apologies for that – Its very easy to forget that its only a select group that cause problems for all (seems to always be the case!) Mainly i was copying the title from the news

Perhaps a little edit is in order? – Small group ruins it for the rest of them

Quite – But burning a symbol such as poppy is hardly peaceful… lol

As a boredom exercise, I fitted an Airfix B29 with four cheap electric can motors, hooked them up to a long cable that ran out of the tail turret, and into a pair of scalextric controllers. One controller was throttles for the left engines, the other for the right engines.

The wheels were fitted with metal axles in a little brass sleeve, and the nose gear was transformed into some castoring monstrosity that vaguely resembled the B29’s original nose gear if you looked at it from half a mile away through the bottom of a jam jar.

It would taxi on a smooth floor, and would steer quite well, gaining lots of interest from the cat. It surprised me as I didn’t think the props would pull it, but they did!

After getting bored of renacting the last few ‘pre-fire’ minutes of the Kee Bird, I laid a load of books out as a rough runway in the hallway, lined her up and let rip at full throttle.

The speed was good but it failed to rotate, and I hadn’t thought about brakes (there were none.) Not that stopping was much of a problem as when the nose gear went off the end of the books, the quarter inch of clearance on the wildly spinning props was reduced to negative 1/4 inch and 16 blades went flying.

The motors screeched their last moments in agony at no load, tripping the electric in the house as they did (thanks Scalextric… :rolleyes: ) the cat decided being shot at by little pieces of plastic wasn’t so amusing, and the B-29 wiped its gear out as its own momentum took it fully off the end of the books and slammed it into the radiator in the dining room.

Lessons learned:

1. Don’t attempt indoor flight in a small hallway.
2. You can’t fly with the control locks in.
3. B29 props are fragile and sting when they hit you.
4. I think it needs more power.

I have just bought another Airfix B29.

😀

This, I love

YOU EPIC EPIC NORTHERNER

:D:diablo:

I wonder if you took anything at all from my last post apart from a few select phrases to make yourself look superior?

Come and have a go at my job, I wonder how you would last.

Best Regards

Ben

Im not going to get drawn into an argument over this arthur, I might ask what you do for a living?

If, like my job, it involves dealing with people like this on a daily basis im sure your opinion of what to do with these people might change.

I work in Thames Valley Police Control room – I take 999 calls, General Public calls and I work on the Radio’s to police units dealing with incidents.

I deal with people on a daily basis that even Jeremy Kyle would reject.

Take the saturday of halloween weekend – In oxford alone there were 4 rapes, 2 armed robberies, 3 stabbings (one involved 8 puncture wounds to the front and 6 to the rear)

That stabbing was over a man in the street not giving another man a ciggarette – So he got stabbed.

If you could come and sit in the police control room and listen to what the people in there deal with every minute of the day, your opinions (as I have already said) might possibly change – The reaction of most new starters is either – 1) This isnt real, Or 2) My god…

Before you go on at me and what I am personally like, I have only hit someone once In my whole life – I was 16 and completely out of it, I swung at a bully that had been tormenting me since I was 11. It was Just and at the same time stupid – I suffered 4 broken ribs, 3 cracked ribs, a broken wrist, 6 stitches in my eyebrow, both lips split and a sever concussion.

You can ask any of the people in here that know me, I havent a nasty or violent bone in my body…

But its easy to make judgements of people over the internet, isnt it?

Whatever you say! Stealing Poppy collection boxes shows a COMPLETE lack of respect for the country, the vets and all of those who have fought for their freedom.

I work with people like this day in and day out, the only Language that they understand, is violence – They were born with it, grew up with it, dealt with it day in day out. We’re talking people that have domestics and commit Assault against eachother (broken bones etc) over a ciggarette.

I dealt with a domestic once where a 17 y/o boy had beaten up his girlfriend (who was carrying their 2 month old baby at the time) all over a piece of toast.

My point is, Smacking the **** out of these people is the ONLY way to get a point accross or teach them, anything