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Thing, your barber and landlord probably read PPRuNe. 
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Too late mate, I'm typing this on my iPhone from the boot of a London Cab that turned up earlier (Eastenders stylee). I think Shytorque and Courtney may be driving me to Epping Forest for being a "grass"...
LJ
That car with the tinted windows in the street outside your house contains agents come to arrest you for alerting the last seven people in the world previously unaware of the codes you so blatantly published.
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That car with the tinted windows in the street outside your house contains agents come to arrest you for alerting the last seven people in the world previously unaware to the codes you so blatantly published.
You guessed, nothing happened. Another urban myth. I did so want to be interrogated and claim my compo after I'd written the book.
You guessed, nothing happened. Another urban myth. I did so want to be interrogated and claim my compo after I'd written the book.
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Obviously Leon can't countenance the thought of a question from a couple of mere civilians. He's obviously outraged himself to the point of having fantasies about it. 
If it makes you feel better, to act like a petulent fourteen year old girl, do carry on.
If it makes you feel better, to act like a petulent fourteen year old girl, do carry on.
I sleep in a Faraday's Cage supported on rubber spikes and wear a tin-foil hat and nothing has ever happened to me - so it must be true that we are all being watched. 22 years and never even a guy on the Tube with 2 eye holes in his Newspaper...
iRaven
PS. Anyone got the frequency for Coningsby Ground so I can listen out?
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PS. Anyone got the frequency for Coningsby Ground so I can listen out?
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My daughter's neighbour has 'difficulties' bless him and is convinced that the BBC are part of the New World Order and are watching him through his TV set. (Why he doesn't just turn it off and ease his mental suffering is another question...). Suffice to say that when my daughter popped round to see if her lost cat was in his house she noticed that he had in fact put tinfoil on all of his walls that faced the outside.....
Coningsby Radar is 120.8, gleaned from my top secret half mil....
Coningsby Radar is 120.8, gleaned from my top secret half mil....
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The maths is quite easy. If doing ~700kts (M1.0) then that's 10nm/minute, so 12 minutes. At ~1400kts (M2.0) then that's 20nm/minute so 6 minutes.
10nm/min is 600kts g/s. Speed of sound at sea level is ~660kts, so 11nm/min.
Close enough!
A bit like the supersonic RNZAF Strikemaster that had broken windows and cracked a house wall. More proof that the Blunty could defy the laws of fluid dynamics.
Growing up in the Scottish Highlands during the 1950s, sonic booms were a regular occurrence. I missed them when they banned overland boom runs. The dogs were much happier though.
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I enjoyed them in France in the 70's, although it made lunch
interesting. The big glass window at the front of the cafe
used to shake like mad.
interesting. The big glass window at the front of the cafe
used to shake like mad.
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Beadwindow!!
From this thread we can deduce that Thing works at Waddinton AND has hair!! Yet more state secrets released through the Net.
PS. Doe this mean that every time I select 7700 on the old squiggly box I'm going to get two Typhoons rushing to my aid? I would much prefer a yellow helicopter.
From this thread we can deduce that Thing works at Waddinton AND has hair!! Yet more state secrets released through the Net.
PS. Doe this mean that every time I select 7700 on the old squiggly box I'm going to get two Typhoons rushing to my aid? I would much prefer a yellow helicopter.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
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I can't wait for the Olympics when the QRA Typhoon is scrambled out of Northolt to intercept a wayward microlight. The cynic in me thinks today's incident was just another Olympic rehearsal.
And before the Opsec Outrage bus starts up, this has come from an Air Defence/Atlas Radar briefing where the MoD chap said that they want this information out there so that the public and pilots alike know exactly what is likley to happen if someone bimbles in to the Prohibited airspace.
I'd like to think that, irrespective of the reason that they were there, the Typhoons were a very worthwhile reminder of "the sound of freedom" in an area where the sound of a fast jet is a fast-fading memory.
Jack
PS Risking the wrath of the Mods, since the relevant thread is now locked, of course the Daily Telegraph has "gone to the dogs" - the Isle of Dogs!
Jack
PS Risking the wrath of the Mods, since the relevant thread is now locked, of course the Daily Telegraph has "gone to the dogs" - the Isle of Dogs!