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Not a Bear and over the Black Sea, but the same sort of thing. It's interesting that the interloper turned out to be a Beriev 12 - not many amphibians in military service these days. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45301539

Well, that was very good - they had some weather issues, with rain and a low cloud-base at times, but they worked around it nicely. The stream was good quality and worked very well. A Mil 24 was thrashed about for a while and the Frecce Tricolori display was proper tight stuff. A Sukhoi 27 was put through its paces - and a Saab Gripen. There were displays by old Iskras and the new PZL trainer. There was a Finnish team flying four BAe Hawks, but one of them had an undisclosed 'difficulty' half-way through and had to clear off out of the way of the remaining aircraft. There had been a weather hiatus before the Gripen display and the poor squaddie who was filling in on the Tannoy found himself set up and having to propose marriage to his girlfriend to the ever-romantic sound of a Gripen being thrashed past behind him, as the weather had lifted by the time the trap was sprung.. The commentary was not the usual irritating Tannoy bellow, although the Italian woman was a bit shrieky and induced me to turn it down a bit. It was also notable that the marshals were very aware of being 'in the way' at times and kept moving, even dropping below the sight line at times, for the benefit of the observing crowd. There were two solo F-16 displays at the end, when the rising cloud base allowed, a Belgian one and a Turkish one. The Turkish chap was quite hard on the plane - they struggled to keep the camera on him - I certainly wouldn't let him drive my car!

There's a lot of windage loss under the train, too, but you need the track to be moving to properly assess that situation.

You are beyond my capacity to help now...

Have a look in your Downloads - they turned up in there and I (eventually) managed to see them - very nice, too.

This has appeared today.

It has got to the point now, where I don't like to induce him to go up there, just in case - but, if the opportunity presents itself, then I'll try to get some recent pictures. All I currently have is these few from ten years ago. The 'well' seen in the first three pictures is a sidetrack off the access tunnel.

A friend of mine has a layout in the large part of his loft, but the access is via the roof of a small extension, where the height is such that you have to flop sideways from the hatch, then proceed to crawl along a tunnel, about eight or ten feet long. It's all a bit "Great Escape". He is in his eighties now and only ventures up there for at least half a day at a time, it's too much effort to just nip up for a few minutes. We have gently mentioned what might happen if he ever has a 'turn' up there. We do have a cave rescue team about 30 miles away...

It might help to stop instances like this - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-45144054 - and other ones where people are "suspected" of terrorism offences.

There seems to have been a failure at Greystones..?

Or August...?

Some organisations go through phases where, if something ends up in desperate need of some paint, it gets painted with whatever paint is in general use in the vicinity at the time.

Maybe have alternative backscenes? The effect was really rather depressing on that one..

I did come across a Welsh one, with glowering skies, rather than the usual fluffy clouds on a blue background.

I volunteered to try to find some B&Bs in a particular village in Wales, before the internet, etc. I rang the post office, on the basis that they would have a good idea of what was going on. "There's only two and neither of them do it all year" "That's OK, can I have the addresses?" "Jones, Main Street" "And the other one?" "Jones, Main Street" At which point I laughed - "You can laugh! I have to deliver the bloody mail round here..."

It did come with a bookmark insert suggesting several other Oakwood books, including one on the Launceston Branch - suggesting that you could be right and that this forgery may have originated in north/central Tasmania.

Well, I have finally obtained a copy of Rails to Achill. It arrived here just now and a quick look through it would suggest that some study periods may need to be allocated in a systematic manner. One thing that I quickly noticed, however, is that my copy may actually be just that - a counterfeit edition. I have had a good look through it now, and I can't find a single one of the pictures upside down.

Brick nerds have their uses... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/brick-fingerprint-builds-crime-case-steve-boggan-on-an-academic-breakthrough-that-helped-to-cement-1463848.html

This? http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,588882,739883,1,10

There are people with layouts on boards smaller than one of those floors.

Like this - each time the radius reduces as you move away from the straight, you move the centre up the radius line at the end of the preceding circle, and draw the new part of the curve - and then repeat, until you are happy.

The transition from straight to curved shouldn't be just straight into the final radius - it needs to be staged, or flared, in a 'French curve" manner - it looks and runs much better if you do that. You can create virtually the same effect by having a series of short circular curves running on from one another. Flexi-track can give you a much better arrangement than set-track will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_curve

With flexi-track, you can largely do what you want, as long as your vehicles will cope with the radii that you end up with. It is worth, though, carefully 'flaring' things together.

I'm liking the filing cabinet - the shallow-drawer ones are so handy for tool storage - much easier than rummaging around in toolboxes. I have several, of various depths. I would be lost without them now. You can arrange things systematically and it's easy to locate the right drawer and then find the item required. And you can reorder the drawers, if there are changes or additions to your 'system'. Drawers can be subdivided, if necessary, too. Highly recommended. There were people selling similar paint-storage arrangements via the model magazines in the 1980s - I have a punched steel one, where the shelves with 16 tinlets on each could be removed from a cabinet that holds four shelves.

In the 70s, there wouldn't be many trucks go past before there was a Hino.