Recordings

I anyone is interested COSTCO have started selling a Phillip combi unit
It records from TAPE to a DVD and if I am not mistaken DVD to TAPE

£294.00 including the VAT(brushed stainless steel)

Rob

Rob,

Many thanks indeed, although to clarify, i’m referring to the previous owners habit of 20+ a day.

Perhaps the same method or similar works on tobacco smells ?

Cheers…….

Can’t see why not, try it, get back to me when you have tried

rob

DAMAGED BOOKS

Folks…

Anyone have any hints & tips on diminishing the odour from 2nd hand books that have come from a smoke filled home please ?

Cheers……..

Hi Dave,

My late Dads got very severe damage a couple of years ago in house fire and was very upsetting ’cause most of these books were bought whilst I was with him.
Anyway, Take the outer sleeve off for a start.
If the edges of the pages are discoloured, yellowing for example, get some fine wet and dry paper (GRADE 1200), DO NOT WET AT ALL THOUGH, REPEAT, DO NOT WET AT ALL. Lightly sand the edges of the pages with the book shut tightly. When you are happy with the result, you need to get an IONISER machine. This machine changes the direction of the IONS in the atmosphere, I maybe wrong but Negative IONS smell, Positive ones do not, maybe the otherway round.

Place the books well spread about on a table placed vertical with the book open and the pages spread as much as possible. Switch the machine on and leave for a few days. If you cannot rent a machine from somewhere, look in yellow pages under Fire Damage or Flood Damage restorers, they use them to get rid of stenches. Hope this has been of some help

Regard

Rob

Funny how things always look better, the longer ago it was…
Maybe my first car was not actually as bad as I thought either: maybe it didn’t drink oil by the gallon, belch smoke along its path like a ground based Red Arrow, didn’t leak everywhere like an incontinent puppy, and didn’t break down at least once a month.
Nah – maybe I shall review my memories again when I too haven’t driven it for 60 years…;)
The Whirlwind always looked like it had potential though – not like my old FSO!

Flood

I don’t think I am to keen on your attitude about this Whirlwind pilot, read The Whirlwind book, and you will learn that it was all very political, especially against the Mossie. DH, Supermarine, Hawker and AVRO were the big boys, DH did not want little Westland to take the lime light nor did alot of other high rankers, to much money involved, read between the lines, OH! by the way Mossies fell to bits ’cause they went mildew and rotten, Typhoon tails fell off and their engines seized up. All aircraft had their problems at the time, Whirlwinds should have had Merlins but not enough to go around, DH nicked them, probably with a back hander, people were bent in the war years you know not just in modern times.

Duxford – Have Your Say – ANSWERS

THE QUESTIONS:

1) WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT DX?

The atmosphere, the smells, the noise, the echos in the hangars, spanners being dropped, the odd air tool screeming, the sound of a far off Merlin, sitting on the back bumper of the car at 6 in the morning in the early morning sun.

2) WHAT DO YOU MOST DISLIKE ABOUT DX?

Rotting airframes, AAM this should have been built further back and it is far to modern, every one thinks it a new concept, a new design, its not!!! watch “The Italian Job” film, 3 minis drive over a building like the AAM, that was back in 1967/8 I think. The inland warfare museum, that needed building further back aswell. Instead of having all these so called ModCon buildings why an earth did you not replace the wartime hangar that was blown up in “The Battle Of Britain” film, with a near on replica.OH and Ice cream vans running their compressors right next to hthe crowd line

3)WHAT MAKES YOU RETURN TO DX? (WHEN TIME AND DISTANCE ALLOWS OF COURSE!)

Airshows are the main reason for my return, but Hey!, things are getting rather expensive, I live in Derby and with a Car and Caravan £60.00 of gas 4 nights caravan site, 2 days of airshows and some beer and its goodbye to nearly £400.00, maybe you could let me have some cheap AVGAS, my car has a blower on it

4) WHAT DO WE GET RIGHT AT DX?

