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Old 3rd Jul 2002, 11:33
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Didn't know you were in Shrivers Jim Lad..........

Any interesting bits of old aircraft there, as per popular rumour, engines and the like?

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Old 3rd Jul 2002, 12:47
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Well, we are a secret base he at Watchfield - hence the big road signs saying 'Defence Academy' on the Oxford road.

Although based on validation forms, it's quite clear that some of the short-term inmates here think that one of my colleagues is an alien, so there may be more to it than you think!
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Old 3rd Jul 2002, 15:11
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I know there are a few planes parked around, but if I told you about the secret bunker beneath JSCSC holding the strategic reserve plus aliens from Tony Blairs homeplanet, I would have to kill you

Apparently there is some nuclear bunker in essex which is a museum - so all the roadsigns point towards the "secret nuclear bunker" - who needs spies when you have the AA?
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I was absolutely bloody furious when those Defence Academy signs appeared on the A420 Berkshire expressway. I had previously felt secure and protected when the only road signs to our jolly hush hush, world class centre of exellence were those discreet little red and white jobs (the public has never cottoned on that they are to military establishments) to euphemistically named places such as JSCSC and RMCS. I only hope that the strawberry mivvies think that Watchfield/Shrivenham has been developed in to a major civialian heliport because there is a lot of pesky rotorhead activity round here.
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Has anyone tried submitting some "secrets" to the afore mentioned site? Looks like they'll believe anything....
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Ah! The World Wide Web - greatest source of dis-information, believed by anoraks.

By the way, did you know that the word Gullible isn't in the Oxford Dictionary?
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Old 3rd Jul 2002, 22:06
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Their information is so amazing accurate, from spelling and geography all the way through to aircraft designations, it does make you wonder just how much they know about the aliens.
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Old 4th Jul 2002, 05:19
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Jimlad, believe it or not, a bunch of boffins in Oz have announced that they have managed to "teleport" a laser beam between two cubicle type thingys at opposite ends of a lab. They reckon they're only three to five years away from being able to move an entire molecule. No bull; it was in the real news media. I'll try to find a link for you.
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Old 4th Jul 2002, 17:40
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secret sites

anyone been to chicksands in bedfordshire? its so secret its road sign has a red border with nothing in it!
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Old 4th Jul 2002, 19:03
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You should see our Leave Diary.
That's got an impressive red leather binding with gold embossed letters and there's nothing in that either!
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Old 4th Jul 2002, 20:31
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on the subject of staff college - does anyone know why there was a stars n stripes flying tonight rather than the admirals flag?
I know its independence day, just suprisedwe acknowledge the fact that those damn colonials rebelled thats all
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Old 8th Jul 2002, 21:08
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Jim lad..must be something to do with The Patriot showing for the 350th time on Sky!

Back to the thread..bloody good fun. Much better than Air Power 3000 and something.

Like the connection between AAC at Netheravon and Old Sarum..must have sussed that 7 Regt AAC aircraft just keep trashing the circuit at Sarum!
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Being a Train Spotter in the dark and distant past, ie: short grey trousers, wasn't Box tunnel constructed at such an angle whereby the sun shone directly through the tunnel on one day a year, Box's birthday?
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Old 9th Jul 2002, 09:56
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http://www.mailgate.org/

On this website will you find the discussion group uk.rec.subterranea which is the one that concerns itself with all things man made underground. Bunkers and military installations included.

There are frequent off topic threads about military comms/convoys/bases etc.

It has its share of fruitcakes but mostly its a harmless interest and there is some interesting snippets on there from time to time.

Personally I find the history of Box/Burlington/Turnstile/Corsham quite interesting.

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Have they found the Spitfires in a railway tunnel/disused quarry yet? I seem to remember that rumour doing the rounds big style

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Old 11th Jul 2002, 22:33
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UFOs - the truth

Have you checked out this cheeky fellows site?

http://www.cowan70.freeserve.co.uk/m...loe_manor.html

I reckon that he works for the Government in the Alien Autopsy department. His website is a double bluff to draw attention away from his own extra-terrestrial dealings, at his own house.

I found out where he lived and tried to get in through his front door only to find it was locked. When I knocked and asked if I could come in to look around and take some photographs, he wouldn't let me. What do you make of that? He must be hiding something, what is it if it isn't an ALIEN? There weren't any signs telling me that I couldn't go in there and there were no overt security patrols - a sure sign that something secret is happening in there...

Your cover is blown my little UFOLOGIST friend. Or should I say alien doctor?
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UFOlogists = the biggest bunch of sad wonkers since trainspotters.
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So, eh, since when has "RAF Linton" been in the borders?!

Lucky they haven't worked out where the Chemtrailers are based!
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Sunderland councill a few years ago declared themselves a Nuclear free zone ,and in keeping with that philosophy announced they were going to open their nuclear bunker for public inspection.
Few weeks later they had to announce they could not go ahead with their plans because the bunker had been destroyed by vandalls.
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box tunnel

I am told that the sun can be seen to rise through the box tunnel on Brunel,s birthday.

I.K Brunel was the engineer in charge of the construction of the Box tunnel and the rest of the railway.
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