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Isn't it interesting how times and minds change. The Constitution saying nothing about whether a convicted person can run for presidency (if I have understood it correctly) or being one from prison probably means that it didn't occur to the Founding Fathers that anything like that could happen. Now...

But if they're over the house it's stuff downrange that will get hit. You only have to worry about them on approach.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it

- W.C.Fields

OK, having thought about it a bit more, I guess the main gear has to roll for it to spin like that, so that's where they should have the chocks.

Two B52's have just passed over the mansion about 5 minutes apart, don't know if they will send any more. At 27000ft. and 400kts heading a fraction East of North wonder where they are bound. They've been coming over my place in Northants too, since they and two others were deployed to Fairford for ...

Chocks stop the thing rolling fore and aft, I don't see how they'd work sideways because you're not dealing with a rolling wheel but a sliding one. There's nothing on the side of the tyre to anchor a chock. It does look like the nosewheel rotated after an initial skid mark to the side and started ro...

Of course, that's the total opposite to what we were told 20 years ago. Back then it was recommended to avoid consumption of peanut products for the first five years, so he never got any. Fortunately there are no peanut allergies as a result of following that advice.

I think there are treatments that help reduce sensitivity in a lot of people, but they don't always work and do take quite a bit of time. I think it's a case of administer some of the allergen under controlled conditions so the body reacts but not too badly, then slowly increase the dose over time. ...

Reference the peanut thing, it makes you wonder how the dear young thing makes it through daily life ? Probably very carefully, carrying an Epi-pen, and with occasional rush trips to hospital if she needs to use it. Some people really are that sensitive to anaphylactic shock. Surprised that the fam...

On a jump flight you can carry more than the normal number of passengers. They are sitting on an empty floor anyway and you've only got the weight and balance limitations to take into consideration. Just the fact that you've taken out the seats will allow for an extra jumper. Because of all the ext...

Morning folks. Bit of cloud 25 degs. Just had the internet off for 2 hrs. It was our local mast which involves sending a chap out from town. Goats have just been for their morning watering. Have just put in an enquiry about a new engine for the ship. Ours was a rebuild and now ten years since then....

I doubt if Spirit can afford more than $50/passenger for compensation at the moment. If they'd gotten wet (excluding self-inflicted loss of bladder control) then I could see higher compensation.

Why should private education be VAT exempt? Private health care isn't. No-one is saying you cannot educate your child privately, are they, just as you have the right to private health care? The other side of that is to look at the relative cost of imposing VAT, how much they'd actually get from it ...

Bette Nash, the world's longest-serving flight attendant, has died aged 88 after nearly 70 years of airborne service. The news was broken by her employer, American Airlines, which mourned her death in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "She started in 1957 and held the Guinness World Record for longest...

Trying to look at it on Google Maps, which appear to be a bit out of date because that last building is not present, it's just open field. I think he's coming into Bankstown from the north (presumably the approach would have been round to the east and then in on a runway), flying parallel to Surrey ...

And of course the security guy turns up at the end to tell him "You can't park that there, mate".

All but the earliest models of C210s have an electro-hydraulic gear extension system. An electric motor driving a hydraulic pump. The first models had an engine driven hydraulic pump. Procedure is to open access door and 30-35 pumps to lower gear. If he had extended the gear when he had sufficient ...

I assume that with no engine, it would take time to lower the undercarriage, or does gravity extension work on light aircraft too? He theoretically had a short window to pull a lever once he'd cleared the last building, but he was probably concentrating on more important matters, and I assume that p...

Arthur C Clarke had a PAR description in his novel "Glide Path".

I think most professional armies want willing, highly trained volunteers, not conscripts. If the army has to copy with 700,000 teenagers, most of whom don't really want to be there, when the regular army is a tenth of that size, it's likely to have adverse effects.