OT, FOAK aviation stuff ...

Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, found this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35295373@N00/227967591/in/photostream/
Lightning just stood there in a golf course car park. No plaque or anything
describing it, why it's there, what it's there for etc. I assumed it was a
relic from RAF Wainfleet which is a bombing range now, but don't really know
and can find nothing on the web to further elucidate. The Golf course was
closed for the day and no-one around so I couldn't ask anyone about it. The
only shop I found open in Wainfleet didn't know anything either.

Does anyone know anything about it or can point me where I can find more
info?

I've found this http://www.aviation-picture-hangar.co.uk/xs456ab.html
already, but would like to know more, such as who owns it now, why it's at a
golf centre, for instance, indeed I'd just like to know a bit more of it's
story.

 

Been here?
http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/hangar/lightnings/XS456.htm
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/survivors.html

Just search on the A/C number

 

According to _Wrecks and Relics_, it is XS456, and is gate guardian for the
golf range. It used to be at Binbrook, it ex-Lightning Training Flight, 11th
and 56th Squadron.

Ali

 

OK this is getting annoying now. If you have to underline stuff, can
you at least do it properly[1] so it is underlined, & doesn't just have
a stoopid '_' at the start & end.

[1] You need an '_' instead of a space for multiple words.

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Yersh, but in lots of (most?) news clients, it only works if there are
no spaces between the underscores[1]. Replacing the spaces with
underscores fixes it. Besides, only retards would choose tin, Netscape
or Thunderbird over XanaNews or Gravity

[1] Same goes for '*' & '/'.

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I ditched gravity some time ago because Thunderbird does everything
(except the URL unwrapping) that Gravity does and is still supported.

It even underlines properly when _people do this_ _instead_of_this_.

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Damn shame to see it mouldering away like that, but it must be cleaned
from time to time as the algae on the underside isn't more than a year
or two's worth. I hope it's reasonably looked after so some restoration
group just might be able to do something with it in the future.

 

Yebbut it doesn't even come in the top 10 of news clients on Cab's
stats. Neither do Netscape or Tin. So if the vast majority of people
reading your post are just seeing fucked up underscores, what's the
point in using them?

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You can take the girl out of early Unix terminfo coding, but you can't take
the coding out of the...

And, of course, it predates that. Ah, the heady days of 10 cps teletypes.

Anyone here remember Uniplex? Or Logica's VTS?

Ali

 

Alison Hopkins says...

No, but I remember when Walkers crisps went up 1/2p to 2 1/2p. All this
around here used to be fields, you know.

 

Ah yes, happy days. The hours I used to spend trawling through Uniplex
code looking for bugs, only to find the problem was down to some muppet
forgetting to underline a book title.

Oh hang on, that's not right...


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I remember when Smith's crisps had a little twisted blue bag of salt in
them, and they were only 4d. (a lot less than the tanner you mention! nah,
nah, nana nah ;op )

Hope you're mending ok mate.

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I used to chew the wee blue bags.

AOL on that.

Ali

 

Strangely, slrn highlights ^^this but not ^^this.

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_Get out more_

 

Alison Hopkins came into sight through the beans and said

and the mysteries of vi's global find and replace...

 

I was always a bit of a vedit brat, meself. Probably because I used to use
the venerable Geisco Mark III timeshare editor, and it seemed sort of akin.

Ali

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Alison Hopkins

Ooh look! A girl who *likes* salty flavours!

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Ah yes, the four food groups, according to my best friend.

I'll have you know they are all my own.

Well, except for the two fake ones I've had since I was seventeen.
Apparently, they cost about 200 grand, even then.

Ali

 

They are remarkably small teeth, considering what they cost. I could tell
you the gory details.....? It involved several operations and the removal of
part of my right hip. Which is now in my top jaw or thereabouts; cheekbones
to die for. And nary a bike involved.

(QUIET, up there in the peanut gallery.)

Ali