I liked the coment: "Memo to Iceland, we said send *C*ash!" -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, zymurgy Our friends are currently in the air betwixt San Diego and Chicago, en-route to us. We haven't bothered changing the sheets on the spare bed yet...
How should it have been, then? With a longish exposure and some wind, I'd expect it to look blurred like that. <fires up Starry Night> Also, the location of the constellations match what would be seen in the north-easterly direction at 11-12 pm at that latitude, from Lyra (with Vega) in left centre to Corona borealis at the right.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ts OK, I'm trying to decide if this is the Mother-of-all-whooshes, or a... Well, WTF *is* it?
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ginge It doesn't apply to anything flying under Visual Flight Rules. This evening I saw a Cessna 152 turning onto final approach to Luton. I bet it's been a while since that happened.
Private pilots and helicopters tend to fly low, below the worst of the problem. Also small private aircraft fly slower so they are less vulnerable to windscreen etching and have piston engines which are less likely to be damaged than turbines. OTOH, I would not do it.
<Scouse mode> Calm down, calm down. </sm> Anyway, I read that Clegg was already in Manc, and Brown & Cameron were poncing around Yorkshire or summat.