“I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you”

😀 John:D

And dont call me Shirley 😀

Bex

What I thought was amusing was the amount of Calor Gas cylinders being delivered. Now, these Eco Loonies are protesting about Climate Change, so why arent they erecting wind & solar powered generators to provide for their cooking & heat instead? I wonder how many of them dont have electricity and mains supplied water in their houses? Bet they all do. I wonder if theyve bothered to look at aviation history, and worked out that the early juice drinking jets have either been severely modified to comply with modern regulations or simply scrapped to provide these idiots with drinks cans & razor blades. I wonder if the chap at Manston fancies doing a flyby with his 707 at Stupid O’Clock in the morning before he fits his Hush Kits etc. Hmmm loadsa noise and pungent black smoke, fine sense of humour. 😀

Transporting them there…….. well I saw signs being shown for bodies from Scotland to meet up, how did they get there? Train? Coach? Hmmm loadsa CO & CO2 producers there and I bet a few drove their own cars too.

Paul Dyson mentioned living near airports, ok, fair enough Im biased, but living near Gatwick can be a pain. Depending on the wind direction depends how much noise there is. Yes, large turbofans are bl00dy noisey, especially at 1 or 2 am, but I chose to live here, so I get on with life. I must admit though one thing that does annoy me, is a foggy morning when the fog stinks of aviation fuel, but, theres nothing that can be done about it and Gatwick has been around longer than Ive been alive.

Hmm corking farm animals, great idea, great for the enviroment but……. either well be shot at by farting cows or there will be exploding cattle plastered across the fields. What do we do about the wild animals? Love to see someone try corking a Tiger LoL 😮

FInally, I have a request, having worked very hard transporting people & goods around the country for 15 years and loosing my job through no fault of my own, could we be a tad more specific when describing people on benefits please.

Bex

UPDATE:

Having read Megalith’s post, perhaps I have been a bit judgemental by describing these people as Eco Loonies & Idiots. Having thought about it, in hindsight after typing my above post perhaps I have tarnished the majority of well meaning people with the same brush as the minority whose sole aim is to use anachistic methods to get their own way. FOr this I appollogise.

Bex

Effectively they have got themselves an ATZ befitting the length of the runway

Could someone translate into English please? I no speaky da pilot lingo 😀 Ta Bex

I find it intriguing that these Eco Loonies target BAA. BAA own a chunk of land that AN Other uses for their big noisey smelly aeroplanes (Yum Yum). So why arent they protesting about roads being built? Oh no thats typically Un British isnt it? Also, if they want to see polution at its best, then I suggest they go and have a look at some of the diesel trains knocking around. EG, when I worked on the rails, I started up a diesel loco, and went for a brew & smoke whilst it sorted itself out, within 7 minutes we had the local Fire Brigade with Blues & Twos wailing because they’d been told one of our trains was on fire (the exhaust had obliterated most of depot area and Dover Mainline)

Now, something else springs to mind, J Boyle mentioned the “Old Nuclear Free Zones” have to laugh at that, Lewisham has “Nuclear Free Zone” signs all around it, not on a Thursday it aint, not with a Nuclear Waste train trundling through.

Almost finished now, I wonder if the Eco Loonies expect the human race to sit in their houses and do eff all? Its because of people like them this countrys transport network has gone down the bog and yet they also moan like mad when their trains / buses etc are late.

Finally, Lance, whats wrong with using Kamikaze B747’s and water injected Harriers as a means of crowd control? It might teach them not to mess around with aviation 😀 Hmmm where’s an A10 when ya want one tee hee.

Bex

Not sure, but what I will do, is take my camera next time I see dad and get a shot of it and make a note of the painter. My dad used to run the Combined Cadet Force unit at Whitgift, and if I remember correctly, there was a fiddle and one of the schools Old Boys managed to arrange the Flight for the units 4 yearly Assualt at Arms.

Bex

Stupid Question

Heres a stupid question for you all:

Why is the museum called Second World War Aircraft Preservation Society, when according to the aircraft they have there, the only one that might even be close to WW2 would be the Auster, nowt else there fits in?

Or am I just being blonde again? 😀

Bex

It is still know as a Canberra as it was in the USAF

That is correct, part of the original License agreement between English Electric & Lockheed Martin stipulated that the B57 and varients thereafter must be called Canberra.

Bex

Thank you

Thanks for the heads up all, thoroughly enjoyed the show I wish Id put the subtitles on though, coz the Emmerdale Freak wouldnt shut up all the way through it D’Oh. Bex