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Forum: Private Flying
24th Mar 2008, 15:24
Replies: 32
Views: 6,298
Posted By Rattus

Converting the Beaufort Scale to knots - the Corlett Scale

If you're planning a sea crossing, the Coastguard can be a useful source of met information, though wind speeds in maritime forecasts are always given with reference to the Beaufort Scale. These can...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Feb 2008, 20:26
Replies: 40
Views: 30,481
Posted By Rattus

Today's useless fact: COTAM means the same en...

Today's useless fact:
COTAM means the same en Francais - Chiffre Operationnel de Transport Aerien Militaire
Forum: Private Flying
24th Apr 2005, 13:12
Replies: 42
Views: 4,467
Posted By Rattus

I was taught many years ago that an AIRFIELD is...

I was taught many years ago that an AIRFIELD is that part of an AERODROME on which aircraft manoeuvre. An AERODROME comprises the AIRFIELD, plus hangars, technical and administrative buildings, and...
Forum: Private Flying
17th Apr 2005, 11:47
Replies: 10
Views: 1,165
Posted By Rattus

French title notwithstanding, at least UTC is...

French title notwithstanding, at least UTC is still measured from Greenwich.
It's worth remembering that (thanks in no small part to the efforts of a Few young fighter pilots in the summer of 1940)...
Forum: Private Flying
16th Apr 2005, 00:27
Replies: 10
Views: 1,165
Posted By Rattus

I think the missing letters are I and O, to...

I think the missing letters are I and O, to prevent confusion with 1 and 0.
I can't be doing with all this bu99ering about with clocks anyway - I stay on Z all year and just get up an hour earlier...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Apr 2005, 20:48
Replies: 70
Views: 9,791
Posted By Rattus

TURIN I was recently casevaced into Glasgow...

TURIN
I was recently casevaced into Glasgow from Tiree with a fractured starboard olecranon. Four days later, sporting a newly rebuilt elbow complete with titanium screws and wire, I returned to...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Apr 2005, 19:33
Replies: 20
Views: 4,079
Posted By Rattus

SRENNAPS Glad to be of assistance Safeware...

SRENNAPS
Glad to be of assistance

Safeware
Touche - I'd forgotten about the smoke!

Rattus
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Mar 2005, 19:08
Replies: 20
Views: 4,079
Posted By Rattus

SRENNAPS I do remember seeing it - it was...

SRENNAPS

I do remember seeing it - it was called "Round Britain Whiz", and was inspired by the British Transport film "London to Brighton in 4 Minutes" in which a steam loco was "speeded up" to...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Feb 2005, 15:06
Replies: 102
Views: 19,917
Posted By Rattus

A real gem from Billy Connolly: Never trust...

A real gem from Billy Connolly:

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on.

I'll get me tea cosy...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Dec 2004, 16:28
Replies: 34
Views: 5,749
Posted By Rattus

Why don't we hold Dubya to his promise of "$35...

Why don't we hold Dubya to his promise of "$35 billion"?

It will leave him that much less to squander on future military adventures of dubious legality.
Forum: Private Flying
11th Dec 2004, 12:17
Replies: 32
Views: 3,835
Posted By Rattus

What do they do in NZ? Most light aircraft...

What do they do in NZ?

Most light aircraft there don't even display the ZK-, since very few have the range to make an international flight!

Rattus
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Dec 2004, 13:04
Replies: 26
Views: 2,966
Posted By Rattus

The Senior Service seems to go in for this as...

The Senior Service seems to go in for this as well.

Who was Kay Prath?
Forum: Private Flying
23rd Nov 2004, 12:58
Replies: 26
Views: 2,928
Posted By Rattus

And 5 MHz spacing?... One assumes this NOTAM...

And 5 MHz spacing?...
One assumes this NOTAM will be corrected before 030001/JAN05.

Thanks for the heads up anyway Mike.

Rattus
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Jul 2004, 13:41
Replies: 32
Views: 4,000
Posted By Rattus

quote: ...

quote:
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What's a givt?

I think this one's more of a takt

R
Forum: Private Flying
21st May 2004, 00:08
Replies: 8
Views: 933
Posted By Rattus

So what is the frequency? Our flying season...

So what is the frequency?
Our flying season started the day after the last one ended, and it would indeed be useful to know what everybody else is up to.
Forum: Private Flying
16th May 2004, 19:56
Replies: 180
Views: 23,442
Posted By Rattus

Come on Wycombe - nobody's going to damn himself...

Come on Wycombe - nobody's going to damn himself as a spotter by admitting he knows what it is... but is it a J or a K?:8
Forum: Military Aviation
13th May 2004, 19:08
Replies: 8,153
Views: 1,308,078
Posted By Rattus

This welcome intervention by a former PM may be...

This welcome intervention by a former PM may be even more significant than many of us realise. My memory of the occasion is hazy, but I think it was a chance remark by another former PM, Harold...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Apr 2004, 20:56
Replies: 15
Views: 2,775
Posted By Rattus

Right let's be havin' you. Who's the tealeaf...

