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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Anatoly Kvochur
- Replies: 6
- Views: 452
Re: Anatoly Kvochur
Nobody who was at Boscombe Down will forget him!!!.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Tampa Bay Airfest
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1292
Re: Tampa Bay Airfest
Also seen them up close at Dayton Show and others. Good to watch the ground stuff once. I remember getting a lot of praise from the Americans nearby when Dave Reader and I noticed a family with small kids behind us. We moved them in front of us because it was their team, not ours. Got applause from ...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Tampa Bay Airfest
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1292
Re: Tampa Bay Airfest
Watched The Thunderbird Demo live. Was almost reaching for the sick bucket at one point. They were so wonderful, awe inspiring, brave Top Americans, the finest airmen ever.. awesome, motivated. I could go on...... I had to laugh when the robotic ground-crew removed their sunglasses in formation... I...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Louis Gossett Jr
- Replies: 7
- Views: 385
Re: Louis Gossett Jr
A very fine actor indeed!!. The Drill Sergeant in 'An Officer and a Gentleman' for which he won an Oscar for the 'Best Supporting Actor'. The first black man to win this award.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
- Topic: Fairford RIAT 1998
- Replies: 8
- Views: 939
Re: Fairford RIAT 1998
You got that right Patrick.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Duxford Crash
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3388
Re: Duxford Crash
Sadly, from the video, it doesn't look survivable.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: F1 2024
- Replies: 215
- Views: 13614
Re: F1 2024
When I was watching it live, I thought it looked 'not normal'
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: F1 2024
- Replies: 215
- Views: 13614
Re: F1 2024
Read somewhere that Karoon Chandok, Naomi S. and Natalie P. were not going to be back at tracks until Miami in May although Rachel, Ted and Martin will be there all the time.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:11 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Top Gun Maverick
- Replies: 95
- Views: 9205
Re: Top Gun Maverick
Switched off after 30 mins.....
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:06 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Band Of Brothers Documentary
- Replies: 5
- Views: 442
Re: Band Of Brothers Documentary
I have both boxed sets. Episode 9 of B of B was one of the most powerful pieces of television I have seen [Discovering the Concentration Camp]. My wife found it very difficult to watch. Very lump in the throat time. Agree with Red about Pacific.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Band Of Brothers Documentary
- Replies: 5
- Views: 442
Re: Band Of Brothers Documentary
What an amazing piece of television this series was!!. Arguably the best ever. If any of you have not yet seen it, I urge you to make the effort to do so. By pure coincidence, I was dancing [ballroom] last night, and the last waltz was to the evocative theme music. Superb.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Capt Eric Moody passes.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 408
Re: Capt Eric Moody passes.
Two types of pilots.... Those who can fly, and those who can't. He was definitely the former.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:13 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: 50th Anniversary Scheme for GAF Tornado
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1850
Re: 50th Anniversary Scheme for GAF Tornado
Hideous!!!
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What phone do we all use?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2066
Re: What phone do we all use?
Still using my Nokia35101. Only mobile I have ever had. As Gary says, completely indestructible!!.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: General Photography
- Topic: 'Spoons. What does yours tell you?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2151
Re: 'Spoons. What does yours tell you?
AH, the Golden Age of Motor Racing. So many people helped by Jim Russell. Oversubscribed grids etc., Good days. We meet friends in Wetherspoon in Bury St Edmunds every Wednesday morning. A great watering hole. Pay your money for a mug, have constant refills of tea, chocolate etc. Made more friends t...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 6 Nations 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4584
Re: 6 Nations 2024
Accidentally missed it all with all the Skiing, F.1 etc. B....r!!!
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Steve Canyon
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1061
Re: Steve Canyon
Agree with Roughcutter. Pretty gung-ho and corny, but some very unseen [by me] footage from way back when. Ignore everything apart from the aircraft. Very dubious flying techniques for an 'Ace Pilot' like putting the flaps and gear fully down way to early in his C.130 when doubtful of making the run...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
- Topic: Hunter on the move
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1091
Re: Hunter on the move
RJAF silver 2 seater flew past my cruise ship in Aqaba harbour 6 years ago. Lovely sight and sound. Very close to the ship.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Warning!? Waddington and other airfields
- Replies: 48
- Views: 5276
Re: Warning!? Waddington and other airfields
Best one at Northholt was a Pan- Am 707 that thought it was arriving at Heathrow!!!. Long, long ago.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What would H & S say
- Replies: 13
- Views: 709
Re: What would H & S say
7.30am on a week-end morning, picking up the airfield keys from the Guardroom [R.A.F. Halton}, opening up the airfield {I was the only one there} Refuelling Bedford 3 tonners from jerrycans, daily inspection on 3 V.8 Glider winches, refuelling etc. Hitching everything up, again on my own, driving th...