My bloody stop watch! Several months ago I lost my half decent stop watch so I bought a cheap one to replace it. Today, despite the humidity, I decided to do my first timed mile, I pushed myself quite hard, was sweating like a good ‘un and when I checked my time it showed 3.47 seconds.
:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I’m off out to buy a new stop watch this afternoon…!

Update, http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=89747&page=33 🙂

Today I managed a 1.4 mile run into nearby Tidworth, turned around and walked 3 quarters of a mile back towards home and then did a timed mile back to the edge of Shipton Bellinger.
I know there are plenty of people who do much more than this on a daily basis but if anybody knows how little I used to think of running over the last 20 years of my life then this is an outstanding achievement! 😎
My goal now is to do this 3 times a week and hopefully have much improved times by the end of the year and be entering 5k on to 10k runs into next year.

Do these count? Fireflies operated by Defence Elementary Flying Training School, this one at Middle Wallop.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Babcock-Support-Services/Slingsby-T-67M-Firefly/0776852/L/&sid=6171285f41a87264022bc2f27845bd55

My bloody stop watch! Several months ago I lost my half decent stop watch so I bought a cheap one to replace it. Today, despite the humidity, I decided to do my first timed mile, I pushed myself quite hard, was sweating like a good ‘un and when I checked my time it showed 3.47 seconds.
:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I’m off out to buy a new stop watch this afternoon…!

In my neighbourhood

8 miles away from me on the A344 at Stonehenge are two memorials. The first is to Major A.W. Hewetson, who died when his plane crashed very close to the site of the memorial. The inscription reads ‘In memory of Major Alexander William Hewetson 66th battery Royal Field Artillery who was killed whilst flying on the 17th July 1913 near this spot’. The second is 1km to the west at Airman’s cross and is inscribed ‘To the memory of Captain Loraine and Staff-Sergeant Wilson who whilst flying on duty, met with a fatal accident near this spot on July 5th 1912 Erected by their comrades’.
I imagine there were quite a few casualties in this area with the first military aeroplane trials taking place at Larkhill in August 1912, only 1 mile north of Stonehenge.

Cracking pics, but the MR.4 just looks wrong.
But then Comet fans probably said the same about the Nimrod in the late 1960s!

I agree, those oval air intakes look completely wrong!

What are the yellow (red?) and blue stripes either side of the fuselage roundel on the Chipmunk?