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  1. A New Zealand Maori chief was being asked why tattoos are so important for his tribe. He replies that the back & shoulder ones mean the most to his people. The interviewer asks, "Why?" He replies, "When my people they are upset I let them colour in the tattoos, because sometimes people just need a shoulder to crayon."
  2. That instantly reminded me That instantly reminded me of a day in 1968 when I was working at Luton Flying Club. Heard an interesting engine note outside the back door of the hanger, stuck my head out and there was a Ecurie Ecosse coloured D-type burbling past en-route to the covered vehicle storage area with a tweed suited driver who was presumably going to fly off somewhere for a few days. Sorry, you will have to humour this old git, but it was certainly a very different world then!
  3. If that was true it would be an argument with some merit. When a vehicle is failed because a warning system that is unnecessary for safe operation of the vehicle is not working then it is achieving neither of the objectives you mention. Having just purchased my first vehicle to have an array of superfluous electronic gizmos I have already found them to be dangerous. While driving along a quiet road I scanned the facia and found the blind spot warning light on. It was not till I got home and read the manual that I found out the light comes on if there are no vehicles near me for a preset period of time. So I have a warning light to tell me that the situation it is there to warn me about is not there! Of course I should have read the manual prior to driving. But it is a volume of encyclopaedic dimensions and contains more pages warning me that the exhaust gets hot, the handbrake should be release before driving, and not to drink the battery acid than it does informing me of the function of the many driver aids.
  4. Trouble is that you are looking at it through 2023 eyes. As a Wrinkly who was around when that was new I can assure you there aint nowt so ugly as a modern car....almost any modern car. In fact modern designers all seem hell bent on out-doing each other to achieve a new level of ugliness.
  5. The frozen chicken one keeps re-appearing. I first heard it in the sixties with respect to Rolls Royce engine testing and the US competitor who tried frozen birds. I seem to recall a version relating to British Rail loco windscreens around the same time. If you want a genuine story there was the unfortunate apprentice lad at Courtline who went into the cockpit during turn around and for some reason leant forward between the seats, lost balance, reached up and grabbed the emergency oxygen mask pull on the overhead panel. Did not realise at first what he had done until he turned round and saw a cabin full of bouncing yellow masks. As boarding was about to commence he was not very popular with the rest of the gang who had to franticly start stowing 100 plus masks. And then there was the petite little hostess who spotted smoke - actually condensation - emerging from the air vents during start-up and took it upon herself to dispense with an emergency exit window. Ground engineer handling the start was gob smacked to see a hefty great lump of exit door fly onto the wing and slide to the ground.
  6. Correct, it was referred to as the chine line, I believe that may be a nautical term? It was a very distinct edge that formed the junction of the flatter keel section. Hard to tell in the photos but the tailplane should have a distinctive reverse camber on the upper surface. As an aside the Fokker script was removed from the fin soon after the F27 entered service after complaints from the public who thought it said something quite different! During the first year of my apprenticeship with NZNAC I spent three months in the drawing office where my job was to create an accurate scale drawing of the F27 as local aeromodellers had been requesting plans. Much more fun than the 'real' work and the sort of thing that happened in those days when the pace was slower, and the airline was owned by the people rather than greedy foreign shareholders.
  7. The Tamiya kit is short on detail but is dimensionally quite accurate, especially for an early Mk. Obviously if you have the money then a newer kit is the way to go although I have no knowledge of how accurate they are. I have built four Tamiya kits over the years, two Mk2, a Mk5 and a Mk11. I also have a stalled built of a Chieftain wedge awaiting for the return of the Mojo which so far seems unlikely to happen! The Tamiya kit is the ideal base for such conversions. Make sure you get your hands on lots of reference material. The Mk2 was under constant modification in the field, so you will find tanks showing a mix of features. Heres my 3RTR Mk2 at Fallingbostal. And my Mk11.
  8. Apparently a team of archeologists excavated Napoleons grave but only found boney parts.
  9. The news media is making a meal out of this, mainly because in todays PC environment you must not mention that some people are obese. The question should really be would you prefer to be weighed or die in a flaming crash? Its not many days ago that some Moby Dick of a woman was claiming airlines should provide her with two seats for the price of one as she could not fit a standard seat so the need for a update on passenger weight would seem justified. I recall in my apprentice days flying from Palmerston North back to Christchurch around 1964 in an F27 where we were all weighed. Short wet runway at PN and high fuel load/full payload meant the driver wanted to make sure it was all going to work. Seemed reasonable to me but even in those days there were some people moaning.
  10. The sound from a musician on a stage bounces off the theatre walls and surrounds the audience. The sound from a pigeon on stage does not do this. The reason is a coo sticks.
  11. I see a bloke has over 4m followers on his "How to catch a virus" YouTube channel. He must be an influenza.
  12. Gravity is a fundamental force in the universe. Take it away and you just have gravy.
  13. What's the difference between roast beef and pea soup? Anyone can roast beef . .
  14. I got a surprise yesterday when I was offered the post of Chief Librarian in the town library. However, once I explained that they lived four doors along from us the postman continued on his round.
  15. Visited a farm the other day and while talking to the farmer I noticed he had a big barn full of feed. I said, "What's that for?" He said, "The cattle eat it." I said, "It must be a very hungry cat."
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