Cryptic v2.0

[TheiC]

Mr Chopra's dictionary might help...

[TheiC]

(That would be Mr S.B. Chopra).

[Herod]

As in Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering?

[TheiC]

Yes, exactly.

The frustration is palpable!!!

:):):)

[Herod]

Jackaroo by any chance?

[TheiC]

Not the Jackaroo, I'm afraid.

NutherA2's guess and the reply should take you there instantly...

[Herod]

How's about "Picador", the Israeli UAV?

[TheiC]

This one is nothing to do with an Israeli UAV...

NutherA2 was, in hide-and-seek terms, blisteringly hot, but had not dealt with the second part of the clue...

[TheiC]

To help things along:

'Staff' led NutherA2 correctly to 'Pike'; Aubagne is home to the French Foreign Legion, who wear a Kepi. 'Tip' Kepi to get Pike.

Young's Modulus and the Rotational Constant will tidy things up to find a forum favourite; our antipodean correspondents will be pleased.

[Tankertrashnav]

Threads such as these only maintain an interest if they keep moving.

Post #7

I regularly set a quiz in an internet chat room (not aviation related). It's tricky judging your audience - make the questions too easy and it becomes a matter of who can type fastest, make them too hard and people get fed up never knowing the answers and don't come back.

I've had a couple of goes setting a clue on here which were obviously too easy (solved in less than an hour each time) but on the other hand this one is now around a fortnight old with no sign of being solved. Might I respectfully suggest we aim for something midway between 'Daily Mirror' and 'Listener' - 'Telegraph' standard perhaps?

Ready to be flamed if it's not what people want.

[TheiC]

TTN, I'd agree with you if this were a difficult challenge... I don't think it is; it should have been very easy to get from 'staff' to 'pike'.

The clue is pretty clear that some fiddling needed to be done with the end of the word.

If you've read my posts you'll know that there is every sign it will be solved very soon indeed, so I'm puzzled by your remark:

on the other hand this one is now around a fortnight old with no sign of being solved

I'm absolutely astonished we haven't had a correct answer yet.

If everyone is fed up and wants to move on, please do: If a new challenge is posted, I'll post the correct answer to this one, with an explanation. Over to you.

[NutherA2]

As you say, Staff to Pike wasn't difficult,once Tip turned out to be a false lead; nor was identifying Aubagne - Foreign Legion - Kepi and re-mixing it to confirm Pike. Was Chopra's dictionary web address (SKEPDIC.COM( also intended to head in this direction?

I'm still at a loss as to where to go for the rest of the clue though; perhaps my little grey cells are becoming tired, but I did finish both the Sunday Telegraph "Enigmatic" and the Observer "AZED" on Sunday. If I don't make a break through soon I'll read your solution with much interest

[TheiC]

NutherA2,

Good to know you're there! You can crack this!

Tip wasn't a false lead. You needed to find which hat someone in Aubagne wears (a Kepi) and then 'tip' it (re-arrange it) for Pike, as you did.


Young's Modulus and the Rotational Constant will tidy things up to find a forum favourite; our antipodean correspondents will be pleased.

Mr Chopra's dictionary was to help you get from stiffness to Young's Modulus and from going around to the rotational constant. His web address is a happy co-incidence which I hadn't spotted.

I reckon you'll have it by the time I've finished dinner, if you are watching the forum. We're having two courses!

[TheiC]

Pausing while custard is prepared...

It occurs to me that some players may be having problems because they haven't kept an eye on other threads in this forum of late, and are not aware of the aircraft type. See my response to Herod's attempt above, and ponder Gwyneth's airfield's long-term residents for more help...

[Tankertrashnav]

Watching with interest - I have a horrible suspicion that when someone gets it, or you reveal the answer, I will never have heard of the damned aircraft.

Fick, I am :confused:

[sabredog]

Jindivik prototype,Pika?

[TheiC]

TTN,

Fick I suspect you are not.

