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Yeah, Boris really needs to sort out those moobs.....

Wonder where the mode S transponder will bolt on.

Use a Bolero plus XL (Lardar5e size) which came over with me from hill flying on the increasingly rare occasions I get out. Easy to groundhandle, stable in flight and nice and slow takeoff speed which is just as well given the state of me. However in flight it is not the fastest wing - more a conveyance for the gentleman paramotorist who is not in a tearing hurry to get anywhere! Very comfortable on landing. I retrofitted a set of power risers and adjusted the brakes accordingly but no sudden unexpected Tessla-style acceleration discovered.

Would concur with the recommendation to free fly first (or as well). Some entertaining vids from Andy Stocker

mouse cursor on the picture, RH mouse click, 'save picture as...' and save it somewhere on your PC such as 'my documents|my pictures|wingover.gif' or similar. Can then jsut drop it into your emails (as long as it is an email system that allows it, such as outlook, windows vista mail etc

could divide the map of the Lleyn peninsula into scale 100m x 100m squares and "....use your skill and judgement to place your X in the square..." you think it will happen. Not so much 'spot the ball' as 'spot the crater'? However, they do say that admitting you have a problem with something is the essential first step towards resolving it and at least by coming clean shaggy has prompted reminders of the steps we should all take every time (and of course everyone does. Everyone. Every time.) to ensure our and others' safety. You can't repeat good advice too many times!

gettin' even more serious according to this

Not forgetting non-standard 'special build' non-type approved roadworthiness assessment - or alternatively getting some gadger to walk in front with a suitably red flag!

Ze ol' French onion-seller used to come over to England wiz 'is onions by boat. To know when it was the right day to catch ze ferry, 'e would wait for the cry of "to the water, it is time!" Or as zey say en Francais: "A l'eau, c'est l'heure!" haw-he-haw!

Matthew 7.7 (or if you prefer, Luke 11:9)

The font is called BASE_02 (and it is a free font) see here: http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Base_02.htm Timothy Taylor's Landlord will do!

The Hydrogen Peroxide approach appears to be a good way of getting a rather immediate burst of power. Until the advent of nuclear propulsion covered the requirement for fast submarine propulsion without dependency on access to the atmosphere, the Kriegsmarine and later the Royal Navy (and others) experimented with submarines using HTP propulsion systems. These were seriously fast - the fastest things under the oggin until the soviet alphas (50+ knots. tiny hull, nuclear reactor with molten sodium coolant. yikes. luckily deaf as a post and really noisy) appeared a decade or two later. However, these HTP submarines (HMS EXPLORER, HMS EXCALIBUR) were generally referred to as the 'Exploder' class. Wonder why..... HTP propulsion systems do exist today, mostly in weapons systems! Jetpack it is then..........

One of the reports in The Daily Mash suggests that Amanda Holden may be involved in the phenomenon....

Pegasus said: yeah, what did happen to Speaker Martin....?

Oh mockers, open your minds to the truth! If with each crop circle glyph you carefully measure the radius in centimetres of every circular arc and the inter-origin distance in the ovoid arcs, sort them into the right order, multiply each one by the amount claimed for second planet allowances by the MP in whose constituency the fields in which the glyph appeared are, translate that into audible frequency range, save it as MP3 and then play it during a full moon, the ghostly sound of John Lennon's voice murmuring "Paul was the creative one actually" can be heard. Spooky, I know but THE TRUTH, prob'ly, regardless of what the nay-sayers say! (Not to be confused with the neigh-sayers who are of course horses. Or former pupils of Rodean).

