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  • in reply to: Halifax NA337 Update #2083649
    dhfan
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    Magnificent job on the Hampden.

    I agree about the Hendon Halifax, but didn’t they say that to restore it would use their entire restoration/maintenance staff and budget for 10 years?

    in reply to: General Discussion #426491
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    Since the thread’s already been hijacked, I shall continue…

    When the EU passes a decree, our idiot Civil Service and government work out how make sure every part of it is enshrined in law.

    It appears here that all the other EU countries work out how to ignore it.

    in reply to: American Aggression. #1992124
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    Since the thread’s already been hijacked, I shall continue…

    When the EU passes a decree, our idiot Civil Service and government work out how make sure every part of it is enshrined in law.

    It appears here that all the other EU countries work out how to ignore it.

    in reply to: General Discussion #426726
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    I was quite proud of this one, taken years ago on my other half’s rubbish Kodak 110 camera. Wish I’d had a decent camera with me.
    Ribblehead viaduct on the Settle & Carlisle, from the train.

    in reply to: Scenic pictures by you. #1992238
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    I was quite proud of this one, taken years ago on my other half’s rubbish Kodak 110 camera. Wish I’d had a decent camera with me.
    Ribblehead viaduct on the Settle & Carlisle, from the train.

    in reply to: General Discussion #426729
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    Contrary to what was said earlier, I think most people in the UK do want out of the EU., and I’m one of them.

    I’m not sure it could be done, let alone would be done.

    We, and I use the term loosely, would be perfectly happy with what we voted for in the first place, nothing more, which is a common market, then called the Common Market.

    That is all we have ever been given the opportunity to vote on, I suspect because all politicians know they would never have got a yes vote for anything that’s happened since then.

    in reply to: American Aggression. #1992242
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    Contrary to what was said earlier, I think most people in the UK do want out of the EU., and I’m one of them.

    I’m not sure it could be done, let alone would be done.

    We, and I use the term loosely, would be perfectly happy with what we voted for in the first place, nothing more, which is a common market, then called the Common Market.

    That is all we have ever been given the opportunity to vote on, I suspect because all politicians know they would never have got a yes vote for anything that’s happened since then.

    in reply to: Units that used Cottam Airfield, Yorks in 1940? #2083818
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    As you say, never used on ops.
    Following from Action Stations 4, (smart-a**e, got ’em all!), but severely abbreviated.
    Opened as satellite for Driffield 09/39.
    Despite poor road access and odd wind effects developed as bomber station for 4 Group. Usual 3 concrete runways, peri track, hardstandings completed 09/40.
    Rejected as unsuitable due to adverse weather conditions caused by position close to N York Moors.
    No record of any flying unit based there.
    03/44 B24 made forced landing.
    91MU bomb dump then abandoned.
    Being cleared early 80s so assume nothing at all left now.

    Not very far away, just south of York a different location problem arose at Acaster Malbis. Built on the bank of the River Ouse. Permanently soggy and nearly as often fog-bound.

    Gross stupidity isn’t a modern invention.

    in reply to: Icon Outside #2083823
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    Much as I hate official interference in private/personal property, the Swift is an example of where it’s needed.
    If it was a building or a tree, the council could list it, slap a preservation order or similar on it.
    BAPC got any clout?

    in reply to: Icon Outside #2083930
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    I think you’d have great trouble prising the Beverley away from the Museum of Army Transport. Apart from being built just down the road, the fact that it’s in Beverley might have something to do with it.

    As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Vulcan at Cosford is a disgrace.

    dhfan
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    Could be worth trying BBC Look North. It’s the local Beeb for this area, based in Leeds, and they seem fairly human.

    This could be a start:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/

    Good luck

    in reply to: General Discussion #427398
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    Is TTP Senator McCarthy reincarnated?

    Tunnel visiom, anything America does is always right, anybody who disagrees is a commie…

    in reply to: Where are the WMD? #1992627
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    Is TTP Senator McCarthy reincarnated?

    Tunnel visiom, anything America does is always right, anybody who disagrees is a commie…

    in reply to: Digital over 35mm – any good? #2084118
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    Don’t know how my last post got in there twice, driver error presumably.

    Thanks for info, Snapper. My late Dad bought me the lens so, daft or not, I wouldn’t get rid of it.
    Handy, I see they’ve moved as well, just round the corner from my sister.

    in reply to: Stirling LK488 #2084136
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    They found one at the bottom of the Solent a few years ago.
    Article was in Aeroplane Monthly and Roy Conyers Nesbit wrote the blurb, I think.
    Apart from the fact that the Solent’s too busy to do much, ferocious tides had ground the top of it away, upper surface of wings as well. Would have been a good start but totally impractical I gather.

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