Even if you were, had you reviewed the Challenge, What Cockpit, or Heikki's Silhouette Challenge threads, you should be aware of this aircraft type.

It has featured in all of them in the last two years.

[TheiC]

My reply to TTN crossed with sabredog's guess..

Handel: 'Hallelujah' [Chorus From Oratorio 'Messiah'] - YouTube

Sabredog got rid of Young's Modulus, E, and replaced it with the Rotational Constant, A, to get the mighty Pika...

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/459476-heikkis-silhouette-challenge-200.html#post6799702

(Sorry, my post looks correct in editing, no idea why things are doubled up above).

Sabredog has control. :ok::ok::ok::ok::ok::ok:

[sabredog]

Thank you,theiC.
Open House.

[NutherA2]

Thanks Sabredog for putting an end to my brain strain. Since I'd never heard of the Pika (shot a Jindivik down in 1963, though) I don't feel too bad about my lack of success.

Nice one TheiC and thanks for the debrief.

[Tankertrashnav]

Taking advantage of the open house:

For example McQueen, a pupil, loses energy and gets spaced out

(airfield)

[NutherA2]

This could be St Eval; home to the Kipper Fleet rather than the tanker force! Open House if right.

[NutherA2]

Thought I might jump the gun & not wait for the referee's decision; just to keep the ball rolling:

Airfield

Dee Snider, Eddie Ojeda, Jay Jay French, Mark Mendoza & A. J. Pero

[TheiC]

A testing challenge, that...

Istres, perhaps?

[NutherA2]

So fast! I thought it might be one for a heavy metal driver. I've been a bit idle with the Open House buck passing, so forgive me for holding on to the ball for one more :

Airfield

Commander in Chief, Authorized, New Approach and many others are confused after losing Eric Morecambe’s partner.

[Tankertrashnav]

Many apologies - tried to post my reply earlier but the site totally froze and I couldnt post - yes of course was St Eval - too easy again!

By the way - why Istres? Think this thread is a bit above my level!

[NutherA2]

The 5 names are the current(?) members of the group "Twisted Sister". I hope the latest one lasts a little longer.

Good night all...........

[NutherA2]

Perhaps I was a bit too cryptic, time for a hint or two?The airfield is no longer active and the RAF have left, but the buildings & runways are (I think) as they were 56 years ago when I got my wings there.

Commander in Chief, Authorized, New Approach and many others are confused after losing Eric Morecambe’s partner.

First thing is to recognise what they have in common, this may help?
Authorized (2007 – Frankie Dettori); New Approach (2008 Kevin Manning); Commander in Chief (1993 Kevin Manning).

[Tankertrashnav]

Might it be Swinderby?

[NutherA2]

Well done TT, I was beginning to worry that I had overcomplicated the thread to death. As you have deduced:

Authorized (2007 – Frankie Dettori); New Approach (2008 Kevin Manning); Commander in Chief (1993 Kevin Manning) were all DERBY WINNERS.


Eric Morecambe used to address his vertically challenged mate as ERN, so:

DERBYWINNERS losing ERN gives a confused Swinderby.


Thanks again & “You have control”

[Tankertrashnav]

Thanks

Another airfield

Sounds like a game for chancers - poker maybe?

[NutherA2]

Aberdeen (Dyce) perchance? OH if OK

[Tankertrashnav]

Of course NutherA2 - what took you so long? ;)

Dice, as in poker dice, was my not very red herring.

Open house has been offered.

[Yellow Sun]

Yet another airfield:

Half a Beatles Track in Blue+Yellow

YS

[sabredog]

RAF Halfpenny Green airfield?

[Yellow Sun]

That one didn't last long!

Over to sabredog

YS

[sabredog]

Yellow Sun, thank you.
The next challenge;
An aircraft.
Uncouth action, might be considered inflammatory.

[Tankertrashnav]

Clue? eg RAF? Civil? UK? Overseas?