There was an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman. To you the start of a joke, to Hamas a hostage situation

Thanks to B-liar and his scum lawyer chums who enshrined the European Human Rights in UK law this is not the case for much longer thanks to a Strasbourg Euro courts ruling on the case brought by convicted axe-killer (truly) and lifer John Hirst (who is now out of course as 'life sentence' in the justice system does not mean the same as in the English language). Makes you proud to pay your taxes to fund his £77,000 legal aid bill thus far - and £8,000 com-pen-say-shun. The case was five years ago and the Home Office and Lord Chancellor's offices spent some of the intervening years assessing what their response should be. Three years beforehand, the Commons confirmed the ancient constitutional principle that outlaws were outside society and therefore should not have any say in how that society was structured. However, continuing their work in converting this country into a joke, the government is shortly to implement changes to the rules, presumably keen to force it through before they begin their well-deserved twenty year sojourn in opposition. Funnily enough, although in the future convicted criminals will be able to vote, archbishops remain disenfranchised. Monster Raving Loony - you know it makes sense! (aaaah...... it's probably just me age......)

They still appear to share six common fantasies: 1. I didn't break the rules all that badly, really and besides, everyone is doing it. 2. It is all a storm in a teacup, a fuss about nothing. 3. It will all blow over soon. 4. It is all the fault of the media. 5. The public ought really to be concerned about the breach of confidentiality of the information rather than the information itself. 6. We're worth it! Sadly, they are still 'entitled' to resettlement grants when kicked out of parliament at an election. No doubt the willingness to forgo those rewards for dishonesty will be broadly the same as Fred the Shred's was to forgo his enhanced pension. Q: what is the difference between a catfish and an MP? A: one is a bottom-dwelling scum-sucker, and the other is a fish Straight Monster Raving Loony ticket for me, I'm afraid.....

Hows about ditching the motor on a 30ft webline - it lands first, without its weight you pendulum-land slightly less hard 30ft downwind. Of course if the flatbed truckdriver could position the foam pit at that 30ft offset, even better......

Aah... if only someone could invent some way of backing up the contents of a laptop onto a cheap USB external disk..........

automotive audio porn!

Quite apart from the 'big brother' aspects, there is the other significant and disturbing consideration that the suggested system is utterly dependent on efficient IT to handle the torrent of 'here I am' messaging - and thus far the track record of government with IT falls somewhere between 'incompetent morons' and 'scum who as well as being incompetent morons take a bung to put IT contracts to their mates who provide useless and overpriced failures anyway'. Let's face it - if the 'fly by wire' systems in commercial aircraft were developed under the auspices of UK government IT, nobody in their right minds would board an airliner! I think the usual metaphors on the subject include elements such as '..woodpeckers picnic in Sherwood Forest...', '...p155 up in a brewery..' and variations on the theme of '...chocolate fireguard....' I can see it now... "computer says you were passing Cleethorpes at 11:03 and also passing Aberdeen at 11:04. Either the system has a bug/undocumented feature or you were driving your Reliant Robin at mach 8. Hmmm. OK, here is your speeding ticket for driving at mach 8 ..." Wonder how and when we slipped from employing these clown politicians, police, judges etc for whom we pay over to having to justify our existence and actions to them. Ah well, soon be an election. The straight monster raving loony ticket for me..... [/off_on_one]

My current wing is a Bolero plus (lardarse size) that I brought with me from hill flying and which has handled the additional weight of the motor without demur. Subsequent fitted with power risers that I obtained through Paul Haxby of AXB Sports, together with a set of slightly larger stainless maillons added later (the original Gin ones were just a mm or so too small to be easily worked on in the power risers by ole' sausage fingers here). Pretty stable wing for me thus far and a nice slow land and launch speed. Without power risers definitely a wing for the 'gentleman paramotorist' who is not in a hurry to go anywhere too rapidly for fear of giddiness..... Which may well be why 2009 is pencilled in as the year I trade up to something with a rather more power-specific profile!

In the top one (Pete B) a really interesting moment around 2:16 where as the red wing goes up there is a very clear view as the effect of the air against the wind goes from spinnaker onto it to smooth flow - ie it progressively begins to 'fly' initially at the trailing edge but then rapidly over the whole (visible) surface as the airflow follows the profile.

Restores your faith a little, don't it. Who are they? That kind of service perhaps merits being 'named and famed'.....