I last used radioactive isotopes at work 28 years ago; my wife still uses them today; the topic is a real issue that requires sensible and considered debate.

Unfortunately, the likelihood of that happening without somebody going RADIOACTIVITY! AAAAARGH! is low – someone down the scale will always cause an upset.

After all, your instrument is radioactive just like Chernobyl or nuclear fallout. Or that seems to be what people who jump up and down screaming about it think. Oh, and newspapers…

Adrian

😮 Madder than a box of frogs. :rolleyes:

That sane? You jest, dear boy!

On the bright side, it is blindingly obvious from the inchoate ranting that he is a basketcase. Should put anyone with a mite of sense onto the right lines, just the idiots like him we have to worry about…

Adrian

Ah, sounds like someone anagrammed Aus to get USA!

Long may the Belslow be slow! Used to love watching them lumber in to Stansted!

Adrian
(HOW many elephants? Blimey, thank goodness I don’t have to clean up after those!)

JDK
Looking at the first two replies, which mirror my own thoughts, why have more people not heard of Wing Commander Warburton?

Much time spent in a lesser known theatre of war, perhaps? Bader fought in the Battle of Britain, Gibson was a Dambuster – Malta, by comparison, is a bit of a sideshow in the eyes of many who should know better.

The school playing field is named for Bader – though if James Holland’s account in “Fortress Malta” is correct, he probably spent far more time on the sports field than Warburton!

Adrian

How long, one wonders, before we can have a three-ship of Pups?
(and three reserved lavs for the pilots when the lubricant hits…)

Great news, except for the castor oil!

Adrian

In the last three or four years (too vague to search the archive for, I suspect) New Scientist magazine ran an article on a modern sleeve-valve engine being developed.

IIRC the major problem with their earlier incarnations was that the sleeve needed constant lubrication along its whole length, and so they burnt a lot of oil. However modern technology could overcome this…

Anyone got a stack of old New Sci to hand?

Adrian

P.S. Illustrated with a fetching piccy of a Tempest too!

Something went wrong and the engine was damaged.
Martti

Looks like the understatement of the year, chaps! 😮

Adrian

Probably showing my ignorance here… but the strange half-leg padded overall affairs look most odd. I THINK, looking at the one on the chap on the right, that it has a sort of padded (?) head-support, so I wonder if they might be modelling an early survival suit – a sort of whole-body lifebelt?. It certainly doesn’t look practical over uniform like that, I’d have expected some sort of flying kit if they were actually using the outfits.

I wonder if it is a new piece of kit, and they are larking about as it looks so odd? I await a definitive reply with interest!

Adrian