Friday 31 July 2009

Skyy John - Links To His Stuff

Skyy John is a guy in the states, who talks about all sorts of things. He completely cracks me up :)
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Fat People and Airplanes Seats
Airlines are now charging obese people for an extra seat. God help the employee that has to tell someone, "You're fat and need two seats!"
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Warhammer On-Line Age Of Reckoning - Trailer

Here's a rather excellent trainer I found on U-Tube for Warhammer On-Line 'Age Of Reckoning'.
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Wednesday 29 July 2009

Interesting Links

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Dunkirk: a miracle of war
The failure of the Germans to overwhelm the British Expeditionary Force on its retreat to Dunkirk continues to baffle and fascinate historians. Many theories have been put forward and discarded. Here, one of our leading historians presents, for the first time, fresh evidence to explain Hitler's thinking, and why he issued the infamous ''Halt Order'' of May 24 1940. Link
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WWI veteran Patch dies aged 111
The last British survivor of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has died at the age of 111. Link
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CRB Checks
For those involved in the running of Wargames Clubs, the following thread on the TMP makes intersting reading with regard to the requirement for people to be CRB checked. Link.
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Tuesday 28 July 2009

RAF Wyton Familes Day Airshow

Went to the Airshow last Friday, which was if I'm an honest a bit of a washout, on two accounts. The weather was very mixed, and varied from being quite hot to being a heavy thunderstorm with torrential rain, thunder and lightning. Secondly the flying programme was rubbish with little fast jet activity and the Typhoon, Vulcan and Lancaster all being 'no shows'. Got a couple of 'okay' photos of the Spitfire during its display piece and an Apache that dropped it. The Spitfire was the version fitted with the Griffin engine. It just doesn't sound as good I'm afraid as the normal Merlin, that said a beautiful plane all the same.
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Friday 24 July 2009

Interesting News Links

Churchill bunker 'not bomb-proof' Winston Churchill complained he had been "sold a pup" when he discovered his underground wartime headquarters in Whitehall were not bomb-proof. Link
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How Poles cracked Nazi Enigma secret. A silk scarf bearing the image of a horse race was a suitably cryptic gift for a Polish mathematician to receive from a British code-breaker. Link

Wednesday 22 July 2009

Slide Show Of My Visit To Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Last night I got round to uploading most of the photos I took from my visit to Portsmouth last Saturday. There is a new album in my web shots area just for Ships now. Here's a slideshow of the photos:
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SHIPS
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News Links Of Interest

1. Medieval battle records go online. The new website reveals which medieval soldiers rode the furthest The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers - including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - have gone online. (Link)
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2. Topic: German Casement Tanks - Leopard 3. Modern arour buffs should find this interesting (Link)
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Monday 20 July 2009

HMS Daring


Visited the Historic Dockyard at Portsmouth on Saturday. We were lucky enough to see the Royal Navy's newest destroyer HMS Daring on show to the public. Quite an impressive looking ship !
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Saturday 18 July 2009

Back Off Holiday - News Links

After a weeks holiday in the Isle Of Wight just got back tonight. Hopefully (time permitting) I'll post some photos tomorrow of the military hardware and sites I saw. In the meantime, here some interesting links:
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1. Oldest WWI veteran dies aged 113. Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen, has died at the age of 113, his care home has said. Link
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2. Stryker Fires TOW Missile on Insurgents. Link
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3. Murtha Questions Army Camo. This is a very interesting article of personal camolflague. Here's a quote from one of the messages: " It is interesting to note that in the visual region ALL colors and patterns, at 300 meters, integrate by the human eye into a single homogeneous color…olive drab! It is also interesting to note that armor camouflage is only of value when in defilade and that when moving the motion and dust raised is as big a giveaway as jet contrails. Also, dust and oil fog layers on a vehicle surface change the IR emissivity to the point where it becomes a near black-body radiator". Link
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Friday 10 July 2009

News Links Today

1. Russia 'shot down its own planes' - This makes quite interesting reading, Seems the Russian Air Force and Army didn't co-operate during the Georgia conflict, with predictable results... Link
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2. 3 JDAM's on Taliban Compound. You wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of these...
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3. Marines Battle Taliban. Firefight in Helmand Province.
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4. London Blitz Begins. Winston Churchill tells it like it is to the invading Nazi's.
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Monday 6 July 2009

Bird and Fortune: George Parr, Army General

Bird and Fortune: George Parr, Army General being interviewed. Brilliant :)
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Sunday 5 July 2009

GZG Excellent Service + Chinook Problem

Placed an order with GZG last Thursday afternoon for one of their newest vehicles, the command version of their 8 wheelers, and a few bits and pieces for buildings. The order arrived by recorded post on Saturday morning ! Simply outstanding service !
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Here's a fascinating video clip of a high power ground run on a Chinook that went slightly wrong due to ground resonance.
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