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October 6, 2002 at 6:21 pm in reply to: What do you work as? #1980352

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RE: What do you work as?

Coanda

I thought it also stood for Fix It Again Tommorrow ?

Bit like Found On Road Dead…or Fix Or Repair Daily

God knows what Lamborghini stands for ?!?!?!?!

cheers

Gary

October 6, 2002 at 6:13 pm in reply to: General Discussion #409317

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RE: What other hobbies do you guys / gals have ?

Cheers guys.

Gimme a couple of days to find the book (I have the transcript in front of me at the moment) and I’ll scan in a few pages and send ’em to you both. Wont do it just at this moment cos the C*rlsb*rg is getting the better of me…tastes infinatly better than the water and its also cold !!!…and its getting late here so apologies for any typos !!.

Kev…if you could find out if details of the guy, it’d be bladdy brill (and I’ll bear in mind your request). I understand that there is a sort of who’se who type of library for the Army at Aldershot (which is only about forty miles from my home in the UK) but I didn’t get the chance to visit before moving out here.

As I say, check your e-mails in the next few days.

Cheers

Gary

October 6, 2002 at 6:13 pm in reply to: What other hobbies do you guys / gals have ? #1980353

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RE: What other hobbies do you guys / gals have ?

Cheers guys.

Gimme a couple of days to find the book (I have the transcript in front of me at the moment) and I’ll scan in a few pages and send ’em to you both. Wont do it just at this moment cos the C*rlsb*rg is getting the better of me…tastes infinatly better than the water and its also cold !!!…and its getting late here so apologies for any typos !!.

Kev…if you could find out if details of the guy, it’d be bladdy brill (and I’ll bear in mind your request). I understand that there is a sort of who’se who type of library for the Army at Aldershot (which is only about forty miles from my home in the UK) but I didn’t get the chance to visit before moving out here.

As I say, check your e-mails in the next few days.

Cheers

Gary

October 6, 2002 at 10:11 am in reply to: General Discussion #409365

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RE: What other hobbies do you guys / gals have ?

Key Kev

WW1 as well ?.

a few years ago at a car boot sale in Exeter, my parents brought me an old Shell Aviation Petrol can and the guys who sold asked if I was interested in avaition cos he had an old log book and flying helmet I could have. Naturally dad said yes so next weekend went along and sure enought the guy had the stuff and gave them to dad gratis.

Flying logbook my a***e.

Its a Field Message book used for taking signals and such like and the helmet I beleive is a dispatch riders cloth helmet (complete with leather ear cups and a neck extension). Both items have the owners name clearly printed and the message book has a draft letter to the owners sweetheart / wife dated two days after Armistice !!!.He did scribble over it to make almost unreadable but I have managed to get around 70% of the letter made out. There are dates for rugby matches between various units, parade details, personnel who are good at carpentry, regimental numbers and names all clearly laid out in this book.

There are numerous events and the dates are all very very shortly after the end of the war. Bloody intereting reading it is.

I would like to find out one day who this guy who owned it originally is and what unit / regiment he served in and if it still exists today. If it does then I am hoping that they would have a museum or such like that I could loan the items to rather me having them in a cardboard box.

If you are interested, I’ll e-mail you the transcript of the letter.

October 6, 2002 at 10:11 am in reply to: What other hobbies do you guys / gals have ? #1980411

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RE: What other hobbies do you guys / gals have ?

Key Kev

WW1 as well ?.

a few years ago at a car boot sale in Exeter, my parents brought me an old Shell Aviation Petrol can and the guys who sold asked if I was interested in avaition cos he had an old log book and flying helmet I could have. Naturally dad said yes so next weekend went along and sure enought the guy had the stuff and gave them to dad gratis.

Flying logbook my a***e.

Its a Field Message book used for taking signals and such like and the helmet I beleive is a dispatch riders cloth helmet (complete with leather ear cups and a neck extension). Both items have the owners name clearly printed and the message book has a draft letter to the owners sweetheart / wife dated two days after Armistice !!!.He did scribble over it to make almost unreadable but I have managed to get around 70% of the letter made out. There are dates for rugby matches between various units, parade details, personnel who are good at carpentry, regimental numbers and names all clearly laid out in this book.

There are numerous events and the dates are all very very shortly after the end of the war. Bloody intereting reading it is.

I would like to find out one day who this guy who owned it originally is and what unit / regiment he served in and if it still exists today. If it does then I am hoping that they would have a museum or such like that I could loan the items to rather me having them in a cardboard box.

If you are interested, I’ll e-mail you the transcript of the letter.

October 6, 2002 at 9:36 am in reply to: Home build G-MJZP #2104779

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RE: Home build G-MJZP

And straight from Flypast :- MBA Tiger Cub 440 G-MJSU has become the latest exhibit at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum. The biplane microlight arrived at the museum’s Flixton home from Swanton Morley, Norfolk, on August 8.

cheers

Gary

October 5, 2002 at 5:11 pm in reply to: General Discussion #409487

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RE: What other hobbies do you guys / gals have ?

