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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

14th Dec 2022, 11:05

Replies: 11

A better class of scrapyard

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Posted By eggnog the flippant

A better class of scrapyard

Found this on another forum. The original is dated 1935 somewhere near Doncaster on the York road - A19?
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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

15th Nov 2011, 21:31

Replies: 11

An 'unauthorised flight' - ac/2 and a Hurricane

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Posted By eggnog the flippant

Thank you each and every for your help. If there...

Thank you each and every for your help. If there is any chance of a look-up in TNA, I'd be most grateful, Kew being a long way from my rural seclusion. And, as suggested, I've enquired elsewhere.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

12th Nov 2011, 20:22

Replies: 11

An 'unauthorised flight' - ac/2 and a Hurricane

Views: 3,134

Posted By eggnog the flippant

An 'unauthorised flight' - ac/2 and a Hurricane

For no particular reason at all, at 11.00 yesterday 11.11.2011, I was in the churchyard of All Saints, Wimbish near to RAF Debden, as was, in deepest darkest Essex. Amongst a little group of WW2...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

9th Apr 2011, 22:48

Replies: 39

Adopt a Military Grave

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Posted By eggnog the flippant

What's the next generation going to do?

Mea culpa. I've not been here for too long.

So far as the next generation is concerned, I'm not too worried. The regeneration of interest in 'Remembrance' has, it seems to me at least, been most...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

14th Nov 2010, 19:54

Replies: 39

Adopt a Military Grave

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Posted By eggnog the flippant

Cleaning CWGC tablets

ATR43 My apologies, I don't often get the chance to visit this site and missed your message. To the best of my knowledge, CWGC use a mild solution of bleach to clean algae and soil splashes from...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

7th Jul 2010, 22:08

Replies: 39

Adopt a Military Grave

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Posted By eggnog the flippant

In the UK it's not that difficult. I look after...

In the UK it's not that difficult. I look after the CWGC tablets in half a dozen or so local village churchyards. It makes for a quiet, contemplative, pleasant even, morning out. But be careful....

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

6th May 2010, 12:34

Replies: 0

Abyssinia, Ethiopia. Books?

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Posted By eggnog the flippant

Try to find a copy of 'The Life of my Choice' by...

Try to find a copy of 'The Life of my Choice' by Wilfred Thesiger. William Collins 1987 and Fontana paperbacks 1988. ISBN 0-00-637267-8. Thesiger was born in Addis and you have to read his life to...

Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting

26th Dec 2009, 16:20

Replies: 31

Portable HDD's, help

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Posted By eggnog the flippant

I thought it was on PPRuNe that I noted this...

I thought it was on PPRuNe that I noted this thread and I thought it was a month or so ago. Nice to be right for a change. Anyway, Santa turned up with a Hitachi Simple 1Tb HDD. Which was thoughtful...

Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting

30th Mar 2008, 21:16

Replies: 7

Narcoleptic PC

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Posted By eggnog the flippant

Guys Thanks to you all for that. The man...

Guys

Thanks to you all for that. The man just called to say that I'm off to somewhere I really don't want to go for the next week. I'll close down and take your advice on board when they let me...

Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting

30th Mar 2008, 12:02

Replies: 7

Narcoleptic PC

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Posted By eggnog the flippant

Narcoleptic PC

I thought I could drive XP reasonably safely without hitting too many pedestrians but have never been that bright on the nuts and bolts bits of a PC. Now however and all of a sudden my (admittedly...

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