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Here.

http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/content.php/239-181-Class-Locomotive-Drawings

It's a serious issue. Where I worked, there weren't many people left with a full set of digits. I chap I worked with was using a pendant crane to lower a couple of tons onto a base, but it needed an internal pipe connecting when it was about two inches from contact. He was doing this when he managed to drop the thing a tiny bit too far, trapping his hand. The shock of this made him let go of the pendant. He knew that, if he didn't catch it on the first swing back, then he would not be able to reach it on subsequent, shorter swings. He had the presence of mind to hit it away from him on the first swing, so that the swing was bigger to give him a better chance. He did then manage to catch it on the second return swing. If he hadn't then, because he was well out of sight (and hearing) of anybody else, he would have been stuck there until somebody spotted that he hadn't appeared for his tea....

Excellent! Always keep your hands in your pockets - so that don't put them down in the wrong place...

I have some of the genuine 3-M dayglo sheet - similar stuff is available on eBay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A4-SHEET-RED-DAY-GLO-FLUORESCENT-SELF-ADHESIVE-VINYL-/390063940750 - might be a bit thick to use for the squares, but it would look well on the doors...

There's a Hastings stuck in Greenland, somewhere, too..

Some parts of a much less carefully buried Spitfire were found to be workable a couple of years ago - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15660438 .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20925300

Mmm, we'll see what state they're in, seventy years after being dropped into a hole. Hopefully, there'll be enough good stuff to make a few flyable ones. MkXIVs, aren't they? So, Griffons rather than Merlins. Only about a dozen Hurricanes left now, apparently. No Halifax, Stirling - is there even a Beaufighter left..?

Always a bit fragile in the undercart region... There's about 50 flyable Spitfires worldwide - and twentyish more in the process of restoration to flying condition. There's far fewer of most other things of the same sort of vintage =- Hurricanes, 109s, 190s, etc. There must be a good few Mustangs, though..

I can't believe that I mis-spelled 'booth'! It's been a long day and I'm not well...

Rolls Royce's own Spitfire in wizzard prang at Castle Donnington today - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20939051 - nobody seriously hurt.

8 & 9 in here - http://www.waterfordcountyimages.org/exhibit/web/PrintableBasicImageSearchListing/offset/0/location/_3_25_25_/subject/_1_7_3_/fromyear/000000000/toyear/201212311/ - might be of some interest..

Tax exile..?

Do they have a separate both where they apply the weathering?

"Horse racing is an outdoor sport". Somebody on BBC Radio 4 explaining why there had been so many race meetings disrupted by the weather lately..

Excellent.

Some years ago, I came across a book of aircraft pictures in a charity shop. It had one picture to represent each year. As I was looking through it, I noticed that the picture for 1942, a Lancaster, had been autographed for (I presume) the books previous owner. I was fairly sure that I could tell who had written the autograph, although the signature wasn't the clearest, and so I bought it. A bit of checking confirmed my opinion that the signature was that of Leonard Cheshire. A top find, I think you'll agree.

There's been a few goes at 7mm stuff in the past - http://irishrailwaymodelling.org/showthread.php/156-O-Gauge-071?

In Clones? they drive in the middle up there...

Just spotted this - have you surfaced yet..?

I came back after Christmas to find that a new model railway shop had opened just a mile away from me - Topp Trains - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Topp-Trains/289396587829410 - can't be bad. I been in and it all seems very good. Five minutes off the M6, junction 14, if you're going by and need to stretch your legs - and your wallet...

There's some distant shots in here - around 40 minutes.. There might be more. Edit - There is, have a look at 24 minutes in, too.

Some pictures of the similar one at Leconfield here - http://www.cbfsim.co.uk/cbfs_bb/viewtopic.php?nomobile=1&f=8&t=15509 -. 56 Squadron were at Akrotiri with F6s at the time*. The graphics were by colour television from a giant 3D landscape on a wall - essentially like a model layout - that's how I flew through the (plastic) tree. A camera on a travelling bridge was regulated by the path the plane was taking and transmitted the pictures to what must have been the world's only Baird-style 3-colour spinning disc projector. The effect was sufficiently realistic though, I was quite unhappy as I could see the tree approaching... It had only a minimal hydraulic movement, probably no more than a foot, but it did add to the fear. There is talk of a publicly accessible one, in a modernised form, becoming available at Tangmere. *They seem to have left this one behind..

I had a few goes in the Lightning simulator at Akrotiri - have we not spoken about it before? I did manage to fly it through a tree.