I have an idea for a new thread...

[Slowbee]

Probably Jinja where Lake Victoria flows out into the Nile

if all goes well, in a few years I will be going round Lake Victoria, cannot wait to see the start of the Nile!

 

Also want to see Lake Turkana, and Lake Malawi. Actually all the big lakes

[Readsalot]

On that note, I found this hypothesis EXTREMELY interesting...

 

 

Well, if you're going to be all rational and logical about it...

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Well, if you're going to be all rational and logical about it...

That's the best way to be.... 

[Readsalot]

if all goes well, in a few years I will be going round Lake Victoria, cannot wait to see the start of the Nile!

 

Also want to see Lake Turkana, and Lake Malawi. Actually all the big lakes

 

If you get the time, you can do a day of white water rafting from Jinja. It's brilliant, floating down the Nile, interspersed with moments of sheer terror as you approach the rapids.

 

Think we did it with these guys:

 

https://www.raftafrica.com/activities/grade-5-full-day-rafting/

[Long Wheel Base]

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Cannot find any pics of the concorde in CT.

 

This one is from JHB.  (ORT)

Sjoe my place of work looks so much different now. The concorde is in parking bay A12, which is currently only used for domestic. BA/Kulula mostly.

[Readsalot]

That's the best way to be.... 

 

Yes, but difficult to make fun of. Unless you have pointy ears and a Trekkie uniform?

[Long Wheel Base]

Utterly Majestic and so ahead of it's time.

 

I wonder how long it will take before a passenger plane goes supersonic again. 

I doubt it will be any time soon. Aviation is on such a drive for efficiency and being "greener" that doing something that requires seriously thirsty engines is not viable.

[Slowbee]

If you get the time, you can do a day of white water rafting from Jinja. It's brilliant, floating down the Nile, interspersed with moments of sheer terror as you approach the rapids.

 

Think we did it with these guys:

 

https://www.raftafrica.com/activities/grade-5-full-day-rafting/

aaahh man jealous!

 

however, Laura, who will be 10 or 11, might not like the idea!

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Yes, but difficult to make fun of. Unless you have pointy ears and a Trekkie uniform?

Live long and prosper

[Readsalot]

aaahh man jealous!

 

however, Laura, who will be 10 or 11, might not like the idea!

 

Yeah, mebbe not. I remember at one rapid as we plummeted down I had fallen out and looked up and the raft was actually above me... 

[DJR]

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The Great Wall of India?

[Sidersky]

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Cannot find any pics of the concorde in CT.

 

This one is from JHB.  (ORT)

Wow that's interesting... I was always under the impression Concorde couldn't (or wasn't allowed) to fly into JHB due to noise regulations or something.

 

Also, when standing next to one on the ground, you realise how much smaller it is than most modern planes. Much like the first time you get close to the A380 a small part of you thinks 'this thing is NEVER going to get off the ground'

[Readsalot]

Live long and prosper

 

I always liked Kirk's philosophy which seemed to be go forth and multiply.

 

[Patchelicious]

I always liked Kirk's philosophy which seemed to be go forth and multiply.

 

Apparently Kirk prefered to "go frothy and multiply"

[CAAD4]

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Cannot find any pics of the concorde in CT.

 

This one is from JHB. (ORT)

We had a walk around inside it when it was on the apron in Cape Town. Damn it was tight in there.

[Velouria]

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Cannot find any pics of the concorde in CT.

 

This one is from JHB.  (ORT)

 

 

Concorde 002 parked away from the terminal at Cape Town airport during South African visit for "Hot & high" trials at Johannesburg, January 22 - February 20 1973.

 

 

From here: http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Aircraft-Corporation-Aerospatiale-France/Sud-BAC-Concorde/433556