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by old_git
Sun Feb 26, 2023 6:20 pm
Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
Topic: Appeal for Finningley airshow pics from early 70s
Replies: 6
Views: 1844

Re: Appeal for Finningley airshow pics from early 70s

Here's a start. i do have many more somewhere, but maybe as negatives only, i also have the original show programmes if they're any use, i will dig them out later this week and see what years i was there. GB https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52713075324_4b48d55c0a_c.jpg fin9_filtered by Geoff Bye ...
by old_git
Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:43 pm
Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
Topic: Phantom XT905
Replies: 14
Views: 4648

Re: Phantom XT905

Hope you don't mind, here are some snaps of XT900 at a very foggy Waddington Photo Call, sorry about the quality, its that damn film stuff. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486640422_52a88f9313_h.jpg Phantom GB 2 by Geoff , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51488136309_0c6d01ee28_h....
by old_git
Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:05 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Invalidated Motor Insurance
Replies: 5
Views: 1412

Re: Invalidated Motor Insurance

Post a photo, sounds interesting this. To be honest you are unlikely to have cracked the chassis going over a speed bump. Sudden failures don't usually result in cracks. The important thing is where does the crack start from, usually it will be a weld or a hole and obviously has to be in a high stre...
by old_git
Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:54 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Haunted Airfields/Stories
Replies: 37
Views: 31334

Re: Haunted Airfields/Stories

when i worked at Prodrive, based at the Test track on Former RAF Honiley, there were a number of "incidents". The best being, when i was working very late one night, a security guard came round to check i was still alive and stopped for a brew and a chat. Then told me the story from the night before...
by old_git
Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:04 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: XH558- we may loose her forever!
Replies: 87
Views: 23955

Re: XH558- we may loose her forever!

Just got in from being with my accountant all afternoon, he had a look at the accounts as posted and here are his comments. For many years the VTST made a surplus. The surplus had to go somewhere and it does not show on the balance sheet as cash. It is normal in charity accounting to include a reser...
by old_git
Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:13 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: XH558- we may loose her forever!
Replies: 87
Views: 23955

Re: XH558- we may loose her forever!

TACAN I may well be wrong and apologise un reservedly if i am, but can you explain where the surplus cash generated for the previous 8 years is accounted for. Item 5 Financial review on page 9 states that £670,521 was written down as depreciation. My understanding is that it is written off against t...
by old_git
Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:54 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: XH558- we may loose her forever!
Replies: 87
Views: 23955

Re: XH558- we may loose her forever!

READ THE ACCOUNTS. page 10 Quote 5. Financial review ( continued) Reserves Policy The trust's reserves policy is to build up unrestricted funds in the form of committed or available cash to a level equivalent to 12 months of expenditure, that is about £2 million. In the current economic climate it h...
by old_git
Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:32 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: XH558- we may loose her forever!
Replies: 87
Views: 23955

Re: XH558- we may loose her forever!

Now i'll rake up this old hobby horse. VTST have 1.7 million sat in the bank at the end of 2009 on which they earned over a grand interest, so its real cash. they had 2.2 million sat in the bank at the end of 2008. They state their aim is to always have 1 years operating costs in reserve FACT. that ...
by old_git
Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:25 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: XH558- we may loose her forever!
Replies: 87
Views: 23955

Re: XH558- we may loose her forever!

to be honest the normal process is not to take a big wage at all, for tax reasons. the norm is to take a small nominal wage, then take a share dividend from the profits of the business. and hopefully bang a bit into your pension. The norm is also to lead by example and only take from the profits, af...
by old_git
Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:43 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: XH558- we may loose her forever!
Replies: 87
Views: 23955

Re: XH558- we may loose her forever!

allways read them, makes fun reading. but people don't like you pointing out stuff in them. Such as Robert plemming being on a salary of £72,000 or the fact that the trust is sitting on a slush fund of £1.7 Million and still begging for cash. Lots of good stuff in them, but as i said people don't li...
by old_git
Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:32 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: XH558- we may loose her forever!
Replies: 87
Views: 23955

Re: XH558- we may loose her forever!

i had some in a pie for lunch, i wish you'd said earlier :whistle:
by old_git
Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:21 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: XH558- we may loose her forever!
Replies: 87
Views: 23955

Re: XH558- we may loose her forever!

Does it really matter if we lose her forever from the skies. Is it really such an icon of British engineering, what aspects make it such. It can't hold a candle to Concorde for example. Yes me and everyone would love to see it keep flying and have donated over the years with that aim, But the busine...
by old_git
Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:54 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: What would you change about the SDR ?
Replies: 32
Views: 7638

Re: What would you change about the SDR ?

The first thing i would do is implement a ruling that defence spending has to be spent on UK products, designed and built in the UK by UK owned companies or at least more than 50% Uk owned. The point being that UK ltd is skint, the only real way to generate cash is to produce things and sell them. T...
by old_git
Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:02 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Which ATC Squadron are/were you a member of?
Replies: 184
Views: 80811

Re: Which ATC Squadron are/were you a member of?

1211 detached flight - Swadlincote. 78 to 83 got to Staff cadet level (yellow shoulder braid ). still can do the funny turn with the Tee and The Vee etc etc. i remember camps at Binbrook and Newton. used to love shooting the old 303 rifles and represented the squadron at Proteus, but didn't win or a...
by old_git
Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:05 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: help
Replies: 17
Views: 5343

Re: help

a triangle and triangulation are completely different. a triangle is a geometric shape having 3 angles bounded within and 3 angles externally. triangulation is a process which takes 3 bearings from north to a point of transmission, for this you need direction finding equipment in order to establish ...
by old_git
Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:19 pm
Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
Topic: Abandoned, Forgotten and Burnt!!
Replies: 134
Views: 117305

Re: Abandoned, Forgotten and Burnt!!

couple from me, can't remember which dump these were on.

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by old_git
Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:27 am
Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
Topic: Hucknall?
Replies: 20
Views: 8881

Re: Hucknall?

The most famous use for the Vulcan test bed was of course as a test bed for the Concorde engine flight test programme. http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.transportarchive.org.uk/aimages/G1633.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.transportarchive.org.uk/getobject.php%3Frnum%3DG1633%26searchitem%3D%...
by old_git
Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:36 pm
Forum: Current Military Photography
Topic: Algerian AW101 Merlin - Westlands - 26-08-10
Replies: 3
Views: 1823

Re: Algerian AW101 Merlin - Westlands - 26-08-10

Hope you don't mind, here's a couple of it at Falmouth. Sorry about the quality.

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by old_git
Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Happy Birthday Flaps
Replies: 2
Views: 1130

Re: Happy Birthday Flaps

happy birthday mate, ave a good un, but not too much Whiskey eh :halo: :thumbs: :thumbs:

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