RE: Peter-‘Just Jane’ video

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 17-12-02 AT 00:08 AM (GMT)]Thanks David,I can understand she’d have had a pretty rough time with all the moves she been subjected to in the past.By ‘how she was dismantled’,do you mean rough handling or something more severe?They wouldn’t have chopped through the spar at some point would they?? *shiver*

RE: Ghosts

Hi bluetooth,
The ‘bumps in the night’ are down to things like floorboards contracting as the room temperature cools.The heating goes off and the nights are usually colder than the days,so you always get this cracking,creaking cooling off period,often just when you go to bed.I’m sure there’s nothing sinister to it…*dark shadow creeps up behind him…*

RE: Ghosts

Generally I reckon ghost sightings and the like can be attributed to scientific and/or psychological causes,but there are one or two stories I’ve heard that are quite intriguing.One of these was when a friend of my dad’s was cleaning in a church in the Midlands.While she was dusting away,she saw a hooded figure walk down the aisle at one side of the church,and disappear through a door,seemingly without opening it,into the sacrasty (priests changing room.)Although she only caught a glimpse of this chap in full,she noticed that he seemed to have no lower legs,and seemed to be walking under the level of the floor.
Intrigued by the whole episode,she did some research and found that not only had the church once been part of a monastry,but that in more recent years some renovation work had been done which had raised the floor level a couple of feet.I dunno about you,but I find that pretty compelling.I know this lady was niether mad nor daft,and she wasn’t the sort to make this stuff up,she wasn’t even keen to talk about it.
I know you could say that the whole thing was a vision and the floor level thing was a coincidence,but it doesn’t strike me personally as such.
Having said that,I’m not really a believer in the supernatural,and I accept that there could be a good explanaition for it.Any ideas?

RE: re-incarnation

Hi geedee,interesting topic.In short,no I don’t believe in reincarnation.The idea that you come back as something else after you die just doesn’t ring true for me.I don’t much fancy spending my next life as a slug or a beetle anyway.
Just to pick up on summat you said about stone slabs over graves,I think this has more to do with resurrection than reincarnation, resurrection being the idea that you might one day be brought back from the dead as opposed to being made into something else and living life all over again.Just thinking about it,I don’t believe in resurrection either.

RE: Plane age

The oldest plane I’ve flown in was also the first I ever flew in-
G-BETO,a 1962-built Moraine-Saulnier MS885 Super Rallye.A mate of my brother was part of a syndicate operating her out of a farm strip near Swindon.My first flight,over ten years ago now,was to Compton Abbas,and we got buzzed by some extremely low flying RAF Hercs on our way back to the plane from the airfield cafe.Nearly took our heads off,but I thought it was pretty cool.:)
Sadly,she was badly bent about 5 years ago by another pilot,and she was sold on and replaced by a Cessna 172 which is still going strong.
Up until recently I thought poor old BETO had gone for scrap,but she shows up on the CAA website as being airworthy again with a new syndicate.Happy news! 🙂
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RE: You asked about current aircraft

One for Kiethmac,or anyone else who happens to know the answer:
I’d been lead to believe that if you have a choice between manual feed and fuel booster pump then the booster pump should be switched off for take off.The theory behind this,allegedly,is that there is less chance of faliure of the manual feed than the booster pump.Booster pump flakes out on take off=nice big pile of wreckage in the next field.I seem to remember this theory is mentioned in the pilot’s notes for a few warbirds,and I’m sure that it’s stated in the pilot’s notes for the P38 Lightning.So,is it different depending on the specific aircraft type,or have I been lead up the garden path all along?