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by Tako_Kichi
19 Jun 2009, 06:07
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Are your mornings like this?
Replies: 5
Views: 778

Re: Are your mornings like this?

What a way to start the day! :doho:
by Tako_Kichi
17 Jun 2009, 21:46
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Caption competition anyone?
Replies: 14
Views: 2229

Re: Caption competition anyone?

"I'm wiggling it at my end, can you see it yet?"

OR

"You've got three blues and a yellow? I can only see four reds here!" :dunno:
by Tako_Kichi
11 Jun 2009, 06:32
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: First Flight of Lysander C-GCWL...
Replies: 2
Views: 523

Re: First Flight of Lysander C-GCWL...

That is a beautiful restoration of an amazing bird. I am waiting patiently for the FSX one to come out and I can see me doing a repaint of that toot sweet! :lol:
by Tako_Kichi
08 Jun 2009, 23:12
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Piper takes a bath at St. Barts
Replies: 6
Views: 673

Re: Piper takes a bath at St. Barts

I have flown that approach many, many times in FSX in all types of weather, day and night, in all sorts of aircraft and that guy was just plain wrong in so many ways! As Chris said, the only safe option there was a 'go around'.
by Tako_Kichi
08 Jun 2009, 22:59
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Arson Attack on Police Helicopter at Birmingham
Replies: 11
Views: 1110

Re: Arson Attack on Police Helicopter at Birmingham

Two things jump to my mind..... 1. Someone has a grudge (as Nigel suggested) perhaps because the chopper captured evidence that was used against them. 2. This was done to disable the chopper prior to a serious crime of some sort being committed and therefore to prevent it capturing evidence or being...
by Tako_Kichi
06 Jun 2009, 21:32
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Mystery Aircraft
Replies: 7
Views: 774

Re: Mystery Aircraft

I don't have Gen X but I just took a quick look all around that area in Google Earth and saw nothing (well, apart from the usual fields of course ;-) ).
by Tako_Kichi
06 Jun 2009, 17:01
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: NIMBY vs ME-109
Replies: 6
Views: 686

Re: NIMBY vs ME-109

I just took a look at the thread and was a bit surprised to see the photo was taken by my brother-in-law! He certainly gets around the airshows that boy....lol.
by Tako_Kichi
03 Jun 2009, 15:01
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: 6th June 1944
Replies: 5
Views: 664

Re: 6th June 1944

The 6th of June is always a day I stop and think of what went before. My late father was there as a Royal Marine Commando but did not actually touch French soil until the third day of the campaign. On D-Day itself he was manning anti-aircraft guns on a destroyer stationed off the French coast. On Da...
by Tako_Kichi
03 Jun 2009, 04:15
Forum: Gallery
Topic: 208 Squadron detachment to Rhodesia...
Replies: 16
Views: 2810

Re: 208 Squadron detachment to Rhodesia...

So do we have to play 'Where's Peter?'.

I am assuming that if you are in that picture you are in the front row somewhere but I have not spotted you yet.