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I found this rather fascinating. Makes me feel good about being an engineer, but I can't help wish that they had asked about pilots.

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I'm guessing that we haven't mentioned this because most (if not all) of us here will be to some extent removed from it. However, Professor Alston's report doesn't make for comfortable reading.

Here are a couple of snippets from the first couple...

I've no doubt that as 'spotty yuff's' we all did things which at the time seemed like fun, even a good idea, but would make us cringe today, probably a lot around our use of cars.

Certainly an excuse for many of my early motoring adventures was...

The part of me that read J.S.Mills is thinking “so, M&S should stop selling ladies underwear, or stop advertising ladies underwear??”

The part that of me that read marketing is thinking “did they just pull a Michael o’Leary???”.

The cynic in...

Six people, including a pregnant woman, fell from the 95th to the 11th floor in a skyscraper formerly known as the John Hancock Center early on Friday morning.

I thought that lifts had safety mechanisms that prevented such falls?

So as EASA isn't mentioned (unless I missed it!), what does it mean (presumably after the transition period)? A CAA that is triple in size that we will be asked to pay for? Lots of extra paperwork?

I see that we are bound by EU law (so EASA) during...

We had the thread on organisations that were appalling.

Needed to renew my passport, stated time was 3 weeks. Did everything on line, put my expiring passport in the post the same day, new passport came back in a matter of days.

A Government...

…although I don't think it is the box itself.

Anyone familiar with the operation of the Audi gearbox?

Little background, probably coincidence, however; I put it in for a rear wheel bearing (the second one) and on collection was advised they had...

For years I've used a Playstation as a Blu Ray player (it's all I've used it for), unfortunately it has stopped recognising discs.

So should I replace with a simple cheap Blu Ray player, such as SAMSUNG BD-J6300 (apparently we have a £50 Samsung...

Interesting and amusing piece from BBC Radio today with John Pienaar interviewing the Chairman of the 1922 committee, Sir Graham Brady

I heard a BBC announcement that they would be broadcasting the WW1 film where the producer took actual WW1 black and white film - and converted it to colour.

Does anyone know when it will be broadcast?

Only a few days to go to the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

Here in Belgium, it’s pretty much a non-event.

I know the UK, Belgian, French German Govts are doing “something “ - but anyone heard from the Austrians/Hungarians...

So after a break of nearly a year I have found another Nissan leaf to soothe my needs to drive an EV.

But things have changed a bit on the charging front !

No longer does my Ecotricity electric highway card work in the machines at the motorway...

I was wondering if anyone else enjoys an alternative way of spending money? Specifically, any other Alvis owners out there?

I’m looking at replacing my heavy, clunky, old Dell laptop that struggles with Windows 7 and Office 2003.

I’m drawn to the new breed of snazzy, light, quick, SSD laptops, but worried about storage. The Dell has 500mb HDD, which has all my stuff,...

Interesting one in today's news, an air ambulance crew were told to move after landing at a building site in Leamington Spa on Sunday. Apparently a salesperson took exception to the unscheduled arrival and informed them that they were not to 'park'...

Perhaps just a little frisson of Anglo-French tension in this story about redefining the kilogram:

It turns out that a Kibble balance isn't something to weigh out dried dog food...

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

So pleased he dived into Mountain Wharehouse to get himself a cheap anorak ( complete with hood) on his way to the Cenotaph successfully covering his poppy.... what a t***er

Like many of the neighbouring gardens, we have some bird feeders with seeds inside. We noticed however, that a neighbours attracted loads of finches of various varieties whilst ours attracted only sparrows (and grey squirrels! :evil: )

We...

I presume others are experiencing the "401 Unauthorised access" message, seems to gone down last night and now reached 100% "saturation" in a lot of the world, but UK and Europe seems to be more affected.

Seems to affect mostly...

Apologies, but I know little about any of this.

Of course the subject is to do with the B—x-t word that we’re not allowed to use, but could we keep it to trade, it’d be nice.

There’s just been someone on the BBC news saying that we should choose...

These 2 tweets made me laugh so much that I almost cried!

Like this one:

Is any single artwork worth nearly £100m? Why?

I love Hopper's work, but that's a lot of dosh!

There are quite a few antiques/auction programmes on telly - maybe there are too many. There's probably one on right now!

Many of them show (presumably faked for TV) haggling scenes. Why is it that haggling is rife in some areas (antiques being...

