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I like the two guys playing tennis-ball-catch while free-falling. It has a great artistic, almost ballet like quality! :thumbup:

Ja that looked pretty rad.

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Has anyone ever managed to use co-ordinates, to find a location using Google maps on Android? I cannot get it to graft.

No, try using OSM AND :thumbup:

o, but you can do a google search of the coordinates. However the minutes and degrees has to be in a specific order.

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original link of that clifton one - end is even hecticker. oke takes quite a bit of heat for being a little bit too courageous

 

 

:eek: Big balls, small brain?

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In case anyone ever wondered about the very first flight from Europe to South Africa.....it was rather eventful. We sure have come a long way in just a hundred years. Here's the story and a picture of the plane:

 

Flight to the Cape (1920)

Early in 1920 the British Air Ministry declared the "Cape to Cairo" air route, which provided for 24 aerodrome and 19 emergency landing strips, fit for use. The London Times announce that it would finance the first flight to the Cape and its aircraft - a Vickers Vimy Commercial, G-EAAV- took to the air on 24 January 1920.

General J.C. Smuts however wanted South African aviators to be the first to complete the trip. He therefore authorised the purchase of a Vickers Vimy at a cost of 4 500 pounds. Christened the Silver Queen, and commanded by Lt Col H.A. (Pierre) van Ryneveld with Fit Lt Quinton Brand as co-pilot, the aircraft took off from Brooklands (England) on February 1920. After an eventful night crossing of the Mediterranean, they arrived at Derna the following morning. Further night flying following in an attempt to catch the Vickers Vimy sponsored by the London Times, but the Silver Queen was wrecked in a force landing at Korosko, Sudan.

Another Vimy F8615 was purchased from the RAF at Heliopolis into which the original engines were installed. The Silver Queen II (as the second aircraft was named) left Cairo on 22 February. Five days later the Times contender was destroyed in a crash at Tabora, but on 6 March the same fate befell the Silver Queen II at Bulawayo.

Fortunately, with some of the Imperial Gift aircraft already in Pretoria, a DH9 H5646 called Voortrekker was assembled and flown to Bulawayo. Thus Van Ryneveld and Brand were able to complete their flight to the Cape where the arrived on 20 March 1920 after a total flying time of 109 hours and 30 minutes.

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posted this on the hurricane thread - bit winds of upto 300km/hr! That is amazing. My roof would be somewhere in the ocean with those speeds.

 

Something like that hitting the cape would be devastating.

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posted this on the hurricane thread - bit winds of upto 300km/hr! That is amazing. My roof would be somewhere in the ocean with those speeds.

 

Something like that hitting the cape would be devastating.

I have a buddy who finds himself in the Netherlands Antilles, town called Phillipsburg. He lived on a yacht with wife and two kids. He reported early this morning that they were hit hard, they lost their 45' yacht. The little hotel they living in was virtually destroyed though still standing in parts. They are soaked and have been for more than 24 hours dressed in their foul weather gear! 

 

They sailed to St.Martin for better protection against the storm, but she was a mother.

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