A right now thread

[MingtheMerciless]

Have just done battle with our fancy drawing printer, it should just be a matter of printing it on A3 paper but no it prints the diagram half size, so it’s print it on A2 and cut it down but no, we’ll print from both the roll and the sheet paper and jam! 30 minutes and half a forest of paper later I’ve managed to get the size diagram I want. Bloody thing hates me.

[636mick]

Gave up trying to sleep at 0530 so watched a lovely sunrise instead.
Mick

[Wossname]

Mrs W is at the dentist. So it's Van Morrison at 11 on shuffle while I do some computer work. He did some good stuff.

[MrLongbeard]

Pricing up a new motorsickle for the wife

[Taipan]

Pricing up a new motorsickle for the wife

Wotcha getting her?

[MrLongbeard]

Pricing up a new motorsickle for the wife

Wotcha getting her?

[Yorick]

Sat having a beer after awesome 5 hour Enduro.
I'm improving so much, they ask me to lead the rides sometimes.
But being the trailblazer means that I hit problems first LOL.

Had a few places where took 2 folk to get the bikes up and over rocks and through tight gaps.
I'm used to both wheels being loose now and get the back wheel spinning in 6th on the long sandy tracks, which feels awesome.

And confident to have both wheels 'moving' on the hard paths covered by loose stuff.
That was until the front decided it didn't want to play and had a lie down at about 50 ish

Best shirt ripped, but the body armour saved me


But I'm chuffed I can still do 5 hours tough stuff in high 20s

[Horse]

Never noticed, before seeing that pic, that the leading edge of the wing isn't a smooth curve, it has a 'corner'.

[Yorick]

Sat having a beer after awesome 5 hour Enduro.
I'm improving so much, they ask me to lead the rides sometimes.
But being the trailblazer means that I hit problems first LOL.

Had a few places where took 2 folk to get the bikes up and over rocks and through tight gaps.
I'm used to both wheels being loose now and get the back wheel spinning in 6th on the long sandy tracks, which feels awesome.

And confident to have both wheels 'moving' on the hard paths covered by loose stuff.
That was until the front decided it didn't want to play and had a lie down at about 50 ish

Best shirt ripped, but the body armour saved me


But I'm chuffed I can still do 5 hours tough stuff in high 20s

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[Mr. Dazzle]

Never noticed, before seeing that pic, that the leading edge of the wing isn't a smooth curve, it has a 'corner'.

It didn't start out that way, the prototypes had straight edges. They soon learned that it didn't work in the then hitherto speed and altitude ranges they were flying in.



Fascinating period in aerospace history, the pace of development was insanely fast. That photo is from the early 50s, 5 years earlier propeller driven straight wing planes were state of the art.

[cheb]

Whittle was designing his jet engine when the UK was still using biplanes as front line fighters AFAIR from what I read some years ago.

[wheelnut]

Fascinating period in aerospace history, the pace of development was insanely fast. That photo is from the early 50s, 5 years earlier propeller driven straight wing planes were state of the art.

An amazing time. 24 years from Will and Orv to Lindbergh. 42 years from Lindbergh to Concorde and Armstrong (a piece of the Wright Flyer was taken to the moon).

[David]

Whittle was designing his jet engine when the UK was still using biplanes as front line fighters AFAIR from what I read some years ago.

True.

[Horse]

You can see where the stories of triangle shaped alien craft came from. If you were used to seeing Spitfires flying over your head and then late one night you saw one of those on a development flight, you'd wonder what the hell it was.

Filly's mother lived in Rugby during WWII. They heard jet engines being tested (somewhere) but obviously no-one had a clue what they were.

[Mr. Dazzle]

You can see where the stories of triangle shaped alien craft came from. If you were used to seeing Spitfires flying over your head and then late one night you saw one of those on a development flight, you'd wonder what the hell it was.

Filly's mother lived in Rugby during WWII. They heard jet engines being tested (somewhere) but obviously no-one had a clue what they were.

Probably at British Thomson-Houston, where Whittle originally set up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_T ... prov=sfla1

He later moved to Lutterworth, which is why there's a model of a plane in the middle of the roundabout as you come off the M1 junction there.

[Horse]

About 8 miles from Lutterworth to Rugby, so that could well have been it. I used to live about 3.5 miles from RAF Odiham and it was sometimes possible to hear the choppers warming up.

[MingtheMerciless]

Watching “Hacksaw Ridge” a very underrated war film.

[slowsider]

Watching “Hacksaw Ridge” a very underrated war film.

2 Oscars

[Pirahna]

Just watched a film called Nomadland. Worth it for the landscapes but also thought and memory provoking for me. I need a trip back to the US.

[Taipan]

Just watched a film called Nomadland. Worth it for the landscapes but also thought and memory provoking for me. I need a trip back to the US.

Is it on Prime or Netflix and is it free? Could do with a film to watch today whilst I WFH and that does sound interesting.