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Yeah we need to find out what his secret is, must be something special in that water, he gets younger by the year! :rockon: This photo was taken about 5 or 6 days before Marty's When I was doing the great rail trip in 2018 Sorry I can't tell you what my secret is as I don't know myself I do have the odd day every now and then that I feel my old age but most of the time I just feel like me :lol: I get up 6.30am and drive the wife to work for her 7am start come home and go back to bed for another 2 or 3 hrs then I pick her up at midday we have lunch and she has a couple of hrs sleep then I take...

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If you stream Tidal, you can get the lyrics with the song. Good for those who sing out their nose. I had always heard: "Tiger Lovin' Blues"

Yes, it’s getting way beyond a joke now. Some serious damage being done. I was hoping Feb would see a change but it is still terrible. Relentless rain and wind. It will be hot and sunny briefly, giving short respite to those trying to dry out homes, but then sets in again. No idea when this will end. I just wish these “blocking” highs would stall over us and not the Chathams. Come South CP .....28C , high overcast (broken) and a light nor west.

That image was "the last one" I shot of an RNZAF P-3K2 .... and "it just happened to be" NZ4201 which was "the first" of the type to be delivered to the RNZAF back in 1968. Living just over the river from RNZAF Base Whenuapai (since 1962) I'll miss the sight and sound of these things around the circuit :( Mark C AKL/NZ

Cool model. If you changed the rego to PAT the weathering would be quite accurate :D Thank you Sir , the proper build will be PAT . Will try to get some close-up detail shots of all her bits beforehand.

AKL and area members. Oh my goodness, it's hard to imagine what your going through. I really hope you are all ok Hang in there ...easy to say, but I do mean it. Thanks for your thoughts Marty :) Feel what we're experiencing here in AKL is somewhat akin to what we've all (most northerners at least) seen happen to CHC and the South (meteorologically) over several decades past .... and not to ignore the impact those significant, and prolonged, earthquakes had upon CHC several years back too and which is something else yet again. One of the beauties of this country/NZ though is most of us team up...

Charl, "DO they have redeeming features??" not that I can find, other than interesting to watch. The little one is actually "The Southern green stink bug (Nezara viridula) is one of the most important pentatomid pest species. It is believed to have originated in Ethiopia but is now distributed throughout almost all tropical and sub-tropical areas, and it continues to spread also in temperate areas where it is mainly found in greenhouses. "

Just a couple more, before Doug kicks us out for having a concert: Tom Paxton, 1966 Simon and Garfunkel, 1966 ATB

Thanks for the reply, always interesting to know about other points of view. Reinforces the notion that wars really do represent the total abandonment of reason. I'll use those links on a disposable computer somewhere :) We'll close the discussion there, this is a flightsim forum after all, not a political arena!

Mark, sorry for the delay...great post thank you. The guy at Draw Decals and Hannants have a stock of the Minicraft DC-8s, some of which are heading my way now. I did manage to pick up a part-built version of the old Revell/Lodela kit, with the correct ANZ engines included. Thanks again for the detailed post.

Thanks for the replies gents...I don't feel so alone anymore. I'm sure 2023 will be kind to us.

"BUSTY" :) Cheers CP. deeknow,I put the waypoint/Airways overlay on Flight Radar and studied Aotearoa, there are some good ones aye. But having followed a few flights with that overlay on, I now have more questions...but that's for later. Happy New Year gents.

Happy New Year Charl....what a special guest...it must be a sign of....of...there are large white birds with amazing feathercuts...in your area. Great photo Charl, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for that HU Robin, will search the programme out. (Just as an aside: I'm currently re-reading "Ecotopia - The Notebooks & Reports of William Weston", Ernest Callenbach, (1975), the forefather of ecological utopias and a book which heavily influenced the 1970s counter-culture ... yeah, I admit it, I'm a faded hippie!). A great lookin' diaroma too. :)

A tad belated, but ... Compliments of the Season to One & All.

So good aye Marty - I been following his vids for awhile, top notch quality, really nice angles and panning and framing, like watching a film vs lots of the sketchy spotters vids there are about I have PANC from Aerosoft and I think this year I might actually treat myself to a big ticket item from PMDG with my xmas bonus, either the 747 or the 777, prolly the latter, and do some flying from PANC to Asia and North America. Cant wait :xmas: