I’m liking the 1st shot – very, very nice indeed! Great work, Sam!

I love ’em all, Adam, especially the 1st and the bmi A330 close up. 🙂

Excellent, excellent shots 340. F-WWJB certainly has been busy lately! Paris, Munich, New York, Sydney. Where next I wonder?

I love the quirky hair style. Looks like he’s gelled it.:D

Perhaps it a mutation, caused by the pollutants from all those jet engines from nearby LBA?? :p :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I’ll get me coat…..

At least they’re polite about it I suppose 😀 😀 😀 LMAO 😀

That was rather good. I remember Gary sent me a bunch of classfied adverts once and some of the website domain names sounded REALLY dodgy…..perfectly legitimate companies…..just really bad English 😀 😀 😀

I’ll see if I can find them 😀 😀 😀

http://www.penisland.net

by all accounts, a legit website, selling custom made pens.

but then again, I’m not so sure. Looks pretty silly to me:

“So you want that customized pen look, without all the effort? Pen Island can help.
Just tell us a little bit about the size, color, texture, and taste of the pen you’re looking for, and we’ll see what can do. You’ll be surprised at what’s available. “

“customized pen look”?
“taste of the pen” ?

eh?

http://www.urine-off.com/

watch their urine-101 video. A 4.44 minute minute video about urine removal. the music is classic.

Here is my 2 cents. I’m no scientist or engineer, but lets see if I can understand what you are all on about:

Picture a running manchine at a gym. You ‘run’ one way, as the belt that you are running on goes the other way. To stay on the machine, you have to match, do you not, the speed of the belt.

To run off the end of the machine, i.e. go forward, you have ‘run’ faster than the belt.

So, to keep the aircraft stationary the thrust provided by the engines would have to be such as to keep the aircraft on the belt, without moving forward. To move forward, and get the aircraft to a speed at which it can rotate, and take off, the thrust would have to be double what the engines would provide on a normal take off on a normal runway.

As long as the thrust is such that it allows the aircraft to ‘beat’ the speed of the belt, and push the aircraft forward, it would eventually, be moving fast enough to fly.

hhmmm. but then again…

that’s assuming the idea of the running machine i.e. forward motion provided by the legs.

however, with an aircraft, the forward motion isn’t created by an engine turning wheels. the engines on an aircraft arent linked to the wheels. so the speed of the rotation of the wheels is surely, until they shred, irrelevant.

the engines are stuck on wings, which take in air, and push the aircraft forward by compressing and speeding up the velocity of the air and then throwing it out as thrust.

put jet engines on your arms or shoulders, and wheels on your feet stand on the running machine, turn the treadmill on, don’t move your legs, you will go forward. ok, so you won’t fly because you’re not an aircraft, but you’ll move forward, faster and faster.

a plane on the conveyor belt, would take off. the aircraft would move forward, there would be airflow over the wings, and, at the right speed, it will take off.

now either that is a load of rubbish and i’ve missed the whole point of the question, or thats just repeating what others have said.

EDIT: yes, Ive contradicted myself, but did so to try and explain it, and showed my ‘thought processes’ if you like. I also had help from an aero engineer. whether it’s correct or not, I don’t know.