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Old 2nd May 2017, 07:00
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I thought the plan was to just carry on - and find a friendly Mongolian milkmaid with a yurt and settle down...?!
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Old 2nd May 2017, 07:14
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TT, very true, even The Long Walk would have been a walk in the park. (Rawicz)
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Old 2nd May 2017, 09:50
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You've got me thinking now...
Based on the Vulcan's range, if you'd all just kept going after carrying out your duty, roughly where would you have ran out of gas, and had to punch out/blow down the crew door before bailing out?
If you'd made it past various SAMs etc.
Following a great circle line on the globe, it looks like you might have turned Southeast and been over some of the nearer `stans - maybe Kazakhstan?
Did any of you ever talk to each other about it?
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Old 2nd May 2017, 10:55
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Tartare, the nearest we got to talking generally was to rubbish the CSRO who was trying to install survival training, hence the Mongolian yurt. As for the 'stans no chance as we covered as far Bokhara or Tashkent. For Europe, take Kiev and arc off a circle whose radius was Kiev to Istanbul for instance.
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Old 2nd May 2017, 12:53
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I always assumed it would be a pitchfork in the chest from an understandably irate Russian farmworker.
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Old 2nd May 2017, 13:11
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BB,that was the point really.
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