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On 15/04/2025 at 10:50, zebra said:
I think I heard Unsecured Penguin on the John Peel show once
Two more from them before midnight
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2 hours ago, Black Knight said:
P..p..p..p..pick up a Penguin
(for an in-flight snack?)
Thank goodness for that, someone else thinks like me ...
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Oh come on guys - No one wrote this without knowing exactly what they were doing !
The report did not say why they had picked up the penguin. -
I'm pretty sure a BBC journalist has won some sort of office trophy for this article.
Does anyone else see it or is it just me ?
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Where've you been ?
Nipped out to get some chocky block
You're meant to be putting those sockets in, and besides you're on a diet !
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17 minutes ago, trickydicky210 said:
but not a land based Jaguar - one that Flies
Insert standard RAF FJ mate joke here with squadron to personal taste...
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33 minutes ago, AntPhillips said:
Dont want to dash your hopes but unless Bristol has moved timezones, the announcement is at 16.00 so still 3hrs 15 mins to go.
I've been to Bristol and it is definitely in its own zone. Both in time and many other respects....
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Airfix 2025
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For the last few weeks Marshall's of Cambridge have been putting up C130 post maintenance test flights with the callsign Airfix01
I wonder.....
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On 07/09/2024 at 00:13, Enzo the Magnificent said:
That's something I hadn't ever considered. I was under the impression that the air ambulance service simply transported patients to hospitals. A couple of minute's research on the internet shows that's not everything they do. As you mentioned, they transport specialist medical personal where they are needed at very short notice. They transport transplant organs and blood supplies. This is all critical support to the NHS. I think the authorities need to make the work of the air ambulance services more high profile.
It's getting a scarce resource (trauma doctor and critical care paramedic) to a (relatively) uncommon event with all the kit to stablise the patient. Then you think about conveyancing to a suitable hospital in the most suitable manner and a helicopter is frequently not the best option for the sickest patients. While a helicopter gets them on scene quickly for most of the country in very dense urban areas the fastest way to get the air ambulance crew to scene is often by car. This is why you will see fast SUVs with air ambulance liveries in some city centers cruising around waiting for a job.
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2 hours ago, LN-KEH said:
Airfix tend to specialize in aircraft flown by the RAF or shot down by the RAF.
So the Jaguar it is then...
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Out Of The Box ? No, a great kit lifted to a sublime level by astonishing skill.
That is one of the best models I've seen on this forum and I'm dying to get the bench tomorrow as I'm inspired to start my new model.
I've had a great day with one thing and another and your pictures are another thing that's made me smile 😊
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Effing spiders ! That is something I would be tremendously proud to have made. What a lovely model in realistic setting. I must make an F4 sometime.
I never cease to be amazed at the talent we see in this hobby.
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Corsairfoxfouruncle - Sorry $225 a month that's $2700 year. Is that how much insurance costs in the states or do you drive something exotic?
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Technically and musically the best by a country mile would be Rush, all three times I've seen them.
The most fun was The Dammed at the Victoria Hall, Hanley and the Pogues at Liverpool University's Mountford Hall. Possibility due to the dancing, drinking and company I was with.
The worst, and quite frankly the most baffling, was the support act for The Stranglers at Preston Guildhall 1984. This was a "punk" ventriloquist with a mohicaned parrot as his dummy. He was very nearly lynched. Oh and Twisted Sister.
Ratt at Donington Monsters of Rock were awful too, although Marrilion and ZZ Top were brill. I recall at the same gig pre fame Bon Jovi and Metallica seemed nothing special at all and nothing since has led me to change my mind...
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I had planned to subvert this feline thread with a canine tale as to how earlier this evening our dog stole the printed photo etch instructions to my Revell Tirpitz and bit a comically shaped hole before being bribed to give it back with a Sainsbury's dental chew cunningly placed on the kitchen bin.
Unfortunately the cat used it's telepathic powers to ascertain this plan and in a bid to remain the centre of attention carried out a tactical vomit over the document which was drying out on the work surface in the utility room cum man cave.
Anyone else modeling from instructions still damp with poodle drool and stained yellow from cat sick tomorrow or am I in a unique position ? I never wanted either of them....
