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2 hours ago, oowee said:
Looks great. Cranfield have a collection of vintage aircraft and once or twice a year they fly them and it's free to go and watch. Many are unpowered aircraft with just the guy providing the energy to get it airborne and the undercarriage. Well worth seeing if you are interested.
I started my career as an aircraft technician at Cranfield, back in the 60's. Old Warden didn't have all their hangars built then so some of their aircraft were kept in winter storage at Cranfield so I worked on some of their aircraft. Bristol F2B and Avro 504k for example.
I also did some work on Cranfields own exhibits such as TSR2 and ME163.
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Well, I shoot Rabbits and Pigeons to keep food on my table cos I is a poor penshunner.
What's Champagne?
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This has just been published in my local paper.
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Hope this helps
https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q717.htm
You can film in a public place without needing the permission of everyone in the background, otherwise there'd never be any 'on location' reports. The media often accept mobile phone footage but a posed image would need permission.
As is said here though, should anyone complain then it would be a civil matter not a criminal one, unless it could be proved that you were gathering information in the commission of a crime.
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Left angled screwdriver
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As a human being I have naturally evolved as a hunter gatherer therefore I believe that, notwithstanding any crop protection or public health issues, it is my natural human right to be able to hunt for food in the countryside and not beholden to the supermarkets.
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I tend to use the simple descriptive terms of Guzinter and Guzonter.
Doesn't work for ships.
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RC glider thermal soaring.
All sorts of methods. Discus Launch, electric power, winch launch, slope soaring, bungee launch, aero-towing. Everything from chuck gliders up to 4metre span scale models. Just look on the tube for different kinds.
Very satisfying to pick a thermal at 10' off the ground then fly the glider up 'til it specks out.
Also Ukulele. Loads of clubs about now. Easy to learn and a good ole sing-song with like-minded friends.
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Swiss Army knife all the time. I've used it to help administer first aid a couple of times.
When I was a kid I found a pen knife, I must have been about 10 because I was still at Junior school. I took it to school the next day and gave to a girl in my class because her Dad was our village bobby.
Three months later she handed the knife back to me because her dad had told her I could keep it because nobody had claimed it.
When a lad reached the age of 7 he got a single bladed knife for his birthday. If he'd been responsible then on his 10th birthday he'd receive a double-bladed knife with a spike to get boy scouts out of horses hooves.
It was a rite of passage in my village and a knife was essential for making bows and arrows, spears, catapults, eggpickers and cutting strings for conkers.
A statistic from the highway code,every day on average 5 people are killed and just under 60 people are seriously injured in road collisions so the general public are much more at risk from me when I'm driving my car than from the penknife in my pocket.
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I'm in the process of changing with the help of the MSE cheap energy club.
Went to Flow from SSE three years ago through Uswitch and they were great and saved a load. Second year Flow whacked my DD up and I've just claimed some money back off them because I was £200 in credit. They've been taken over by another company and seem to have gone to pot. I keep getting phone calls from their retention unit but as soon as I answer the phone they ring off. Googling the number gave me the details.
When I changed from SSE I got a message to say that the Meter Reference Point Numbers didn't match. I checked directly with the national database and found the numbers were correct passed these on to Flow and the change went ahead.
Now, through MSE cheap energy club I found a good deal with Tonik Energy, good reviews and savings too. I applied to switch, Tonik confirmed the switch within a few hours and then a couple of days later Tonik messaged me to say the switch couldn't go ahead because, according to the National Database, I'm on prepayment meters.
Domestic customers can no longer contact the NDB directly so I went to Flow and they gave me the MPRN's and confirmed the meter serial numbers that I gave them. They also said that they would update the NDB.
I then emailed Tonik with the numbers and they emailed me back to confirm the switch was now going ahead within 21 days.
Having seen this happen to loads of other customers when they want to switch then, being a confirmed conspiracy theorist, I suspect there's some fiddling going on to try to frustrate anyone trying to switch.
WeFlip only do comparisons with companies who pay them commission.
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On 01/04/2019 at 13:44, amateur said:
It was trialled in 1968-71, and quickly repealed as a bad move.
One of the few times that Parliament did listen to the general public
I remember it and it was flipping miserable.
There was no real advantage because it still got dark by 5pm so most people were still coming home from work and there was no opportunity to do anything in the evening.
In the morning it didn't get light until gone 9am so school kids were going to school in the dark and so many trades depending on the daylight couldn't get started until gone 9am.
If they do change it again then I'm sure it will quickly get repealled again because it was far worse than what we have now.
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Which taxes will rise to replace all the speeding taxes not levied?
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Tried lots of lines, including Barrio which I couldn't get on with, and the best floating line for me is Snowbee XS. My buddy has done the same. Reliable, straight and easy casting.
I tried Snowbee XS Plus too but it cracked and didn't cast as well.
However, my favourite sinking line is an Airflo 40+ expert Di3. Straight, easy to shoot and the colour change helps indicate the retrieve.
