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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD Ah well, at least when they cart you off to the Tower, you'll not have far to go. "Linda! Linda! I can see our house from here Linda!" -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer
I suspect they'd be allowed, but anyone caught riding one from john o'groats to lands end in 11 hours or less will be publicly hanged, in trafalgar square.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ginge Silly boy. There'll be a duty sniper at Penzance. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer
Quite the contrary, from what I recall of the news coverage at the time. And yes, I am well aware of bias and propaganda. I remember the campaign very well indeed - FiL was working in Pompey dockyard at the time, RASing ships. We went down and saw many of them come back in. There's been a fair bit about Andy on the aviation mailing lists over the years. I might ba to go look in the archives. Whatever else one might think of the Windsors, he was there, he flew helis in a shit awful situation. Ali
I think you are baiting. I hope you are. If you aren't, then you are an ignorant piece of shit that I'd leave on the sole of my shoe. My dad is still suffering from what happened to him at Cassino. He wasn't a fucking conscript - although they were just as brave - he joined up in 1937. My mother's first fiancé was killed at the age of twenty in 1940. If you really mean that remark, you are an utter fuckwit, and I never wish to read anything you post anywhere ever again. If it was "only" a piece of bait or a joke, it was in damnably bad taste even for here. Yes, that's a hot button you may have just pressed. I'm very proud of my father, and all the ones that went before him. Ali
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Alison Hopkins Both of which would point to the veracity of Champ's viewpoint, no? -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer
Alison Hopkins wrote: .. Whatever else one Indeed he did. Amongst other tasks he carried out was "Duty Decoy" for the Invincible. The old "Oi, Argies, over 'ere wiv yer Exocets" sort of thing. He walked the walk.
Yeah, but after reading this "Famously, he flew as a so-called Exocet decoy to protect warships from missile attack" he doesn't appear to have fullfilled is duties -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
Heh. God, you should have heard my FiL at the time. He ranted seven bells about the MoD and aluminium warships. He'd seen it as a stupid idea from the outset. Ali
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Alison Hopkins Nasty in what way? Bit tedious staying in the hover high enough for the low-flying missile to pass safely underneath, I expect. Bit dodgy if you lose an engine, by all means. But "Bloody nasty"? No, not really. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer
Got to give the insurgents something to fire at, doncha know. Anyway, what's this 'put myself through Sandhurst' crap? We paid for it, and if I may venture an opinion, it's hardly a degree in theoretical fizzicks, is it? Q1. Which end goes bang? A. Dis one.
Seems to be the done thing for those of an Imperial bent. In foreign climes there are at times Some moments quite appalling But none too fraught to be set at naught By a stiff drink mixed with Rawlings
I wouldn't like to be the British commander who had to break the news "that he was killed under my command" either by friendly fire or otherwise. The only similar thing I can think of in recent history was chinese general Peng Dehuai who got into trouble when Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying was killed under his command by the Americans in the Korean war.
I loathe bullies. Which is what you are doing. So, I can either go away, huh, or use some non existent killfuile, eh? I've no right to take issue with the ignorant and insulting prejudice you display? And I don't mean insulting to me, either. I will not be driven away by overbearing behaviour like yours. And that applies both here and in real life. And, I seem to recall that you took issue with my supposed "cynicism" some time back? And then, you make statements like that? Christ, you are a hypocrite of the worst kind. Ali
