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gremlin wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:27 pm
Wossname wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:17 am
Taipan wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:16 pm Image
Anyone recognise the engine?
Is it Steve?
Morris?
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Wreckless Rat wrote: Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:20 pm Timing is everything....

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stealth blackbird Murmuration.
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Yorick wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:31 pm
gremlin wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:27 pm
Wossname wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:17 am

Anyone recognise the engine?
Is it Steve?
Morris?
Alfa twincams I believe is a thing.
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rodbargee wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 1:52 pm
Wreckless Rat wrote: Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:20 pm Timing is everything....

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stealth blackbird Murmuration.
Blackbirds don't do that.

(Although starlings are black birds that do do that.)
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Yorick wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:31 pm
gremlin wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:27 pm
Wossname wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:17 am

Anyone recognise the engine?
Is it Steve?
Morris?
seems that K1100 BMw tope ends are a thing too.



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or https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 61453&i=60

Facinating thread........ Friend of a friend put the twin cam Alfa in his open class grasstracker mini.
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Awesome Aurora over Kerid Crater, Iceland. 🙂

You don't always see a scene this beautiful when you hike to an ancient volcano -- you have to be lucky. When the astro-photographer realized that aurora was visible two-weeks ago, he made a night-time run for the top of the caldera to see if he could capture them also reflected in the central lake. When he arrived, he found that ... the northern lights were even brighter and more impressive than before! And his image of them is the featured 13-frame panoramic mosaic. The crater lake in the center is called Kerid (Icelandic: Kerið) and is about 3,000 years old. The aurora overhead shows impressive colors and banding, with the red colors occurring higher in the Earth's atmosphere than the green. The background sky is filled with icons of the northern night including Polaris, the Pleiades star cluster, and the stars that compose the handle of the Big Dipper.

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Taipan wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:03 am Image
Git orf moi laaand!
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Skub wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:11 am Awesome Aurora over Kerid Crater, Iceland. 🙂
A UK based aurora predictor.

https://aurora-alerts.uk/
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My cousin just sent me this. She took it today on Lake Ontario
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The ‘Humbie Heinkel’ lies on a Scottish hillside surrounded by onlookers, the first German aircraft to be shot down on British Soil.

https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/ch ... eighbours/
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Horse wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:44 pm 20210307_204202.jpg

The ‘Humbie Heinkel’ lies on a Scottish hillside surrounded by onlookers, the first German aircraft to be shot down on British Soil.

https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/ch ... eighbours/
If the any of the crew survived do you think they they would've got a bit of a kicking.
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Horse wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:44 pm 20210307_204202.jpg

The ‘Humbie Heinkel’ lies on a Scottish hillside surrounded by onlookers, the first German aircraft to be shot down on British Soil.

https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/ch ... eighbours/
If I didn't know better I would have guessed that was the early days of Ryanair at Stansted, complete with the obligatory mad rush to get seats next to one another.
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With the exception of the puddle jumpers used up here all the planes I've flown on have had seats next to each other.
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cheb wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 10:51 am With the exception of the puddle jumpers used up here all the planes I've flown on have had seats next to each other.
As my ol' mum would say, you know what I mean and you're just being 'cussed'. :P
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Your mum was politer than my old dad.
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Newey wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 1:21 am
Horse wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:44 pm 20210307_204202.jpg

The ‘Humbie Heinkel’ lies on a Scottish hillside surrounded by onlookers, the first German aircraft to be shot down on British Soil.

https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/ch ... eighbours/
If the any of the crew survived do you think they they would've got a bit of a kicking.
The link says two dead, one wounded, one uninjured.
As for a kicking, only if they were Hibs fans ;)
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Newey wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 1:21 am
Horse wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:44 pm 20210307_204202.jpg

The ‘Humbie Heinkel’ lies on a Scottish hillside surrounded by onlookers, the first German aircraft to be shot down on British Soil.

https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/ch ... eighbours/
If the any of the crew survived do you think they they would've got a bit of a kicking.
Not too many blazing pitchforks in evidence ;)
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Newey wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 1:21 am
Horse wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:44 pm 20210307_204202.jpg

The ‘Humbie Heinkel’ lies on a Scottish hillside surrounded by onlookers, the first German aircraft to be shot down on British Soil.

https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/ch ... eighbours/
If the any of the crew survived do you think they they would've got a bit of a kicking.

Probably not if they told the crowd they'd dropped their bombs on the English.