Jabo

Good point, I'll check

Nope, that's a 'double' room as opposed to a 'twin' room. Much as I like Jedi, I feel I have to draw the line somewhere lol.

very nice m8. As a long since retired modeller, I have a question. ISTR that glues dont stick painted parts together, but I notice that the areas around the canopy (for instance) are painted. How you get things to stick to a painted surface? I'm guessing that either the glues or the paints have changed in the last 20-odd years? Jabo

A bright idea the Mayor of London had a while back to charge people to drive in certain areas of the capital in an effort to reduce the congestion in the city at certain times of the day. Basically, your car gets photographed on the way into the CC zone, and this generates a charge which you pay by ringing a phone number and giving your card details. For some obscure reason, this is not a popular idea.

No, the other Prince of Darkness. A certain Mr. Osbourne? And no, I don't mean George.

double room - no singles available (apparently). Congestion charge is £8 per day plus 24hrs parking at £10. Will most likely book tomorrow.

congestion charge would be £16 - so £26 for two days + parking at the hotel

Looking like about £90 a night.

You were never off the list Nick. I intend to use my normal method when dealing with the French, just talk more LOUDLY AND SLOOOWLY. Just a thought -you know those St George flags that ppl stick on their cars for the World Cup etc - Could we get a white one for the minibus? I'd love to go back to the Intrepid Fox in Camden - met the Prince of Darkness there back in the 80's Jabo

Now you mention it...hmmm. I'll call the Days Innn tomorrow Jim, should have some idea of prices later. Jabo

JP got a tree. Far safer in my view.

Yep, FW P.II, proof positive that by June 1943, Kurt Tank had completely lost the plot - fortunately for the pilots, this aircraft never went beyond the drawing board. You can find out more here, and more about Luftwaffe secret projects at www.luft46.com Jabo

Poss the same thing they're putting the 'new' Yaks? Jabo

Wasn't sure with t'other Nick back around, but thanks!

Indeed, good work.

Do you mean me? I do like the Beau - I admit it. Happiness is truly a pair of big bristols. Looking forward to the finished article m8. Jabo

I may have mixed up the tenses here, english not being my first language and all. The original FW190 used the BMW and Junkers engines (I don't think they've built the 801 for a while lol.) The FlugWerk examples appear to be using the Ash-82 according to their website (the Ash-82 is a development of the M-25 (a licence-built Soviet version of the Wright Cyclone)) This engine powered the LA-5 and LA-7 during the war, but there's no indication of production continuing to the present day. Soooo, these are either refurbished engines, or I'm wrong. Hopefully the latter - I'd hate to pick up my shiny new 190 and find the engine had been languishing in a Riussian field for the last 50 years. Jabo

Mick, given that we can both take three additional people in our respective vehicles, we could manage to get Jim, Helen, Pooka, Joanne (apologies if I've mispelled that Pook!), JP, Jedi and me and thee there in two cars - easy or wot! Dunno about the Black Bull Jim seeing as I didn't get there last time, but I'll do some digging. Jabo

See Arthur's post

With you, Jim and Pook all there for a few days, it'd be a shame to miss out on the Smoke. Heathrow's nice, but there's more to London than that. Jabo

That's bad - and probably the source of your problems - chkdsk /r might sort that at least enough to get the machine back up, but I think you're going to need a new drive. If the drive is currently mounted as a slave in another machine, chkdsk can be run from the command prompt. If it's still in the original machine boot from your XP (or other OS) disk, and hit 'R' to launch the recovery console (I think it's on the first or second page you get). This will give you a sort of command prompt window where chkdsk as well as a heap of other useful utilities can be run. Jabo

Have you tried running chkdsk /r from the command prompt Glenn? It's a quick and dirty way of checking the disk for bad sectors (and repairing them) - might help to provide a pointer to your issue.

Actually Jedi, this might be a good plan. If you can get to Coventry, I'll meet you there and we can travel down South together. Means that you don't need to travel on your own too far, although the downside is you get to travel with me...lol Jabo P.S. We can squeeze in a quick look at the Cathedral if you like, it's only 5 mins from the station.

Weeeell, I might go to Duxford Jim, but I'm sure I can squeeze in a day in London (although it's a bit scary). Are you planning to travel to Dux on Friday? Hiring a car or do you need a lift? Jabo

There's lovely. Happy birthday you two. Have a good one (s) Jabo