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Look at the change, totally rebuilt after Pearl Harbour, if you follow these Battleships, this is the same class as the USS California which well photoed after the Dec 7th 1941 attack, re-coloured, look at the flak batteries, main armment was 14.5 and only 600 ft long , built in 1917-20 she weight in at 34,000 tons in 1943/5 after the rebuild in weight in at 40,500 tons and its side profile it looked more like the South Dakota class ... impressive looking after it be-build B-)

Spose a good large glass of sweet sherry before ZZZ time me ya won't have to count 41000 posts :D

That is all a load of baloney regard to H &S and security and it is made up out fear by liberals, lot can say its just the money thing - , the book "With Great Foresight" was correct for those 50 years and even before the terminal of the 1960s was put in, today , If the book was re-writen be called "Lack of any Foresight" , the old excuse, never had a problem with the locals and it is easy to make it safe as it use to be, trouble is with security , it today's standard to let down by a lack of hard time ... other countries around the world do have setups for interested...

Haha, nice catch by the bank. Another gotcha if you're a CC user online, I had a couple of random Starbucks Membership Card to-pups done in US dollars in the states recently. Personally I dont drink their coffee, dont have a card for sure, and haven't been to the states in a year or two, so followed up w the bank and they reversed the charges. Turns out there's a mini scam where they can make lots of small charges on random credit card nums if they can guess the 3num code. The transactions were labelled "STARBUCKS CARD RELOAD". Sounds like SB need to up their security. PS this was...

I have looked into it to compare I think its just little bit unusual but its a baby yellow hammer I have them around at home that look similar when they are young.

Without any prob I would have mowed it years back if no one did, John the property owner had Jim come in and do it , old story if he needed a park during the day told just to throw it in my spot ... without thinking , this twit is really out doing himself , dose not appear to do anything for unless there is a dollar in it, found that out from down back .. It dose make ya head scratch , its now a neighbourhood experiment in who is in your neighbourhood.

You gotta love that New Zealand history documentary of 25 years of the New Zealand 737, I guess they could make a doco 50 years in New Zealand registry. Concorde and Avonhead primary school, in the school library and all the talk was this Concorde and Boeing 747, the aircraft books were always getting taken out by me, other big one on the stage incoming was the Galaxy, I thought back then we would never see these in New Zealand only four years later both the 747 and the Galaxy overflew Christchurch on separate occasions .. and the Concorde , that become a regular visitor ! so much for my...

Cripes, still remember the hype being the first of its type, Cathy Pacific had one overfly Christchurch in late 1996, I really do like those time lapse videos.

Very cool shame to say goodbye to the 767.

Still is Mike ... bloody rain , but the farmers down here really need it. I am 90km inland, and we only got the edge of the rain - barely 100mm. Our farmers are very happy with that. The traditional May rains have been very erratic lately, and if your soil moisture profile is not right by Queen's Birthday weekend (early June) there is no point planting your winter wheat, so you write off half your yearly income. :unsure:

I'll get that organized ! .. If I go wrong you can knock my block off!

Really going to try and make that weekend work ... would be great to catch up with you and the big guy again. Watch this space young Mike. It would be great to have that small fat bald headed guy Umm! Woops no thats not Marty how about a tall skinny guy pay a visit again and if he brings his brother along I am sure I can find them a couple of beds for for the weekend.

On those bikes you really were flying, if I was on my own I cranked it, if carrying someone it was super care, never had a problem , the Ruapuna race track was fun , all hell and leather, you were flying, jeez when I look at it today, have a mate who dose that circuit and he has been clocked at 320 KPH , mind you I had a sports tourer , Wayne's bike is a hard ass racer!

Look's like it will be ideal for you this weekend to hook into it yourself :)

I have NO IDEA what your talking about Marty.. have you been taking Ianglish lessons ?!?!?! ;-) Sounds intriguing tho, any pics? Not yet mate ... and Im sorry, pics would give the post some context ....working on it.

"Did you ever read such tosh?" :rolleyes: and to think my original team leaders name at General Cable was nicknamed 'Tosh' .. happened to short for his last name , he was a conspiracy theorist .. YEAH ! one of those :blink: ... as for the Propeller .... Oh don't worry .. it'll turn up :D

I am certainly working on it :D

Funny thing SUBS .. I said to my brother the other day where were these fantastic toys when we were kids!

Your on to it :D Paul