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When I read that article, it made me wonder how many of our Green Leather Polishers would be so honourable as to walk the plank. It seems that {regardless of political leaning} ours go for the "Enquiry, in depth", Committee, enquiry, Police reports, any other delaying tactic, just plain denial, rather than just accept that they got it wrong. It hasn't endeared them to anyone and trust is becoming a rarity, as a result.

I like the black paper footplate idea, like many other really good ideas, simple... and very effective, great! ..... and thank you for sharing that one.

Wouldn't that be a painful hang-up, rather than back on Thread?? 😱

I thought you had just been playing a trump card... 🤮

It may be bereft of wheels...... but it certainly has had movements.....

Haaa... I've heard some excuses, in my time, you'll be telling us that you were top of your map reading class next... 🤓 Just joking, 'cuss I didn't manage to get out in the good weather, Washing x 2, shopping, visit to the local "Nick" and as a result, form filling for the traffic incident I saw... {Yes, I know, excuses, excuses... 😅 } Back on subject, it looks like a good day to be out and about.

I managed to get the Car Cam video into Flickr. Forward facing - Rear facing to see the bunching of those behind the black car -

I haven't had time yet, but yes I will see if they are interested. Even if it's just a visit to check if it was just driver error, or perhaps getting on in years.....

Reorte is perfectly correct about speed and available space. If you look how far the black car has gone, compared to the distance she travelled, in the same fraction of a second. She was pulling out at a speed which would have been normal for an empty A36. I, perhaps should have added a picture of {09}, showing how far she has travelled from the junction a second later - she wasn't hanging around. I'll put that picture in after these comments. Picture 1 {05} - She is approaching the junction, from the A390 onto the A36 at Knook Army Camp, but simply didn't stop and there is no slip lane. The white top of her car can just be seen some yards back from the junction, where the vertical post of the give-way sign, is lit by the Sun. Picture 2 {08} - She is already well out onto the A36, in front of the black car. He managed to skim past her as there was no time to do anything else, other than hit her at around 50+ MPH. He couldn't pull out further round her, as he would have been straight into my front end. As you can see, he only managed to miss her {and me} by a couple of inches. Picture 3 {Still 08} - The black car just succeeds in missing the front of mine, as again he didn't have time to pull any further back to his left. Picture 4 {at 09} - She is some distance from the junction, already. in less than a full second. The video is too large to upload to here. I will try Flickr, to see if that will take it. The whole thing was so quick, the guy in the black car must have had very fast reactions to have missed her and the front of mine.

A reminder of how fragile life can be - Less than 3 seconds..... She just didn't stop..... She then went on to put the brakes on.....

What gives them the authority to designate over 50s as "Elderly People". The sign certainly does not refer to any age, but their reference to a possible connection between Elderly, the age 50 and calling it a negative image, is entirely of their making. What is equally interesting, is what the **** the sign has to do with employment rights campaigners, anyway?? A more valid conjecture might be that some "employment campaigners" might have, over active, mouths at the wrong end of their digestive tract. At more than a quarter of a century older than their implied definition, I feel rather more qualified than them to have an opinion on what might be elderly. I take the picture and the title, as a warning that, ahead, there may be more elderly people than might normally be expected, some / many of whom may be less than sprightly.

That's so Putin's bungling henchmen can find their way home again..... 🤪

I gather he's already been invited to the Bungie Jump session planned a while ago, with a promise of no-strings-attached, of course...

RAF training course just South of York, a few of the students liked to go to into York to the Black Cat Disco, for a few bevies and sample some of the feminine delights, seemingly available. Apparently some would, occasionally, have a "Grimmy" contest. {No need for much imagination there, I guess.} Much hilarity over Scores, at the Mess Bar, when they got back. Even more hilarity one evening, when one of their midst, gave a Thumbs-up behind the back of his latest "Grimmy" conquest, followed by her being seen, openly, giving a Thumbs-up to her mates, at the bar. "That's telling your mates you scored?" he asked. "Yes" she replied, "Just won the Grimmy bloke contest!" 🤣 ..... Err, nope, I was not one of the group, having more respect for my immune system.

I wonder at how the chassis and suspension might cope with all those CCs? 👺

Now there's mental image I could do without..... 🙈

Oh, so true. I do confess that I can readily recognise a Class 08 / 09 from a Prince's Teddy. Ok, I didn't have an Anorak, but the army did give me a 2 week railway operating course, but driving Basra, has rather stuck in the memory. Shhh, now and don't tell Andy..... ..... he is Ok to keep his Teddies.

Like it..... but not having been an Anorak in my yoof, it took a few seconds to get there. 💥 🤣

That's the difference, a Life Sentence is a set of many conditions set on someone, which lasts for the whole of a Lifetime, even 'though you may have a shorter Prison Term, within those many conditions. Getting out of the Prison is on Licence, but not free of the Terms of the Sentence, get them wrong and you are back inside. I seem to remember there has been a recent case, where someone reached the end of the time allocated for his Prison Term, but his behaviour was such that it didn't fulfil the other Terms set for a Licence to be granted, so he stays inside, at least for now. I hope that might help.

Any news as to when the Motorail car transporters might be due, to pick them up??

All seems not quite so relevant at the moment..... the weather got there first. Harnham is to the right on the other side of that lot. The small sluice gates to control the water flow to the meadows, are several feet under that.

Probably not him, as he is modelled actually on his feet, whereas his time was spent drawing up false expense claims, or flat out on his back as a result of what he really purchased with the money - we earned!! Anyone got access to a suitably deep Cess Pit, where the key might be safely deposited when they do eventually lock him up.....

Perhaps as well before a number of possible disastrous consequences occurred, things like boiler water levels, boiler temperatures / pressures, or lack of, other traffic {presumably someone raised the alarm and alerted controllers, various, to keep that risk down??}. Just how does anyone get to think that's a good idea?

At the time, there was quite a bit of debate about, quite how unwitting the gentleman's trip really was, as many thought that simply closing the throttle, or HP Cocks, {Fuel cut-offs} would have prevented him from having to take all that trouble, in the air... {???} He was, after all qualified, Lightening" for carrying out ground test engine runs {ie. firing up and controlling the engine testing runs}. He would have to be very familiar, indeed, with the control process before he got that qualification. He had, apparently, also taken a flying course, available for some Engineer officers, which took them through to get their Wings, so was rather better qualified than Wikipedia would suggest. The idea being that they would make better Engineers, if they, properly, understood what went on in the air, as a result of their work on the ground. My Wg Cdr in Berlin was one such qualified Engineer Officer, wearing his Wings with justifiable pride. I'm not for coming to firm conclusions on "conspiracy theories", but even a "Frightening" takes time to run down the length of a runway..... That said, I wasn't there, so the possibility of jammed levers, throttle gates, confusion in the moment, things happening too fast to think properly... Who of us might put their hand up and swear that they would have been able to think clearly through massive noise, acceleration, vibration and G forces, that two afterburners would cause..... ..... Not me. Julian

As the RN pilot replied, it would certainly be "fast" and given it was a Phantom, quite possible / likely to burst a tyre or two. Flapless landings are certainly not common, due to RAF servicing standards, but not unheard of. Dependant on what runways might remain available, possibly also overrun, off the end / into an arrestor net / onto an arrestor run off area {If you're lucky enough to have one of either}. Other possibilities included landing on motorways, with obvious attendant risks. His point was that he was better off taking his chances giving it a go, rather than sit, waiting for one of the buckets of russian sunshine,{supposedly} en-route. If you can walk away, it's a good landing.....