Unfortunately, common sense seems to be in extremely short supply these days.

I did a tour of Sizewell ‘B’ nuclear power station just after it was completed around 20 years ago. They had a demonstration of radio-activity with a geiger counter and three items to test it on. One I can’t remember, two was a luminous watch and three was a gas mantle. I have no idea now what the result was on the forgotten item, the watch had a little effect and the meter went crazy on the gas mantle.

Although agreeing to a degree with employers and organisations taking responsibility for Health and Safety, before I expound any more, can somebody confirm whether it was a European decree that triggered the H&SE?

I suppose on the basis that if you throw enough time and money at it, anything’s restorable – yes, but I’m not convinced it’s practical.

Look here http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=35597 at some pics Steve Hatton took the end of last year with a good cockpit shot. There’s a link in that thread to another with pics Steve Young took 18 months ago.

This ex-aeroplane is seriously unwell.

It’s nothing to do with XP, (me – defending Microsoft, I need to lie down!), AMD or motherboards.

Hard drive manufacturers state the size of their drives based on 80 Gb = 80,000,000,000 bytes. They don’t. 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes. 80 Gb is 85,899,345,920 bytes. That’s where your nearly 6 Gb has gone, it was never there in the first place.

I have no idea if they use temporary volunteers but the Helicopter Museum at Weston-super-Mare sounds an ideal place to ask.

You may end up with a West Country English accent which would confuse people. 🙂

It’s available on DVD here apparently http://www.musicweb.uk.net/film/2002/Nov02/first_of_the_few.html
but I don’t know about other versions.

That’s what I thought but I wasn’t sure. I was certain somebody that knew would turn up sooner or later. 🙂

I think you’ll find the “BAC 188” is actually a Bristol 188, the only pure jet aircraft Bristol ever built.

Humble Pie is entirely unnecessary, award yourself a beer instead. 😀