ill admit steve, i thought it was jean from kiss
RIP anyway
Oh, dearie me…….
Must be bringing in the home fans….
Oh, my sides…… :rolleyes:
A320s, you say?
There can be only one….. 😀

…… but here are two more.


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Right, I’ve had a bit of a clean-up.
No more personal squabbles, please.
Thanks
GA
But surely the MoD gave this kit the usual 22 tests plus demo plus 2 metre drop? How did it get past that lot?
That’s the point, mate. It didn’t.
No Western government would touch this rubbish with a ten-foot pole. (Or should that be a 3m pole……? )
The seller was dealing directly with foreign governments all over the place, and our government (or what passes as such these days) has finally stepped in to stop him from exporting these “devices”.
Anyway, the proprietor of the company responsible has now had his collar felt. And about time, too.
More info here.
But surely the MoD gave this kit the usual 22 tests plus demo plus 2 metre drop? How did it get past that lot?
That’s the point, mate. It didn’t.
No Western government would touch this rubbish with a ten-foot pole. (Or should that be a 3m pole……? )
The seller was dealing directly with foreign governments all over the place, and our government (or what passes as such these days) has finally stepped in to stop him from exporting these “devices”.
Anyway, the proprietor of the company responsible has now had his collar felt. And about time, too.
More info here.
Maybe it’s just my monitor, or my tired old eyes playing tricks, but they look a lot like FS screengrabs to me.
It does look nice, though.
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Hi Gents,
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The Key Publishing advertising team on +44(0)1780755131 (or email [email]info@keypublishing.com[/email]) will be able to advise you on current advertising rates, Gavin.
Cheers
GA
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Hi Gents,
I am not plugging my new novel here that is out over the next few months (although I will be asking the moderators permission closer to the time to see if I can tell you chaps in detail about it, as it is aviation based.)
The Key Publishing advertising team on +44(0)1780755131 (or email [email]info@keypublishing.com[/email]) will be able to advise you on current advertising rates, Gavin.
Cheers
GA
Maybe someone will buy it and make and underwater feature of it 😀
Oooh! You’re wicked sometimes. :diablo:
I suppose its the yawning gap between the zealous hopes, out of all proportion to the reality, of the millions who decided that Obama was the saviour of the US and the World, and the reality of where we are now.
To be fair, I think it’s got more to do with people in the USA becoming increasingly annoyed at Obama for not living up to all of the promises that they made to themselves on his behalf.
If he was truly a mould-breaker, then he wouldn’t have stood a snowball’s chance in Hell of becoming President.
I suppose its the yawning gap between the zealous hopes, out of all proportion to the reality, of the millions who decided that Obama was the saviour of the US and the World, and the reality of where we are now.
To be fair, I think it’s got more to do with people in the USA becoming increasingly annoyed at Obama for not living up to all of the promises that they made to themselves on his behalf.
If he was truly a mould-breaker, then he wouldn’t have stood a snowball’s chance in Hell of becoming President.
…..However, if any ETs were on the Earth at this time, I think that they would very easily be able to conceal themselves whilst observing our insane behavior and at the same time trying to hold themselves in from bursting out with laughter (such as in “Bigus Dickus” in the Life of Brian).
We know a song about that don’t we, boys and girls? 🙂
Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’.Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide.
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go ’round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
‘Cause there’s b*gger all down here on Earth.
(Credit: Monty Python)
😀
…..However, if any ETs were on the Earth at this time, I think that they would very easily be able to conceal themselves whilst observing our insane behavior and at the same time trying to hold themselves in from bursting out with laughter (such as in “Bigus Dickus” in the Life of Brian).
We know a song about that don’t we, boys and girls? 🙂
Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’.Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide.
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go ’round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
‘Cause there’s b*gger all down here on Earth.
(Credit: Monty Python)
😀
Still Paco De Lucia….. just as in previous decades. 😎