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- Age and ageing
by Splitpin » Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:27 pm
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Sun Sep 08, 2019 10:16 pm
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Great news Rob. Please make the effort to see her, you won't regret it. Ma passes on her regards to you .....I read a lot of what is posted on the forum, she enjoys it very much.
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- Big Mig-29 ...14 minutes from the cockpit
by Splitpin » Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:03 am
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Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:03 am
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- Fishing....Aussie style
by cowpatz » Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:11 am
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Fri Aug 30, 2019 5:36 pm
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Yes he is quite a character. I met him when I went to a few of the Jet meets at Tokoroa. His ram jet cart was quite something to behold.
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- Charl
by Splitpin » Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:21 pm
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Sun Aug 25, 2019 1:05 pm
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Oh I had not - thanks! You have to wonder if Marcel Dassault didn't cast an eye to the north when developing the Mirage III. In profile you could easily confuse these two aircraft, in service within the same year. Googling pictures of "SAAB military aircraft" shows their designers were always looking to do strange things with the jetpipe, though.
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- Viggen at Zigermeet 2019
by Splitpin » Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:54 pm
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Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:56 am
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Aerospace surely went through a golden era in the 20th century - and nothing like a good war to spur things on. Just look what the Gloster Company fielded at the beginning of WWII and where they got to, just 5 years later I must say I rather preferred the Draken to the Viggen, it was the fastest jet in its day, and mean looking :)
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- 9 minutes of French joy
by Splitpin » Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:35 pm
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Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:33 pm
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Glad you enjoyed the clip gents .....
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- Sick of the whole f*****g thing
by Splitpin » Tue Aug 13, 2019 8:19 pm
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 6:41 pm
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Cheers Mike , Im looking at that now. Thanks also Nick ...its not a virus, I've scanned everything twice, repaired the registry ...defragged, updated all my drivers ....
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- New banner
by Splitpin » Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:39 pm
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Tue Aug 13, 2019 8:15 pm
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Ah well found! Not a misprint then... I see 5 NZ incidents, but no write-offs.
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- Black tails, odd stuff and sheep.
by Splitpin » Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:40 pm
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Tue Aug 13, 2019 5:42 pm
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MCB's still flying and I think one of the 320's was still there yesterday
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- ODDBUS A-3?
by Splitpin » Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:44 pm
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Tue Aug 06, 2019 9:12 am
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Now, now... :o
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- One more oddbus
by Splitpin » Sun Aug 04, 2019 2:47 pm
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Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:27 pm
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- Apollo 11 50 years ago
by chopper_nut » Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:30 pm
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Sun Jul 28, 2019 7:41 pm
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The Movie about some women doing calculations is fiction because the only people on the planet with the knowledge and expertise were the very men sent to the moon. . Completely untrue, you've just insulted a heap of mathematicians, and these woman who you dismiss so quickly were the ones doing the calculations that we would use computers to do. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt with your willingness to so readily dismiss the role of these women in the journey to the moon. During the flight, particularly when the astronauts flew behind the moon, these women were on stand by to carry out...
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- Old man, new phone
by toprob » Tue Jul 16, 2019 2:33 pm
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Sun Jul 28, 2019 2:44 pm
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Ok, email problems solved... I tried another windowlight email account, and that worked, so by a process of elimination, it had to be my password. This I was copy/pasting from my password manager's secure notes, but somehow it had ended up with extra spaces. Remove them, all's well. So technology is back in my good books.
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- Helicopter fun
by emfrat » Sat Jul 27, 2019 7:35 pm
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Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:48 am
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Wonder what the part numbers are....
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- Speedmaster watch
by Splitpin » Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:30 pm
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Mon Jul 22, 2019 8:57 pm
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And there's nothing wrong with a Seiko movement :) Too right, Marty. I had a great Seiko watch (which may or may not have passed Oz Customs). Sad to say, it was lost when the boat was swamped coming back from an offshore fishing trip. A week later the company started giving out the 10-year watches. Had lots of seaman mates in Pt Kembla in them days. Mike
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- French Navy Rafale Fighter Pilots have a Need for Speed
by Radar88 » Mon Jul 15, 2019 12:11 am
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Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:31 pm
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Wow, loved this. Thanks for the share, I'm all abuzz now!!
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- windows updates
by Splitpin » Tue Jul 09, 2019 7:27 pm
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Tue Jul 09, 2019 7:51 pm
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Hmm, I wonder about your updates, mine seem few and far between, and normally just happen when I go to shut down and it does an update first -- so I don't remember having to wait. My phone (windows, of course) does updates overnight, I get concerned that it never asks, but I do plan to give up the Windows phone shortly. Advertising is always gonna be annoying, don't get me started. I try and manage it with an ad blocker, so if I need to use Google Chrome -- for chromecast only, normally -- I really notice the ads everywhere! There's been a lot of talk on AVSIM lately about the 'cloud', in...
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- Triple screen setup for sale
by hoki1185 » Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:07 am
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Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:07 am
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- A decade, eh...
by toprob » Mon Jul 01, 2019 6:44 pm
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Wed Jul 03, 2019 6:24 am
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I intend to live to be 100, just for spite :P Like me, Mike.... :wink2: .... .....lots more folks for me to annoy yet!... :nahnah: ....! Well done, Rob! Paul.....at 85.... :cheers: ...!
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- Food for thought
by emfrat » Fri Jun 21, 2019 8:02 pm
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Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:56 am
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Yes it is interesting but they will always be limited unfortunately. Even assuming huge advances in battery technology, with batteries that are 30 times more efficient and "energy-dense" than they are today, it would only be possible to fly an A320 airliner for a fifth of its range with just half of its payload, says Airbus's chief technology officer Grazia Vittadini. Maybe the future for larger aircraft lies in the use of a small Thorium generator.
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