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Post by typerated on Feb 24, 2023 16:53:24 GMT 12
Wednesday - Friday are the best days at Fairford.
Leeds is reasonably easy to get to Friday evening - even if talking to the locals it sounds like you have gone to a foreign country!
Hard to imagine that Church Fenton will be a permanent move
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Post by typerated on Feb 22, 2023 15:03:34 GMT 12
Yep......much background as to why it moved So I understand - IWM think Duxford is their bat and ball. and Sywell didn't work out either. I am looking at going to The 3 IWM London sites (and Duxford) this as year I haven't been to London for nearly 30 years. I was perusing their websites to come up with a plan on how to tackle it Until I realised I am the wrong demographic for IWM - every photo on the website has a multiracial family looking amazed at the exhibits. An old slight hard to impress white male probably gets barred entry! As an aside I think the best Warbirds show in UK involves going to St Pancras and getting the Eurostar to Paris - Le Ferte and Air Legend are both awesome shows
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Post by typerated on Feb 22, 2023 13:49:31 GMT 12
Rumours of USAF heritage flight display with F-35 there - as I said earlier its same weekend as Fairford.
Lots of UK enthusiasts will be pretty frustrated over the timing. World class events are pretty rare on the UK calendar these days and to have two far apart on the same weekend seems a little unfortunate
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Post by typerated on Feb 22, 2023 13:43:43 GMT 12
Certainly got a wartime history.
It was a JP and then Tucano training base in my time.
Been to a few RAFA shows there back in the 80s and 90s - still seems a slightly odd choice of venue.
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Post by typerated on Feb 22, 2023 13:01:46 GMT 12
15-16th July at Church Fenton - Yorkshire.
Slightly odd choice of airfield but good news it is going ahead
Clashes with Fairford as Legends does every other year sadly - not as if there isn't enough room in UK airshow calendar to fit in both
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Post by typerated on Feb 22, 2023 8:09:57 GMT 12
I went to stores for a "Long Stand."
apparently they were out of bubbles for the spirit level
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Post by typerated on Feb 21, 2023 15:00:27 GMT 12
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Post by typerated on Feb 16, 2023 12:16:09 GMT 12
Climate change is science - not politics!
and I'll repeat for the hard of understanding - 2022 was the warmest year on record in NZ!
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Post by typerated on Feb 16, 2023 11:52:24 GMT 12
This is "season change" Ando. It was flipping cold rain and wind, and most of the leaves have come off the trees, so my conspiracy theory is we are now in Autumn. However we have not actually had a summer here in the Waikato. Most days over the past two months have only reached about 26C maximum, which is all good by me. Very levelheaded take Dave. We have had a warm and dry summer in the main down south, which has now been interrupted by some cooler temperatures and variation ahead as we head towards Autumn. One observes media/political discourse/hype on climate change links to these recent extereme weather events. NIWA has a good series of reports on various regions that my main takeaway is that historically we have extreme weather events occasionally. niwa.co.nz/our-science/climate/publications/regional-climatologiesMaybe some focus on that and investment in critical infrastructure improvement and adaptation would be better? Funny NIWA has a good section on Climate Change - you could learn a lot! niwa.co.nz/climate-changeand just as an aside 2022 was the hottest year on record in NZ www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/01/weather-2022-warmest-year-for-new-zealand-on-record-sunniest-and-coldest-locations-revealed.html
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Post by typerated on Feb 16, 2023 9:17:50 GMT 12
Perhaps the most important science happening anywhere at the moment
BBC report on research at Twaites Glacier
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Post by typerated on Feb 15, 2023 11:41:18 GMT 12
Thanks for the Heads Up.
Yeah it was inevitable - build houses next to airfield then the airfield becomes less and less viable.
It's a shame as I loved the corner at Omaka - Keith Skilling in the Corsair starting his display from behind your right shoulder - Boom
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Post by typerated on Feb 15, 2023 11:25:40 GMT 12
What's the reason for moving the display line to 30/12?
Looksa very different showground is planned
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Post by typerated on Feb 14, 2023 21:22:53 GMT 12
Wonder what the big storms will be like in another 20,50,100 years when climate change really takes hold. I think we are enter a very different world than the one we used to know.
