Bonus

That's "catchy" ;-)

Mine are all 200 scale. The ones I could get to in storage were Gemini 200 and INFLIGHT 200.

Some nice low passes in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KJek9KlHXs

If I had a Euro for everytime I look at a picture on here and say no, no, no, no, no I'd have enough money for a large pizza and some beers by now!

If you let the videos run one after the other, the fourth vid shoes a Black Mamba sneaking into a shop at night! https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/watch-quick-thinking-durban-driver-narrowly-escapes-hijacking-20191218

I'll have a look today - I'm going up to the farm anyway and that's where they are.

I have several of these planes (15 I think) - currently in storage. I miss looking at them :-(

A quick trip up to the village of Campodarbe last weekend. Not bad weather for December in the Northern Hemisphere! The last picture shows the path back down to the small town of Boltaña, where we rent a flat.

I've seen it close up, seen if taking off and seen in landing. It's ******* massive!

OK. I know when they broke it, they broke it properly.

If you want to boil a kettle, I can tell you exactly which day to do it!

"Bonus and Wendy looking for private investment" coming in third? :-)

We've just had a sports documentary on TV covering a couple of Spanish teams who did this years race. From what I could make out, there was at least 2 mens teams and a mixed team. Compared to here where I now ride it looked seriously "Cross-Country". I do miss those long rides with lots of singletrack! The weather looked a bit dodge at times and there'd been heavy rain in places, but not a big deal. Looked like one of the Spanish riders promised "everybody a Paella meal" if SA won the rugby world cup. SA did win and he was giving the head Chef a list of ingrediants to make Paella for 600 people. No idea if that ever actually happened or not. I suspect not because one of the ingredients was "50 Rabbits"!

Managers looking for productivity bonuses will ignore long term costs in favour of short term savings knowing that in the long term they will either have moved up or moved on and it will be someone elses problem. I used to deal with department heads at the stations are rarely saw anyone in a position for longer than a year. In the workshop at Matla I talked to people that had been there since I was an Appy in the 80's!

On the bright side, apparently the people of Soweto who don't pay for their electricity and their famalies back home in Zim are doing ok for electricity . . . .

I had a friend who worked as part of the catering team at Medupi and he told us stories of mountains of food being thrown away every day but when they tried to cut back on the amunt of food being delivered there were strikes and protests. Something to do with promised free meals forever etc. I remember reading about the conveyor belt breakdown when it happened. Trying to truck-in coal at a comparible rate to what can be delivered on a properly functioning conveyor running 24/7 just beggers belief. You literally wouldn't stand a chance. If I remember correctly, the boilers at Matla, Duvha and Letabo - which are 600MW units - consume around 100 tons of coal per hour per boiler. That's 600 tons of coal consumed per Station per hour - every hour. The new stations with a higher MW output will obviously consume more per hour and if the coal is a poorer quality and has a lower calorific value then you will need more coal per hour to produce the same amount of electricity.

What a catelogue of disaster. A few years ago I went to a meeting with ESKOM to talk to them about VSDs and Soft Starters for some of their very big electric motors. In the meeting one of the middle managers, who I assume didn't get his job because of his qualifications, proposed using a VSD to do a particular job and the Rep I was with from the Soft Starter company pointed out as tactfully as possible that what the man was proposing was nonsense. After the meeting I was talking to one of the top level guys - a Dr of Electro Engineering, who had also been in the meeting and he said to me one of the fundemental problems he had was that he had guys below him making bad decisions and he just couldn't keep an eye on all of them all the time.

I have a vague memory that planes that show up Red have their info delayed by FR for 10 mins or so?

Is there a list of units down and why? I know traditionally Tube Leaks are one of the biggest reasons but I'd be interested to know what is actually going on. I guess the Duvha unit that was "accelerated to destruction" a few years ago is all fixed now?

Haven't seen that vid for a long time :-)

No I don't remember it. There was a lot of his personal items in cases in the school foyer and photo's of his plane (which was far from being a Mirage! haha)

Sir Pierre was my old high school!

I lived near a little light aircraft airport in the UK called Shoreham Airport. One night a plane was stolen - less the wings. The owner arrived to fly somewhere and there was just two wings laying on the grass! It was some years ago and I don't see anything about it on Google. Sadly if you Google Shoreham Airport nowadays you just get tons of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvHplYmh2f8

I'd avoid Hendrik Potgieter if possible.

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