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Departed During 2025

Last post by Woody « Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:24 pm
Posted in Where Are They Now
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by llondel » Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:49 pm » in Where Are They Now

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Britt Allcroft has died, aged 81. She was responsible for the TV series of Thomas the Tank Engine, watched and enjoyed by many children (and adults).

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Former Scotland, Manchester United and Manchester City striker Denis Law - the only Scottish player to have won the Ballon d'Or - has died at the age...

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Last post by Woody
Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:24 pm
The New Football Thread

Last post by Woody « Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:23 pm
Posted in Crewroom
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by admin » Thu Dec 22, 2016 1:05 pm » in Crewroom
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The new football thread where personal attacks will not be appreciated. Thanks muchly.

Admin/Alison

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Former Scotland, Manchester United and Manchester City striker Denis Law - the only Scottish player to have won the Ballon d'Or - has died at the age...
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Last post by Woody
Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:23 pm
Gaza and West Bank "ownership' ?

Last post by Dushan « Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:19 pm
Posted in Politics & Controversial Topics
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by John Hill » Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:38 am » in Politics & Controversial Topics

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Who will 'own' Palestine when all the Palestinians are gone?

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I thought all of that area of the world belongs to Jews and Israel.

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Last post by Dushan
Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:19 pm
The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI

Last post by Karearea « Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:01 pm
Posted in Crewroom
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by admin2 » Sun May 12, 2024 3:44 pm » in Crewroom
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....and so it was. V is now closed.

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On my laptop I noticed that the area to the left of the touchpad was starting to bulge upwards, I looked on line and saw that was where the battery...
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Last post by Karearea
Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:01 pm
Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

Last post by probes « Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:53 pm
Posted in Politics & Controversial Topics
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by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:20 pm » in Politics & Controversial Topics
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Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:53 pm
SpaceX

Last post by Boac « Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:20 pm
Posted in Space Related (& Freight) Ops
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed May 27, 2020 3:54 am » in Space Related (& Freight) Ops
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Demo-2 will mark SpaceX's first launch of a Crew Dragon capsule carrying astronauts — a major moment for NASA's human spaceflight, which has been...

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Grounded while FAA/SpaceX investigate.
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Last post by Boac
Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:20 pm
Friday Jokes

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:36 pm
Posted in Crewroom
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by OFSO » Sun Aug 23, 2015 5:28 pm » in Crewroom
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To kick off, here's one that had 'em rolling in the aisles (although I admit it was my Kindergarten aisles.)

There were four skunks: daddy skunk,...

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A Taliban commander is patrolling when he hears a shout from behind a sand dune.

One SAS soldier is better than ten taliban fighters!

The Taliban...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:36 pm
Pacific Palisades Wildfire Out of Control in SoCal

Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana « Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:00 pm
Posted in Crewroom
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by PHXPhlyer » Wed Jan 08, 2025 1:47 am » in Crewroom
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Pacific Palisades wildfire grows rapidly
Powerful winds whip up a fire in the coastal Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, forcing 30,000...

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..and the same goes for internal residential firefighting systems.
In rural Canada, any attendance by the fire brigade is almost always to stop the...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:00 pm
Aviation Art The Royal Air Force Club

Last post by Rossian « Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:37 pm
Posted in Military Nostalgia
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by Ex-Ascot » Wed Dec 25, 2024 1:57 pm » in Military Nostalgia
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I am bored and here at The Royal Air Force Club every day,. We have the biggest collections of Royal Air Force aviation art anywhere. I am going to...

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.....not a few of the SNCO radar operators went on to be commissioned as navigators. I can remember three at Ballykelly on Shacks in '65/'66.

The...
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Last post by Rossian
Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:37 pm
Chaos in Canada

Last post by Dushan « Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:01 pm
Posted in Politics & Controversial Topics
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by ian16th » Fri Dec 11, 2020 4:19 pm » in Politics & Controversial Topics
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Anyone else seen this?

Shouldn't NATO have a say?

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You guys have a young cool hip stylish PM with a penchant for matching his clown socks with his clown personality.

On the flip side you got Timmy's...
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Last post by Dushan
Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:01 pm
Rant of the Day v2.

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:06 pm
Posted in Crewroom
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by admin » Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:47 pm » in Crewroom
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This one was getting a bit big too.

Admin/Alison

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Worth it for the price of a pint.
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Fri Jan 17, 2025 2:06 pm
Falsification of Flying Experience

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:51 am
Posted in Crewroom
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by FD2 » Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:32 pm » in Crewroom
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Pilot jailed for lying about flying experience to get British Airways job

Craig Butfoy, from Kent, entered false details and altered entries in...

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In the military hours are T/O to landing. Civilian chock to chock. This can be a big difference especially operating out of large busy airports. I...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:51 am
Chaos in Scotland.

Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana « Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:44 pm
Posted in Politics & Controversial Topics
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by Magnus » Sun Jan 27, 2019 2:17 pm » in Politics & Controversial Topics
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Well, why not?

Fish senior now faces 14 charges, 13 of which are sexual in nature. In the meantime, he has, after being expelled from the SNP,...

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Due Diligence.
The club's signing agent said I rechecked the brown envelope I found behind the cistern in the executive lavatory, and apart from the...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:44 pm
WTF is happening in the UK?

