It must have been a thrill for them, and a bit strange at the same time. Many thanks for posting…

What if he says no?

I feel sympathy for her family, for all the hurt and pain she has caused them along the way, but the reality is she was simply an awful role model for many thousands of the ‘poor me’ generation who venerated her…

I’ve seen a mainly white C130 parked at EGPE for the last few weeks – last time I saw one similar was at Incirlik AFB, when I knew the pilot as ‘CIA Bob’…

Blues singers are supposed to have suffered for their craft, but she took it to extremes. No great loss…

Hopefully the poor old guy will have now made his last landing…

It is pathetic – and not very conducive to safety – that TAF’s and METAR’s are still written in this incomprehensible short-hand, which has its roots in the low data bandwidth of the telegraph and telex technology in use when it originated.

I see no technical reason for not using plain, English language nowadays, and it would be much safer too.

If you are an aviator, it’s only unsafe if you are so unprofessional, or so stupid, that you don’t know the codes.
They are carefully designed to be short and precise, and fit for purpose, which usually includes aircrew walking around with a few sheets of paper in their metpack, and not weighed down by War and Peace…

I spoke to a wind turbine engineer who was helping to install one on the edge of RAF Kinloss – he told me the turbine would have a life expectancy of twenty years, but it would be fifteen years before it started to make a profit.
I’m convinced it’s all a huge scam, between the turbine manufacturers and landowners, who get tax-payers money in the form of grants for having them on their land…