Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[GreekStein]

Listen Sonny Jim.

THe Queen owns EVERYTHING - even Cos, & boldie.

For the first time in my laugh I'm not sure what to say.

I think Boldie will though, probably in the form of 22 short posts or so.

[boldie]

Listen Sonny Jim.

THe Queen owns EVERYTHING - even Cos, & boldie.

For the first time in my laugh I'm not sure what to say.

I think Boldie will though, probably in the form of 22 short posts or so.

I love the Queen! She is indeed the ruler of all she surveys, especially Scotland! I have to point out to her servants up here regularly that she is their Queen as well. They are ingrates, they really are.

[Royal Flush]

That's all good Tony  but i am seeing the Vulcan fly on Sunday, jealous?

[tikay]

That's all good Tony  but i am seeing the Vulcan fly on Sunday, jealous?

I hate you.

Where is it this weekend?

We spent over an hour drooling over the Vulcan yesterday - it's morre impressive, imo, than Concorde, all things considered. It's VERY big, too, "in the flesh", with the landing gear & bomb bay being simply huge. Red has pics, I expect he'll Post them later.

We saw a USAF Sabre (I think it was a Sabre) going through it's paces, too. Four low Passes over the airfield, less than a hundred yards from us, three loop the loop things, inverted flying, climbing vertically, then diving similarly, waggling it's wings, all sorts. Very impressive indeed. Mother Hen had leakage. It flew in "unawares"  from behind us, - we never expected it - & my leakage levels were considerably up on normal

The Sabre, or whatever it was, eventually parked up, raced his single engine up to the max "revs", then switched the engine off. Do they do that revving up thing before switch off for a reason? We used to do that on older cars - give the throttle a blip before switching off. Never quite knew why, but the bloke next door did it, & he wore a tie, so musta known what he was doing.

Enjoy Sunday, you luckbox.

[Karabiner]

That Vulcan is an absolute monster, not only that but it's wingspan is greater than it's length !

It surely was a great day yesterday Tony, I don't know about you but I'm completely exhausted, but there is one tiny point that i feel that i need to pick you up on and that is the matter of the "senior" discount. Obviously if they had thought when you asked for three regular tickets and one senior ticket that the senior was anyone else but the purchaser, ie you, they would have asked for some form of id. I mean it's absolutely preposterous to suggest otherwise.

[tikay]

Listen Sonny Jim.

THe Queen owns EVERYTHING - even Cos, & boldie.

For the first time in my laugh I'm not sure what to say.

I think Boldie will though, probably in the form of 22 short posts or so.

I love the Queen! She is indeed the ruler of all she surveys, especially Scotland! I have to point out to her servants up here regularly that she is their Queen as well. They are ingrates, they really are.

Your best Post ever. Not saying much, that, but the Scots don't always see it as clearly as you do.

[tikay]

That Vulcan is an absolute monster, not only that but it's wingspan is greater than it's length !

It surely was a great day yesterday Tony, I don't know about you but I'm completely exhausted, but there is one tiny point that i feel that i need to pick you up on and that is the matter of the "senior" discount. Obviously if they had thought when you asked for three regular tickets and one senior ticket that the senior was anyone else but the purchaser, ie you, they would have asked for some form of id. I mean it's absolutely preposterous to suggest otherwise.

Your dogs were barking, Red's I-T was killing him, my back was giving me grief, & Mother Hen had earache from all those 'phone Calls, & the PancakeGate grief we gave him. Great day though.

As to the Pensioners Discount, methinks you doth protest too much. You DID flash your Bus Pass, as I recal.....I don't have a Bus Pass, take note please.

Did Mother Hen get lost again on the way from Tom's to your place?

[Royal Flush]

That's all good Tony  but i am seeing the Vulcan fly on Sunday, jealous?

I hate you.

Where is it this weekend?

We spent over an hour drooling over the Vulcan yesterday - it's morre impressive, imo, than Concorde, all things considered. It's VERY big, too, "in the flesh", with the landing gear & bomb bay being simply huge. Red has pics, I expect he'll Post them later.

We saw a USAF Sabre (I think it was a Sabre) going through it's paces, too. Four low Passes over the airfield, less than a hundred yards from us, three loop the loop things, inverted flying, climbing vertically, then diving similarly, waggling it's wings, all sorts. Very impressive indeed. Mother Hen had leakage. It flew in "unawares"  from behind us, - we never expected it - & my leakage levels were considerably up on normal

The Sabre, or whatever it was, eventually parked up, raced his single engine up to the max "revs", then switched the engine off. Do they do that revving up thing before switch off for a reason? We used to do that on older cars - give the throttle a blip before switching off. Never quite knew why, but the bloke next door did it, & he wore a tie, so musta known what he was doing.

