Blimey someone who likes RT!! – Richard Thompson is truly the planet’s best (largely unknown) guitar god. Yes, I go to Cropredy, but only RT years – present day Fairport are fun, but hardly essential.
For Kabir T, Richard Thompson DID make the Rolling Stone Top 100 Guitarists list at number 19 I believe.
As for jazz guitarists, how about the great Martin Taylor

If you were doing a P51 painting, would you really do one with the canopy covered, and such a cluttered background?

A very thorough going over. My one abiding memory of my initial Class 1 medical was the EEG (electro-encephologram – hope that’s spelt correctly). Your head is wired up with electrodes and then your brain responses to various stimulants (strobes etc) are measured. When I asked what this all achieved, I got the commendably honest response “Don’t know mate, but if you ever bang your head, we’ll do another one and see if there is any change”.
Seriously, as long as you are in good general health, should be no problem (except to your bank balance – what’s the fee these days?)

Did anyone catch the documentary “Breaking The Silence”, by John Pilger, broadcast in the UK last night? Pilger is a left wing journalist with a very clear agenda, but the most telling moment was during a filmed interview with Douglas Feith (Under Secretary of Defense (!) Policy at the Pentagon) – when the questioning, by Pilger, about Iraqi civilian casulaties (according to Pilger approx 10,000) became a bit too uncomfortable, Feith’s military minder ended the interview promptly. I thought that sort of thing only happened I-raq (sic)
It was one of the most compelling pieces of television I have seen in along time. “Land of the Free?” – only if you agree with us.

SYY is plenty long enough (well, longer than LBA and the like) – 2200m, slightly displaced threshold on 18.

And built like a brick sh**house.

G-AWZN, scrapped late 1995 according to http://www.hs121.org.uk – shows us the photos. On a similar theme, is the wingless Comet still at LGW, couldn’t see it last weekend.

Yawn……..usual tabloid reporting from the BBC. Anyone remember when BBC News used to be accurate? “Pilots given oxygen” as a sub-headline – give me strength…the crew would have put on their oxygen masks as part of the checklist actions, they would not been “given” oxygen, nor would oxygen “dropped down” in the flightdeck.
As for the TCX diversion, the engine vibration may well have been apparent for some time during the flight (unusual but not uncommon) and maybe the decision was made to divert into a TCX engineering base – pure speculation on my part that, but still hardly worth the breathless news coverage.