Haven’t found anything like that yet :confused:

I have been looking at the Nuvi on various websites but none have said anything about them showing height/weight restrictions or having the ability to download them. :confused:

HIP……..

Mi-8MT/Mi-17 – ASCC (or whatever they are now…??) reporting name Hip.

The Hind is the Mi-24 gunship.

The ETPS helicopters are Mi-8MT (or Mi-17) Hips – transport helicopters (albeit once the most heavily armed helicopter in the world :eek:)

Ken

PS – Stop editing your post while I am typing a reply !!!!!!!!

Sorry, I’d made a boo boo. 😮

I never realised it was every night – but yes, very moving at the time and even if I recall it now it makes me stop on my tracks. I was 15 at the time, at the bratty age (no Nintendo in those days but was still “that age”) and it made a lasting impression, we did a 5 day stay and tour as part of “O” level history.

In 1996 and 1997 I went on a WW1 battlefields day trip whilst in the sixth form to The Somme and seeing the many thousands of graves, the preserved battlefields and the Lochnagar Crater certainly left a lasting impression on me. What the soldiers serving on both sides went through in the trenches leaves me filled with such admiration for the courage they must have had!

No disrespect to the men who served in WW1, however I really wonder what they struggled for. Its easy to go along with “they did it for King and Country” but I can’t but wonder if its as simple as that.

With the benefit of hindsight it seems like a power struggle between Brittian and Germany. A power struggle not between the little men (The Diggers) but between the industralists and it seems to me that the little men paid a huge price.

Further it seems like the powers-that-were after WW1 laid the seeds to WW2.

I remember with pride the gallant efforts of the little men, I remember with distain the industralists in whose interests WW1 was fought.

For me, its not enough to know “what was done” I also want to know “Why it was done”

Interested to hear other peoples thoughts

cheers

I was watching a video only minutes ago and it talks about the build up to WW2 being caused by Germanys dire financial position caused by WW1. Adolf Hitler decided the best way to bring money into the German economy to pay off these debts was to expand into other countries and use theirs!

Did anybody watch the parade in London at the Cenotaph shown on BBC1 and see the Air Cadets marching?
I felt so proud as an ATC instructor until I saw one of them was wearing an old issue v neck jumper when everybody else in the squad was wearing round neck! 😡

I was speechless, later on that day I was with my squadron at a local parade and when I mentioned this to one of our RAF helpers he couldn’t believe it either.

Sam where do you live? Are you near any airports? Sorry where is Kingston?

If you live near an airport then you should be ok with it, but you are more than likely going to get get 1 way conversation, i.e. the aircraft talking to Air Traffic rather than the other way around. The reason being is line of sight radio waves.
You will also be able to pick up aircraft in the airways above provided you are within range and you know the frequencies.

As far as listening to ATC it is highly illegal, so I am in no way advocating the use of airband scanners to pick up ATC broadcast 😉

I thought listening was ok it was the interfering with the airwaves that was illegal?

A couple of days ago whilst out driving I heard a song on Radio 2, And Jesus Wept by Reg Meuross. It is a very powerful song about Private Harry Farr, a man shot for cowardice on the Western front after losing the will to fight after several years in the trenches.
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About Harry Farr,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Farr