planedriver

Welcome Wjohnmid, so good to have you aboard, as the saying goes, it's one step at a time.

Welcome to our forums, good to have you aboard.

Good onya Ian, you're the man, and the majority here are the grateful one's.

I've probably been guilty of crossing the lines and had things moderated occasionally, and thats what keeps this site great.

Thank you.

Planey

For those who haven't seen this before, I thought might of interest.

That's because they were the bosses 80 kts, and we were just the trainees ............that's how it works in the military......Maj...

Now you're making us all envious Mick.

Don't forget to take some earplugs, they're bloody noisey if anywhere close.

Try and fit in a trip to the RAF Museum at Hendon NW London if you can, it's great! and enjoy the rest of your trip.

Alan

A man received the following text from his neighbour:

I am so sorry Bob. I've been riddled with guilt and I have to

confess. I have been helping myself to your wife, day and night when you're not

around. In fact, more than you. I do not get it at home, but that's

no excuse. I can no longer live with the guilt and I hope you will

accept my sincerest apology with my promise that it won't, ever happen again.

The man, anguished and betrayed, went into his bedroom, grabbed

his gun, and without a word, shot his wife and killed her.

A few moments later, a second text came in:

Bloody autospell! So sorry Bob, I meant "wi-fi, not "wife" . . . . .

a flaming bag of poo is funny in any language

Just send me a pair of new slippers and socks.

I'll still blame you, till something else comes to light:laugh:

I'd prefer one like this! No hose needed

A hoverboard like the fictional one used by Marty McFly in Back To The Future II (pictured) does not need water propulsion. The aquatic equivalent, from French jet ski champion Franky Zapata, is set to launch this summer and can be pre-ordered for $2,675 (£1,577)

That looks great Mick.

I love to see the inginuity of some of these developments, even if they require further development, which most do.

That's how we progress.

Just look at how far quadracopters have come in recent times.

Maybe they need Ever Ready to come onboard with Energiser batteries, or whatever, for sustained longer flights? But you have to start somewhere.

As you get older, simply one that works well, is a bonus!

When I was kid living in England, you used to be able to buy a bundle of chopped firewood from the greengrocer, for starting the coal fire.

One winters day when it was snowing hard, I hid behind our garden hedge and tossed this nice looking bundle out on the footpath attached to some string which quickly got covered with snow. An old lady came along and bent down three times to pick it up, but it was just jerked away as her hand was almost on it.

If it had happepened to my Nan some years later, the offender may have possibly wound up with a knuckle sambo and a few loose teeth.

Ahh! now I have a suspect.

Had that happen to me when the kids were small, and I lived just up the road from you in Baulkham Hills.

The doorbell rang, I answered the door and naturally stomped on the burning package. Had to throw away a good pair of slippers and socks, but later saw the funny side of it.

Nice pic's Ross, but no Raybans in any of them.

Mind you, there is the other side of the coin. While we all made it to adulthood reasonably intact (hopefully), there were plenty who didn't. Holding on to that big banger a second too long, dropping the rifle while climbing over the fence, etc.A high proportion of broken bones in kids came from those old rectangular trampolines with no net or spring cover. I wouldn't let my kids on one these days, and I dread the thought of them in a few years doing the things I did when young and brainless (especially involving motorbikes, speed, alcohol, in various combinations).

Not trying to throw a damper over the reminiscing, just saying that "it's all fun until somebody loses an eye" was literal in some cases.[ QUOTE]

 

I'm OK

Thats all looking good to me, but in a couple of years time, it'll only be a memory of past times well spent!

Keep at it.

A Sparklets bulb full of flash powder with a Yellow Sump fuse used to make a big hole in the neighbour's lawn. A .303 bullet casing (with the lead melted out) on the end of a dowel bolt would go through a corrugated iron fence when fired from a crossbow which had the leaf of a car spring as a bow. All good clean fun in those days. And what about tobogganing in an old car bonnet towed behind a car. Then at school, in Cadets, we had almost unlimited live ammo for firing Bren guns on range day. I reckon Australian kids today don't know they are alive. You have to go to India or China or PNG or places like that to see life being lived to the full from an early age. What many call poverty now is only the conditions we lived in as kids anyway, because material goods were in short supply. We certainly made fun, but would not be allowed to do it today.

For ninepence I used to buy a pint of hemp seed from the corn merchants which we used as fishing bait. These days you'd get locked up as they'd claim you had a commercial quantity of seeds to cultivate marijuana with it.

We used to also make our own bangers for Guy Fawks (firework) night using a Swan Vesta match with Jetex fuse down the side, rolled in paper and fill the back end with flash powder from the chemist or photography shop. Armed with some of these, we'd ride around on our bikes, strike the match head and throw them quickly, because it only took about 4 or 5 seconds for the fuse to burn down the side of the match before they exploded with a blinding white flash.

As the son of a police sergeant, I naturally used them responsibly:tongue in cheek: (most of the time).

They use these as Waypoints I am assuming you mean over the top of another airfield at cruise altitude? Happens everywhere around the world and is made up by airline route controllers or flight planners.

Good to hear from you Darren. Don't be shy mate, you used to be such a regular.

The fact is, that in the early days aircraft flew where ever they wanted. Then came Air Traffic Control. They channeled aircraft down particular routes where there was more chance of them banging into each other, but if that happened, they'd have a better idea of where to look for the remaining bits.

I learned these facts from my old cassete recording of a speech given to investment bankers and airline staff many years ago.

A look at flightradar 24 in the early hours shows Emirates flights directly overflying Sydney en-route to Auckland long before the 6am Sydney curfew.

Kind Regards

Planey

Interesting Doug!

All this being filmed while my mum was probably having labour pains with me, not far away. Hope it was worth it!

It's funny looking back at all those old clips, where it sounds as though those commentators all attended the same speech school.

Early Aussie news commentators sounded similar.

[Hopefully Coil was the culprit with the engine issue but will keep eyeon it.

We'll keep our fingers crossed for you.

Let us know how it goes. Always interesting know.

I think the term used, is to cock a deaf ear:cheezy grin:

Maybe she needs a new battery?

The rego was originally a pre-war Empire flying boat in the QANTAS fleet. There is a bit of a story but thats why ABA is painted in QANTAS coloursABA was first registered in Australia in 1951

Kind Regards

Planey

And I thought it was a Bunnings DIY shed frame. Shows how litle I know.

Thats a crack-up Bex.

Handle-bar moustache with no brakes on the end.

You realise thats highly illegal these days?