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Edgar Brooks

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  • in reply to: General Discussion #252952
    Edgar Brooks
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    Same here, but, thankfully, not every time; I get it, occasionally, on another site, too.

    in reply to: Anybody Else Having Problems Posting? #1844205
    Edgar Brooks
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    Same here, but, thankfully, not every time; I get it, occasionally, on another site, too.

    in reply to: JAVELIN DIMENSIONS #990075
    Edgar Brooks
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    56.33ft; 2, 6 & 8 – 55.2ft; T.3 60.0ft; 9 – 56.75ft. All according to Warpaint no.17.

    in reply to: General Discussion #254393
    Edgar Brooks
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    Understood. Thanks!
    But it is Euro-diotic.

    If they made it simple, they wouldn’t have so much to do to “earn” (hah!) their expenses, and would have time for unimportant things like goal-line technology.

    in reply to: EM2012 — why is Russia out?? #1845128
    Edgar Brooks
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    Understood. Thanks!
    But it is Euro-diotic.

    If they made it simple, they wouldn’t have so much to do to “earn” (hah!) their expenses, and would have time for unimportant things like goal-line technology.

    in reply to: Early spitfire frame 11 drawings #992567
    Edgar Brooks
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    The drawing no. is 30027 sheet 13G; according to one list, the MAC no. is 366, with MAC 823 showing an alternative method of manufacture.

    in reply to: General Discussion #254494
    Edgar Brooks
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    If teams amass the same points, the result, when they played each other, decides the superior team; if their game was drawn, the team having the better goal difference takes precedence.
    Of course, if their song is better than your song, and they have more friends in Europe, they will win.

    in reply to: EM2012 — why is Russia out?? #1845175
    Edgar Brooks
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    If teams amass the same points, the result, when they played each other, decides the superior team; if their game was drawn, the team having the better goal difference takes precedence.
    Of course, if their song is better than your song, and they have more friends in Europe, they will win.

    in reply to: General Discussion #254697
    Edgar Brooks
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    Getting my first bike, a Raleigh Lenton Sports, with the money from working the Christmas post, while still in the Sixth Form at school; had to be at the local Post Office at 4 a.m., Christmas morning, in driving snow, to get a lift to the central sorting office 8 miles away. Still remember an old lady, as I handed over her post, saying, “I can’t give you any money, but would you like an apple?” She never knew what that meant to a cold 16-year-old.
    Edgar

    in reply to: Turning the clock back!! #1845338
    Edgar Brooks
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    Getting my first bike, a Raleigh Lenton Sports, with the money from working the Christmas post, while still in the Sixth Form at school; had to be at the local Post Office at 4 a.m., Christmas morning, in driving snow, to get a lift to the central sorting office 8 miles away. Still remember an old lady, as I handed over her post, saying, “I can’t give you any money, but would you like an apple?” She never knew what that meant to a cold 16-year-old.
    Edgar

    in reply to: General Discussion #254939
    Edgar Brooks
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    I’ve never used The Snowboard Asylum, sorry.

    in reply to: Please help! Aviation survey for class #1845466
    Edgar Brooks
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    I’ve never used The Snowboard Asylum, sorry.

    in reply to: The Griffon-powered Hawker Hurricane Mk XIV #996892
    Edgar Brooks
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    Camm did draw up plans for a Griffon-powered Hurricane, but, presumably due to weight/CofG considerations, it would have meant raking the wing spars forward; he was told, by the Air Minstry to forget it, and concentrate on the Tornado. The drawings could be somewhere, but I’ve never seen them.

    in reply to: General Discussion #255438
    Edgar Brooks
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    Biscuits being displayed in large tins, and the shopkeeper putting the required amount in a paper bag, for us to take home; no fighting your way through three layers of cellophane to get at them.
    Buying, from the local grocer, fresh fruit and vegetables, which were already ripe, with none of this “ripen at home” baloney, with which housewives are being conned now.
    Having no fridge until I was about 20, and buying foam-rubber covers, which were soaked with water, with which to cover milk bottles, in the (often forlorn) hope that the evaporating water would stop the milk turning sour.
    Walking about 50 yards, in all weathers, to use the outside bucket-type toilet, and, when big enough, being given the job of emptying it into the cesspit. Finally, at the age of 25, moving into a house with a flushing toilet.
    Buying fireworks, quite openly, at dozens of shops, and having fun with them, without suffering any injury, or causing any damage or disruption to other (adult) lives.
    Promising my mother to be home by 8 p.m., then “forgetting,” while I sat in a friend’s house, watching “War in the Air,” on his (black & white) TV.

    in reply to: Turning the clock back!! #1845819
    Edgar Brooks
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    Biscuits being displayed in large tins, and the shopkeeper putting the required amount in a paper bag, for us to take home; no fighting your way through three layers of cellophane to get at them.
    Buying, from the local grocer, fresh fruit and vegetables, which were already ripe, with none of this “ripen at home” baloney, with which housewives are being conned now.
    Having no fridge until I was about 20, and buying foam-rubber covers, which were soaked with water, with which to cover milk bottles, in the (often forlorn) hope that the evaporating water would stop the milk turning sour.
    Walking about 50 yards, in all weathers, to use the outside bucket-type toilet, and, when big enough, being given the job of emptying it into the cesspit. Finally, at the age of 25, moving into a house with a flushing toilet.
    Buying fireworks, quite openly, at dozens of shops, and having fun with them, without suffering any injury, or causing any damage or disruption to other (adult) lives.
    Promising my mother to be home by 8 p.m., then “forgetting,” while I sat in a friend’s house, watching “War in the Air,” on his (black & white) TV.

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