DD_Arthur

Something familiar here.....Hunting Provost?

Coud it be a british steam engine? I reckon I'd be in with a chance then!

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What a great day! Great piccies too Some questions; a) Wot plane are you sitting in Wot's that gorgeous bi-plane c) Any news on engines for the Beaufighter?

Mmmm.........

Eh? How.......I mean they only built three and one of them never flew, lol. Yeah, same here. I thought I was in with a chance but.....Firecrest? Never heard of it before

My dad worked on the prototype Blackburn Beverley!

Not that dissimilar to people who gather at Waddington's threshold by the looks of it. Women pilots? A very good friend of mine had a rather naughty air to ground missile fired at him and his colleagues by one of our female Harrier pilots not so many years ago. Luckily she missed. She also missed on the strafing run she did with her cannon before they could call her off.

No compatibility issues Slicker - it's just a matter of how many sims there are to choose from versus time available to fly them. DCS sales come fast and frequently so I'm more interested in EDGE being released than acquiring new modules at the moment.

Oh yeah, sorry....hmm...how about this; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RMZ-Uni-Fortune-1-64th-Scale-Land-Rover-Defender-White-/131516713532?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1e9f01ca3c Kinda' Pope mobile substitute? Lol; sounds like an album by Captain Beefheart - the one he made after Trout Mask Replica! Oh look; further down the same ebay page; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BULLITT-1968-DODGE-CHARGER-R-T-1-64TH-SCALE-MINT-MODEL-CAR-STEVE-MCQUEEN-/200827841357?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2ec245ab4d Or do what I've been doing on a pleasant evening stroll.- fly a high tec greased piglet around our local cricket pitch http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291452280330?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Oh course! Look; what if the Pope went on a lightning visit to some Belgian nuns and he decided to travel via Eastern Holland? You know what Popes are like, right? They can just pop up anywhere, anytime! You gotta' be prepared FT http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-43-Altaya-Fiat-Papamobil-Pope-Johannes-Paul-II-in-gift-Box-/361082640178?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item541233d732

There's something missing FT. Can't quite put my finger on it yet.............

Blenheim at Duxford.

Really tempted by the Mig-15 but I've taken the pledge not to get anything new until EDGE arrives.

Hope you have a great one, Ovy

It's Duxford's E3; crash landed in a field in Sussex, September 1940.

I'm pretty sure thats the gun camera port. It would most likely have one of these fitted; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Robot-IIa-camera-with-Schneider-Tele-Xenar-3-8-7-5cm-lens-/281697868286?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item41968059fe

Twelve per cent loss rate...gawd.

View from the cockpit when you're going for it!! and finally, found this little gem too. From 1963 - the year I was born! - to show how little its changed over the years

When I got home I realised I'd taken enough moving pictures to knock up a little film. My apologies for forgetting to grab a tripod so things can get a bit...er..shaky! Also, I've edited it together not in a chronological order but to give some idea of the layout of the course. Therefore my little movie starts by panning around the paddock as our dog-burgers get blown off the table and then moves off up into the woods. So you'll see several shots of the same cars during different runs up the course. Does that make sense? Oh well................................ Oh yeah, my camera ran out of battery before we got up to the finish line - where I discovered my spare was flat too - doh!

It's a glorious, cloudless Saturday morning. I'm sitting in the dappled shade of my garden reading the paper, drinking coffee and smoking a crafty cigarette. My wife is pottering in her greenhouse but I can feel the thought-waves boring into the back of my head - "why aren't you mowing the lawn / tiling the roof / painting the bathroom?" etc. The 'phone rings. It's my mate Dave - a man in a similar condition to myself, lol. "Wiscombe?" he says. "Wiscombe......When?" "In an hour" "You're on!" Forty minutes later I'm grabbing camera and youngest son and we're out the door.

Couldn't have put it better meself!

I've got the EVGA version of this spec card. We're still very happy together

My youngest had his tenth birthday a couple of weeks back. His big brothers got him one of these; http://www.amazon.co.uk/U818A-2-4GHz-Axis-Quadcopter-Camera/dp/B00D3IN11Q/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1431295539&sr=8-6&keywords=drones+with+cameras Upon unwrapping the big and interesting box said "Ages 14+", which gave me the pretext to confiscate it like any responsible victorian father would . I, ahem...we just had enough flying time at the end of a delightful April to realise that victorian father would have to splash out on extra batteries before the gales of early May brought a temporary stop to my our flying programme. This weekend the batteries arrived along with some weather Very good fun and I can quite understand why these things get up peoples noses too! Ours seems pretty indestructable as we avoid tarmac. I suspect it'll end its days stuck in the high branches of a local tree. In the mean time

Russian VE day - today, ninth of May - flypast of Red Square; from the cockpit. Pretty cool and only slightly menacing