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Old 14th Oct 2005, 15:50
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Question about Lyneham

Why has the Britannia gate guardian at Lyneham had lights placed all around it?
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Old 14th Oct 2005, 15:52
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It's coming up to XMAS so there are plans to decorate it accordingly.
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Old 14th Oct 2005, 15:55
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To confuse all the spotters who thought it was a Comet?
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Old 14th Oct 2005, 15:57
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It's a Britannia? Wow, I thought it was an early Nimrod................
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Bit of a silly question really ....

How else are you going to spend the excess money in the defence budget?
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This is a Whaaa then is it Whaaa?
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i'll shout it now.... wwwwhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Old 14th Oct 2005, 17:18
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lights

The same could be said about the path from the mess to SHQ. Why have they surrounded it with low level lights?
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Aha

I see you have seen my whaaa but I was really expecting someone to see my whaaa and raise me a whaa.

Maybe by asking why there is a Sea King as a gate gaurdian in Akt but they have called the road Whril Wind rd???
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Old 14th Oct 2005, 21:07
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Oh, haven't seen the Sea King. My eye is always taken with the Phantom just down the road from it.
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And who were the naughty people who redcorated the front of the newly painted officers mess. I'm sure that LXX sqn are a fine bunch of upstanding individuals, (aircrew excepted) however the yellow is not quite right.
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Can you believe that 30 sqn could do such a thing, yellow and blue aren't even thier colours, I thought they were red and black!
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Anyone got any pics of the "redecorated" mess before the inevitable crinkle and repainting on Monday?
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Old 15th Oct 2005, 13:48
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Surprised at the lack of a rejoiner from Beags yet, telling us that whaaaing is rubbish because;
a) the RAF was a much better place thirty years ago and,
b) if it is slightly amusing it's only because he invented it/wrote the paper that first proposed it as a form of service humour...
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I have a pic of the O's mess at lyneham in LXX colours how ever I can't work out how to put the picture on the thread (NO WHAA). Can someone tell me how to do it. Give me 20 mins and Im sure I can work it out
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Last time I looked it was a Whrlwind and a Lightning in AKT.
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To post your own images, you need to host them in a suitable website photo album such as http://photobucket.com/ in .jpg format. Then copy the Img link into your text and voila! For example, since we were talking of Pinky and Perky (sorry it's a bit big, but re-sizing causes undesirable artifacts):




It's a very straightforward process.

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Took a while but..... Truck it IS a lightning


waaaahhh
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Old 15th Oct 2005, 17:52
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LCP,,,

I hope you are on the same side !!!!

I'd expect the yanks to screw up aircraft rec !!!!!
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Ohhh dear...
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