Having heard about it so much on here I’ve just finished ‘ fate is the hunter’ by Ernest k gann, excellent and really gives the flavour of the era, and kind of following the same vein have now started ‘ skyfaring’ by mark vanhoenacker.

Not penguin tipping but penguin tumbling, as part of HMS ENDURANCE flight much of our tasking when at s Georgia or other islands was lifting in/out survey teams, quite often when the cabs shut down on board the aircrew would tell us that the landing point was on a plateau/ hill and as they flared to the hover they would see the Penguins blown down the track they had just spent ages waddling up!

just finished DREADNOUGHT by robert k massie about the build up of the fleets of germany and britain prior to WW1, a fascinating read that mostly covers the drives and characters of those that made the decisions that led to the naval arms race, 900 pages so was a long read, next up CASTLES OF STEEL by the same author about the war at sea in WW1.

‘flat earth news’ by nick davies, about modern media and all types of news sources, very sobering reading about how our news is produced.

they are not common outside of whoever does the overhaul as when they go duff the cyclic/collective has to be replaced, really annoying as its a switch thats duff but its us grubbers/blackies that have to cx the stick or lever and not the greenies:mad:

no,all politicians will tarnish,rubbish and defame the opposition,its all part of their charm

just finished ‘hack attack’ about the news of the world hacking, just started ‘iron curtain’ by anne applebaum after which will be ‘savage continent’ as described by by john green then ‘wimpy’ about the wellington.

there is listed 2 “baka suicide bombs”, do they mean the “ohka” as i thought baka was a derogative name for it.