‘The Herald’ newspaper today published a very readable feature on Concorde G-BOAA, currently the star exhibit at The Scottish National Museum of Flight… 😀

CLICKY

The lack of paragraph spacing seems to be a problem this week with The Herald online, but it’s much nicer in print and with photos too.

Its a good article – im very tempted to try to fit in a visit when i can.

I went on a walkaround of the prototype Concorde at Duxfoprd and was expecting big things when it was announced that MAN was getting one, but dissapointingly it seems to be in the clutches of non-visionaries who prefer to keep it locked up apart from Wedding ceremonies and a few escorted tours on a couple of weekends each year. The RJX is simmilarly locked up and sitting in a corner looking sad.

I can’t for the life of me see the sense in this – the Concorde at Duxford is open for people to troop round when they want – i am sure that tickets made available from the nearby aviation shop at MAN for a few pounds each would generate income to contribute toward upkeep.

No doubt in a year or so they will announce that it is rusting away and they arnt making enough money to make it safe enough to continue to allow public access……

I have a absolutely legal plan for it 🙂 My whole family is in legal/law professions so i have a good idea of how not to do anything that is viewed as illegal. I am not going to be done for cyber squatting!

Other than have a non-profit fan site, then there is absolutely NOTHING you can do with these domain names which involves making money.

JW (or representatives) only has to ask for these domain names, at any time, and you have to hand them over.

If JW (or representatives) think you are making any money at all out of these domain names, then they have a very strong argument for for a cease and desist order against you and also such damages as they feel are appropriate.

You cant use somone elses name in any way. The courts will always ask the question “could Mr Average be confused by this into thinking that this venture is linked in some way with the persons name contained in the domain name ?”

If the answer to the above is “Yes” – then you are in a heap of trouble.

Passengers want to fly direct. It the plane was like one of my golf balls they would only get to their destination after landing in the desert, bouncing off a few trees landing in the water and changing planes twice 🙂

Rgds Cking

Would you get gangs of kids jumping into lakes, diving to the bottom and then following you around shouting “wanna buy some nearly new airbuses, mister? – i’ve got a couple of 747 – 400’s as well!! ” 🙂

OR… when you next go on holiday, the plane lines up – the pilot opens the throttles – and the plane slews wildly into the air sideways and curves around until it is flying at 30 degrees to the runway. Over the intercom the pilot says “Damm…i sliced it!!” 🙂

Michael

http://www.star-ecentral.com/music/sleeve/notes.asp?file=archives/sleeve/2006/4/6/6Passengert&date=4/6/2006

And ther’s me last week listening to Iron Maiden’s “Bring your daughter to the Slaughter” from London to Manchester 😀

I wouldnt worry tooo much about whats on your eye-pod!! – it reads to me like there is a bit more to this.

If i have read it right, then the cabbie dobbed this guy in because of the lyrics of the music he was playing, right ?

QED – this guy is a nob-head who was playing his music LOUDLY and thereby p***sing everybody off.

Coz if it had been thru normal earphones at normal levels, then how would anyone know what he was listening to ?

Just my 2 peneth worth

Doesn’t sound good to me. Burn on CD / backup all the pictures tou can, then run a scandisk on that drive… If errors are found, but you can get most back, change the disk ASAP.

Good advice, but before you do this, take the lid off your pc (if you can) and make sure that the ribbon cables between the drives and the motherboard are seated properley.

You dont need to remove the cables – just put gentle but firm pressure on the plastic bar at the end of the cable where it joins the motherboard or drive to make sure it is sitting flat across its width.

When you have checked them all – reboot your pc and see if you still get error messages.

My guess is that it is likely to be a physical problem rather than something that software tools can fix – either badly seated cable(s) or the disk heads are on their way out.

Excellent pics