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Old 23rd Sep 2019, 12:35
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Fournierf5
 
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Originally Posted by treadigraph
Motored on a bit via several stops in Russia, landed this morning at Sapporo on Hokkaido in Japan just as Australia beat Fiji at the local stadium. Some maintenance coming up next apparently.

. . . just in time to coincide with a few rugby matches [[i]and why not!] . . . as I remarked in an earlier post, it's simply a marvellous marketing wheeze . . . and very good luck to them but I've reached the point where I can hardly contain my indifference!

A flight of a rather more meritorious and foolhardy nature [[i]perhaps even heroic, IMHO] has just ended - and for charity, not wrist decorations
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-49786883

..... there is just one thread on this site with a measly TEN posts . . . shouldn't there be more! Praise where praise is due, etc etc

Record global flight in a gyrocopter

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