I would always recommend Snowbee XS but it's also a case of matching line to rod but I'm definitely not a rod snob. I find my Shakespeare 10' #7 Mark one works well for my floating line but my mark II doesn't. However, being much stiffer, my MkII Shakey whacks out the Airflo Di3 really well.
Anyway, Snowbee XS Ivory for me.
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2 hours ago, Old farrier said:
Probably not although it could be interesting building a ark to get a few animals afloat
That could create another landmass to replace the ones submerged.
When Noah built his ark and got afloat with it then he found he had rather a lot of animal dung to get rid of.
Him and his sons shovelled it over the sides whilst his wife made cups of tea and cooked for them. (it was like that in those un-enlightened times)
This of course created quite a pile of dung.
Anyway, some centuries later Christopher Colombus discovered it and called it America.
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That's one of the things I love about being a countryman, always something new to see.
Last Christmas my sister gave me a wonderfully illustrated book called 'The Lost Words' by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris.
Each of the illustrations contain a word that they say is being lost from many children's vocabulary because they spend so little time outside and no longer take a countryside ramble in the spring to see the signs of new life after winter.
Words such as acorn, adder, bluebell, bramble, conker, fern, heather, kingfisher, otter, raven, willow, wren.
Catkin, violet, primrose, moorhen (or moggy as we called them) are words I remeber learning as a child.
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So far, I have never been in the field with my deeks set up then seen a Pigeon coming towards me and thought "Oh, I'm going to need a different choke for this one" then change my choke and shoot the incoming Pigeon!
1/4 and 3/4 for me, the same as many.
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Some time ago there was a load came in that were very cheap 16gb & 32gb. It turned out they had a programme installed that made it look as if they were taking the full memory but when it came to retreiving all the valuable data it turned out that the true capacity of the sticks was only 2gb and a lot of people lost cherished memories.
Cloud backup as well makes sense.
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I spent many happy hours crawling over and through these fixing and servicing them.
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I'm sorry but I don't understand this as an accident.
I've no doubt that he never intended to harm his friend but even in basic firearms training when I joined the RAF we were constantly told "empty or loaded makes no difference, never point a weapon at anyone unless you intend to kill them".
When I was in the crewroom on my first operational squadron a corporal was showing off field-stripping and re-assembling his SLR. When he'd put back together he laid it on the table pointing straight at me and said "all I've got to do now is pull the trigger and ******** will be blown away". We were only on excercise so we had not been issued any live rounds so I knew it could not be loaded but I simply replied "if you don't point that away from me then I'll wrap that round your neck!!"
He didn't move so I launched a kick so hard that when it hit the muzzle it flew up and the foresight hit him between the eyes and caused a cut that needed three stitches. All the other blokes in the crewroom let him know what a **** he'd been.
Whenever I've taught my kids, grandkids or anyone else to use my guns then the first thing I've told them is "empty or loaded makes no difference, never point a weapon at anyone unless you intend to kill them".
Tragic? Yes. An accident? not in my opinion.
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I've done all kinds of wierd and wonderful work after 10yrs in the RAF.
I'd worked quite a long time for a business making horse saddle trees, inside all the leatherwork there is a wood and spring steel frame called a tree. The centre of the saddle trade in this country is in Walsall, the gaffer sold out to a Walsall saddler who then absorbed the firm into his own business.
I got a bit of a payout and I'd been doing stained glass/glass engraving as a paying hobby so I set up full time doing that. As it was very labour intensive I didn't make much money doing it but it was really interesting and I got great satisfaction from the creativity.
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5 hours ago, 12gauge82 said:
Got to say, as ridiculous as flat earth belief is, there are other beliefs that I believe are just as daft, but are followed by millions of people around the world and they have no more scientific proof either.
Many people believe that money exists and actually has a value🙄
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So every planet in the universe is round but Earth is flat but................no, sorry, got something more important to do🙄
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23 hours ago, old'un said:
How did you get that finish on the fascia board?
Shabby Chic, all the rage now🙄
Another day with Old Aeroplanes and Old Friends
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Don't want to divert the thread but The last job I had at Cranfield was an overhaul and crankshaft change on a Gypsy Major engine from an Auster Aiglet. I then joined the RAF where I worked on HP Victor BSR2's on a strategic reconnaisance squadron then Canberra PR9's photo reconnaisance.
After 10 years I left the RAF and went for a job with a company that serviced light aircraft engines near Bedford. As I'd been on jets for 10 years, and never worked on Lycomings or Continentals then I told of my work on Gypsy Majors at the interview. He said they'd been asked to take on Gypsy's but declined because they didn't have any experience with them so I got the job.
When I started on the following Monday then my first job was an overhaul and crankshaft change on a Gypsy Major which left me wondering where I'd been for 10 years.
I still like to see the Gypsy Major powered aircraft flying at Old Warden.
Lovely photo's