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  1. Broithe
    Having smugly said that I'd had no problem at all, it vanished for me at 2200 hours last night, and was still gone at midnight - back now, obviously.
  2. Broithe
    I never noticed anything - and, if any changes are happening, is there any chance of something better than 'normality'...?
  3. Broithe
    Crossing in Sandymount struck about three hours ago - delays ongoing...
  4. Broithe
    That was about the time of the beginning of a transition in UK business culture, when people who had been called clerks, and came to work on a bike, started being called Directors of Finance, and arrived in Jags that they'd bought for themselves with other people's money.
  5. Broithe
    Of course, the Irish Mk 4s are not the same as British Mk 4s..... ..just in case..
  6. Broithe
    Same here - questionnaires, especially multiple choice ones, are notoriously difficult, if not impossible to get absolutely correct. I regularly get professional YouGov ones to do, and frequently have to comment that I've had to give that least wrong answer...
  7. Broithe
    Always remembering the warnings about magnifying glasses and sunlight..... http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3672-Sunlight-and-magnifying-lamps?highlight=magnifying
  8. Broithe
    Level crossing at Castlerea struck today - half-hour delays.
  9. Broithe
    And, taking off with a bit of slush isn't much of a problem... [video=youtube;SnS-C_oyEd0] They might have had to re-trim with all the extra weight stuck to the back....
  10. Broithe
    Probably didn't serve many coffees during that interlude - just as well that they're built for hard landings. Delivering an Il 62 to a museum with a field nearby? Do it the efficient way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCZRwv_568Y Lovely example of aerodynamic braking - not the sort of thing to do with passengers on, though...
  11. Broithe
    Great stuff on here.... The puppy teaches the old dogs new tricks.
  12. Broithe
    We had the Flying Banana through here today, don't often see a 125 on the WCML. http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/7/5/4/5754.1173582000.jpg http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=42129 Heirflick likes yellow things....
  13. Broithe
    You're not safe anywhere....
  14. Broithe
    And some others, like this MiG 19, didn't need any runway at all to take off.. I do like the Soviet fashion for pulling the brake-chute whilst still in the air - a lot of their airliners could often be seen with the thrust-reversers out as soon as the pilot was committed to touch down.
  15. Broithe
    The Il 76 is always good to watch..
  16. Broithe
    Some "vodka-burners" make full use of the tarmac.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLxEHIbHUlY
  17. Broithe
    The drogues do have shearing components in to allow for this sort of event - and in case the drogue won't unhitch.. It's not easy - the old wingtip-to-wingtip method must have been a bit difficult, too. The Soviets kept up with that system up until when the Badger arrived.. ..the Americans and others used this in the early days, too.. I presume that it was felt less likely to result in damage to the receiving aircraft.
  18. Broithe
    As always. When the MiG 29s were coming to Farnborough, they were asked for drawings to make adaptors, in case they needed to be towed around, etc. "No need. Your stuff'll fit", they were told... ..handy if you might end up using somebody else's airfields.. On the refuelling front, India uses stuff from both "sides".
  19. Broithe
    The ex-Soviet probe-and-drogue refuelling system is, interestingly, compatible with the NATO standards*, which might come in handy for somebody one day. * i.e., except those US aircraft that are committed to their flying-boom system.
  20. Broithe
    When I used to do the Holyhead run, they didn't really expect people to get off at the intermediate stops. If there was nobody on the platform, then they would only make 'token' stops, of very short duration - you had to be really quick off the mark if you actually were getting off. The shortest 'stationary period' that I ever timed was seventeen seconds in Rhyl.
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    It was, these things are usually awful, but that was just spot-on, really.
  23. Broithe
    Great little film - a DART at 4:20.....
  24. Broithe
    Is that your shed? Looks plenty big enough........
  25. Broithe
    Ah, right. Good luck with it all and keep us informed as you go along.
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