Another pointless thread

I missed that moment on the telly but I got filled in by my grandma, lucky it was nothing serious.

Does anyone have a need for "a marriage blanket"

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It wasn't just an ill person. Thirty wounded and two man are arrested.

Yes Stefan, it turns out it was more serious - and all started by one or two people, who have been arrested now. 50 injuries, including broken bones.
Everyone was so much more tense and ready to panic I think after Apeldoorn last year.

Terrible.

Does it stop snoring too ?

I sent the marriage blanket link to my other half - he says I should buy one it as may stop my GAS

I worked for British Caledonian for a while and they were part owned by BA, so we got their staff travel discount. You had to be their for a year before you qualified for it. Then as the year was nearly up we found out that BA were selling their interest in BCal. We would qualify for the discount for six days.

We got on the phone to the staff travel office and asked what was the most expensive flight they had and were told it was Concorde to new York. We immediately booked three seats. (At the time I was broke so I couldn't afford the flight even at 90% off, but I certainly couldn't afford not to take it.)

So the afternoon of April 6th 1992 found me in the Concorde lounge at Heathrow. We all arrived about three hours early and got stuck into the food (Egon Ronay IIRC) and champagne. I commented that one of the people in the lounge looked a bit like Henry Kissinger, but one of my friends said that it could not be. A while later someone started walking toward him and several large men with bulges in their armpits stood up.

The flight was something else. The initial feeling on sitting down was that the seats were quite firm. Then the Captain hit the loud levers and we found out why. The acceleration was awesome and we would have simply sunk into ordinary seats.

At full altitude, the sky is a much darker blue than it is on the ground (we were half way to space). The windows were very small but if you looked out of three windows on the other side of the fuselage you could see the curvature of the horizon. The temperature gauge showed the air outside was at -60 deg C but when you touched the windows they were hot due to friction with the air.


(The toilets were very cramped though :roll

Hi

back from the South - 5 1/2 hours this time !!

Any one know which airport holds the World Record for the greatest number of take-offs and landings by Concorde in 1 day ??

Tony

Is it Filton?

Howard

I'm going to speak to my 99 year old father now, in Welsh of course. Just thought I'd let you know.

Bye.

Cheers,

Howard

Nope

Tony ( in English )

At least it[ Concorde ] could take off and land at airports - not like planes today

Ah yes, Icelandic volcanoes!

Have we any members there?

Hello Iceland??

RAF Fairford

Picked up my beloved Kia Clarus today from the garage that was doing the MoT. On the way home, the brakes came on again unasked. The same garage, and an independent mechanic, have tried to sort the problem for about year and have replaced the master cylinder, servo, one suspect caliper, a hose and even the b****y front axles, which apparently send signals to the ABS system. No luck. Car problems? I'll trade you. On the other hand, it runs beautifully when the brakes don't come on.

Al (going nowhere fast but with an MoT)