[sabredog]

U.K. / R.A.F.,TankerTrashNav.
Changing" Action" to "Habit" might help, or not.
Seagulls played a part in it's inception,allegedly!

[teeteringhead]

Oh do come on - Spitfire!!!

... back to the Telegraph Toughie .......:ok:

[Tankertrashnav]

Would have helped if I'd read the question - was trying to make an airfield from the clue :ugh:

Rule 1 - Read the question!
Rule 2 - Read the question!!

etc, etc :(

[sabredog]

Correct, Teeteringhead, the Supermarine Spitfire.
At least you showed some interest,Tanketrashnav!
Teeteringhead,YHC.

[NutherA2]

TTN
Would have helped if I'd read the question - was trying to make an airfield from the clueMe too!

Teeteringhead,

back to the Telegraph Toughie16 Across, is "teensier" a word & if not what's the answer?

[teeteringhead]

OK - here we go: aircraft.

L-lovemaking after you & me!

(and I think it's "teensier" too)

[sabredog]

Westland Wessex?

[teeteringhead]

Exactly so!

[sabredog]

Thank you,Teeteringhead.
The "Buck" passes ever onwards.
Open House

[BSAA1947]

OK, I'll give it a try. How about -

Sack cattle marker beyond a dark Scottish stream.

(Aircraft)

[sabredog]

Blackburn Firebrand?

[BSAA1947]

Yep, of course. Too easy eh?! :O

[sabredog]

Thank you,BSAA1947.
Another easy one;

an AIRFIELD/AIRPORT.

The Grocer's line, or perhaps noise.

[NutherA2]

London Heathrow?

[sabredog]

NutherA2 is correct.
YHC.

[NutherA2]

Thanks F86D.................

Aircraft

To mis-quote Paul H, David E, Adam C & Lawrence M “And I can see those fighter planes bullet the blue sky”

[Tankertrashnav]

U2 perhaps?

[NutherA2]

Dragon Lady it is, YHC

[Tankertrashnav]

Thanks

Aircraft - Day/night fighter more easily seen at night?

[sabredog]

Gloster Meteor?

[Tankertrashnav]

Wasn't the one I was thinking of, although it does fit. Have another try.

Prop, not jet, as a clue.

[NutherA2]

Lockheed P38M Lightning?

[Tankertrashnav]

Oh blimey - there are loads that seem to fit! Give it one more try and I'll tell you, whilst admitting that both Meteor and Lightning fitted the bill.

UK - single engined - not only a fighter.

[NutherA2]

Fairey Firefly?

[Tankertrashnav]

Phew - well done.

If I get another go I'll try and make it less ambiguous next time!

Over to you

[NutherA2]

Thanks TT, I'm off to the pub(Whey Pat) for some R&R, Open House again.

[Tankertrashnav]

Open house has been declared - someone have a go.

[NutherA2]

I found this clue in one of today's more erudite crosswords, hope I'm not in breach of copyright!

Aircraft

Large stinger? Drunk another, first polished off

[evansb]

An Antonov ?

[NutherA2]

Sorry no, this one is a British aircraft. If you do the Observer AZED, according to Inspector Morse the best crossword in the world, I stole this from today's Clue 20 Down.

[Tankertrashnav]

Think that's a Hornet?

If so glad you said it was a British aircraft - the younger generation may only be aware of the F18 of the same name.

[NutherA2]

Ah..........de Havilland........well done TT, YHC.

Back to yesterday's AZED, I'm still stuck on 18 & 22 Across and 12, 15 & 23 Down.

[Tankertrashnav]

Thanks A2 - cant help you on the Observer crossword I'm afraid - I take The Times myself.

Nice easy one for a Monday

I leave some prawns - a hundred. (Airfield)

[NutherA2]

Just be careful (in this politically correct age) what you call the resident Labrador?

[Tankertrashnav]

Had to think about that for a minute!

Yes - Scampton it is.

Over to you.

[NutherA2]

Open House again if anyone can come up with one before I do.

