SE5 original condition...

Did Reliant fit those items as standard on Scimitars then?

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Owen emerged from their own little world to say

Even your clock operates in a different dimension

 

Anyone interested? 500 ukp, buyer collects...

Comes with original paintwork and de-activated Lewis gun. Wind down
aerial and Very pistol included. Sheepskin thigh length boots thrown
in... Recreate those heady years of RFC supremacy with this Somme era
machine... Provide your own flying helmet and gogles... Engine running
but in need of some TLC...
--
O
1 Black, shortly to undergo extensive surgery.
1 Red, undergoing lightweight surgery. -----
1 Blue, for Power-Ranger baiting. | o |
Numbers ... | o |
Stuff ... | ooo |
Life ... -----

 

Being semi-fluent in Loon myself, I read that as implying that Owen has
decided to out the Red Baron.

In which case, I'll have the LH switchgear, the relays and the HBoL back at
some point, right?

 

Got any pix?

--
Martin:
"For a minute there, you bored me to death."
VTR1000 Firestorm
TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html
martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com

 

I know, wierd init...
--
O
1 Black, shortly to undergo extensive surgery.
1 Red, undergoing lightweight surgery. -----
1 Blue, for Power-Ranger baiting. | o |
Numbers ... | o |
Stuff ... | ooo |
Life ... -----

 

Erm, no I wasn't, sorry to dissapoint you...
--
O
1 Black, shortly to undergo extensive surgery.
1 Red, undergoing lightweight surgery. -----
1 Blue, for Power-Ranger baiting. | o |
Numbers ... | o |
Stuff ... | ooo |
Life ... -----

 

Certainly not... The Red Baron will shortly fly again with certain
modifications (all very hush-hush)... The Bandit however is very much
up for sale...

BTW Platy, enjoyed "Sagittarius Rising" immensly... Superb book, many
thanks. Will return it very shortly...
--
O
1 Black, shortly to undergo extensive surgery.
1 Red, undergoing lightweight surgery. -----
1 Blue, for Power-Ranger baiting. | o |
Numbers ... | o |
Stuff ... | ooo |
Life ... -----

 

That is one of the finest books on flying ever written, and (IMHO) one
of the very, very few that counts as "literature".

The author only died recently, IIRC. Made 100, he did.

And on another note, I'm reading N.A.M .Rodger's The Command of the Sea,
Volume Two in his trilogy "A Naval History of Britain".

Volume One is The Safeguard of the Sea (Dark Ages to 1649: "Command"
goes up to 1815), and is out of print in hardback but recently issued in
p/back.

Both volumes have had rave reviews, and I can see why. It's quite simply
the finest work on Britain, its seafaring, its navy, and how and why
seafaring is utterly woven into this country's history.

It also has a superb glossary and the best bibliography I've ever seen,
in which he not only lists sources but adds a few words of comment on
them as well.

Utterly, utterly magnificent. Anyone with the slightest interest in
history or ships must read this.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

I rather liked Biggles.

 

In fact, next Saturday when we come to your soireee, all right?

--
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KotLBOD#s, KotLBOTAFOS#s,IMC#2, Tart#10-19, SR#3
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I never give in to fear or blackmail; I always give in to temptation.
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"You're a national treasure" - porl, 18.1.03

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

<makes note>

Ta.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

So did Algy, allegedly.

 

"What Algy did next" ...

... by the suffused red glow of the instrument lights, Algy
could see the beads of sweat trickling from Biggles' finely-trimmed
moustache. Algy realised that it was getting awfully warm, so slid
gracefully out of his seat and with tigerish grace stripped down to
his black leather webbing ...

 

Kewl. In fact, I've got a copy of his last book, about his time in China in
the 20s, teaching the Chinese Air Force to fly, if you want to read it.

 

The Last Enemy - Richard Hillary. Pretty well anything by St-Ex. I'm also
quite fond of Philip Wills, and some of the early Richard Bach.

 

I do!

 

I had those two in mind.

Never heard of him. Any good?

I can't forgive him for Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.

 

Biggles glanced across, licked the sweat from his upper lip and
swallowed nervously. "I say old boy, I think that last one was close,
I could feel him pumping his hot lead into us" Algy smiled, lent
forward and grabbed the joystick....

 

I'll post it to you after Owen's had a go at it.