The Great Escape

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Alison Hopkins belched forth and ejected the
following:

Baby oil ;-)

 

Atlanta's called something other than "Peachtree" IIRC. I went there in
November; an utterly horrid airport. Not a massively fantastic city
either if I'm honest, the only redeeming feature it had was there was a
Morton's close to my hotel. I stuffed my face and got rather pissed.
Unfortunately I couldn't bring myself to expense it so it ended up as a
rather expensive treat.

 

Cab wrote

My BBC are consistantly reporting it as *the* busiest.

That'll be the Quality Air Traffic Control System wot we run being
responsible for that that will.

Cunts aren't they eh, getting it fucking spot on all these years, where
the **** do they think they are getting off then eh? Bastards, doing
their fucking job properly. Who the **** told them that was a good idea
then?

 

Hartfield?
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It's a very good upmarket steak house though. I stay at the
Intercontinental just around the corner and always go over there. Other
than incredible ribs and jaw dropping steaks they have some rather
decent beer. The standard of service can't be found in the UK either.

Atlanta is spread over a huuuuge area so unless you have some time and a
<cough> willing guide...or two...it's hard to get your head round it.
I've seen parts and been to places now that make me think it's pretty
cool. It's also the first city I've been in where the coloured folk (1)
seem financially indistinguishable. In fact I would have thought a
sufficiently good reason to go was the saturation of educated successful
drop dead gorgeous black american women.

There are several large top notch titty bars too, apparently.

(1) excepting the fucking wetbacks. well, someone has to clean the bogs

 

Yah, Hartsfield. Brain gone last night.

Foul innnit. I wasn't keen on the city. Morton's is pretty good for a chain:
I ate at one in either Chicago or Vancouver, can't recall which.

Ali

 

Heh. The last major nasty at LHR was a Trident crash in 1972. There was a
707 that crashed in 1968 - my father saw it. I can recall him coming home
white and shaking, convinced that no one could have survived. The pilot
managed to get the thing down, minus an engine, only five dead. The engine
fell into the reservoir at Datchet.

Dave saw a Fokker 50 crash there a while back - no one hurt, thanks to some
nice piloting. Gear failed on landing. You hear stuff all the time, of
course.

Ali

 

Eurostar have stopped stopping at Ashford or are due to stop stopping in
the near future most of their trains.{1]

Lots of people up in arms wot with houses being built to supply the
London commuter need and companies set up in the Ashford business park
to take advantage of fast access to Europe.

[1] For the pedantic this may not effect the Lille route.
It may not effect every Paris bound train, but most[2].
This action may be delayed due to the uproar. Etc.[3]

[2] Most is used here as more than 50% of the London Paris Eurostar
trains.

[3] Expect house prices to crash in Ashford.

 

When I was at Bitburg AB, Germany I saw an F-101 'land'. The right side
main gear collapsed followed shortly after by the left and then nose
gears. The pilot jettisoned the canopy as the plane veered off the
runway into the mud. He had climbed out of the cockpit and was sprinting
down the wing while the plane was still moving.

 

I remember that one. That was the crash that pushed forward the
compulsory use of cockpit voice recorders.

 

If you were expecting a titty bar you don't know me that well. I don't
see the attraction, surely it's like going out, smelling something nice
to eat, being able to admire the food, sit at the table and have it
displayed to you by the waiter... and then taken away. Not my thing at
all really.

I couldn't expense it because it cost over twice what my co. would
happily accept; the meal cost me around a hundred quid.

I did eat like a complete glutton, drink two martinis and a bottle of
half-decent wine though.

Ate even more the following evening at some italian place. Fortunately
the hotel had a good gym and I couldn't sleep so I was running at 5AM
both days.

 

Absolutely; it's one of my favourite places to eat in the US. I like
the way they show you the cuts of meat before you choose what you're
going to eat.

 

Try the equivalent in 'Dam then

 

The Luftwaffe F104s used a similar landing method, but tended to involve the
nose a tad more.

 

Give me something funny to work with and I'll do my best. I think the
quality of feedlines has gone downhill.

Well, I wouldn't normally. But once in a while it doesn't hurt.

 

I'm in awe of it: at current exchange rates, and given US prices, must have
been one hell of a blow out.

Ali

 

Ah yes. Widowmakers.

Ali

 

#What a great way to go.

 

Doing an Ace?

 

The Belgians managed to crash two simultaneously into an Italian mountain.
That's doing it in style.