[TheiC]

Aircraft:

Stop a repairer, fast, and perhaps under pressure.

[TheiC]

...or alternatively:


Rioters appear in confusion

[TheiC]

Oh dear...

No interest, and as I'm off to bed before a nice day out tomorrow, it was Piper Aerostar.

Open house...

[Tankertrashnav]

Tut tut IC, there certainly was interest. Ive got a piece of paper in front of me with my futile attempts to make an anagram out of rioters appear . Nearest I got was the Airsport made by that obscure maker 'Arepa'!

Like all anagrams it's blindingly obvious when someone shows you the answer :(

[TheiC]

Crikey TTN,

The last time I tried, you thought it was too hard, so I made this one (I thought) very, very easy! 'Aero' and 'piper' were meant to jump off the page!

I didn't want to hold things up, as I expected to be out for a long day today without IT. Very sorry!

[Tankertrashnav]

Told you I was thick, but you wouldn't believe me. But I did try, honest ;)

OK meantime here's another of my easy ones:

Good air navigation starts in the ocean.

(Airfield)

[Herod]

Gotta be Gan

[Tankertrashnav]

Couldn't be anywhere else, Herod (Indian Ocean, of course). Well done.

You have control

[Herod]

Thanks. Another easy one. In river, none find aircraft.

[NutherA2]

Vickers Vernon? OH if so

[Herod]

That's the one.

[NutherA2]

Hopefully a quickie to keep the thread going:

Airfield

Bridge partners go off the straight and narrow

[Herod]

Could be Westray (Papa)?

[NutherA2]

Certainly is..........YHC

[Herod]

Thanks again. Pressurise to support this aircraft?

[Herod]

Nearly 24 hours; I'll rephrase it. "Rush support for aircraft."

[NutherA2]

Might it be the Hurry-cane?

[Herod]

Got it! You have control again.

[NutherA2]

Open House unless I can think of something first.

[Herod]

If I may: "Open brandy and rum, run across airport".

[Tankertrashnav]

Think it might be an airport where you have to check the tide tables as well as the met. Is it Barra?

[Herod]

It is indeed. Happy memories of popping the Trislander in there during my Loganair days. You have control.

[Tankertrashnav]

Thanks - would love to have been in the RHS!

Old penny lady whispered.

(aircraft)

[NutherA2]

Toss a coin for it & tails shows Britannia? OH if right.

[Tankertrashnav]

Spot on!

Incidentally did you know when the new design of 50p came in it was the first time in over 300 years that there was no representation of Britannia on a British coin? Disgraceful!

Open house has been declared.

[Tankertrashnav]

Come on chaps - someone have a go, particularly if you haven't done one before - doesn't have to be brilliant - it's just a bit of fun.

[Herod]

Another easy one to keep it going. "Railway pork?" (airfield)

[NutherA2]

Could be Lyneham?

[Herod]

Yep; you have control

[NutherA2]

As Tankertrashnav suggested:

Come on chaps - someone have a go, particularly if you haven't done one before - doesn't have to be brilliant - it's just a bit of fun. Open House

[NutherA2]

No other takers? Try this one:

An ill gorilla might meet up with an Oklahoma tribe to produce this aircraft.

[Herod]

Well, I can get the "ill" and the "Oklahoma tribe", so I'm going for the Sikorsky Chocktaw. If right, where does the gorilla fit in (I know, at his size, anywhere he likes :))?. Open house if I'm right.

[NutherA2]

Thinking on the right lines, but some way off the solution yet, sorry.
Another interpretation of "an ill gorilla" will give an anagram of the manufacturer which will lead to the correct tribe.........enjoy.......

[NutherA2]

It’s been running long enough I think. Hopefully a couple of clues will help move things along.

I admit to a bit of poetic licence for the manufacturer’s name, for “An ill gorilla” try “1(for I) SICK APE”.

The middle name of the General who marched “Through Georgia to the sea” was shared with one of the better known chiefs of the Oklahoma tribe.

