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Old 30th Nov 2017, 15:57
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SAS abbreviations... maybe this could be a clue... quote...


Previously, he flew high level dignities around the world and during the Cold War, he had been sent on secret missions with the SAS, he said.
The defendant, who lost his wife eight years ago, retired on an army pension but continued to fly commercially.
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Are you suggesting he does not own it? Clearly him in the picture taking delivery.
That means nothing. He may well be taking delivery on behalf of - well, on behalf of whoever, actually. Physical person or company. If (and that's a big IF!) the plane was acquired for this purpose, he would be clean daft to own it in his own name.
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Old 30th Nov 2017, 16:49
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£2.5m worth of Colombian marching powder in a microlight? Makes you wonder why Pablo Escobar faffed about with those gas guzzling maintenance hog twin Cessnas.
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Old 30th Nov 2017, 17:35
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Perhaps because the Carribean sea is a bit wider than the English Channel?

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Old 30th Nov 2017, 20:15
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Depends how 'high' you are!
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Still, one quoted source mentions G-XNXT ?!
The aircraft is a Remos GXNXT. The previous model was a GX, so this is probably the NXT generation. :-)
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Has there been any licit UK GA crime?
Has there ever been any decent exposure?
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Old 30th Nov 2017, 23:59
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£2.5m worth of Colombian marching powder in a microlight? Makes you wonder why Pablo Escobar faffed about with those gas guzzling maintenance hog twin Cessnas.
In a previous life I had a client in Barranquilla, Colombia who came to see me for a loan of 400.000 pesos, to stock up with manual hydraulic presses. He said: "I can't keep up with sales to the guajiros (natives of Guajira on the border with Venezuela). They are coming in with backpacks full of cash, loading the presses in their pickups and rushing back home to compress bales of marijuana down to brick size." No need to explain that these would end up in the aircraft, flown by Vietnam vets, that landed in the desert at night to unload electrical goods and load weed for the return journey.

The next I knew was that my diving buddy, the US Vice-Consul in Barranquilla, was off to visit a badly burned American under police guard in a Guajira hospital. The poor sod was the pilot of a Cessna twin that failed to take-off and crashed full of compressed marijuana. They had miscalculated the weight of those bricks.
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Old 1st Dec 2017, 04:12
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Originally Posted by flybymike
Has there ever been any decent exposure?
TCT got her fair share
The annoying thing about pprune is once you start a thread it is impossible to alter the title.I posted this thread on the hoof here in Asia and despite attempts am stuck with it.
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Old 1st Dec 2017, 08:48
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The annoying thing about PPRuNe is once you start a thread it is impossible to alter the title.I posted this thread on the hoof here in Asia and despite attempts am stuck with it.
What do you want it changed to?

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Old 1st Dec 2017, 09:05
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3 Kents hit hard by Belgian snow storm?

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Old 1st Dec 2017, 09:41
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What do you want it changed to?

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I'll let others decide

(Nice to see a bit of humour on here)
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(Nice to see a bit of humour on here)
Amen to that!
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