Last post by Woody « Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:22 pm
Posted in Politics & Controversial Topics
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by AtomKraft » Sat Aug 17, 2019 9:56 am » in Politics & Controversial Topics
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People I speak to hold normal opinions- but feel unable to express them.
Folk shrug, they don't understand what's happening, but they are sure it's...

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In a major speech in central London on Thursday, the new Tory leader will admit that leaving the European Union “without a plan for growth” was a...
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Last post by Woody
Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:22 pm
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Last post by probes « Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:46 pm
Posted in Politics & Controversial Topics
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by Ex-Ascot » Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:47 am » in Politics & Controversial Topics
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Admin, I know that you closed down the Markle bashing thread but we think under current circumstances the situation should be able to be debated here...

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Princess Markle gets emotional: MEGHAN MARKLE RAGES AFTER GETTING BANNED AS NETFLIX SHOW BACKLASH EXPLODES! THIS IS EMBARRASSING
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Last post by probes
Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:46 pm
Birthdays

Last post by Woody « Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:34 am
Posted in Crewroom
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by probes » Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:15 pm » in Crewroom
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Congrats to Pinky! :ymparty:
How do/did you celebrate?

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Happy Birthday to OHL, The Green Anger and Cacophonix, wherever you maybe :D
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Last post by Woody
Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:34 am
BA in the Times

Last post by Woody « Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:23 am
Posted in Airline Rumours, Gossip and Chat
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by ian16th » Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:11 am » in Airline Rumours, Gossip and Chat
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Not an optimistic article

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Looks like BA will have to find a new excuse for delays :D
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Last post by Woody
Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:23 am
Bezos Space Flight

Last post by Boac « Thu Jan 16, 2025 8:40 am
Posted in Space Related (& Freight) Ops
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by Boac » Sat Dec 28, 2024 5:09 pm » in Space Related (& Freight) Ops

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'New Glenn' may well make its first flight on Jan 6th having done a 24 sec static fire test, and now with FAA launch approval. With Starship on Jan...

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Wow! They did it. Second stage successfully in orbit. No news of the booster recovery/landing yet and it does not sound as if it worked too well, but...

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Last post by Boac
Thu Jan 16, 2025 8:40 am
Chaos in Spain

Last post by OFSO « Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:50 am
Posted in Politics & Controversial Topics
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by OFSO » Fri Oct 26, 2018 3:44 pm » in Politics & Controversial Topics
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The Catalan politicians have been in prison since October 2017, no charges brought against them.

Sanchez, the new socialist Prime Minister of Spain,...

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The reason that 90% of the expats here are French is that we are half an hour from the (open) border with France. The Spanish/Catalan authorities...
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Last post by OFSO
Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:50 am
Crew Behaving Badly

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:12 am
Posted in Airline Rumours, Gossip and Chat
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by PHXPhlyer » Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:51 pm » in Airline Rumours, Gossip and Chat
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Airline crew blasted for ‘life threatening’ photo shoot on plane wing

Link has video

Their careers certainly aren’t taking off.

Members of a...

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Southwest Airlines pilot accused of DUI is arrested at Georgia airport before flight
A TSA officer smelled alcohol on the pilot and informed law...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:12 am
A grave mistake

Last post by llondel « Thu Jan 16, 2025 1:45 am
Posted in Politics & Controversial Topics
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by EA01 » Sat Oct 07, 2023 8:23 am » in Politics & Controversial Topics
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No doubt a harsh etaliation is in store for Hamas.....

Yom Kippur stared Oct 6th 1973, todays festivities 7th Oct 2023....Hamas will have a lot of...

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OK, more context for the deal, it appears that Witkoff was there alongside the Biden team, it's just that Trump is trying to claim all the credit. It...
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Last post by llondel
Thu Jan 16, 2025 1:45 am
Darwin Awards

Last post by tango15 « Wed Jan 15, 2025 4:57 pm
Posted in Crewroom
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by Capetonian » Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:41 am » in Crewroom
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I submit my starter :

Man tries to kill a spider on his gas tank with a LIGHTER and sets a fill-up station on fire

Man who is afraid of spiders...

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As someone who has spent many moons in Brazil, including the more remote parts, I really have to question this bloke's sanity. All those gorgeous...
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Last post by tango15
Wed Jan 15, 2025 4:57 pm
Chaos in USA

Last post by tango15 « Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:29 pm
Posted in Politics & Controversial Topics
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by barkingmad » Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:18 pm » in Politics & Controversial Topics
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About 3,000 deaths recorded after 9/11 and look where that took us?

These statistics put that casualty count into perspective, or maybe not....

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Agreed about Switzerland.
Adopting their model for referenda would be a good start.
The problem is not with the representative systems, but with the...
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Last post by tango15
Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:29 pm
More Boeing Bad News

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Tue Jan 14, 2025 5:33 pm
Posted in Aviation Incidents
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Boeing delivered 30 airplanes in December, but gap with Airbus widened in 2024
The tally widened the delivery gap with Boeing’s chief rival, Airbus,...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Tue Jan 14, 2025 5:33 pm
Another duff M$ update

Last post by Boac « Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:56 am
Posted in Computer Chatter

by Boac » Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:56 am » in Computer Chatter

KB5048239 is the latest and keeps on trying to install despite being 'successfully installed' (at least twice...!). It appears that M$ is...

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Last post by Boac
Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:56 am

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