You didn’t have Outlook Express running at the time did you? It’s the only thing I can think of offhand.

I’ve installed and uninstalled Thunderbird a couple of times but I’m too idle to bother setting it up.

I use Mailwasher http://www.mailwasher.net/ which is wonderful. It means you see what emails have arrived on the server and can delete the spam before it gets to your computer.

My empathy gets smaller every year… 😉 Dress properly, use the right type of tires, try to enjoy the snow and curse the slush, especially when it’s frozen.

Fortunately it doesn’t happen here every year but that’s the problem. If we bought snow tyres it’s a fair bet they’d be perished before we needed them and then it would only be for a couple of days. If you KNOW it’s going to snow heavily for a few months every year it’s relatively simple to make suitable plans. Here it’s more like a few days, or even hours, every 5 years or so. Not so easy to anticipate.

It snowed heavily here (Chesterfield) during the morning. It had all gone by 3 pm.

The thread was started with a mention of the Libellula. The M.20? (can’t be bothered to go and look it up) had very impressive performance, almost on a par with the Hurricane IIRC, but as fighter production was adequate it was never needed.
The last one the designer must have been on an illegal substance. I have read about it but can’t remember now what the reasoning was – or if it made sense.

It was insinuated that one of the engineers at Muroc invented the flying tailplane. IIRC, it was a feature of the M.52.

I did watch the entire programme, gently simmering throughout.

That reminds me…

Mark, I looked at your masterpiece in the Red Lion last week, not in very good light admittedly, and had the impression the colours had faded a bit.

Possible, or my ancient eyeballs?

Speaking pedantically, I think the only ones mentioned above that entered service and became RAF aircraft are the two Ronnie “complained” about. I know the Messenger did but there’s nothing particularly strange about it.

The Airspeed and GAL eyesores were both for the Fleet Air Arm I believe.

The best laid plans…

We set off early afternoon but the car had other plans. After about 20 miles it started vibrating alarmingly at speed. With another 180 miles of the round trip to go, nearly all of it on the A1, it seemed wise to return home – slowly.

Really sorry we didn’t manage to get there.

In one of Eric Brown’s books, which I can’t lay my hands on immediately, I’m certain he says there was an arrangement to blow the whole rear prop off in an emergency.