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Cheers, Dean. I think that in 5000 years when civilization starts to recover, they'll dig up our cities and freak out at the amount of metal that we carried around inside our bodies. That and silicon. I think they will also look back at treatments like chemotherapy as barbaric, as we did with bloodletting and the use of arsenic in the medical profession of the past.

Cheers Mike ...needed them here today. But it all ended well.

I wouldn't like to be flying that AI generated AirTruk. Sorry, CP, by invitation only.

Agree Mike ,,,,but some nice filming.

My feelings exactly, Mike. Every time that I look at our lovely old Moon, I realise that our Lump of Rock would be a totally different, barren place, without her wonderful companionship. ...and now some annoying arseoles are intent on cocking it all up for everything on our Planet Earth and all that it contains. It's what Human Beings are hell-bent on doing! ...which is why I love all my Garden Birds! ...and now Planet Mars is in sight, for all the busy-bodies to make a Pigs-ear of it..as they do...! Paul....Leaving stuff alone.... :thumbup: ....!

any time I hear the word "drone" my shotgun trigger finger flinches rapidly ... :@

All cats have at least two homes/food sources/can openers depending on how they view humans. They are devilish cunning, too. A friend of my sister belled her cat to stop it killing birds. Unfortunately she used an open bell instead of a closed one...A couple of days later she got a photo of the animal in full pounce, one paw outstretched with claws armed, and the other on the bell so the clapper wouldn't move. Bye-bye birdie :rolleyes:

Yeah, it seems to take at least a week to come back anywhere near normal. Not as bad as Man Flu though! :D " Not as bad as Man Flu though" True...glad I dodged that bad bug.

Here you go deeknow "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." Henry Ford.

Ahhh yes based on the book by Neville Shute. My parents both loved all his books. You're right Rob, it is very relevant these days. The more I read about Ancient Rome for example, the more I'm seeing the world as it is today, politicly at least...nothing is new in some form or another. What a self entitled , destructive species we are...and going nowhere fast.

What a find Mike.....100% love all those early Brit airliners.

:hesaid: Bookmarked for, you know, an appropriate moment Would I be right in assessing that there are 4 minutes showing aircraft in the entire movie? :lol:

...On the subject of 3D printers, have you concluded work on the model railway project? At the moment it is in storage, turns out my grandson was a bit young for it, and it kept getting wrecked:) Plus it takes up a lot of space. I will finish it one day, if circumstances change enough to accommodate it. Funnily enough, yesterday I received email notification of a comment on an article I supplied to the NZ Railway Guild, 2 years ago, showing the development of the layout. I'd forgotten all about that. Felt a bit guilty that I never finished the layout.

Glad you enjoyed that "EMFRAT" :) There was a regrettable tendency to finish up in the harbour at Kai Tak Was baptized into aviation "in the sign of water" (first ever flight being on an NZTAT GRUMMAN WIDGEON back in 1968 .... and during 1984 narrowly avoided what nearly became my last ever flight aboard another GRUMMAN WIFGEON too, but, that's a whole other unrelated story) .... however and despite being a pretty good sailor as well .... I've never managed "getting my feet wet" and don't pack my water wings either whenever flying long overwater virtual sectors...

It's the 5th sector and conclusion of this "Great African Adventure"/UNION AEROMARITIME DE TRANSPORT 1952/53 COMET IA classic route re-enactment .... This particular sector will operate from (that appallingly poor default FS9 rendition of) Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport (also known as Port Bouët Airport), in the Cote D'Ivoire, to Tom GIBSON's great little 1950's/60's rendition of N'Djili International Airport (also known during earlier times as Aeroport De Leopoldville), Brazzaville, in the DR Congo. Nice little period airport creation by Tom Gibson's team .......

.. but according to tracking data, its been sitting in AKL for 7 days now...Its only a book for goodness sake. Maybe it is backlog in customs department of New Zealand that needs time to screen out each package to be sure it is legit. Its only a book for goodness sake. It is not uncommon for any crook to smuggle stuff INSIDE the book. Smiling :lol: :lol: :lol: Hence customs department needing time to screen out each package. It is hard for police dogs to sniff out drugs if the drugs are inside thick pages of a book. Its only a book for goodness sake. If you are ordering aviation book, then...

Great find CP .... thats a keeper :thumbup:

Last night I managed to actually take a flight on the Xbox, the controller is definitely not intuitive, though. Quite a smooth landing at Wellington, although lost a bit of power on approach -- I need to keep an eye on the power, as for some reason the sound of my engine doesn't change at all. I was impressed with the look of it, though, on the big screen, at 4K. The default settings are mostly middling, to keep things smooth I guess, but it compares well with the PC on higher settings. I was pleased to see my rego number from the PC show up! It's weird going back to default airports,...

It's been gloomy here in the Hutt all day, and steady rain since the afternoon, but I don't think it'll get bad at any point. A standard day in the Hutt then Rob :D

I am just wondering who it is I should ask, not to blow up Doha while we are in transit there. There is no travel insurance covering cancellation due to war.