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July 31, 2014 at 2:55 pm in reply to: The' Thing'…N3M…WTF #924175

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The Thing was a build by Charles Bailey, flew in 1949, cancelled from the register by November 1950. Bailey was the FBO form Madison NC. A 115hp Lycoming. Contains a lot of Piper Cub parts apparently.

Well it seems to have flown, albeit with end plates marked ‘Hands Off’? with a different paint job, and at an Air Show in North Carolina

crops from Flickr originals https://www.flickr.com/photos/icplphotos/8389949410/in/photostream/

EDIT…and comparing the various views the windows don’t match up suggesting continuous modifications/different airframes??

July 30, 2014 at 4:02 pm in reply to: Helicopter photos on Flickr ca. 1950 #924602

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Are you suggesting that the Forum should volunteer to help identify and tag these photos?!

No….but I’ve suggested to the guy running the archive that they set the tagging function to ‘open access’ so anybody interested can add a tag (so searchable) in addition to/instead of a comment (which isn’t searchable)…much more efficient.

July 30, 2014 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Helicopter photos on Flickr ca. 1950 #924696

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I only found these because the Iredell County Public Library posted in the Flickr Help Forum…( basically they’ve put 80,000 photos up with hardly any Titles. Descriptions or Tags making them unsearchable by computer)

February 20, 2014 at 12:41 am in reply to: Photos of flood situation Purley, Kenley and Whyteleafe taken on 17-02-14 #1870532

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How do the 3rd rail electric trains cope with the flooding?

February 14, 2014 at 5:34 pm in reply to: One ieffect of awful winter storms is the return of River Wandle to Carshalton Park #1871349

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Yes, it seems that Carshalton forms the second main source of the Wandle (the first apparently being under the former Swan and Sugar Loaf pub in South Croydon)

December 9, 2013 at 7:28 pm in reply to: General Discussion #238252

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There was also the admission obviously that African political development had to be accomodated of course.
In this regard, PW Botha (different to Pik Botha, btw) set about the dismantelling of petty apartheid unilaterally. It made sense.

Yes, I confused the two Bothas….the BBC Radio4 programme contained Pik Botha speaking . BBC Radio4 is this week serializing Mandela’s Book ‘Long Walk to Freedom’

December 9, 2013 at 7:28 pm in reply to: Nelson Mandela #1841694

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There was also the admission obviously that African political development had to be accomodated of course.
In this regard, PW Botha (different to Pik Botha, btw) set about the dismantelling of petty apartheid unilaterally. It made sense.

Yes, I confused the two Bothas….the BBC Radio4 programme contained Pik Botha speaking . BBC Radio4 is this week serializing Mandela’s Book ‘Long Walk to Freedom’

December 7, 2013 at 5:26 pm in reply to: General Discussion #239336

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Petty apartheid was dismantelled largely by PW Botha, and from the early 1980’s for example, things like segregated busses were a thing of the past.
PW Botha offered to release Nelson Mandela in 1982, and again in 1985, if he simply renounced violence. This is a pretty normal and logical request, if you ask me.
Nelson Mandela rejected it.

Nelson Mandela himself paid public tribute to Botha for a wide range of things Botha did to hasten the end of apartheid from early on, but naturally, this doesn’t fit the narritive of the fairytale for the press, so most people remain utterly ignorant.

Like I said, there are many myths….

Yes, I listened to a more reflective account of Mandela on BBC Radio4 yesterday ca.1600 and was impressed by the political and personal journey Pik Botha made. What do you think was the main reason for the change of stance of the South African Government at the end of the 1980s?

December 7, 2013 at 5:26 pm in reply to: Nelson Mandela #1842637

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Petty apartheid was dismantelled largely by PW Botha, and from the early 1980’s for example, things like segregated busses were a thing of the past.
PW Botha offered to release Nelson Mandela in 1982, and again in 1985, if he simply renounced violence. This is a pretty normal and logical request, if you ask me.
Nelson Mandela rejected it.

Nelson Mandela himself paid public tribute to Botha for a wide range of things Botha did to hasten the end of apartheid from early on, but naturally, this doesn’t fit the narritive of the fairytale for the press, so most people remain utterly ignorant.

Like I said, there are many myths….

Yes, I listened to a more reflective account of Mandela on BBC Radio4 yesterday ca.1600 and was impressed by the political and personal journey Pik Botha made. What do you think was the main reason for the change of stance of the South African Government at the end of the 1980s?

December 2, 2013 at 1:09 am in reply to: A final appeal for Wellington information #955323

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SDASM photo here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/sets/72157633279699475/detail/?page=4

November 17, 2013 at 4:45 pm in reply to: Heathrow #439602

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/indiaecho/archives/date-posted/?view=md
http://www.flickr.com/photos/indiaecho/archives/date-posted/?view=lg
Handy if the standard flickr display is jerky

November 10, 2013 at 10:38 pm in reply to: A couple of movements at sunny Blackpool #439627

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Nicely composed and framed. Were they both an extremely pale grey or is that an illusion?

November 10, 2013 at 6:21 pm in reply to: General Discussion #248962

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Longshot “

His Commanding Officer and the Prime Minister could have kept their mouths shut between conviction and sentencing.”

Problem is once it came out in public they really couldn’t be seen to do or say anything else.

Its always possible to keep your mouth shut or say ‘I have no comment’, surely

November 10, 2013 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Royal Marines executed injured man #1850711

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His Commanding Officer and the Prime Minister could have kept their mouths shut between conviction and sentencing.”

Problem is once it came out in public they really couldn’t be seen to do or say anything else.

Its always possible to keep your mouth shut or say ‘I have no comment’, surely

November 10, 2013 at 1:50 pm in reply to: General Discussion #249077

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I don’t normally side with those ‘to the right of Genghis Khan’ but I find the prosecution and conviction of Marine A hypocritical . On this Remembrance Day I would suggest he. too. is a victim of war. at extreme risk of PTSD and rehabilitation to civilian life (if that’s ever possible after ‘combat hardening’ as a foot-soldier) should be the priority and not a prison sentence.His Commanding Officer and the Prime Minister could have kept their mouths shut between conviction and sentencing.
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