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March 6, 2008 at 10:37 pm in reply to: Aeroplane Nicknames #1246540

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Great minds think alike…

I started this way back in 2000…

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=603

Sorry about that – perhaps I should search the forum before starting a post!

Of course, though, great minds…

Bri 😀

March 4, 2008 at 10:36 am in reply to: Brooklands Aviation Centenary #1249273

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Judging by the number of queries on walking and bussing on this post, might I suggest that the museum’s brochures include such details – if and when they are updated? This applies to all Aviation museums.

The people who run museums, and other public access locations such as theatres in the UK, seem to assume that everybody loves the lump of metal (car) nowadays. Not so…

I gave cars up about 20 years ago, and don’t miss them – except when brochures leave out such information!

Bri 😉

March 3, 2008 at 12:16 pm in reply to: Part ID please #1250102

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I particularly like the way that the scale goes below zero:D
cheers baz

Altimeters did – and still do – go below zero, by 1000ft.

That is provided for landings in the ‘Low Countries’ of the Netherlands, etc.

Bri

March 2, 2008 at 2:21 pm in reply to: War Grave Photographs #1250885

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I think there’s a ‘War Graves Commission’ that has details of British and Commonwaelth war graves around the world.

Search the web, you might find them. Sorry, can’t provide any more help.

Bri

March 1, 2008 at 11:14 am in reply to: What´s flying to Australia like? #548940

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I would recommend an overnight stopover in Singapore or Japan on the way there and back.

I flew to Oz by JAL a few years ago and had no stopover on the way there. Result, jetlagged for several days!

On the way back, I had an overnighter in a JAL hotel near Tokyo airport and that set me up for the return to work in the UK.

By the way, JAL were brilliant – and their hotel was too! Not much extra on the cost of the flight, either.

Bri 🙂

February 29, 2008 at 11:01 am in reply to: 15 'New' Hinds!! (2008 Zombie thread) #1253181

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Blimey, what’s he going to do with them – attack the EU?

Bri :dev2:

February 29, 2008 at 10:56 am in reply to: Danger – aircraft on ground! #1253187

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18 stitches in a line from my forehead to the top of my head, courtesy of the blade antenna (apt name) sticking down from the under-nose camera.

Jon, SGT USMC 1981-1989

Thanks Jon, good one!

I can’t compete with your 18 stitches, as I only had 4. But I had further complications with a military type every serviceman or ex-serviceman will recognise. This was at a RAAF AD (Aircraft Depot, similar to a RAF MU) in Oz.

After my ‘fight’ with the Meteor’s dive brakes, I had blood pouring down my face and vest (undershirt) so the WOE (Warrant Officer Engineering) said “If you are OK and can ride my bike up to the sick quarters, away you go.” So I set off in my shorts and vest with no hat, holding a handkerchief over the cut.

Half way to the sick bay, the station WOD (W/O Disciplinary) stopped me and berated me for being out of uniform. He was going to put me on a charge – but I convinced him that the blood was still flowing and, after a lecture, he let me go! What a pratt!

Bri 😀

February 22, 2008 at 10:01 am in reply to: Brooklands Aviation Centenary #1260956

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Thanks Richard.

Bri

February 21, 2008 at 11:12 am in reply to: Brooklands Aviation Centenary #1262133

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Does anyone know if you can walk into the museum from Brooklands Road? I would like to visit the museum, but would come by train to Weybridge station.

After visiting with a friend in his car last year, I couldn’t see a pedestrian entrance from that road, and it’s a long way around by the internal road network – and at my creaking age not a good thing!

By the way, I think I saw somewhere that there is a price reduction for Brooklands if you visit the enemy first (Mercedes World 😉 )

Bri 🙂

February 19, 2008 at 10:45 am in reply to: Your favorite unusual aircraft #1264931

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Regarding the XB-70: is that a retractable visor? And a radiation warning logo next to it? Why would there be radiation in a nose section?

What a fantastic design that plane was.

Bri 🙂

February 18, 2008 at 11:44 am in reply to: Farnborough 1950 #552972

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Great stuff, Steve!

I wonder if 1953/4 are out there somewhere? Lots more jets!

Bri 😀

February 18, 2008 at 11:29 am in reply to: Wind Farms & Aviation Safety #433644

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I won’t get involved with online arguments, but thanks for the apology.

Suffice to say I made no comparisons – the wording was concise.

My point was that people who believe in these methods of power generation and constantly push for their use never, ever, concern themselves with their manufacture and supply – which must be included in the equation.

Bri 🙂

February 16, 2008 at 11:15 am in reply to: Getting instruments serviced #1267695

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Whatever you do, don’t attempt to remove the luminous paint yourselves.

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February 16, 2008 at 11:08 am in reply to: Wind Farms & Aviation Safety #433654

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VX927: The ‘play wot you saw’ was not the ‘play wot I wrote’.

Please read the copy you quoted again.

Bri

February 14, 2008 at 11:23 am in reply to: Wind Farms & Aviation Safety #433660

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We had better be careful what we say.

People like us were called heretics in the past, and look what happened to them!

Bri :diablo:
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