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- 02 May 2011, 19:21
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: When landing a water bomber on a runway...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1446
Re: When landing a water bomber on a runway...
Ho ho...that was in the last series....The new series starts this Thurday on Quest....the trailers on UK TV shoes assorted cockpit shots, lading on icy runwsys, then the..."You can always tell an Ice Pilot....by the size of his skidmarks" :tunes: Its Arnie & his crew with one of their ...
- 29 Apr 2011, 17:28
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: So you navy types... is it true?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2767
Re: So you navy types... is it true?
steelsporran wrote:Raise the Atlantic Conveyor!
The young ones won't remember Atlantic Conveyer....I can hear the clatter of keboards now A-T-L-A-N....
Bob
- 29 Apr 2011, 17:19
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Pic: Todays' Editors' Choice at Airliners.net
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1961
Re: Pic: Todays' Editors' Choice at Airliners.net
Come on.....its not what you've got, it's how you use itFlyTexas wrote:How on earth did she actually fly with those tiny wings?
How different today's RAF might have been if the TSR2 had not been cancelled
Bob
- 25 Apr 2011, 23:20
- Forum: The Virtual Spanner
- Topic: Flight control woes!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2644
Re: Flight control woes!
Are the rear sockets USB2 & the front USB1? Perhaps the controls are not USB1 friendly. Its not flightsim, but when I plug my mp3 player into my front ports the machine mutters & gives me a dialogue box that the 'equipment' might work a lot better if it were plugged into USB2 ports. What you...
- 25 Apr 2011, 15:34
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Dambusters take II
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1716
Re: Dambusters take II
Looks most excellentJohn wrote:That's pretty impressive...
Bob
- 25 Apr 2011, 15:29
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: What future Concorde'
- Replies: 1
- Views: 617
What future Concorde'
I think we all pretty much know that AF has been mothballed at Filton, but the news for AD is equally unsure. Just been reading on the concordesst site http://www.concordesst.com/latestnews.html that there are plans to move the Space Shuttle Test Orbiter 'Enterprise' from the Smithsonian facility at...
- 24 Apr 2011, 19:33
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Dambusters take II
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1716
Re: Dambusters take II
Channel 4, Monday May 2nd, 8.00pm
- 20 Apr 2011, 11:13
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Dambusters take II
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1716
Dambusters take II
OK, mention 'Dambusters', you think, 617 Squadron, Lancaster, World War II perhaps.... :hide: No! think DC-4, think Buffalo Airways :wall: (yes that one in the middle of nowhere in Canada http://www.buffaloairways.com/), think (UK) Channel 4 next month (allegedly). Came across this yesterday evening...
- 20 Apr 2011, 11:09
- Forum: Escorts and Stewards
- Topic: Elisabeth Sladen RIP
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1196
Re: Elisabeth Sladen RIP
Yep, very sad.
I also remember her as Jon Pertwee's assistant.
Suprised to read she was 63 though, but wore it well. No more 'Sarah Jane Adventures' then.
Bob
I also remember her as Jon Pertwee's assistant.
Suprised to read she was 63 though, but wore it well. No more 'Sarah Jane Adventures' then.
Bob
- 16 Apr 2011, 14:53
- Forum: CBFS Forum
- Topic: Simshed Nimrod for FSX
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5498
Re: Simshed Nimrod for FSX
Garry Russell wrote:Bristol Beverly Bob???
Blackburn B.101 Beverly
Now I'm feeling all embarrassed - severe foot in mouth syndrome
bob