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 05-10-02 AT 05:13 PM (GMT)]Quite a varied lot out there aint we ? Lots into sport and music (I could only ever polay the Kazoo properly and I dont like any sport that has anything to with a ball of any shape size or colour…gimme summat wiv an engine anyday.

Kelly

Youd better not come out here then !.

Lets see…riding stables two clicks away…beach two clicks away (actually there are five seperate beaches)…sunbathing hmmmm thats a hard one, havent had any rain out here since mid March I kid not…shopping, Limassol sea front is 15 klicks long…the sea temp today was a steady 23 ( I know cos I was in a few times today whilst teaching on a Safety Boat course) and the average vis is around 30 Metres

I’ll shut up there in case no one ever speaks to me again !

Cheers

Gary

October 5, 2002 at 5:11 pm in reply to: What other hobbies do you guys / gals have ? #1980456

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RE: What other hobbies do you guys / gals have ?

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 05-10-02 AT 05:13 PM (GMT)]Quite a varied lot out there aint we ? Lots into sport and music (I could only ever polay the Kazoo properly and I dont like any sport that has anything to with a ball of any shape size or colour…gimme summat wiv an engine anyday.

Kelly

Youd better not come out here then !.

Lets see…riding stables two clicks away…beach two clicks away (actually there are five seperate beaches)…sunbathing hmmmm thats a hard one, havent had any rain out here since mid March I kid not…shopping, Limassol sea front is 15 klicks long…the sea temp today was a steady 23 ( I know cos I was in a few times today whilst teaching on a Safety Boat course) and the average vis is around 30 Metres

I’ll shut up there in case no one ever speaks to me again !

Cheers

Gary

October 4, 2002 at 7:10 pm in reply to: General Discussion #409822

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RE: A new signature

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-10-02 AT 07:11 PM (GMT)]Gulp

Does this mean we all gotta put our piccies on the net ??

B52’s…I trust you’ve read such books as ‘Flight of the Old dog’ by
Dale Brown etc… and did you know that there is a version of the ‘Old dog’ available for FS2002 flight simmers ??

(Bleeding marvellous innit, there I am in the library today looking for that very same book and could I think of the author ? not on your nelly !!!)

cheers

Gary

October 4, 2002 at 7:10 pm in reply to: A new signature #1980608

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RE: A new signature

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-10-02 AT 07:11 PM (GMT)]Gulp

Does this mean we all gotta put our piccies on the net ??

B52’s…I trust you’ve read such books as ‘Flight of the Old dog’ by
Dale Brown etc… and did you know that there is a version of the ‘Old dog’ available for FS2002 flight simmers ??

(Bleeding marvellous innit, there I am in the library today looking for that very same book and could I think of the author ? not on your nelly !!!)

cheers

Gary

October 4, 2002 at 7:01 pm in reply to: General Discussion #409824

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RE: Funny pictures

must be summat about American Presidents…

cheers

Gary
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October 4, 2002 at 7:01 pm in reply to: Funny pictures #1980611

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RE: Funny pictures

must be summat about American Presidents…

cheers

Gary
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October 4, 2002 at 6:42 pm in reply to: General Discussion #409829

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RE: This was rated Worlds Best Joke Of The Year.

Good one mate

Got a cracker as well but dont know wether to print it or not…no swear words but for anyone with a vivid imagination….

cheers

Gary

October 4, 2002 at 6:42 pm in reply to: This was rated Worlds Best Joke Of The Year. #1980620

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RE: This was rated Worlds Best Joke Of The Year.

Good one mate

Got a cracker as well but dont know wether to print it or not…no swear words but for anyone with a vivid imagination….

cheers

Gary

October 4, 2002 at 6:31 pm in reply to: Another one for Uncle Keith – Pitch & Torque? #2105034

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RE: Another one for Uncle Keith – Pitch & Torque?

Neilly

Not too uptodate on model props but I am a Safety Boat Cox out here for one of the Island clubs and we have a newish (okay we’ve had it about eight months) Rib…bit like the RNLI use…you know a boat with a huge inflatable ring round most of it). On it backside is a 100HP fourstroke that was originally fitted with a 19″ pitch prop (on boats a 19″ pitch prop will move forward…less slippage…19 inches for one revolution) and this used to give us a top whack of around 32 MPH. One day it got totalled by a tyro so we experimented with a 21″ pitch prop. initial pick up once we firewalled the loud lever was marginally slower but the top end increase to 43 MPH was pretty spectacular. Interestingly, max revs dropped to around 5500 with the 21 but could exceed 6750 with the smaller pitch prop so we had to introduce a rev limit so as not to wreck the outboard. The pickup with the smaller prop was a damn site faster than with the bigger one right across the rev range and the engine , while not ‘bogging down’ with the 21, ‘felt’ as though some of its getup and go had got up and gone and was noticeably slower with the same amount of persons onboard at the same revs.

Dont know if the above is any use, but thought I’d pass it on anyways.

Cheers

Gary
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