The copy of his purchase receipt is now online. It is for ‘display spitfire blades’ and dated 1991 from a company called Aviation antiques. It was seeming THEY who got the blades from christies.

Well, I sent a message…. lets see what crap he comes back with. Looks more like a homebuild prop to me…

Indeed ‘theory heavy’ is a nightmare! I know – I teach it! I did my trade training with the RAF – almost an apprenticeship (although the proper apprentices would laugh at that).

The modern part 147 EASA driven stuff is completely wrong – too much emphasis on passing exams and not enough learning how to wire-lock-without-bleeding. Thats why my students are spending the next 3 months doing a C-check on an airliner….

I chuckle everytime some says ‘we must provide apprenticships’.

Who’s gong to pay for them? Industry won’t. The cost would be too high for students to pay for their own. Which leaved established colleges. Only its not an apprenticeship if you go to a college to do it!

Oh and by the way, the qualifications which you get as an apprentice in the aviation industry – the C&G / NVQ level 2s and 3s are binned this year. The are being replaced with a two year diploma-style course…. ie. theory-heavy college course.

http://www.cityandguilds.com/62528.html

Ms Lumley is dead right though!

Application Type
CAA PERMIT ISSUE

Received Date
05/01/2011

Expected Date of Processing
10/03/2011

Good luck…

Similar scene…. similar time period

Source please.

The NEO’s I can find in 2009 were all less than 10 metres wide. That would give us a Fireball and a big shock wave but no ELE.

My drunken apologies. It was 2002, spotted DAYS before it passed and On soberly reading, it was not extinction level, but would still ruin your haircut. Estimated up to 120m wide. The report I read last night claimed it was bigger than a football pitch. This one seems a bit more reliable….

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news128.html

Here’s a short list of NEOs expected until June….
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

Nothing REALLY big or REALLY close spotted so far……
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/neo_ca?type=NEO&hmax=14&sort=date&sdir=ASC&tlim=future&dmax=0.1AU&max_rows=0&action=Display+Table&show=1

These ones are all close (within 5 lunar distances) and around 670 m (H18)- 5km (H15.5)
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/neo_ca?type=NEO&hmax=18&sort=date&sdir=ASC&tlim=future&dmax=5LD&max_rows=0&action=Display+Table&show=1

I can see clear camoflage lines in the pictures in posts 1 and 3. I see no reason to suspect they were a single colour.

Post #1: look at the fin/rudder.

post #3 close up: runs through the ‘f’ in ‘unsafe’, also another on the wing