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  • SnowyS Offline
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    @R-L I've still got that loving feeling - the Rayban aviators are long gone though.

    I actually took @Bones Honey's advice and went for a pootle in my Liklik balus the other day to give the engine a run. CAA have approved maintenance on aircraft under level 3 so is legit. Thought that I might do a Captain Tom (I really wish he was a Major) and just taxi up and down the airstrip 100 times.

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    @R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:

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    R.I.P Goose

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    @Snowy question... Did you look like this?
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    #401

    @Virgil gone before his time 😢

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    #402

    @R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:

    @Snowy question... Did you look like this?
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    Yes. Yes I did.
    I still do, sadly Val doesn't.

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    @R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:

    @Snowy question... Did you look like this?
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    Yes that’s how he gets all his new friends I mean victims..

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    I'll leave this here as it is actually vaguely on topic and nothing to do with coronavirus which has gone all "planey".

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    #405

    @Snowy do pilots really have nicknames on their helmets? What's yours?

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    Virgil
    replied to A Former User on last edited by
    #406

    @R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:

    @Snowy do pilots really have nicknames on their helmets? What's yours?

    My guess is Jeffrey Dahmer..

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    replied to A Former User on last edited by
    #407

    @R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:

    @Snowy do pilots really have nicknames on their helmets? What's yours?

    I was never in the military (in other words I always had a real job) but let's stick with the theme - I'll be "Killer".

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    #408

    Crazy cloggy!

    https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49773399

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    @Machpants said in Planes:

    Crazy cloggy!

    https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49773399

    Certainly crazy - if you are going to steal a plane why the fuck would you take a Grumman tracker?

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    @Snowy said in Planes:

    Metal by the time of the "Battle of Britain". Flight controls were still fabric I think. Fuselage was timber stringers covered in doped linen. Took about 2/3 of the amount of time to build as a spitfire. 10,000 hour off the top of my head.

    Can well believe it. Just building a Guillows Spitfire balsa & tissue kit and the elliptical wings - groundbreaking for their time - are a real bitch to cover properly.

    Bloody nightmare.

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    #411

    @Victor-Meldrew
    https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0073XT4R2/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apa_i_zBbYEb513NWVQ

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    @Bones

    Nah. One of these.

    81m0lPivNPL.AC_SL1500.jpg

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    Victor Meldrew
    replied to Snowy on last edited by
    #413

    @Snowy said in Planes:

    @Machpants said in Planes:

    Crazy cloggy!

    https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49773399

    Certainly crazy - if you are going to steal a plane why the fuck would you take a Grumman tracker?

    Confirm mental unfitness?

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    #414

    @Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.

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    Victor Meldrew
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    @Bones said in Planes:

    @Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.

    As someone once said to Wilbur Wright

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    #416

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Planes:

    @Bones

    Nah. One of these.

    81m0lPivNPL.AC_SL1500.jpg

    Such a beautiful plane. Even now

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    #417

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Planes:

    @Bones said in Planes:

    @Victor-Meldrew I'm sorry but that's not gonna fly.

    As someone once said to Wilbur Wright

    This guy arguably did it first. But in true kiwi style didn't make a deal out of it so he is a footnote instead of the main man

    Richard Pearse - Wikipedia

    Richard Pearse - Wikipedia
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