Enjoy Sunday, you luckbox.

Shoreham air show.

As to the revving not sure why it would be given a full blast but every aircraft i have flown has required a powerup for shutdown checks.

[tikay]

That's all good Tony  but i am seeing the Vulcan fly on Sunday, jealous?

I hate you.

Where is it this weekend?

We spent over an hour drooling over the Vulcan yesterday - it's morre impressive, imo, than Concorde, all things considered. It's VERY big, too, "in the flesh", with the landing gear & bomb bay being simply huge. Red has pics, I expect he'll Post them later.

We saw a USAF Sabre (I think it was a Sabre) going through it's paces, too. Four low Passes over the airfield, less than a hundred yards from us, three loop the loop things, inverted flying, climbing vertically, then diving similarly, waggling it's wings, all sorts. Very impressive indeed. Mother Hen had leakage. It flew in "unawares"  from behind us, - we never expected it - & my leakage levels were considerably up on normal

The Sabre, or whatever it was, eventually parked up, raced his single engine up to the max "revs", then switched the engine off. Do they do that revving up thing before switch off for a reason? We used to do that on older cars - give the throttle a blip before switching off. Never quite knew why, but the bloke next door did it, & he wore a tie, so musta known what he was doing.

Enjoy Sunday, you luckbox.

Shoreham air show.

As to the revving not sure why it would be given a full blast but every aircraft i have flown has required a powerup for shutdown checks.

Shoreham! Happy memories.

Shoreham Harbour has a magnificent brick-built power station. We used to go there as kids & try to count how many bricks were in it. Kids these days don't know they are born.

Big crowd expected at Shoreham Air-Show is there?

[Karabiner]

That's all good Tony  but i am seeing the Vulcan fly on Sunday, jealous?

I hate you.

Where is it this weekend?

We spent over an hour drooling over the Vulcan yesterday - it's morre impressive, imo, than Concorde, all things considered. It's VERY big, too, "in the flesh", with the landing gear & bomb bay being simply huge. Red has pics, I expect he'll Post them later.

We saw a USAF Sabre (I think it was a Sabre) going through it's paces, too. Four low Passes over the airfield, less than a hundred yards from us, three loop the loop things, inverted flying, climbing vertically, then diving similarly, waggling it's wings, all sorts. Very impressive indeed. Mother Hen had leakage. It flew in "unawares"  from behind us, - we never expected it - & my leakage levels were considerably up on normal

The Sabre, or whatever it was, eventually parked up, raced his single engine up to the max "revs", then switched the engine off. Do they do that revving up thing before switch off for a reason? We used to do that on older cars - give the throttle a blip before switching off. Never quite knew why, but the bloke next door did it, & he wore a tie, so musta known what he was doing.

Enjoy Sunday, you luckbox.

Shoreham air show.

As to the revving not sure why it would be given a full blast but every aircraft i have flown has required a powerup for shutdown checks.

That would make sense as there was a little vehicle next to it after it landed and something was connected to the aircraft before it did the final revving thing.

[gatso]

Shoreham! Happy memories.

indeed, we used to go to the beach parties that various soundsystems had there in the summer. the police used to cruise past but never interfered. nowadays they'd just steam in and cause a riot

we never went brick counting I'm afraid

[tikay]

Shoreham! Happy memories.

indeed, we used to go to the beach parties that various soundsystems had there in the summer. the police used to cruise past but never interfered. nowadays they'd just steam in and cause a riot

we never went brick counting I'm afraid

"systems" please gatters, "systems".

We don't call them "soundsystems" on the streetz.

[WarBwastard]

You'll need the US to begin carpet bombing somewhere before you can see a B-52 at Fairford.  It's only used by the Americans when there's a sustained bombing campaign on.  Alternatively the air tattoo is usually held there in July.  

[gatso]

Shoreham! Happy memories.

indeed, we used to go to the beach parties that various soundsystems had there in the summer. the police used to cruise past but never interfered. nowadays they'd just steam in and cause a riot

we never went brick counting I'm afraid

"systems" please gatters, "systems".

We don't call them "soundsystems" on the streetz.

sorry, that's what they were called in my day. I'm not up with what you kidz are calling them nowadays

[tikay]

You'll need the US to begin carpet bombing somewhere before you can see a B-52 at Fairford.  It's only used by the Americans when there's a sustained bombing campaign on.  Alternatively the air tattoo is usually held there in July.  

I thought as much, that boldie knows nothing, thank you.

I've often seen them in the air around Mildenhall, in Suffolk, where there is a USAF AirBase, but that may have been during some American conflict, so I'm not sure if they are still there. I fancy they well might, somehow.

Incredible machines.