[skytrain10]

Well, the anagram gives Piasecki, so with the Shawnee tribe now in Oklahoma I'm guessing it's the Piasecki H-21 Shawnee (aka Workhorse)?
If correct will have to be Open House

[NutherA2]

Well done Skytrain, Open House it is.

[Lightning Mate]

Airfield

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/gr_popo.jpg

[Tankertrashnav]

Waterbeach?

[Lightning Mate]

Seeples wunnit!

Next one not......

Tankerwanker is in charge.....;)

[Tankertrashnav]

Tankerwanker is in charge.....http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/wink2.gif


Tut! :*

OK, try this one: "One of the Dambusters? On the contrary." (aircraft)

[Herod]

Has to be that fine DHC creation, the Beaver. Oh if correct.

[Tankertrashnav]

Well done Herod

Open house has been declared. Come on steely-eyed jet jockey - have another go!

[NutherA2]

A daft one which may amuse your grandchildren:

Aircraft

In the monastery kitchen, the fish is being cooked by the Friar; which brother is dealing with the potatoes?

[Tankertrashnav]

Blimey, is everyone asleep?

Another of De Havillands little beauties, the first RAF aircraft I ever flew in, the Chipmunk of course!

[Lightning Mate]

the first RAF aircraft I ever flew in, the Chipmunk of course!

....and me!

Are you ex 55 or 57? Methinks you may have given me lossa avtur! :ok::):)

[NutherA2]

DHC1 it is, TTN & LM

It gave me my second flight & impressed me much more than the Prentice which was my first. When my ATPL was issued in 1974, the Chipmunk was the only type included, good old days or what?

My AAR time was always behind the tankers when I was on 23 (Javelin) & 43 (F4).

[Tankertrashnav]

NutherA2, I assume you were mainly refuelling from Valiants in your Javelin.

LM - I was never on K2s, I saw the K1s through to the end on 214. So if you plugged in any time between 1971 and 1977 it might have been me peering at you through the periscope!

Anyway I've done a few recently, why don't you take this one LM ?

[Lightning Mate]

airfield..

A crude form of stomach containing the berries of a gentlemans' tipple.

[Yellow Sun]

A crude form of stomach containing the berries of a gentlemans' tipple.

Gutersloh?

YS

[Lightning Mate]

Ja mein freund. :ok:

All yours.

[Yellow Sun]

Airfield:

Where the magic dragon frolicked

YS

[Groundloop]

Honiley???

[Yellow Sun]

Yes indeed

Over to Groundloop

YS

[Groundloop]

Thanks.

Open house.

[Lightning Mate]

...aircraft...

A missionary in the dark continent, he only has three.

[NutherA2]

There is/was a missionary named Ford in Gabon, could this be the Ford Tri-Motor? OH if correct.

[Lightning Mate]

Excellent logical thinking, but wrong.

Have anuther go.....

Wanna clue? :)

[NutherA2]

Wanna clue? http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/smile.gif

Yes please, just to prevent another sleepless night...............:sad:

[Lightning Mate]

OK.

From one A2 to another......

helicopter :)

[Lightning Mate]

OK NutherA2.

I was looking for the Schweizer, but your attempt is so good.

You have control. :ok:

....at our ages mate we need all the sleep we can get............

profile: Former FJ driver & QFI

Wossa jet mate?

[NutherA2]

Thanks again LM,early night for me so Open House:ok:

[Yellow Sun]

Airfield:

Swinging Sixties, Cat Really Nails Byelaws

Too many B1s having a run of luck around here!:ok:

YS

[Lightning Mate]

UK.........?

[Yellow Sun]

UK.........?

Yes, unless UDI has been declared North of the Humber.

YS

[Lightning Mate]

Ah...possibly military then.

[Yellow Sun]

Ah...possibly military then.

Emily was here

YS

[Neptunus Rex]

Somewhere in the "Teeside Triangle?"

[Lightning Mate]

Somewhere in the "Teeside Triangle?"