My FTTC speeds are not toooo bad (27 down, 9 up) but I am finding that as often as not sites are very slow to load - especially the first page within a website when clicking on a (DuckDuckGo) web search. Is there a cause for this, and if so is there...

I’ll start off by saying that I don’t read (books) as much as I should, which is something I’m trying to change.

I don’t really gravitate towards aviation books, but am currently struggling through “Southern Mail” & “Night Flight” by Antoine de...

... or Prof Brian Cox :lol:
The new £50 note will feature a prominent British scientist, the Bank of England has announced, with the public being asked for nominations.

In addition to the Queen, the note will include the portrait of an eminent...

Now that Channel 4 has chosen Leeds as the location of its new HQ and the BBC and ITV and others are already located in Salford Quays, is it even more reason to delay HS2 and promote HS3?

Kasim used a former co-workers' login details to access software used to estimate repair costs, which stored the personal information.

He was sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to the offence at London's Wood Green Crown...

What are the views on the necessity of adding anti-freeze to domestic central heating systems?

We've had a new boiler fitted this year which is external. The manufacturer's instructions recommend adding anti-freeze; the plumber says it is...

My current house insurance is on a direct debit while the price is acceptable.

I just noticed the last couple of renewals have always expired the previous day to the renewal. Now it's not a lot of difference but after say 5 years 5 days worth of...

The pilot, flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow, said there was a "very bright light" and the object had come up along the left side of the aircraft before it "rapidly veered to the north".

She was wondering...

We have a tropical fish tank and have wondered how fish identify each other when their field of vision means that they can't see each other.

If you add some new (shoaling) fish to an established tank, the new ones will immediately seek out their...

All this WW1 had me looking at DNA testing kits with the various ancestry websites and it seems to be opening all sorts of worm ridden tins, with unspoken family secrets as well as plain old love affairs and pub car park bunk ups.

The idea of...

Just back from a four night trip. Booking the flights there was an 'add hire car' option.

This seemed to add just £2 to the flights. Seemed too good to be true, but don't look a gift horse............

Arriving, we were advised all had been paid...

Bloviating has to be the word of the month!

He appeared from nowhere, lobbed a few grenades and seems to have disappeared as fast as he appeared.

Where’s he gone and was he real or just someone else’s alter ego.

Of the bloody irritating Flyer ‘we value your privacy’ pop up that appears every time I log in and reappears whether I accept or reject its proposal?
The blue ‘privacy ‘ settings pop up is there constantly as well.
Using iPhone 7

Peter

Having recorded this epic 3 hr it came up in conversation at my gym the other day, I was bet £100 I would not be able to watch the whole program.

Well I watched the first hour last night and may have the will to keep watching the next two hours...

Changed in a very short period. It wouldn't be hard to look back and demonise teachers of the time who were carrying out what not only was an acceptable practice , but was written in law. :shock:

It brings in to perspective some of the other...

I realise that this is close to politics, but hopefully we’ll be able to maintain decorum as we now have a far more contentious subject to disagree over in the main GA forum (ADS-B, EC, PAW etc.)

Just read a piece by Sam Knight in “The New Yorker”...

Julian Assange is to take legal action against the government of Ecuador.

I checked the date & it's not the 1st of anything (except the rest of ones life etc).

Sorting though some old correspondence yesterday, Mrs C showed me a letter to her dated 1962.
It suggested she attend a particular address in London (theatrical agent) for an audition.
It was signed 'Miss Bluebell'. No not Mary Kelly, just Miss...

A small toy size drone. (no camera) dropped out of the sky into my back garden yesterday. No-one hit by it and nobody’s been to claim it .

Our house adjoins a recreation ground.

What should I do with it?

Answers on a postcard.......

Peter

New materials certainly show promise. Cement mixtures made from power station waste could turn buildings in to batteries, for example.

These potassium-geopolymetric (KGP) composites are cheaper than ordinary cement and can store electricity.

Yeah, I actually quite like this festival.

Probably cos (like Misc and probably Bill M) I remember it before it got all commercial n'all.

Perfect weather tonight - last week it was 25oC.

Tonight it is 3oC, raining, windy as ferk...only proper...

I’m an aerospace engineering major but also heavily interested in software engineering. I’ve had an intro and also an advanced programming class (basically OOP class using c++ and covering pointers, classes, STL containers etc) along with the basic...

I guess FM is like marmite to many but I enjoyed it... any other viewers ?