RE: The Big Question……..

Weisse aus Juterbog – R. petraeum.
Origin Juterbog (D), 1890s. Bush slow growing, upright, sunburns easily. Not productive, few berries on short strigs, not adapted to California.

Juterbog? Is this some sneaky attempt to turn this perfectly useless thread into an aviation-related piece of literature?

Don’t mind the raisins in a cake, with or without the legs. They add some variety to the substance, and possibly leave some parts (their jaws?) between your teeth so you can pick for at least an hour.

RE: Mystery Spanish Jet

There is some difference between the Yak-36 and the Saeta’s intake. The Freehand has the splitter plate directly at the leading edge, whereas the Saeta’s splitter plate is a bit further aft, inside the intake duct. The Saeta is a typical trainer of it’s day (1955) anyway, as it is one of three succesful trainertypes powered by two Turbomeca Marbore engines (the other one being the CM170 and the T-37, the last of course under license produced as J-69).

The Yak-36 made it’s first flight in 1963, so i think this should be considered a different category. Before people start thinking the Russians stole something again, i’d like to remind you to the intake of the MiG-9…

Anyway, no Saetas ever flew with the German air force as they used CM170s as jet trainers (when they still HAD jet trainers 😛 ). The German flag on that Saeta is probably because it’s the one flying in Germany with the Messerschmidt Stiftung (=foundation) as D-IWMS.

RE: monarchys

>The queen in the Netherlands is official Head of state, the
>country and is the head of te Staten Generaal (the senate
>and the House of Representatives comined). but the Prime
>minister is the real boss in our country and our Queen has
>to sign all law who are presented to her.

But who do you think has the biggest finger in the porridge (hey, let’s all translate our most silly proverbs and sayings into English!) in who gets to be Prime Minister? It’s the Queen. She decides who gets to form a new governmental coalition after elections, and hence almost automatically gets to decide who is to be the next PM. It’s not always the first one on the list of the biggest party – just look at the 1977 elections, when the Social Democrats (PvdA) won the elections massively but when the country ended up with a conservative (CDA-VVD) coalition. Prime responsible was Van Agt in the CDA, but the queen hardly did anything (meaning: appoint a willing ‘formateur’) to get the most logical PvdA-CDA coalition off the ground.

>She can not refuse
>to sign the laws (presented to her – A) becouse the laws are made by >the Representatives of
>the people.

Yes she can. It’s the Geheim van Noordeinde – hasn’t ever happened since WW2 but it is a possibility.

>If you look it that way she has little power…

The power she has is rather big, and definately too big as a mere reward of being born in the right crib.

>… but officialy she is our Head of state and she is not only
>cutting ribbons and that kind of stuff.

Unfortunately not. I’d like her to have a nice SYMBOLICAL role, and stay out of politics. You can’t be born to rule in a democracy.

>I must say I like this system and I do not want a president
>that change every 4 years. It is nice to know who’s next. In
>our case its Prins Willem Alexander and his beautiful wife
>(trust me she is) Prinses Maxima!

Maxima is NOT beautiful (poor skin, and a bit saggy already), she’s nice at best although she has a nice smile. I followed the couple last year for a whole day with a camera, so i think i can tell from a not-RVD perspective 🙂 . From the presentations those two were given that day (during their acquaintance-visit to Limburg) i can’t really say WimLex is really looking forward to his job either although he had been trained pretty well to hide his boredom.

En Maxima draagt grote Hema-onderbroken. Het scheen een beetje door 😀

RE: monarchys

The Dutch queen (or king, which is in the line of expectations) officially also have a small role in the government. Unofficially, the role is rather big. And secretly, it was the former queen’s husband (Prince Bernhard) which got the Netherlands out of New Guinee, the Uzi, the F-5, the F-104 and the P-3C…

RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!

Garry, the QWERTY keyboard was designed to have letters which are used a lot next to each other as far apart as possible on the keyboard. This was indeed ment to avoid jamming when to ‘stamps’ positioned next to each other were launched at the paper at very close intervals.

The first operational electric chair was in fact invented by a dentist. Alfred P. Southwick built was his name-o, and it was used effectively (=terminally) on axekiller William Kelmer on Augustus 6, 1860.

Even more useless: the most expensive coffee around, Kopi Luak, is made by coffeebeans which are eaten, digested and excremented by some sort of mongoose-like marsupial called paradoxurus.

An average toilet visit consumes 8,6 sheets of toilet paper. An average person uses 20805 sheets a year.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark for a longer period of time, it will turn white.

Hey, i do this for a living (well, a part of my job actually is compilinge useless factsheets).

Hmmm… depends on my conscience…

If i could ignore my conscience for the last hours… nah, let’s not go there. I’m much too friendly for stuff like that.

But still…

RE: My First Solo

Congratulations!

Is this… Spinal Tap?

Nigel:
“The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board. Eleven, eleven, eleven.”
Interviewer:
“Oh, I see, and mostly, the amps go up to ten?”
N:“Exactly.”
I:“Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?”
N:“Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it?”
I:“One louder… Why don’t you just make ten louder, and make ten be the top number, and make that a little louder?”
N:“These go to eleven.”

Sorry… couldn’t help after seeing those pics. Perhaps any thought about Rammstein’s guitar duo Richard Kruspe and Paul Landers? I know all they do is bash power chords, but on a burning guitar it has a nice twist }>