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- Wed May 15, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: Engineering/Technical Discussions
- Topic: Massive Airports Coming to a Desert Nowhere Near You
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Re: Massive Airports Coming to a Desert Nowhere Near You
Lg. You are a bit younger than me but I was on one of the first BOAC crews to stay in the Gulf Hotel in Bahrein. We stayed at the BOAC rest house before. The Carlton, in Dubai, was the hotel, with an iron bedstead and one of those long electric cords with a barrel switch on the lower end above. Mona...
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
- Replies: 70
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
The testing man, who said it was broken, was wrong, despite there being no warning light or fault thrown up by the fault reader. The Finnish word for "broken" was used and not "out of alignment". Finnish has fewer words than some languages but these concepts do have different words. I wonder how he ...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
Sadly, or not, but it suits me, I am one of those sad? chaps that clears cookies when I log out. +25 expected today, doesn't happen very often, so I have cleaned the a/c filter. We have a/c in the master bedroom, for hot nights!! Newer (2011) Freelander failed the inspection yesterday, xenon levelli...
- Wed May 15, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
Thought I had better sign in, to help lg's statistics!!
25% more members now, I assume.
I can't stay, other things to do, but will not logout (don't know if that is possible, but I expect it is).
25% more members now, I assume.
I can't stay, other things to do, but will not logout (don't know if that is possible, but I expect it is).
- Tue May 14, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI
It seems to be still there, The Ostrich in/near Colnbrook was a favorite of mine.
Haven't been there for at least 20 years.
They did a very good platter of whitebait.
Haven't been there for at least 20 years.
They did a very good platter of whitebait.
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The totally-totally non-political show of all times: 'united by music' - Eurovision song contest!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 715
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Re: The totally-totally non-political show of all times: 'united by music' - Eurovision song contest!
A bit of a show about an hour ago, but nothing like yesterday.
Inside for a bit of warmth, it is +2 outside and I am somewhat cold.
Time for bed, said Zebedee (with apologies to " the magic roundabout").
Inside for a bit of warmth, it is +2 outside and I am somewhat cold.
Time for bed, said Zebedee (with apologies to " the magic roundabout").
- Sat May 11, 2024 8:33 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The totally-totally non-political show of all times: 'united by music' - Eurovision song contest!
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Re: The totally-totally non-political show of all times: 'united by music' - Eurovision song contest!
I was going to say something about Eurovision, the only thing to watch, tonight, on Finnish tv, if you are not an ice hockey fan. I have decided that, perhaps, I should not comment, after several glasses of "vino collapso". Ah, it is the trouserless Finnish entry!! It is now dark enough to sit outsi...
- Sat May 11, 2024 8:15 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
There are many pictures on the net but I will send my best.
It does not get completely dark here even at local mean midnight, so the contrast is not that good.
It does not get completely dark here even at local mean midnight, so the contrast is not that good.
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
The aurora are quite spctacular tonight in Southern Finland.
For once there are clear skies.
For once there are clear skies.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:10 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Flying opportunity, DC3?
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Re: Flying opportunity, DC3?
First time this year, I saw the DC3, that offers a similar experience here, flying an approach to Helsinki, Vantaa, yesterday.
Possibly doing crew training/annual renewals.
Normally it goes over my house but 22L is currently being resurfaced.
Possibly doing crew training/annual renewals.
Normally it goes over my house but 22L is currently being resurfaced.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Antipodees.
- Topic: The Cook Islands
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Re: The Cook Islands
I went there in the late 70s when I was on the ANZ DC10, with BA. ANZ used to have a service that routed AKL-RAR-HNL once? a week and I think they were the only operator to Raro. Iirc I think we stayed at a hotel called the Rarotongan, lovely place. Very unspoilt then but I imagine it is just anothe...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The price of copper?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 654
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The price of copper?
Two chaps, an off road capable cherry picker, and an empty cable drum on a lorry turned up on my drive this morning. They proceeded to remove the obsolete (Finland does not use fixed line telephones any more, maybe in towns?) overhead telephone cabling, wound it onto the drum and took it away. The, ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: My first car
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Re: My first car
I learnt to fly first also.
Nothing so wonderful as a Cherokee but a Forney Ercoupe.
Nothing so wonderful as a Cherokee but a Forney Ercoupe.
Re: ISAs
Thanks for the replies, I will do it tomorrow.
ISAs
I am sure someone, OFSO?, knows the answer as I need some help understanding the rules around ISAs. I have read several web pages, including gov.uk, and have found it somewhat confusing. I invested the maximum, £20k, in the 2023/24 tax year, and it is still invested, in a cash isa. Can I now put ano...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: My first car
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Re: Friday Jokes
Re a couple of posts back.
Mine was a 1936 Austin 10.
Bought for £5 and which disintegrated on the partially built Northam Bridge in Southampton, 1965?.
My second was a Ford Poplar 100E, which my sister rolled.
It didn't do too well after that, but my sister survived.
Mine was a 1936 Austin 10.
Bought for £5 and which disintegrated on the partially built Northam Bridge in Southampton, 1965?.
My second was a Ford Poplar 100E, which my sister rolled.
It didn't do too well after that, but my sister survived.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19998
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
What does an Englishman, in Finland, do on Friday evening after dinner? Clear snow. Another 10/15 cm today, it stopped about 2000, but, if I hadn't sort it out tonight, it would be either a lot of slush or melted and frozen solid by the morning. Job done, after a few glasses of wine and Elgar, The D...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread
How about Heligoland
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:17 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
My garden yesterday morning.
About 15cm, which I will clear, when it stops snowing.
For Reddo, it was -30 overnight in Kittila.
My garden this morning.
About 15cm, which I will clear, when it stops snowing.
For Reddo, it was -30 overnight in Kittila.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Annoyingly, thick cloud is now covering the sky but fmi.fi (there are English pages) is still showing very high aurora probability.
Haven't heard from wife's Ivalo relations but they have to be up at 0500 for work tomorrow and "Voice of Finland" is on tv, grrr!,
Haven't heard from wife's Ivalo relations but they have to be up at 0500 for work tomorrow and "Voice of Finland" is on tv, grrr!,