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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:42 pm

Count Steer wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:32 pm Haven't a clue what Taylor Swift sounds like.

You probably do, you just don't know it's her . I was the same with Ed Sheeran for a long time.

Only if they play it at you in supermarkets or lifts....Ditto Ed Sheeran.

Noggin wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:26 pm
Oh - never been in a helicopter! Which really surprises a lot of people

From an old Lightning Pilot “Never fly in a helicopter, even the manufacturers have no faith in their product, they equip them with wheels, floats, skids etc, anything to give them a fighting chance on the way down!”

Also from the same guy “flying a helicopter, wiggle all the controls vigorously until you reach a sensible height, once there hold the controls in one position, see what the helicopter does and if you want it to do it again remember the position”.

MrLongbeard wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:26 pm What about them ?

Have any of them stuck a finger up your chimney?

ZRX61 wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:34 pm

MrLongbeard wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:26 pm What about them ?

Have any of them stuck a finger up your chimney?

Finger, no.

MrLongbeard wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:45 pm

ZRX61 wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:34 pm

MrLongbeard wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:26 pm What about them ?

Have any of them stuck a finger up your chimney?

Finger, no.

MingtheMerciless wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:33 pm

Noggin wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:26 pm
Oh - never been in a helicopter! Which really surprises a lot of people

From an old Lightning Pilot “Never fly in a helicopter, even the manufacturers have no faith in their product, they equip them with wheels, floats, skids etc, anything to give them a fighting chance on the way down!”

Also from the same guy “flying a helicopter, wiggle all the controls vigorously until you reach a sensible height, once there hold the controls in one position, see what the helicopter does and if you want it to do it again remember the position”.

I have heard something like that before! I'd still love a go in one!! The pilots out here are incredible - although i'd rather not need one of the emergency flights from the piste!!

Noggin wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:54 pm

MingtheMerciless wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:33 pm

Noggin wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:26 pm
Oh - never been in a helicopter! Which really surprises a lot of people

From an old Lightning Pilot “Never fly in a helicopter, even the manufacturers have no faith in their product, they equip them with wheels, floats, skids etc, anything to give them a fighting chance on the way down!”

Also from the same guy “flying a helicopter, wiggle all the controls vigorously until you reach a sensible height, once there hold the controls in one position, see what the helicopter does and if you want it to do it again remember the position”.

I have heard something like that before! I'd still love a go in one!! The pilots out here are incredible - although i'd rather not need one of the emergency flights from the piste!!

I have flown in several large helicopters. Think of a very elderly bus that vibrates like hell, makes a deafening noise, and stinks of paraffin. I have also flown In a small one, and that was cool.
Chose a small one.

MingtheMerciless wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:33 pm From an old Lightning Pilot

One definition of a helicopter is: "a collection of parts flying in close proximity"

Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:20 pm I have also flown In a small one, and that was cool.
Chose a small one.

Company I worked with had one and we were able to use it as an alternative to cars for longer trips.

Helicopters are fine, though. The problem was that pilots seemed to think they should have flown in Vietnam.

Cousin Jack wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:20 pm Think of a very elderly bus that vibrates like hell, makes a deafening noise, and stinks of paraffin.

Yeah that about sums up my 1 time helicopter flight in a seaking

I've flown in a helicopter, a Bell Jetranger if anyone is interested, it wasn't all that much of an experience, flying in a glider is a lot more memorable.

As for things I haven't done, there's loads of them, but whether they make people go "eh" is another matter, but I suppose the main one would be that I didn't live in a house until I was 7.

Horse wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:54 pm
Helicopters are fine, though. The problem was that pilots seemed to think they should have flown in Vietnam.

My one trip in a small one was over the Grand Canyon in the USA. The pilot may well have been ex-Vietnam.

Still cool.

MingtheMerciless wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:33 pm

Noggin wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:26 pm
Oh - never been in a helicopter! Which really surprises a lot of people

From an old Lightning Pilot “Never fly in a helicopter, even the manufacturers have no faith in their product, they equip them with wheels, floats, skids etc, anything to give them a fighting chance on the way down!”

Also from the same guy “flying a helicopter, wiggle all the controls vigorously until you reach a sensible height, once there hold the controls in one position, see what the helicopter does and if you want it to do it again remember the position”.

That's from that after-dinner speaker from the 70s/80s.... The air traffic controller. Very funny guy. I used to have a copy of the record, no idea where i lost it.

I've never come out, but I've gone back in loads of times

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:27 pm I suppose the main one would be that I didn't live in a house until I was 7.

Don't leave us hanging...

Oh, I've never seen The Wizard of Oz, or The Sound of Music.

I've never toured as an Englebert Humperdink tribute act, which inexplicably surprises many, or maybe it doesn't?

Never read a Harry Potter book nor seen any of the films.
Never seen Lord of the Rings (have read the books)
Never eaten a Kumquat until four days ago.
Never fallen off a bike because I couldn't unclip in time. (It isn't on Youtube so it didn't happen. )

Sunny wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:13 pm

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:27 pm I suppose the main one would be that I didn't live in a house until I was 7.

Don't leave us hanging...

From 1965 to 1974 my family lived in a caravan on a site about a mile from the nearest village, it had no bathroom (there was a wash block) and was small by modern standards, I can remember the road from the village being tarmaced in about 1971. We moved to a council house in the summer of 1974.

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:39 am

Sunny wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:13 pm

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:27 pm I suppose the main one would be that I didn't live in a house until I was 7.

Don't leave us hanging...

From 1965 to 1974 my family lived in a caravan on a site about a mile from the nearest village, it had no bathroom (there was a wash block) and was small by modern standards, I can remember the road from the village being tarmaced in about 1971. We moved to a council house in the summer of 1974.

We had a few sites like that around when I was a child. In that case it was part of the need to boost housing capacity post-war, as council house building ramped up, but a lot of the sites and prefabs (there were families living in Nissen huts too) were there long after their planned 'design life'. The prefabs were supposed to be for about 10 years iirc but were still occupied and maintained as council housing for about 30 years - (until asbestos became an identified hazard). The caravan parks became fixed 'mobile' homes. I know of one that's still there. For a while it was where they put 'problems' but it's quite chi-chi and private now. (A bit like Box Hill for those that know it...there's 500 of them up there and they aren't cheap).

I've never drank an entire cup of tea or coffee!

I've never smoked tobacco!