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Post by mumbles on Jun 8, 2019 13:56:41 GMT 12
And with the front line military types look how Japan , Greece , and Germany have maintained their F4 and Corsair fleets thanks to the scrapman supplying bits. . Sorry to be that guy, but Japan is currently in the process of retiring the F-4, Luftwaffe F-4s were retired in 2013, and HAF A-7s in 2014. Other long term F-4 operators like Turkey and South Korea are also retiring their F-4's or about to. I think Iran are hanging on theirs for a while yet
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Post by mumbles on Jun 8, 2019 13:25:57 GMT 12
Second hand? But the Prime Minister is a millennial, they do not know the meaning of second hand or hand-me-downs. Ardern is actually Gen-X like myself, and we fully understand the value of second hand goods and hand me downs thanks very much.
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Post by mumbles on Apr 24, 2019 12:20:37 GMT 12
... I was only commenting on why the tank was carried during the actual displays and not the transit etc. Two were broken at one point! You can tell they are old when they send three to cover a 1-ship for three displays commitment - and needed them! They have always sent two or three over at a minimum, going back to the 80's.
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Post by mumbles on Apr 19, 2019 14:25:49 GMT 12
OMG! Compare that with what OUR Air Force and Government is doing... What should they be doing?
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Post by mumbles on Mar 16, 2019 16:14:04 GMT 12
The longest minimum period of imprisonment on a sentence of life imprisonment is 30 years, currently being served by William Dwane Bell. No person in New Zealand has yet been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Parole can also be denied. My money is on this guy ending his days in prison.
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Post by mumbles on Feb 27, 2019 22:28:50 GMT 12
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Post by mumbles on Feb 27, 2019 22:20:58 GMT 12
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Post by mumbles on Feb 26, 2019 22:44:22 GMT 12
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Post by mumbles on Feb 26, 2019 22:18:17 GMT 12
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Post by mumbles on Feb 26, 2019 22:08:18 GMT 12
From my discussions with the Special Ops guy, apparently as soon as Dakota sees her muzzle she knows that she is going in a helicopter and she is literally beside herself as she loves it. Did anyone else see as she and her handler were rapelling from the chopper her tail was wagging 20 to the dozen? IMG_3930 (Large) by Sam Hall, on Flickr IMG_3932 (Large) by Sam Hall, on Flickr IMG_3950 by Sam Hall, on Flickr IMG_3956 by Sam Hall, on Flickr
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Post by mumbles on Feb 26, 2019 12:08:47 GMT 12
From my discussions with the Special Ops guy, apparently as soon as Dakota sees her muzzle she knows that she is going in a helicopter and she is literally beside herself as she loves it. Did anyone else see as she and her handler were rapelling from the chopper her tail was wagging 20 to the dozen? Yup Will (finally) have some photos of the weekend up tonight.
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Post by mumbles on Feb 16, 2019 23:28:43 GMT 12
Don, I suppose that a cockpit section is better than nothing, but the whole machine would be nice, the museum might have just about needed to build a separate shelter for the complete B-727, It's not complete - the horizontal stabiliser and much of the vertical tail was cut off on arrival at Woodbourne so it would fit in the hangar.
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Post by mumbles on Feb 16, 2019 23:26:52 GMT 12
Am I the only one who sees this and thinks of Bohemian Rhapsody? In more than one way? Nope, had the same thought
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Post by mumbles on Feb 16, 2019 13:04:21 GMT 12
But the problem is MetService is generally wrong a lot more than it is right, I disagree, from my weatherwatching experience I think they are right most of the time (often to the hour here at least), it is just that wrong is noticed more than right. NZ weather is fickle and difficult to forecast, so for any forecast outlet to get up into 60-70% accuracy (as Metservice, Weatherwatch et al do) for short term forecasts here is a good achievement. Anything more than a two or three day forecast in NZ is a bit fraught. Still, I am nonetheless frustrated that after weeks of glorious summer weather in the Lower North Island it looks like packing it in at exactly the wrong time.
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Post by mumbles on Feb 16, 2019 12:53:14 GMT 12
I like how the media release never uses the work 'nuclear', despite that being their reason for existence. To be fair, that also applied to the Canberra and Skyhawk
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Post by mumbles on Dec 11, 2018 12:07:37 GMT 12
Cuba Street came through that earthquake completely unscathed, in spite of all that unsecured Victorian masonry. Many of the buidings there are deemed to require strengthening though.
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Post by mumbles on Dec 11, 2018 12:06:26 GMT 12
it is blindingly obvious that the fault lines did not escape their notice Sam. However that very thing will have been taken into account when designing and building the 'new' NZDF Headquarters building right across the road from the archives, which was destroyed by the Kaikoura quake that was centred over 200km away! That was virtually a brand new building designed to all the most modern standards and it's now gone because of a quake down country. So what if that quake had been centred in Wellington? Much the same likely would have happened. The point missed about "new" buildings failing in earthquakes, especially in Wellington, is that they are performing as designed. They are not collapsing during the earthquake, and allowing the occupants to escape. Whether or not the building subsequently requires demolition is beside that point, and the NZDF building is not the only one in Wellington that fell into that category - there are numerous buildings that have been subsequently demolished or slated for demolition as a result of the 2013 and 2016 earthquakes. The Kaikoura quake epicentre might have been some distance away, but it triggered fault ruptures as close to Wellington as Cape Campbell, and the shaking was still locally intense, and in some places amplified by the local geography. Whether or not the buildings in Christchurch were up to code is arguable. The CTV building was not. Just because you live there and enjoy a complacency that you're safe through regulations does not mean you are. Please don't make assumptions about my knowledge and supposed complacency about natural hazards in Wellington as a lifetime resident thanks
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Post by mumbles on Dec 11, 2018 11:43:58 GMT 12
#2 and #3 hangars are both earthquake prone. #3 has steel lattice inside it making it unstable for taller aircraft even if the doors were modified. Easy to focus on aircraft, but most of the hangars should also be junked. Both of those hangars are also Category 1 historic places, which complicates things a bit www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/9009
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Post by mumbles on Dec 10, 2018 9:56:48 GMT 12
Why do you assume the next quake will bring more land up? It could just as easily take the land back down under the sea, and take our national archives, national library, national museum, the stock exchange, the financial district, defence headquarters and Parliament with it in the blink of an eye as they are all for some reason built right on the edge of the harbour and sitting smack on top of the fault line. The sooner it's all moved away from Wellington the better. Yes, I'm sure the fault line in Wellington has completely escaped the notice of those responsible for the design, strengthening and resilience of those buildings. . . not to mention that all but two of those buildings listed are many metres above sea level. Moving it all away is never going to happen - nowhere in NZ is free from natural hazard. Whether uplift or downlift occurs depends on which fault is in play, and which part of the local region you are looking at. Where the Wellington fault is concerned the trend is for lateral displacement, with uplift occurring around the city, and subsidence occurring in areas like the Hutt Valley. The 1855 earthquake involved the Wairarapa fault and generated uplift all around the Wellington region.
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Post by mumbles on Oct 7, 2018 20:39:27 GMT 12
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