All these different threads, all this disorder……. Blue Robin will be dusting off his thread merging mallet after a year of slumber.

Tim, please tell me you haven’t just dug up the coffin of a pet budgie named Merlin……

David, so do I. I’ve received a letter from the lawyers of a national newspaper regarding content posted on a forum I administer. Nobody got banned, nobody got upset and it was wrapped up very quickly with all sides happy.

Key Publishing does have the option of telling the organisation that in the interests of their readers who are members they’ll give both sides a say and publish the findings in Flypast. It would be a useful bargaining chip. If the organisation has nothing to hide, why not take the opportunity to quash any misinformation that’s out there?

An organisation acting like this to prevent the discussion of information that’s already in the public domain encourages people to doubt their motives for getting heavy-handed.

I’m very disappointed that the management at Key Publishing didn’t support the people they chose to ban.

” that you haver mastered ”

It’s spelt haven’t and neither have you. Perhaps the forum could implement an auto spell checker with it’s next update?

Since the intransitive verb “haver” has been around since at least 1866 an auto spell check wouldn’t be the best way of identifying this typo. Or were you just stooping from your lofty pedestal to have a pop?

Perhaps your time would have been better spent learning about the apostrophe?

It’s good to see aviation themed films getting made, but I wish the film industry didn’t do such a poor job of it. Flyboys was the last cringingly bad new aviation I saw. They went to the trouble to study the physics of a Jungmann’s flight and then threw all that realism away when they substituted the usual x-wing fighter flight physics and inexhaustable ammo scenario that they appear to have used in Red Tails.

Went to London, saw a boat.

Cutty_Sark_7420 by shuttleworthpix, on Flickr