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General Discussion Area / Spitfire
« on: 12 July 2021, 10:20:51 »
My daughter very generously treated me to a Spitfire flight for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. I had a fabulous trip in MJ627 from Biggin Hill, coincidentally where I first went for aircrew selection, longer ago than I care to remember. The hour long trip took us round several of the old Battle of Britain airfields, and also along the coast past the white cliffs. I persuaded the pilot to do a few aeros including victory rolls, he didn't take much persuading!
I was able to fly the Spit for some minutes and had a wonderful day out. The experience included a full tour of the Heritage Hangar where they build, maintain and display Spitfire, Hurricane, and Messerschmitt aircraft, shown in a programme series on More4. This was also a trip down memory lane, as my qualifying exam as an engine fitter, included doing the valve and ignition timing on a Merlin engine, albeit on a Lanc.
Interestingly, I last saw MJ627 several years ago doing a display at East Kirkby (also home to a Lanc which they hope to get airworthy), flown by ex BBMF pilot (of 24 years at  BBMF!) S/L Paul Day. I approached him as he dismounted in the hangar afterwards to congratulate him on the display, to which he said" You're not the police are you?" No doubt as the display was, shall we say, perhaps slightly unconventional, but exhilarating.
A quote attributed to Paul Day was: 'A Lancaster is a waste of four good Merlins'.

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General Discussion Area / Re: F***ing stupid BBC
« on: 12 July 2021, 09:10:50 »
I've come to despise the BBC for their relentless negativity.  ::)

A good example the other day was the news about the new battery plant at Nissan in Sunderland and I was listening to some commentator or other on R2 saying briefly that it was good news, but then spent most of his slot talking about uncertainty at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port factory and that it might close and thousands of jobs would go.   ::)

The next day Vauxhall announce that they will invest hundreds of millions to build a new electric van at Ellesmere Port.  :y  ;D
There thick British public like to see depression shit.  Just turn on any British soap on any channel, and see the depressive shit they are pedalling.  And how popular they are amongst the stupid people of the country.

No thanks, just catching a glimpse of them accidentally is quite enough. ☹️

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General Discussion Area / Re: Middle of Lidl
« on: 06 July 2021, 18:51:35 »
I hope to dive in Grenada later this year. I will check if Lidl still have them. Sounds fun.
Talking about Grenada, I learned today that when the Americans invaded in ’83, desperate Corrie fans flooded Granada’s switchboard for information and reassurance!
You couldn’t make it up. 😢
 
Be mindful of the battery types if flying... LiPo makes airlines nervous... Should travel with you in the cabin and skipper made aware ;)

Now I wonder why I never thought of that.  ::)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Middle of Lidl
« on: 04 July 2021, 19:29:42 »
I hope to dive in Grenada later this year. I will check if Lidl still have them. Sounds fun.
Talking about Grenada, I learned today that when the Americans invaded in ’83, desperate Corrie fans flooded Granada’s switchboard for information and reassurance!
You couldn’t make it up. 😢
 

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General Car Chat / Re: seized caliper
« on: 02 July 2021, 11:07:28 »
True, it’s just the meanness in me. Calipers are basically such simple devices.

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General Car Chat / Re: seized caliper
« on: 02 July 2021, 10:54:35 »
Assuming a standard caliper, with no damage, a good clean, then seal and fluid replacement should fix it a lot cheaper.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 02 July 2021, 10:47:21 »
We are living very similar lives for exactly the same reasons.  ;D
If only 3D printers could print out a new skeleton.  :D

It’s only a matter of time.  8)

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Crank Sensor Failure
« on: 02 July 2021, 10:29:16 »
Until you find one that some a hole has fitted without oiling seal and done up with a scaffold bar, usually by some trog at a fast fit centre !!

If they bother to replace it at all. I serviced a neighbour’s Golf for a year or two, but he insisted on getting one done by a local Indy. The next time I did it I asked to see the invoice on which he had been charged for new plugs, and which clearly hadn’t been out for years!

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Crank Sensor Failure
« on: 02 July 2021, 07:33:22 »
How many of us have TW’s down to 15nm? 8)

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All parts now gone.
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I lie, TD sump gasket still available.  :y

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All parts now gone.
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Also read Chickenhawk, a superb book about a Huey pilot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_(book)

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The best book I’ve read on that war is: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. It sums up how futile that war was.
I served briefly in the Phillipines towards the end, and felt very sorry for the Americans trying to fight a war that nobody wanted by then, but they were still expected to fight for something that none of them believed in.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Will this help....
« on: 17 June 2021, 08:10:33 »
The L1011 was certified to 420. If a/c weight and ATC permitted, we would ocsnly get up to 410, with OAT’s of as low, in my personal experience, as -67C. We would optimally fly at the highest level for fuel consumption, commensurate with the most favourable meteorological conditions, winds etc. conducive to the most comfortable ride and the best ground speed, and comfortably within our max allowable weight for the altitude to avoid being too close to “coffin corner”.  See Coffin Corner Aviation.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Will this help....
« on: 17 June 2021, 07:38:32 »
Airliners at cruising height (FL300-FL410) normally report outside temps in the -50C to -60C range. -56C seems to be the most common one. I doubt a Shackleton bothered those altitudes very often though :-)

Haven't personally seen anything colder than -60C, but not saying it doesn't happen.
The Tristar etc at BA easily, and regularly flew over 30,000  :-X

I said Shackleton, not Shackeng. A previous Avitar Shackeng used suggests he preferred 8 screws to 3 blow jobs :-)

IIRC some older aircraft were certified up to eithr FL450 or FL490 - I think Learjets and possibly early B-747's . The newer stuff struggles not through technical capability, but because regulations now give a time limit to get from maximum cruising altitude down to 18000? ft in the event of a sudden cabin depressurisation. Therefore most newer stuff, including all the Airbus liners, are only certified to FL410. AIUI.


Puhlease! 8 screws, PLUS, to borrow your somewhat crude analogy, 2 blow jobs. ;)

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