I am in Tears…
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Obituary

Bye World , thanks for the entertainment… 😀 😀
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IT’S MEAL TIME LADS, PASS THE SAUCE…

I like them all. at least the art of humour is still with us. My favourite one must be the crocodile one. 😮
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A GREAT ARTICLE ON ETHANOL , BIODEISEL AND CONFRONTING THE OIL CRISIS IN THE U.S.=

Confronting Today’s Oil Crisis in the U.S.

http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/reinsider/story;jsessionid=866E297144F17D872637896AE8B05F94?id=45824

Looks like the F15 is in the firing line 😀
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Delay

So I get a lot of short calls on the cellphone. Meaning about a minute or two or three long, and it is a fascinating fact that like two-thirds of them end one or two or three seconds past the full minute. Fascinating. I basically never get or make calls that end 20 seconds or so after the full minute. Must be good business for phone companies still charging at 30 second intervals! Anyway, I find it quite strange.

Did you know that when two people are talking on a cell phone too each other, there is about a second delay between the conversations. This can lead too the person at the other end not hearing you starting too talk again after a break. Which means they talk over you when your’e trying too talk too them. THIS CAN BE RATHER ANNOYING. 🙂
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Thanks for your comments ollieholmes, I guess everyone else thinks it’s not worth discussing. Britain is now a very different country too what it once was.
My opinion is , we only have ourselves too blame for the present mess. The question that should concern everyone is how far will it slide, will it take a serious break down in society too correct the rot. As with most things nothing gets done too correct these problems until they have gone too far. Gun and knife crime are a result of our lack of action too correct the problem. As I said here in Britain things have changed, our export market has all but vanished, we live in a much more cosmopolitan society, we are no longer the military power we used too be. We may be better off with all our Computer technology, and other gadgets, but are we better inside ourselves. If as you say the young are bored, then they are not being stretched enough in schools, too use that Brain of theirs. I think regarding Graffeti that its marking ones own territory, there are kids out there who feel alienated by society, so they turn too defacing things too get their point across. You should see some of the Buses around here, windows scratched etc. See, everybody is scared of sorting these kids out because of their human rights. We the hard working majority have never before felt so helpless too sort these kids out.Human rights discriminates against the majority in favour of the minority..I personally will not remonstrate with any wrong doing young person, as I have no protection from the law. So as far as I am concerned things can carry on as they are….

From the Times,

IT IS the modern-day equivalent of turning base metal into gold, and Sean McCarthy believes that he has it cracked.
A free, infinite supply of pure energy could be sitting in a secure area of an unprepossessing unit in the Docklands of Dublin. Mr McCarthy claims to have created a perpetual motion machine, a device that can produce at least as much energy as it consumes, so that once it has been set running it can continue indefinitely.

Even Sir Isaac Newton, who spent years trying to turn base metals into gold, reputedly said: “The seekers after perpetual motion are trying to get something from nothing.”

The problem is that after allowing The Times and its physics expert, John White, into the office, Mr McCarthy decided not to let us see the machine. It is some form of an all-magnet motor and the only clue that he will give is that it looks like “a grandfather clock, without its pendulum”.

Having made its existence known through a full-page advertisement in The Economist, Mr McCarthy, 40, has been overwhelmed by interest from around the world — some of which has veered towards “death threat” territory. “We had one physicist who finished his rant by saying, ‘You had better watch your back’,” he said.

“We are getting bloggers putting out stories that this is a stunt to market Xboxes, that we are a call centre and that we have just closed down.”

The search for perpetual motion is considered heretical in the scientific community because it violates the First Law of Thermodynamics. Historically, those who set out to prove otherwise fell into one of three categories: sincere but wrong; a few cogs short of a self-blowing windmill; and money-grabbing fraudsters.

After the first British patent for a perpetual motion machine nearly four centuries ago, hundreds have followed.

Mr McCarthy is the head of an IT company that advises police forces across Europe on fighting fraud. “If I am proved wrong, this company is out of business and I will never work in this town again,” he said.

By the end of this month Mr McCarthy hopes to have assembled a panel of “the most qualified and the most cynical” scientists to test his machine.

Dr White, an atomic physicist at University College Dublin, had a straightforward question: “Why not publish your results in a peer review journal and go and collect your Nobel prize when you are vindicated?” He added: “If he is right, he will have solved the riddle of the Universe and brought peace to the Middle East.”

Mr McCarthy said that he had stumbled by accident across “a kinetic anomaly of magnetic fields” while developing a small wind turbine to power closed-circuit television cameras.

Some “very well-respected” scientists had tested the machine and achieved the same results, he said. But they refused to publish their findings because “this area is surrounded by fraudsters and the misguided. So we decided that either we should just drop this or find a different way to get science interested.”

The machine that could solve one of the world’s ills is shrouded in mystery. The Times got as far as a door marked “strictly no admittance” through which an animated-looking Frenchman disappeared.

Dr White’s verdict? “I haven’t seen a working device and he has created publicity in a way that is non-traditional to scientific verification.

If it is true and actually works then it will make our scientists think. I know science and Academia, is very strictly controlled, and only ideas from published papers are classed as legitimate.They don’t deal in make believe, even ufos are not recognised. 🙂
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Right then here we go. Brought up in a working class family, Father was Welsh, he came over in the depression. He wanted me too learn welsh language but I decided not too. Glad I wanted too be English in England, and not partly Welsh.
Went too School, didn’t learn much, left school. Started work in a tv and radio shop, went too tech college. Learned how too repair Electrical goods, including tv’s. Left after 5 years and went too work for big tv rental company, repairing tv’s in homes. Very stressfull job, left that and went too work for a division of the same company, that dealt with tv servicing in hotels.That lasted for some time, and I really enjoyed that , hotel staff were great and it was a cushy job.
Then I became a bench engineer working on tv’s, sat receivers and videos. Where I am now is a secret, but it’s good fun. 🙂
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