Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: themoudie on June 06, 2009, 02:16:48 PM
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Bill, I'm sure we can tie up sometime soon and compare new toys ;D
Aye Smudge,
It's not mine! ;) It's Kat's, I just get the spannering, although I had a wee hurl this morning afore the 'monsoon' set in :( I don't seem to be able to get the hang of 'wide' tyres, 90/90 or 120/80 are plenty big enough! ;)
Had hoped to see the Red Arrows and the Typhoon at Perth Airshow today, along with a host of other kit, but the rain and low cloud has pooped that. Can hear the Typhoon, but not see the bu**er! ??? No doubt will persist with it, but spannering 'Sally' later on.
Maybe have it at Bob Mac.
All the best Bill.
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Bill, I'm sure we can tie up sometime soon and compare new toys ;D
Hoping to have a new toy soon myself, although it has far too many cylinders for this group.
Might be looking to do another evening borders loop the week after next.
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Had hoped to see the Red Arrows and the Typhoon at Perth Airshow today,
I was working at an office in Newbridge yesterday and was able to watch a little display from the Red Arrows before they landed in Edinburgh.
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Aye niblue, caught glimpses of low level stuff, but no high stuff due to cloud base and heft of showers.
Regards, Bill.
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Had hoped to see the Red Arrows and the Typhoon at Perth Airshow today,
I was working at an office in Newbridge yesterday and was able to watch a little display from the Red Arrows before they landed in Edinburgh.
Funnily enough I saw them playing about on the run in for landing as I was passing the Newbridge roundabout on my way home yesterday, most distracting! ;D
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I was cycling down a quiet coutry lane in (iirc) Oxfordshire once and had the bowel-loosening experience of having the Red Arrows display team fly over me in formation at less than 200 foot. I had no idea I was cycling along the end of a bloody runway. I jumped out of my skin.
GC
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About 21 years ago ( :o ::) :( ) I was riding down the A7 on my Z200, cruise speed a heady 50mph, bopping along as I had been for at least half an hour, not a care in the world, sunlight dappling through the trees onto the empty curving road, only the steady boppity boppity boppity of a little single and the warm air just the right temperature.....
Until the b****d in an RAF jet passed overhead really *LOW* and fast :o :o :o
Scared the bejeasus out of me!!!! I took most of my lane and about ten seconds before I even worked out what it was/had been! Git, lol :D
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Was in Oxfordshire 'bimbleing' on the RD500 when I rounded a corner and there was a car parked in the middle of the road as the old duffer therein watched the USAF planes, hard on the brakes on to right ear to pass round the back of the dolt when the world seemed to cave in - B52 coming in to land over our heads..... Ouch!
On a slightly different note - last year at Poly and a couple after that were spent living in the quiets of Cornwall, used to cross over the Tamar and clamber up through the woods to a rock called "Chimney Rock", was about 6' to 8' scramble up on one side and then a short drop off the front face onto a ledge where you could sit in the sun, get mellow and watch the birds pass below. Also we used to get a number of Hercules flying up the Tamar and thus passing below us, very pleasent. One after noon, sunned and mellow, the world started to shake rattle and roll and a couple of Phantom jets passed not that far BELOW us, skimming the trees and the Tamar. :o Ears rang for some time after that..
So why is this all in the for sale then?
R
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So why is this all in the for sale then?
I was going to split the plane part of this thread off to a new topic (in chatter), but I don't seem to have moderator priviliges for the 'For Sale' forum section.
GC
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So why is this all in the for sale then?
R
Aye Rog,
'Cause this is the TC! ;D and we're chilling! 8) Transfer it across to the Forum if you fancy and leave a wee signpost. ;D
Enjoy your roast beef, yorkie puds etc. Bill.
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Because the bike is sold so now we're standing around having a cuppa and talking bikes and relaxing... isn't that what always happens after a sale ???
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Because the bike is sold so now we're standing around having a cuppa and talking bikes and relaxing... isn't that what always happens after a sale ???
A bit like sex then?
;D
R
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... isn't that what always happens after a sale ???
A bit like sex then?
;D
R
erm... what? Sex happens after a sale?? :o :-[
Knew I was doing something wrong.... :P
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Take a cold dive in the Forth! That'll reduce your ardour! ;)
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Don't tell me, tell Rog, obviously they sell bikes differently down there :o
;) :D
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Back on topic - planes, specifically low flying ones.
Back in the 80's I worked at RM Condor in Arbroath - my office was the original 1937 workmen's hut, a rattly wooden shed type construction that had been condemned as a fire hazard several times. My office colleague had a son in the RAF, flying Tornadoes in Germany, who would do the occasional duty-free run back to Leuchars. On these occasions he would let his Mum know he would be home for tea by overflying the base (dead reckoning nav exercise, obviously!)....... at 50ft ........ wings spread ...... afterburners on ...... holy f**k!
