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When I had a proper job, I once returned to the office, having just done a half-million volt test in the open air, with kit similar to that, only to be told that I couldn't use the kettle because it didn't have a safety compliance sticker on it. I made my tea!

It is good - one of the few where the stick is proportional, rather than on or off ...

Excellent - shame she killed the first four plane-loads, though.. Have you tried the excellent flight simulator in Google Earth? Control/Alternate/A will bring it up - very good, especially hammering up and down the Swiss valleys - and you don't even have to shoot at people..

Please! Not whilst the the train is standing in a station.!

Excellent - how long are you there?

Startling!

This is a later version. Ours was a fully enclosed box that protected from a fall in any direction - I wouldn't want to drop one of them too far, if it rolls over during the fall, it could get exciting... It doesn't matter too much now, though, they only have to transport them up the motorway, I suppose. The old ones were intended for worldwide replenishment.

Possibly with a pony-tail....

I can't find any pictures of the cases anywhere - they were a rivetted and framed aluminium case with a suspension system that was supposed to cushion the impact if it was dropped from 75 feet. The white patch here is the remains of the concrete pad that we dropped them on. I have had to inform MI5 that you are in possession of this information....

Strangely enough, we did actually make the transport cases for the Spearfish torpedo, as a bit of a sideline....

I gave up with it and am using Google Chrome - if I can do it then anybody can.

Don't thank me - thank whoever put that up on here in the first place...

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..