Fozzie Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Good evening! Weather is pants, I've only had my Blackbird back a week and the forecast has just been overcast with drizzle for days now. Where was this late summer heatwave the news promised? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennie Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Good Evening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hoggs Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Evening *tips hat* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Hoggs said: Evening *tips hat* You been busking again.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennie Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Good Evening I was late for work tonight! Should be a 40m journey, took me nearly 90! (The Baggies were at home but it wasn't just that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennie Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Good Morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynax Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Good morning. Brilliant ride out yesterday evening I will get the video footage uploaded as soon as and will post some pics up later 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_M Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 9 hours ago, rennie said: Good Evening I was late for work tonight! Should be a 40m journey, took me nearly 90! (The Baggies were at home but it wasn't just that) I wouldn’t have thought another half dozen cars (of Baggies fans) would cause much additional traffic. Now, had it been a Villa home game… We had to go to Hexham yesterday. The A69 was closed due to a fatal RTC so got redirected around the country lanes. Only added 10 minutes to the journey. And lovely countryside. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Whilst I was away two of my hives lost their queens. Both were 2020 born so they should have been fine. It's late in the season for raising new queens myself so I had to resort to buying in, £50 each and there's a fair chance the bees will kill the new queens as soon as they can get at her. I've put them in introduction cages attached to a frame of emerging bees to give them the best possible chance. If it works I'll be happy as the new queens will give a nicer temprament to the colonies. If it fails it will have been an expensive failure. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoggs Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 ooh well fingers crossed @Mississippi Bullfrog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynax Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Video ( edited and shortened ) of last nights Lancaster bomber Taxi round the field. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzie Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Love a Lancaster bomber! I was lucky once to go onboard one over in Florida, the grandson of an oil baron was collecting them and restoring them. The Vulcan bomber is probably my favourite ever, but this is up there! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 24 minutes ago, Fozzie said: Love a Lancaster bomber! I was lucky once to go onboard one over in Florida, the grandson of an oil baron was collecting them and restoring them. The Vulcan bomber is probably my favourite ever, but this is up there! Had a flyby from a vulcan and 2 escort jets at the end of Loch Ness, god they were loud 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzie Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 32 minutes ago, Bender said: Had a flyby from a vulcan and 2 escort jets at the end of Loch Ness, god they were loud Very jammy! It's a very distinctive sound, the 4 rolls royce engines were known to smash windows when they were undergoing testing. And the induction howl caused by the geometry of the air intakes made it unmistakable on approach. It's because of planes that I have a preference for my current bike, a Honda Blackbird. Not quite as quick as the SR-71 mind... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynax Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Fozzie said: Love a Lancaster bomber! I was lucky once to go onboard one over in Florida, the grandson of an oil baron was collecting them and restoring them. The Vulcan bomber is probably my favourite ever, but this is up there! I can't remember the source, but I had a notification that the Vulcan will be flying again 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzie Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 If it's anywhere near Manchester, feel free to ping me an update! My grandparents lived in Wilmslow, you'd hear planes in the background for a lot of the day, not to nuisance levels of noise. You knew if a Concorde took off, but when the Vulcan came to visit it sounded like the sky was cracking! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 (edited) A chap I knew used to be a navigator on a Lancaster. One night one of the crew turned 21 so they wanted to have a party. They were due to fly so were looking for a medical reason to sit this one out. My friend went to the MO with earache, and was told he had perforated eardrums. He was grounded, but because it was long term they replaced him that night with a navigator off a damaged aircraft. The crew plus replacement navigator took off and never came back. In hospital the guy in the next bed was the pilot of the crew the replacement navigator was pulled from. He informed my friend his plane had been lost. Years later he visited the crash site and the nearby churchyard where the crew were buried. It was a strange experience standing at the navigator's grave knowing it should have been his. He got assigned to a new crew who got into trouble for doing a low flypast over a fighter squadron, they did a victory roll over the runway to show the fighter pilots that a Lancaster could do it. Edited August 19, 2021 by Mississippi Bullfrog 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennie Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Good Evening last shift of a long week! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennie Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Good Morning I still like Fridays! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynax Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Good morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Two more Lancaster stories: 1. My friend, mentioned previously, gave me a recording of a Lancaster flyby, several passes. It was a glorious recording which I still have. One Christmas we had a float and went carol singing to raise money for a children's charity. We got to one road of big houses all with 3 or 4 expensive cars in the drives. As we started the singing all the curtains closed and no-one would answer the door. Tight-fisted buggers. So the next night we wheeled the float in the same road, with the lights off and the engine off. When it was in place we put the Lancaster soundtrack into the PA and cranked it up to full volume. Every door opened and they all shot out into the street. Then we hit them with the carol singing - and made a killing. 2. I used to serve with the US Army 47th Support Group based at RAF Burtonwood. It was actually the largest military base in Europe and held a lot of the equipment used to conduct the Gulf War. They used to have an annual air day with flying but as the housing estates round Warrington expanded it curtailed their ability to put on the show. They wanted to do one last event but the RAF said they couldn't find a flight path that didn't go over housing. I looked at the map and pointed out that there was one flight path that only flew over one house - and the guy who lived there wouldn't mind. How did I know this? Because it was my house. So on day one we had the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane. Day two we had the Shackleton, Spitfire and Hurricane. They came over our garden very low so we had a great view. The last fly past they had agreed to fly low and do a wing waggle over the house to say thank you. Which was brilliant, apart from our baby who was in her pram and the wash off the props blew the pram over. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxie49 Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Decided to do some touristy stuff yesterday and went out to the motor museum, well worth a trip. Funny seeing some of the early bikes I once owned are now museum pieces 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennie Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Good afternoon I'm trying to put cider O'clock off as long as possible 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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