Won't mention the time he buzzed the parade ground while the CGRM (Commandant General Royal Marines) was taking the salute from the guys not long after the Falklands. The booties had recently returned from a battlefield situation where a low-flying plane meant trouble - what do you think they did? I didn't know the CG knew that sort of language ......
Or the Inverness floods ..... or the decapitation of a pine tree in Anglesey ... or ..... these sky jockeys are completely hatstand, you know that?
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I live in rural Lincolnshire...so on a regular basis I can get any of the following flying over my house - Tornado's, Red Arrow's, Typhoons, Harrier,Chinook helicopters ( noisy bastards!) Hercules, AWACS, BBMF Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane, Dakota plus the odd exotic and hush hush stuff going into one of the local RAF bases.. Oh yes and occasionally The Queen! ( Well she does own the local flying club!)..
By far the noisiest - though thankfully no longer based around here - were the A10 tankbuster's - they used to pop up out of nowhere from behind the trees and fly over just above tree top height. They used to use the tractors down on the fens for dummy runs!!!.....used to scare the crap out of you!
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Nah - it is just my style ::)
And only ever sell a bike to a beautiful young lady....
R
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...By far the noisiest - though thankfully no longer based around here - were the A10 tankbuster's - they used to pop up out of nowhere from behind the trees and fly over just above tree top height. They used to use the tractors down on the fens for dummy runs!!!.....used to scare the crap out of you!
They are amazing things, ever heard one fire it's main gun? A weird but terrifying sound! :o
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No - thankfully they didn't actually fire on the tractors! ;)
I did see a documentary on TV filmed on Salisbury Plain showing live firing on some old trucks....5 second burst of fire and there was nothing but wreckage!! awesome!!....I believe they fire 3000 rounds per minute?
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Something silly like that, I'd need to google to check the rate of fire! :-[ I've heard a couple on ranges in the distance and it is a very odd noise, quite glad not to hear it close up thanks!!
Another weird one is if you ever get to be near an Apache... wherever the pilot looks, the chin gun points.... most disconcerting when he looks at you! :o
Thinking back (a looong way) probably even a bigger scare that the A7 one was when I was just a little kid (OI, less of the short jokes from the cheap seats ;) ) and my family was at a campsite somewhere, I was making dams in the burn (stream), think 70's bright colours, vauxhall vivas, Abba in the charts, Jimmy Saville etcetc and you'll get the era,
Little did I know the campsite, and especially the stream, was just over the boundary fence at the end of an RAF runway where Vulcans took off.... my first ever proper "TAKE COVER!" when I threw myself to the ground in response to the scary noise, the sun being blotted out then the amazing hot blast from the engines....
COOL!!! 8) lol
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A chap who lives up the lane from my brother has a Vulcan nose cone in his yard. He has converted it into a little sleeping shack with the addition of a caravan door in the bulkhead and caravan bed and whatnot. It's very cool.
GC
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There was a Vulcan for sale on Ebay a few years ago (A real one!)...buyer collects!
I saw the last Vulcan fly out of RAF Waddington when they were decommission.. amazing planes. Have you ever been in the cabin of a Vulcan? Incredably small barely room to move with tiny windows.
Re the Apache - I was watching an old episode of Top Gear ( yes I know I know..) and they were saying that they can pop up above the battlefield, identify something like 250 potential targets, prioritise the top 20 or so threats and destroy the lot in 28 seconds!! Wow. :o
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Re the Apache - I was watching an old episode of Top Gear ( yes I know I know..) and they were saying that they can pop up above the battlefield, identify something like 250 potential targets, prioritise the top 20 or so threats and destroy the lot in 28 seconds!! Wow. :o
Of which 18 are Blue-on-Blue.... ;D
R
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By far the noisiest - though thankfully no longer based around here - were the A10 tankbuster's - they used to pop up out of nowhere from behind the trees and fly over just above tree top height. They used to use the tractors down on the fens for dummy runs!!!.....used to scare the crap out of you!
I used to see the Warthogs over the M4 - I am sure they were lining up the cars for a quick burst, you would get a group of them wheeling over, running down a length of the road and then wheeling around again.
Have seen film of them shooting up a tank - Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - no tank. Eeeeeek!
R
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Re the Apache - I was watching an old episode of Top Gear ( yes I know I know..) and they were saying that they can pop up above the battlefield, identify something like 250 potential targets, prioritise the top 20 or so threats and destroy the lot in 28 seconds!! Wow. :o
Of which 18 are Blue-on-Blue.... ;D
R
Who mentioned the septics? Our lads know what we look like! ;)