We should know that area Chaz......;)

[Yellow Sun]

Somewhere in the "Teeside Triangle?"

Nope, you'll be asking for a lat & long next Chaz!

Anyway, Emily was a southern girl.

YS

[Lightning Mate]

Is the language there Jockanese?

[Yellow Sun]

Is the language there Jockanese?

Eh ba gum no!

YS

[Lightning Mate]

This might get something going...

A Thor missile base?

[Yellow Sun]

A Thor missile base?

getting close

YS

[Lightning Mate]

Catfoss or Carnaby...?

[Yellow Sun]

Carnaby

Clue was rather lame Cat Really Nails Byelaws, but I thought Swinging Sixties might help.

Project Emily was the codename for the RAF Thor project.

Over to LM.

YS

[Lightning Mate]

Now it's A2s having a run of luck!

Nice one mate. :ok:

Airfield again.......

Lots of animals earlier this week.

[Lightning Mate]

February 14th in Hampshire, now just a field.

[NutherA2]

That'll be Valentine's Farm, then?

[Lightning Mate]

It will indeed. :ok:

Your service.

[NutherA2]

Thanks, Mate:

This time a manufacturer and an aircraft type:

James Bond’s boss, a supporter and the Queen produced a prohibited insect in Ireland.

[Lightning Mate]

Presumably they are different.

[evansb]

Embraer Bandeirante ?

[NutherA2]

Correct, Maestro:

Bond’s Boss = EM
Supporter = BRA
Queen = ER


Prohibited = BAND ( best I could do)
Insect in Ireland = EIRANTE


YHC ( as we A2s used to say so clearly, but using more colours when being trapped).)

[evansb]

An aircraft manufacturer and model

A body of water

Stag and a brief association with the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment

[NutherA2]

Lake Buccaneer? If so I haven't yet twigged the reference to the "Woofers".

[evansb]

NutherA2 is correct:ok:. Your turn. Again.

Note: the EER part of Bucaneer was a reference to the Royal Army Infantry "East of England Regiment", (EER), which had strong links to the "Woofers".

[Tankertrashnav]

PPRuNe is nothing if not educational. I've been involved with militaria over the last 35 years and I'd never heard of the East of England Regiment. Now I've googled it I know all there is to know (nearly!).

Mind you I'd never heard of the Lake Buccaneer either!

[Lightning Mate]

Concurred - providing you use the threads frequented by adults and not moronic children.

Come on over to "Silhouette Challenge". :):)

[NutherA2]

At 16:30 on any Saturday the "Whey Pat Tavern" is calling, so just a quickie:

A detailed Nathaniel Adams Coles could construct this Airfield without assistance.

[Lightning Mate]

Lossiemouth.........?

[NutherA2]

Sorry, LM, not so close to the Arctic Circle, perhaps de-tailed might help.

[Tankertrashnav]

Think I might have been there for 6 years - the one with grass that is.

El Adem?

[NutherA2]

'Fraid not TTN, this one is in England; if you translate Nathaniel Adams Coles and curtail the result, the airfield won't be hard to find (these days it's supposed to be hard to get out of though).

[Yellow Sun]

Lindholme?

YS

[NutherA2]

Not Lindholme, I'm curious regarding the logic of the various suggestions. Perhaps it's time for more indications:

1. Identify Nathaniel Adams Coles
2. Curtail the result.
3. Put the remainder into the mixer & think APC.

[Lightning Mate]

& think APC
That might not mean much to some people here mate.

North Coates ?

[Yellow Sun]

OK

I have Nat King Cole, curtailng it gives Nat King? I can't make much out of that.

YS

[Lightning Mate]

That's why I have gone for North Coates.

The thread is becoming more and more crypic.

[sabredog]

R.A.F. ACKLINGTON ?

[Lightning Mate]

We've had that somewhere - I posted it.

[NutherA2]

:{ Sorry LM I haven't seen the original entry, NATKINGCOL (-E) to give Acklington is what I had in mind.

