PropstrikeYes,yes yes, all very nice, but I think at this stage we need a bit less ‘snappy-snap’, and a bit more ‘diggy-dig’ !
Plain speaking, aye. I calls a spade a spade, not a ‘Manually Facilitated Earth Extraction System’ đ
My socks have got bigger holes than these so-called buriel sites!
PropstrikeAwesome! Is that a Tigermoth in the last shot? If so, what’s the reg?
G-AOZH K2572.
PropstrikeAnd then to a lower level to check out another vintagent. N Norfolk railway in steam (but why’s the engine going backwards?).
Very atmospheric- is that a DH60 wing, or maybe the green Currie Wot ?
As to the loco, I got a similar shot when I was in my Hawker Tempest, shooting up train in northern France!
PropstrikeYes, I have recently had a few good days as well đ
PropstrikeI do have to say there seems less interest in this than if something similar but in a lot smaller scale was found over here.
Even a starving dog will lose interest in a rubber bone :diablo:
PropstrikeNice idea, perhaps it is time to rustle up a two-seater!
This business plans suggests 10 pilots doing 5 hours each a year, which would surely raise currency issues. However, wartime accounts suggest it was an easy aeroplane to operate, and I think the ATA ranking put it one order of difficulty above the Tiger Moth.
That would be ten highly-stimulated tyro Hurricanists trying to remember to put the gear down again, which they all will, until the day……….
PropstrikeToo little wind- rubbish
Lots of wind -rubbish and dangerous
Time to enjoy a Danish turbine whirling to destruction. It reminds me a bit of War of the Worlds, when the tripods crashed to earth đ
PropstrikePotentially good news for Popham!
Maybe at last a voice of reason will counter the infestation of these twirling abominations!
”Death knell for wind farms: ‘Enough is Enough’ says minister
Wind farms have been âpepperedâ across Britain without enough consideration for the countryside and peopleâs homes, a senior Conservative energy minister admitted last night as he warned âenough is enoughâ.
PropstrikeThe outlook for the Rapide is very favourable, and involves a short journey to a UK destination.
Not meaning to be all ‘secret squirrel’ but I am not sure the if the details are quite for general consumption just yet.
PropstrikeI suppose I am partisan, but having known the fellow for 15 years, my impression does not square with media portrayal. I am sure that is true of EVERYONE who is in the public eye, for those who have first hand knowledge.
I think he was placed in an impossible position. As Head of Vision, he had a massive task of overseeing ALL TV production. Whilst Sovile was alive, the rumours were very low key, he would have no reason to pursue them, for he already had a million tasks, and was not even DG.
Once Sovile died, the threat of being sued was removed, and so the witch hunt started, within 48 hours. The accusations did not really gain traction until ITV broadcast their piece a few weeks ago.
GE was not the one who scuppered the Newsnight expose, but whoever did, I can understand the reasons, and they are not necessarily entirely sinister. In any large organisaton, be it army, police, or a corporation, the process of investigating accusations starts internally, gaining an understanding of the facts, so the truth emerges.
What sort of manager would hit the panic button, turn the place on its head, hurl around accusations, upsetting and demorallising everyone from the top to the bottom of the organisation. Who could ever again have confidence in such a management team? For the BBC it is harder still, for everything they do is in the public eye.
Entwiste has been head for 7 weeks. There are simply not enough hours in those days to find out all the answers he was asked for yesterday, even if you had known from the ‘get go’ that this inquisition was coming. He was asked who arranged for girls to be bussed in from Broadmoor ? In 1975. How could he answer that ? He was 12 years old at the time.
He may have looked lost for answers sometime, but who would not? Two hours of grilling and grandstanding from MPs with a personal agenda.I repeat, he was placed in an impossible position.
Media commentators have been very cruel, of course.
”Balding, bespectacled, pink and earnestly blinking, George Entwistle doesnât look like a man who wields tremendous power. If anything, he looks like a postman: a postman who has lost his way, or lost his postbag, or perhaps even lost his van. At any rate, not a man who on first glance you would take to be the director-general of a vast and world-renowned media organisation.”
Telegraph.
Whilst many have enjoyed the spectacle of the ‘arrogant BBC finally getting taken down a peg or two’ I saw a good guy getting mugged. In the circumstances, I think he put up a pretty coherent defence.
PropstrikeI suppose I am partisan, but having known the fellow for 15 years, my impression does not square with media portrayal. I am sure that is true of EVERYONE who is in the public eye, for those who have first hand knowledge.
I think he was placed in an impossible position. As Head of Vision, he had a massive task of overseeing ALL TV production. Whilst Sovile was alive, the rumours were very low key, he would have no reason to pursue them, for he already had a million tasks, and was not even DG.
Once Sovile died, the threat of being sued was removed, and so the witch hunt started, within 48 hours. The accusations did not really gain traction until ITV broadcast their piece a few weeks ago.
GE was not the one who scuppered the Newsnight expose, but whoever did, I can understand the reasons, and they are not necessarily entirely sinister. In any large organisaton, be it army, police, or a corporation, the process of investigating accusations starts internally, gaining an understanding of the facts, so the truth emerges.
What sort of manager would hit the panic button, turn the place on its head, hurl around accusations, upsetting and demorallising everyone from the top to the bottom of the organisation. Who could ever again have confidence in such a management team? For the BBC it is harder still, for everything they do is in the public eye.