The staff are usually friendly, the aircrews and volunteers always. The food wagon people are ignorant and there are to many wise boy cockneys for my liking

5)WHAT DO WE GET WRONG?

The AAM, The Ground Warfare Museum, and not to far in the future, The Air and Space Museum.

6) WHAT CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE MADE AT DX?

Everyone seems to get to DX on show days earlier and earlier and we all que up in rows, open the pay sheds up as early as possible and get people in and parked up, there is a mad rush to park-up, wheels spinning, fists clenched, V signs every where. heated tempers. And as someone else has already said move those BLOODY tannoy speakers and poles. Move the camper vans further back, they do not need to be on the front row as most people who own them climb on their roofs anyway, pig ignorant. Ban the BLOODY tents on the crowd line aswell, some people are taking up 15 to 25 square feet of space up with encampments and to top it off they put massive umbrellas up aswell. And then you get MR STEPPLADDER MAN, Oh I love these, A six foot step ladder and some 6 foot gormless bloke stood on top of it with 38 cameras round his neck. I have taken a step ladder on occasions but i don’t go on the crowd line I go behind my car and if someone else is either behind and/or to the left of me I throw my ladder under the car, I must be to civilised and considerate, its a pity other people are not. Beleive me, you will get a punch up there one day. I emailed to two famous monthly magazines a few years ago about take offs and landings, I thought it would have been a good idea to rent a small part of the field on the oppisite side of the M11, as a sort of run off area I emailed this before BLACK 6 had its miss-hap, if my idea had been put in place, black six would never have turned over. At the other end of the airfield there is a dust track just outside the perimeter fence
with a row of very tall trees(you all know where I mean) It needs150/200 feet of trees removing, I used to go down that track once upon a time, and some planes got very close to the top of them. If any one of those planes engines faultered in any way, either in taking off or in landing configeration, well its curtains, and as long as god makes little apples it will happen (I hope not though)

7) SHOULD WE PUT ON MORE AIRSHOWS? OR FEWER? QUANTITY OR QUALITY – FOR EXAMPLE HAVE FEWR AIRSHOWS WITH LONGER DISPLAYS?

Keep them as they are, people only have a certain amount of money to spend each year and yes it is a dear hobbie.

8) IF SOMETIMES YOU ARE ACCOMPANIED TO DUXFORD BY FAMILY OR FRIENDS WHO ARE NOT PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN AIRCRAFT, DO THEY LEAVE FEELING THEY HAVE AT LEAST HAD AN INTERESTING DAY OUT, OR DO THEY THINK THAT DX IS FOR ENTHUSIASTS ONLY?

Anybody visiting DX for the first time either on display days or not will have a super time

9) HOW DO YOU RATE THE CATERING OUTLETS AT DX? EXPENSIVE OR GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY? ENOUGH VARIETY?

Far to expensive, think of a family of 4 on Legends day, £70.00 to get in and then another 11 hours walking round £18.00 for a breakfast and drinks for the rest of the day. £60.00 for 2 aircraft kits, bla,bla,bla………..

As for the chip,burger,bacon and beer vans and tents I hope they all go bankrupt, crap meat, crap bread, crap tea and dirty finger nailed sweaty people and then they charge you £3.50 for a bacon cob after they have wiped sweat off their forhead with their hand, lovely!!!!!!!!!!!

10) WHO DO YOU RATE THE MUSEUM SHOP? IS IT WELL STOCKED FOR ENTHUSIASTS WITH SOMETHING NEW TO CATCH YOUR INTEREST EACH TIME YOU VISIT? WHAT IN YOUR OPINION COULD WE SELL THAT WE DON’T ALREADY?

The shop is to modern just like all the other new buildings, your loosing it somewhere, You could have put up 3 new nissan huts for the price of that new shop one of them could have been set up as a bar and cinema with hanging fans and all that stuff, half way through a film you could have had an air raid and a black out, I do not think any of the management or developers have any idea what people want, you just think modern, modern, modern, to me its all bull**** with not a hint of thought or disccussions.

I still like DX and I hope my views are not to critical but eye openers