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I think it's FD2's turn as he identified the castle not me?

That took some finding....."Broadsword calling Danny Boy"...."Where Eagles Dare" was filmed at that castle. Still have no idea about the Kia-Ora connection though.

Well the Bahrain race was a boring procession. I've had more fun on the Hilton Park Services footbridge on the M6 watching motorway traffic speed - or sometimes crawl - underneath.

From STV News: The SNP should re-examine the issue of whether to withdraw MPs from Westminster following the chaos over its motion on Gaza, the party’s depute leader has said. https://news.stv.tv/politics/snp-should-re-examine-withdrawing-mps-from-westminster-says-depute-leader Sounds like an excell...

Remembering the crash of the Turkish Airlines DC10 near Paris which happened 50 years ago today, also on a Sunday. Sleep well cousin Robert. My goodness, it doesn't seem 50 years ago. A British Airways helicopter pilot from Aberdeen who I knew slightly, Julian P, was on board. He was supposed be St...

In 2010 we had a significant snowfall which froze onto the roof as ice a couple of inches thick. As it thawed it percolated through the tiles into the ceiling and ran down the electric cables. Same thing happened here in the heavy snow and long -10C temperatures of December 2010. The house is a con...

Had to look that up - International Trade in Arms Regulations. How odd, even Sikorsky's own brochure on the S92 SAR version shows a clear view of the FLIR with a statement on the photo that "This Page Does Not Contain Export Controlled Technical Data". https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lock...

I wonder why the FLIR has been blurred in the first photo...?

From VGLive, a Norwegian online article:
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From Energy Voice 29/2/24: Earlier today it was confirmed that a 60-year-old woman died after the search and rescue helicopter ditched off the coast of Norway overnight. The Bristow-operated search and rescue (SAR) helicopter was taking part in a training exercise involving Norwegian state-owned oil...

From Energy Voice 29/2/24: Bristow helicopter workers have postponed planned strike action out of respect after a fatal crash off Norway on Wednesday night. The British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) had set strikes for Bristow in Aberdeen, Sumburgh and Norwich on March 3 – 5 across Search and ...

Flight NOSAR6. Looks as though it was SAR training.

All six on board are safe. Seems it happened during a training mission around 1840Z today.

https://www.flightglobal.com/helicopter ... 74.article

Further costs and delays for overdue and over-budget Ferguson ferries. Only six years late. Under the latest estimates, the work to build the two ferries will be around triple the first price of £97m. Further cost overuns ......and who has owned Ferguson Marine since December 2019? The SNP led Scott...

Father trained as an RAF pilot in WW2, mother was in the WAAF, so I got the bug from that. I joined the Air Training Corps at 13, went solo on gliders at 16. Went to RAF Hornchurch for aptitude and medical tests but failed the RAF medical for pilot as my eyesight was just out of limits. Found out th...

From a Malwarebytes blog today :-o : Malwarebytes blog - beware out there! A Malwarebytes Premium customer started a thread on Reddit saying we had blocked malware from trying to infect their computer after they connected a vibrator to a USB port in order to charge the device. The vibrator, Spencer’...

From The Daily Telegraph today: A BRITISH company that makes aircraft once used by MI5 is on the verge of calling in the administrators, months after it became entangled in a row over unpaid invoices. Britten-norman said last week that it intended to appoint an administrator in a court filing, a mov...

Stunning day here! Not a cloud in the sky, no wind and -2C earlier now heading up to the forecast +8C. Replaced a jammed zone valve in the heating system so we now have hot water again from the boiler rather than from the immersion heater. Diverticulitis has been giving me grief for the last 4 days ...

A friend of mine has made a wine from an antidiuretic hybrid grape. It reduces the number of trips us older men make to the toilet during the night. It's being sold as Pinot More.

He/She has now embarked most of our F-35 force :)) I've read eight of them - I wonder how many are operational and crewed ashore in the other squadron (809). They might need to put GPS trackers on them in a ship that size but no doubt the Merlins will take up a lot of room. Good luck to the lads an...