Entwiste has been head for 7 weeks. There are simply not enough hours in those days to find out all the answers he was asked for yesterday, even if you had known from the ‘get go’ that this inquisition was coming. He was asked who arranged for girls to be bussed in from Broadmoor ? In 1975. How could he answer that ? He was 12 years old at the time.
He may have looked lost for answers sometime, but who would not? Two hours of grilling and grandstanding from MPs with a personal agenda.I repeat, he was placed in an impossible position.
Media commentators have been very cruel, of course.
”Balding, bespectacled, pink and earnestly blinking, George Entwistle doesnât look like a man who wields tremendous power. If anything, he looks like a postman: a postman who has lost his way, or lost his postbag, or perhaps even lost his van. At any rate, not a man who on first glance you would take to be the director-general of a vast and world-renowned media organisation.”
Telegraph.
Whilst many have enjoyed the spectacle of the ‘arrogant BBC finally getting taken down a peg or two’ I saw a good guy getting mugged. In the circumstances, I think he put up a pretty coherent defence.
PropstrikeGeorge Entwistle is a family member, and I am in dismay at the ‘time-bomb’ which has exploded just 6 weeks into his watch, regarding events which happened when he was at school.
He has been in the BBC for nearly 30 years, come up through the ranks, and his commitment to the integrity of the organisation is total, though you would not know it from media portrayal. He is doing the job for ÂŁ200K a year less than the previous DG, saying he was quite happy to accept a lower figure.
The abuse allegations are serious, but not so serious ( because nothing is) that the management should collectively abandon their senses, or their remit to run the organisation. There is no need, nor should their be an expectation of mass-suicide. This matter does not define the BBC, it is a bump in the road.
The events are history, the prime suspect is dead, and though the victims still live with their hurt, there IS time for a considered and pragmatic response.
This grubby saga is like cat-nip to the media, as it involves a heady mix of sex, celebrities , and gossip ( envy) about those in their own media ‘club’, hence days of lurid ‘revelations’ when in truth there is little more to say.
As a nation we have become obsessed beyond reason with ‘paedophile’ frenzy such that common sense, measured judgement and a rational response goes out the window. The mob instinct is that someone must be sacrificed, though it doesn’t matter too much who it is. I hope that good people are not forced to walk the plank , to atone for the crimes of another era.
PropstrikeGeorge Entwistle is a family member, and I am in dismay at the ‘time-bomb’ which has exploded just 6 weeks into his watch, regarding events which happened when he was at school.
He has been in the BBC for nearly 30 years, come up through the ranks, and his commitment to the integrity of the organisation is total, though you would not know it from media portrayal. He is doing the job for ÂŁ200K a year less than the previous DG, saying he was quite happy to accept a lower figure.
The abuse allegations are serious, but not so serious ( because nothing is) that the management should collectively abandon their senses, or their remit to run the organisation. There is no need, nor should their be an expectation of mass-suicide. This matter does not define the BBC, it is a bump in the road.
The events are history, the prime suspect is dead, and though the victims still live with their hurt, there IS time for a considered and pragmatic response.
This grubby saga is like cat-nip to the media, as it involves a heady mix of sex, celebrities , and gossip ( envy) about those in their own media ‘club’, hence days of lurid ‘revelations’ when in truth there is little more to say.
As a nation we have become obsessed beyond reason with ‘paedophile’ frenzy such that common sense, measured judgement and a rational response goes out the window. The mob instinct is that someone must be sacrificed, though it doesn’t matter too much who it is. I hope that good people are not forced to walk the plank , to atone for the crimes of another era.
PropstrikeThe assumption ( and with good reason ) is that they are flying a false flag,
and the cheery bonhomie and faux interest in our forum is nothing more than a ruse to employ our bandwidth and attention as a platform for their commercial enterprise.
It is disrespectful, duplicitous and annoying.
PropstrikeA tri-gear coversion.
”The crash-landing of an older sport aircraft on the airfield Föhrener on Saturday afternoon was mild for the four occupants. The machine was considerable damage to property. On landing, the right main landing gear buckled, causing the aircraft slid unceremoniously across the runway.
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The shock was certainly large, as the 55-year-old pilot of a twin-engine sport aircraft of type H 18 Beech remarked during a round-trip flight a warning indicator in the cockpit. It was indicated that something was amiss with the landing gear.
An aerial tour of the Tower, and also the view of a pilot from another airborne flier brought no evidence on the quality of the suspension. Then ventured the pilot to land on the runway of the airport in pines. When the plane touched down on Saturday shortly after 17 clock, buckled the right main landing gear.
While none of the four adult occupants was injured. On the machine, built in 1965, but was considerable damage to property. The first estimate of this is estimated at around ⏠100,000. “The damage is so great, because the replacement of spare parts is extremely expensive, as the machine is an older model already,” Uwe Leitzgen by police inspection Schweich explained on TV request. The 1200 meter long runway is already usable again.
The Federal Institute of Aircraft Accidents Investigation will review the machine yet. Previously could not be clarified why the landing gear was not locked and buckled on landing. “The machine was neither overweight nor were flight technical problems before,” says Leitzgen. “But there are from time to time such incidents when landing of private aircraft, which usually occur relatively unscathed,” he puts the accident at the weekend.”
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