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Post by typerated on Jan 12, 2023 19:17:38 GMT 12
No FW-190 or Spit 14?
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Post by typerated on Nov 21, 2022 22:15:18 GMT 12
Spot on Grant!
I find it the strangest thing that there are still some people don’t believe this science.
It seems with covid and climate science some people with no detailed knowledge of the subject feel knowledgeable enough dismiss the science. But I can think of no other area of human knowledge where this is true. – maybe there are more but I can’t think of them. Nobody these days denies plate tectonics or the ozone hole is man made for example. NASA publish data on Sea Level rise (and other climate change parameters) and in this thread it is dismissed – but NACA Aerofoil data I've never heard anyone query!
Why?
I did an engineering degree and strangely enough don’t remember anyone on the course saying they didn’t believe in Newton’s laws or Bernoulli for example. Everything I learned on my course and still applies and seems to work very well for me – I’ve never found anything to be in anyway false, although a few subjects have been somewhat superseded.
The lack of climate change deniers there are amongst technical/science graduates tells it’s own story – Denial does not do very well when met by science!
So why to people dismiss the science with covid and climate change? - interestingly but probably not coincidently these views often have a very strong correlation with a person’s politics. Perhaps it is more accurate to suggest it the other way round – the politics makes them question (refute) the science!
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Post by typerated on Nov 17, 2022 18:46:43 GMT 12
Is it the rate you are arguing about or do you don't believe sea levels are rising ?
So you know the world is over 1C warmer than it was pre industrial times and that water expands when it warms (also melts ice too)?
The science could not be simpler...
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Post by typerated on Nov 17, 2022 8:48:22 GMT 12
More than 30 years ago when I was contemplating purchasing a beach house on an Asian island the doom, gloom and dispair merchants were at it then. I read predictions that sea levels where i was going to buy would increase 3 - 4 metres over the next fifty years. Well i took no notice of those so called "climate experts" and went ahead and bought the property anyway. Three decades later I'm sitting there writing this the sea level had not percepibly risen and offical records indicate sea levels here havw not risen since record keepimg commenced, although i have no idea when that was I can well believe you might not have noticed any change. NASA measures the change as just over 10 cm since 1993 - I can’t imagine I’d notice it either just by eye. climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/ (I’m sure you will be happy with NASA as a source! can get more credible than than NASA!) But it is rising and the speed is increasing! Thermal expansion is being overtaken by ice melt as the main driver of rise. The glaciers in West Antarctica are quite possibly past a tipping point and we are staring down 7 or 8 meters of extra water geologically soon! The science of the West Antarctica glacier retreat is fascinating if you have an engineering or science bent. This give a good explanation, again by NASA So by the end of the century we are looking at nearer toward a meter of rise (maybe more ) and it will keep rising for centuries. And just compound that in NZ – parts of our coast is sinking as fast as the sea is rising www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/466262/sea-levels-rising-twice-as-fast-as-thought-in-new-zealandHappy Days
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Post by typerated on Nov 16, 2022 8:11:33 GMT 12
Im not holding my breath where sealevel rise is concerned You probably don’t need to. Although it’s a very quick change in geological terms you personally have enough time to move yourself and your belongings to higher ground. Sea level is currently rising at around 4mm a year but it is picking up pace as ice melt is overtaking thermal expansion as the main cause.
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Post by typerated on Nov 15, 2022 17:29:12 GMT 12
For one thing Scott Base is one of the nearest research stations to Thwaites and Pine Island Glaciers.
They will be responsible for unbelievable amounts of Sea Level rise and its coming pretty shorty.
Buckle up it’s going to be quite a ride.
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Post by typerated on Nov 11, 2022 14:48:02 GMT 12
Lately..................since last year. My normal rainfall 900 - 1000mm.......so far this year 2816mm The east coast is going to yo-yo harder from deluge to drought and bush fire. Getting more extreme as climate change marches along. Sadly this is just a taster of what is too come. Have a read of "Sunburnt Country" by Joëlle Gergis. She is a climate scientist and looks back at the history of Australian climate and then has a little look at the future. It’s both horrifying and captivating.
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