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Oh FFS, I'm hanging up my scalpel !
That looks more like 1/12 than 1/20. Sure you've not made a typo? (serious question).
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The T1a was the version of the Hawk wired to carry a sidewinder that would be aimed using IR acquisition. This was part of the Mixed Fighter Farce concept which paired the Hawks with Tornado F3s that would vector them as missile carriers onto the Bears and Backfires over the North Sea with their Foxhunter radar.
Some of the RAF's best pilots were RAFAT pilots or QFI / QWI at Valley, Chivenor, Brawdy so why not arm their mounts? This view is disputed.
This was the 1980s and we were all going to die anyway so why not go out in a blaze of glory? And had Thatcher not made that call to Reagan saying that GCHQ realised that the Ruskies thought Able Archer was a precursor to a first strike we might have.
Even the mighty Bulldog from the UAS and CFS had a war role acting as BDA and liaison flying civil servants around the country.
Not sure the Grob is up to this.
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Ah so it is super dooper, that changes the game!
100/110 is only 10 percent. Just make sure the transformer is at least 50 percent overrated.
At work I'd say no. At home I'd be happy as it would only be on while I was around.
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As you mention a transformer you are aware that simply replacing the plug or using an "adapter" is going to result in, at best a broken soldering iron, and at worst a fire.
You can use a suitably rated step down transformer, and this would be safe, but one that I'd be prepared to have in the house is around £80. (I've seen cheaper ones but despite having a CE mark, the warning "do not leave it alone for a long time" is a bit worrying. So whether 100v or 110v that's how much they are.
So unless it is some really super dooper bit of kit it's probably going to be cheaper to buy a UK spec soldering iron. Sorry.
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I think airfix are helpful when they can be within their desire need to keep stock to support their perceived moral obligation to mitigate faulty manufacture. Although of course the legal obligation lies with the retailer, something which seems lost on many purchasers, we modellers do have the problem that faults may not become apparent until we've invested time and effort into our purchases.
A couple of years ago I took an expensive kit out of the stash to find the decals had somehow got damp and were ruined. I emailed Airfix explaining what had happened and asking to purchase a replacement it they had any. They asked for my address and sent a new sheet free within days.
My suggestion would be to explain exactly the situation as you have done here, offer to pay and hope someone's in a good mood and sitting on some stock.
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Not over my house but the North Sea.
Lots of Typhoons on adsbexchange practicing stern conversions with Chobham FA20s and a Voyager.
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My wife. "can't you make something different instead of tanks and airplanes" ?
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28 minutes ago, Adam Poultney said:
That would be quite welcome.... in a few years once I'm done with uni so have the time and space to build it...
Oh mate you won't! Job, marriage, kids - I'd say about 20 years and you'll be back in the hobby 😀
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19 minutes ago, bentwaters81tfw said:
I did get my Convertable insurance down this year, took off the named driver and breakdown cover and saved over £100. Under £200 for a T5 that has only attracted 1 years NCD as a second car.
Some outfit offered me Telemetrics and wanted over 4 grand. Like I'm a high risk with 54 years driving under my belt.
It is a strange business. I got my 1 year qualified daughter £20 off her policy by adding my wife as a second named driver. She also had one quote for £28,000 (twenty eight thousand pounds) on a seven year old Toyota Aygo! Suspect they didn't want the business.
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How distressing and I'm sorry that happened to you.
We're it me I'd rock up at the police station and make a statement to support the chap who has complained about the racial slur. However as it wasn't aimed at him I can't see that going anywhere TBH.
However the main victim here is you and if you wanted to take it further attending the station and making a complaint might mean you have the other gentleman as your witness if he saw you being struck.
You were assaulted when she verbally abused you and there was probably a public order offence to. Striking you was the more serious offence of battery.
If the police want to take it further, and you don't have to complain for them to do that, then it'll probably end up as "community resolution". They don't need a witness as they'd give her the opportunity to confess, and they may want to go to her house and have a little bit of a chat about how people should behave. Might also be CCTV at the car park.
Or you can do you civic duty at the police station and put it behind you safe in the knowledge that no-one here thinks your reaction was unreasonable given the circumstances. You have the comfort that your self reflection shows you to be a nice person while she clearly is not.