Sabredog has control.......

[Lightning Mate]

Sorry LM I haven't seen the original entry

That's because the original thread disappeared for some reason.

I was thinking Acklington (where I did my basic training) but rejected it because of that without thinking! :\

[sabredog]

Open House

[Lightning Mate]

Well. I've still got two challenges up on other threads, so I'll not take the OH.

[Tankertrashnav]

OK - taking up the OH

Answer:

Cured Old Spot, for example.

Question?

(Airfield)

[evansb]

Is this a place name that also happens to have an airfield, or is the name specific to the airfield ? i.e New York as opposed to Laguardia ?

[Tankertrashnav]

Definitely known to most as an airfield, I assume named after a nearby village. UK

[sabredog]

Gloucester/Staverton Airport?

[Tankertrashnav]

You've got the Gloucester connection, but that doesn't help you geographically speaking. Think about the animal (or its by-products!)

[NutherA2]

CheltenHAM?

[Tankertrashnav]

Getting close - define "Cured Old Spot, for example" and think of the question that can be answered with that phrase.

[NutherA2]

Wattisham? OH if correct.

[Tankertrashnav]

What is ham? Of course, well done!

Open house has been offered.

[Lightning Mate]

Wattisham has been done before as well - I posted it.

Made a reference to the Singing Postman and the Kray brothers.

Still, with the loss of the original thread, nobody could know that!

[NutherA2]

This thread seems to be running well and is therefore gettig steadily bigger. Could we persuade someone brighter than me to construct (& update) a "What Cryptic Aircraft, Manufacturer & Airfield Lists" sticky to help us to avoid the double entry problems?

Meanwhile:

If TTN’s Old Spots aren’t available, this Antipodean Airfield would provide an alternative product for curing.

[Lightning Mate]

Could we persuade someone brighter than me to construct (& update) a...

Feel free mate. Mel has his work cut out with the other four.

I do all the congratulations cards for every x1000 posts.

To me, antipodian indicates Oz or NZ.

Oi A2, would you mind posting at 2 point size. Dunno why you always use 1 point......

[NutherA2]

Feel free mate. I wouldn't know how to start & am too old to learn, sorry!

To me, antipodean indicates Oz or NZ.
Me too.

[sabredog]

Streaky Bay,QLD?

[NutherA2]

Right country, SD, but wrong state. The answer is an alternative to Old Spot (pre-cure).

[Lightning Mate]

Tamworth..?

[NutherA2]

That's the one............YHC again.

[Lightning Mate]

Thanks QFI. :)

Next:

an aircraft (design concept only) like a fast car.......

[Yellow Sun]

Jaguar? I was told that it never really got off the ground:E

YS

[NutherA2]

I'd never heard of it, but when I searched "As F1 aircraft" my friend Google suggested:
"ASF-1 Ghost Stealth Fighter".

[Lightning Mate]

Nothing to do with F1.

Try a well known large European car company.

[Lightning Mate]

Nuther clue for an A2.

Bavaria......

[Lightning Mate]

C'mon - only one car maker there.

[Lightning Mate]

A2s ain't wot they ussa be innit! - 'sept me...........

[Herod]

Messerschmitt P.1101?

[NutherA2]

Does it date from the 1940's?

[skytrain10]

BMW Schnellbomber?

[Lightning Mate]

Ya mein Herr. :ok:

Aus zu.

Nacht - bis morgen.

[skytrain10]

Thanks David

Will have to be Open House.

[Lightning Mate]

Aeroplane:

You are advised not to go East at high level.

[Lightning Mate]

Clue:

British WW2.

[NutherA2]

Westland Welkin?

[Lightning Mate]

What kept you!

All yours. :ok:

[NutherA2]

Thanks, Mate.

Breakfast.

Now I've a dog to walk, then golf, busy day so Open House.

[Lightning Mate]

Nice to be retired innit!

