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14th Jul 2017, 20:00
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Posted By blind pew

Chugalug. Yes the French were (are) terribly...

Chugalug.
Yes the French were (are) terribly anti Semitic.
The imperial war museum at the elephant and castle has a holocaust exhibition on at the moment. I avoided it on my other visits but today...
14th Jul 2017, 19:27
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Posted By blind pew

Wrt British prisoners in the Republic. A...

Wrt British prisoners in the Republic.
A friend of mine's father was CO of the prison camp in the Curragh.
The prisoners had to sign out for their parole. The infamous case was of an officer who...
5th Jul 2017, 05:27
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Posted By blind pew

Warmtoast...just reiterating what he told me but...

Warmtoast...just reiterating what he told me but I've been trying for several years to get a file released on the attempted bombing of a Trident out of Belfast that diverted to Manchester.
The file...
4th Jul 2017, 19:12
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Posted By blind pew

DOF it's the same with the files on the French...

DOF it's the same with the files on the French resistance. My father was a translator for de Gaulle whom he detested as he similarly did with Churchill. Told me that the majority of the resistance...
24th May 2015, 19:15
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Posted By blind pew

Flt. Lt. Bill keighley

frederick william spink keighley (From The Northern Echo) (http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/announcements/deaths/deaths/12954212.frederick_william_spink_keighley/)
Texel...
23rd Dec 2014, 07:20
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Posted By blind pew

Fion101 Glad you enjoyed it...next time you are...

Fion101
Glad you enjoyed it...next time you are in Skerries call in...have quite a few more stories that I can't publish..
The Title originates from a colleague who although from a posh background...
6th Nov 2014, 16:57
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Posted By blind pew

fareastdriver I penned an autobiography 5?...

fareastdriver
I penned an autobiography 5? years ago...went through the self publishing route and then discovered that I would have to chop rather a lot because of the libel act...
The exercise has...
7th Oct 2014, 17:06
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Posted By blind pew

Danny

I too would like to thank Danny for his stories...along with many others including Cliff and Regie ---they have answered (and posed) why the 1970s were how they were for me.
My apologies for the...
25th Sep 2014, 17:13
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Posted By blind pew

Danny I must confess that I plagiarised the term...

Danny I must confess that I plagiarised the term from one of the inquiries into Murdoch but it sums up some of the testimonies at the public inquiry.

Chugalug...you were one of the lucky ones as...
24th Sep 2014, 12:11
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Posted By blind pew

ancientaviator....the good old critical engine...

ancientaviator....the good old critical engine failure on TO balls up...
BEA in my time belatedly got into charters...in the form of Airtours. My father had been in partnership with a hotel owner...
24th Sep 2014, 08:04
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Posted By blind pew

Ah Danny When has a good old British public...

Ah Danny
When has a good old British public inquiry done anything in the way of finding the truth and not just protecting the establishment?
Thanks to yourself, Reggie and Cliff, I have understood...
21st Sep 2014, 16:41
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Posted By blind pew

Molemot.... Ahhh the good old stabilised...

Molemot....
Ahhh the good old stabilised approach ...from ten miles out.
It was erroneously believed in 1972 that you had to have everything hanging out by 3000ft and at final approach speed to...
21st Sep 2014, 11:47
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Posted By blind pew

Danny in belated response to your question re the...

Danny in belated response to your question re the Spey and noise in the 70s. It didn't power the noisiest subsonic aircraft at that time but it probably caused the most disruption although not with...
19th Mar 2014, 11:19
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Posted By blind pew

Danny Yes 3 grand was a lot to loose but two...

Danny

Yes 3 grand was a lot to loose but two were supposedly restored by a garage in Wickford (Essex of course) and the third I paid for a bare metal respray.
The two were air freighted to Geneva...
15th Mar 2014, 07:38
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Posted By blind pew

I bought three Isettas in the early 1980s ...the...

I bought three Isettas in the early 1980s ...the first two were for SWISSAIR captains on the DC9. I hired a trailer, drove them up to Heathrow and they were put into the hold of an A300 bound for...
14th Dec 2013, 14:29
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Posted By blind pew

Camlobe re the tri pacer. I went on a camping...

Camlobe re the tri pacer.
I went on a camping safari in the Masi Mara with a gentleman - David Drummond, GM - amongst other awards, who had flown the tri pacers.
They would get airborne before dawn...
12th Aug 2013, 17:01
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Posted By blind pew

Heathrow GCA Danny I flew several GCAs into LHR...

Heathrow GCA
Danny I flew several GCAs into LHR in the 70s on the HS Trident..generally at night when things were quiet.
Re ATA..Joan Hughes was my instructor for my instructor's rating at Booker....
16th Sep 2012, 13:39
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Posted By blind pew

The Japanese tested bubonic plague and anthrax...

The Japanese tested bubonic plague and anthrax against chinese civilians during the war. A delivery system was developed using a ceramic container that was air detonated to ensure maximum spread of...
7th Aug 2012, 15:24
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Posted By blind pew

Remember the immense HF antennas near...

Remember the immense HF antennas near Daventry-possibly the source for the music. Think they were used by the BBC world service but stand to be corrected.

Re the Vanguard prang - definitely a...
5th Aug 2012, 15:24
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Posted By blind pew

Vanguard - no the corrosion crash was at ghent in...

Vanguard - no the corrosion crash was at ghent in November 71 - the week I joined BEA - and was the first of eight hull loses the group had in my six years with them.
The corrosion had been known...
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