Right let's be havin' you.
Who's the tealeaf who nicked HMS Vengeance and flogged 'er on e-bay?
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Mar 2004, 08:04
Replies: 42
Views: 13,672
Posted By Rattus

MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

MORNINGTON CRESCENT!
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Feb 2004, 00:36
Replies: 28
Views: 4,604
Posted By Rattus

My top ten?

1. Anything designed by Stelio Frati
2. Anything designed by Stelio Frati
3. Anything designed by Stelio Frati
4. Anything designed by Stelio Frati
5. Anything designed by Stelio Frati
6....
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Dec 2003, 03:12
Replies: 6
Views: 929
Posted By Rattus

It is of course entirely possible that Hoon...

It is of course entirely possible that Hoon wasn't worried about the shortage of NBC kit in theatre because he already knew there was no credible threat.
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Nov 2003, 00:37
Replies: 17
Views: 3,805
Posted By Rattus

A female colleague of mine, who is blessed with a...

A female colleague of mine, who is blessed with a stunningly sexy telephone voice, has a foolproof trick for shutting up the (invariably male) bratphone addict. She leans across and says in a stage...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Jul 2003, 08:55
Replies: 37
Views: 4,980
Posted By Rattus

'ckinell maninblack - is 9mm really 3 bob per...

'ckinell maninblack - is 9mm really 3 bob per round?

I feel another procurement scandal coming on!
Forum: Private Flying
27th Jul 2003, 08:44
Replies: 18
Views: 1,296
Posted By Rattus

It's such a huge privilege to be allowed to...

It's such a huge privilege to be allowed to aviate that I have nostalgic feelings about every light aeroplane which has ever carried me aloft - a case of the end justifying the means, even if the...
Forum: Private Flying
26th Jul 2003, 20:23
Replies: 11
Views: 1,679
Posted By Rattus

Further to Rodger Fs reply re Saumur, this little...

Further to Rodger Fs reply re Saumur, this little aerodrome is one of my favourite French stops. If time is limited, you don't even have to go into town.

Le Clos Des Benedictins, 5 minutes walk...
Forum: Private Flying
25th Jul 2003, 03:29
Replies: 13
Views: 1,092
Posted By Rattus

The Wright Turbo Compound referred to by SSD was...

The Wright Turbo Compound referred to by SSD was a very clever piece of engineering, if a little temperamental. Curtiss Wright always referred to the clever bits as "power recovery turbines".

CW...
Forum: Private Flying
5th Jul 2003, 08:51
Replies: 20
Views: 3,738
Posted By Rattus

Ah... so they were flick rolls then. I think...

Ah... so they were flick rolls then. I think they're supposed to look like that.
Forum: Private Flying
5th Jul 2003, 08:29
Replies: 35
Views: 2,646
Posted By Rattus

You do have a debate - looks like 5-2 at the...

You do have a debate - looks like 5-2 at the moment.
Riveting...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Jun 2003, 23:15
Replies: 28
Views: 3,562
Posted By Rattus

Expect an eventual announcement of the scrapping...

Expect an eventual announcement of the scrapping of the large carriers project. Methinks we have just been subjected to Phase One of the preparatory softening up.
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Jun 2003, 09:21
Replies: 14
Views: 2,133
Posted By Rattus

I'd be 'ckin furious if some lunatic brolly dolly...

I'd be 'ckin furious if some lunatic brolly dolly damaged anything I'd signed for.:{
I'd make her fill in all the forms for starters. :E
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Jun 2003, 08:44
Replies: 31
Views: 4,691
Posted By Rattus

LJR The earth IS flat - according to Prof...

LJR
The earth IS flat - according to Prof Hawking, it's the rest of the universe that's curved. :E
Forum: Private Flying
11th Jun 2003, 04:01
Replies: 4
Views: 745
Posted By Rattus

No ... Monday! :}

No ... Monday! :}
Forum: Private Flying
10th Jun 2003, 07:38
Replies: 4
Views: 745
Posted By Rattus

ATIS only reports actual weather. What did the...

ATIS only reports actual weather. What did the forecast say?

Met question: What follows two days of low cloud, drizzle and poor vis?:E
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Jun 2003, 01:03
Replies: 24
Views: 2,880
Posted By Rattus

Steady Note Who taught you your radio...

Steady Note
Who taught you your radio procedure? It's:
"station called" from "station calling"
It's only Hollywood and rozzers who do it back to front.:p
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Jun 2003, 08:29
Replies: 4
Views: 1,387
Posted By Rattus

After escaping from The Hayes at Swanwick in...

After escaping from The Hayes at Swanwick in 1940, Franz von Werra was sitting in a Hurricane at Hucknall, and had persuaded someone to plug in a trolley-acc, when he was arrested.
All he wanted was...
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