[Tankertrashnav]

Tut - thought of various Westlands, but ignorance of the Welkin's purpose made me discard it. Reckon it'll be a long time before I'm fit for Silhouette Challenge, LM :(

If I may avail myself of the Open House

A bit like the Nieuport Gnu, alliteratively speaking

(aircraft)

[Lightning Mate]

Reckon it'll be a long time before I'm fit for Silhouette Challenge, LM http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/sowee.gif

Go on - give it a shot. One of mine is up and another player has found the right country.....

[NutherA2]

Wimped out of the golf (wind out of pensioners' limits)

Vickers Wildebeest?

[Lightning Mate]

Wimped out of the golf (wind out of pensioners' limits)

I would have thought a man of your colyber could hack any wind!

[NutherA2]

Au contraire, LM, wind & OAPs are never a pretty combination.:yuk:

[Lightning Mate]

Depends wots causing the wind mate...:E

Now - where's that tankerwanker gone.....?

[Tankertrashnav]

Did you really need me to to tell you that was right? ;)

Incidentally seen it spelt with a V and a W - wonder what the official spelling was (of the aircraft that is)

Your turn A2

(off to try LM's challenge!)

[NutherA2]

Open House if anybody's got one.

[Lightning Mate]

Morning chaps. :)

Get yerselves over to Silhouette Challenge.

[NutherA2]

This is a bit clumsy, but may fill in a little time until someone chips in with a better one:


Aircraft



CAMRA pilots ignore hectopascals and use an older unit when confused in real ale?

[Yellow Sun]

Canberra?

YS

[NutherA2]

'Fraid not YS, this one dated from a few years earlier than the Canberra.

[Herod]

Albemarle?

[NutherA2]

That's it, Herod, another anagram bites the dust; YHC.

[Herod]

Airfield. "The island is almost fourteen pounds"

[Lightning Mate]

Tofino....?

[Ridge Runner]

Abbots Bromley?

[Herod]

Nope times two

[NutherA2]

Manston, perhaps? OH if so.....

[Lightning Mate]

Would it be somewhere near Hong Kong?

Good geriatrics thread this innit! :E

[Herod]

Manston it is. OH has been declared. Maybe us geriatrics are the only ones with the edukashun.

[Tankertrashnav]

Feeling a bit guilty about taking up these OH's, but in my defence I did work out Manston without peeking at the answer!

Anyway - another airfield

We wander north to a small village.

[Lightning Mate]

An obvious answer is North Luffenham, but surely you wouldn't post something that easy!!

[Tankertrashnav]

As if! No, not North Luffenham. Try a different cardinal!

[Lightning Mate]

Cardinal as in heading I assume.

Hornchurch?

SC beckons you..................

[Yellow Sun]

West Malling?

YS

[Tankertrashnav]

right heading, wrong airfield YS. Every part of the clue is relevant to the answer.

LM - re SC - even when you show the big pictures I still don't recognise them! Memories of doing our monthly study sessions in the vault - I couldnt tell a Fishbed from a fish supper :confused:

[NutherA2]

Good afternoon, TTN,

West Raynham (as in we stray N ham [let])?

Yet another OH if correct, I'm off to put on my English shirt, more in hope than expectation.

[Tankertrashnav]

Another lesson in how to read cryptic clues from the master! West Raynham it is.

OH has been offered

(My Irish half well pleased after the result from Dublin, my English half is a bit apprehensive though)

[Yellow Sun]

This airfield should leave you feeling pretty good!

YS

[Herod]

Wellesbourne?

[Yellow Sun]

Sorry, not Wellesbourne Mountford

YS

[NutherA2]

Feltwell? Flying Provosts there made me feel pretty good.

[Yellow Sun]

Feltwell it is:ok:

You have control.

YS

[NutherA2]

Open House while I recover from post Twickenham nerves.

[Lightning Mate]

Just to complete the challenges trio....

Airfield......a tired American car.

[Herod]

Ford is the obvious (and probably wrong) answer. ;)