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andrew Ivimey
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Tagine yuk each to one's own goat. I've been up in the mountings with the Berners-Lee.

There's plenty of English mutton and lamb in the lake district.

But lamb, mutton or exceedingly shit killing cakes..... not great for our budget deficit is it.
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Omg. I write Berbers, this phone corrects to meaningless twaddle fer chris'sake...
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You've got it on the MT setting.
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#13309 Re: Nothing In Particular

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My lads engineering class at school gets to do this!

https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/ed ... ft-3406205

Would be fabulous to get to work with the tin triangle, i am very jealous
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don't know if he'd be interested but I've been "designing" wings for model aircraft for years. I developed a program many years ago to print airfoil sections from established designs in order to build the wings....

http://www.vitalstates.org/diy/software ... m#software

It uses a library of sections collected and distributed by Michael Selig and includes some 2000 odd airfoils. These are sections used by the main aircraft manufacturers and also state of the art full size competition gliders.

I'll post my program and the full library if he's interested
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Cool thanks ed, ill ask him when he gets in
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andrew Ivimey wrote: Tue Sep 28, 2021 12:18 pm We are 50,000 drivers down and the govt. says there is no crisis.

750 army drivers are to be drafted in. How's that going to help?
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Ant wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:14 pm My lads engineering class at school gets to do this!

https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/ed ... ft-3406205

Would be fabulous to get to work with the tin triangle, i am very jealous
That is seriously cool. :thumbright:
 
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Minding my own business, driving to see some friends for a clay shoot...

Stopped at the back of a queue of traffic when I look in the rear view mirror and see a Fiesta that is going WAY too fast to stop in time...

Braced myself clearly thinking "This won't be good"...

Fiesta was always going to lose against a nearly 3 tonne Landrover. The Landie barely moved. Got a broken tail light, broken rear step and buggered tow hitch, slightly bent rear cross-member plus some other-as-yet-unspecified damage underneath (the bit that I've just spent a fortune on) and the rear door.

No-one hurt badly it seems, which is good. Police didn't have a tow rope so I had to tow what's left of the Fiesta off the road for them. The Fiesta is quite a bit shorter than it was. It literally wet itself - lost all its fluids...
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Glad you're OK Nick.

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Oof, far from ideal. Glad you're OK and apparently the other driver, surprisingly.
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The same happened to me but I wasn't driving a landrover. His front was a mess and so was my back. In the ensuing discussion he was most keen for this matter not to become official because he'd lose his licence and his girlfriend would leave him, hmmmmmmm. He pressed a lot of money in my shaking hands.... Why?! Grotty, seedy

Nevertheless..... oops, I'm cooking
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It was very interesting watching a car in my rear view mirror hurtling towards me and the driver realising that there was about to be a CRASHHHHHH.

incoming! Achtung! there was nothing I could do......
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Had a similar experience a few years ago when I met a stationary queue just over a blind brow, Fortunately the bloke behind stopped with about an inch to spare, but I’ve never seen smoke come off all four wheels of a Ford Escort before.
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#13320 Re: Nothing In Particular

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ibn Stoffel off to doctor's this afternoon to do the insurance stuff.

Absolute pain as from tomorrow I'm in pre-op isolation and really didn't need this as have a shed load of other stuff to do before I'm immobilised.

Rather like Andrew, seeing the car hurtling towards me in the rear view mirror seemed almost to be slow motion. In reality is was probably one or two seconds, but seemed much longer and with supreme clarity...

The old boy (77) who was driving it also has poor vision - macular degeneration - and by his own admission has problems with light/shade transitions - he came round a corner too fast from bright sunlight into a shady bit of road and simply didn't see the queue of traffic with the enormous landrover at the back of it in time...
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