Womp
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Post by Womp on Mar 18, 2023 15:29:58 GMT
Cool picture! I have the COBI model of the Corsair. Fell in love with it thanks to the Pixar movie 'Planes' (of all things). Planes was a good movie. Not quite as popular as their Cars franchise, and i heard the movie got some average reviews back when it released. But i've seen it a few times and quite like it.
Here's some images i had in a desktop folder. Taken back in Oct 2010 when i was in Alice Springs up in the Northern Territory with my boss/work colleague, doing a video workshop roadtrip to a rather remote area. The person we were staying with had picked us up from the airport, and had to stop at her house in town to grab some supplies before we left. As my boss and i were sitting in the car, we hear this droning sound, which starts getting louder. She comes running out of the house calling our names, saying "Quick, get out of the car and look at this!" And as we look up, we see 6 planes from the RAAF Roulettes aerobatic display team fly overhead. They were doing some training runs over the city. Not easy to get photos with lots of trees around blocking the view, lol.
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Post by Savoury on Mar 27, 2023 0:36:02 GMT
I'll just leave this here.. Merlin engine in a freakin car.. oh yes..
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Post by tank621 on Apr 5, 2023 19:57:37 GMT
Those bastards at the Cornish Council are at it again: www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-aviation-museum-ordered-leave-8326242.amp?fbclid=IwAR2aQxRSw2qq8YAdJHm1Iz46ukoX7bFfWovoEX_vZMEefOBYmQZJTcPhXVoThe full Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre statement as yoinked from their Facebook page: The Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre has received a devastating blow to its exciting plans to relocate to a new site. Cornwall Council insists that the museum must vacate its current premises immediately, even though the new site will not be ready for at least 12 to 18 months. This means that the museum’s plans to relocate are in tatters. And immediately means immediately – on 4th April the Council formally advised CAHC it must clear the entire site and move thousands of valuable and vulnerable heritage exhibits by Tuesday 11/4/23 otherwise the Council’s agent will ‘make arrangements for them to be disposed of’. The museum was sure that they had fixed the threat to their future when local land-owner and businessman Rundle Weldhen offered a new site alongside the airport and entrepreneur philanthropist Mark Lancaster (SDL Ltd/SDL Foundation) pledged £1million for the relocation project. CAHC and Mark Lancaster were in negotiations to remain at the current premises and trade until December 2023 to raise additional funds and prepare the new site for the relocation project but, as of 24/3/23 this request was flatly refused - even though the airport and Council have not published any plans for the existing premises once they have been vacated by CAHC. Despite publicly stating that they would support the museum if it presented a credible and deliverable proposal to relocate, Cornwall Council has insisted that CAHC vacate its current premises immediately. The airport has agreed to allow some space on the old disused runway to temporarily store some of the historic aircraft whilst they are prepared for transport or scrapping, and the Council had scheduled a meeting for the 13th April to discuss storage options for the more vulnerable indoor aircraft and heritage exhibits, some of which need to be protected while arrangements are put in place to return them to their RAF, Navy and private owners. This meeting now appears to have been unilaterally abandoned, without any advice from the Council. Museum founder and director Richard Spencer-Breeze said ‘Clearing the site by the 11th March, over the Easter weekend is completely impossible. We only received notification that Mark Lancaster’s proposal for CAHC to trade until December had been refused 10 days ago and we immediately started the process of clearing the museum from the site, but this deadline is ridiculous. We’ve fought for so long, but we can’t go on like this any longer. This Council seems committed to seeing this museum close forever. We found a new site after they turned down all of our previous proposals without even discussing them, we raised £1million, we received the unequivocal support of every major education body in the County, we offered the once in a lifetime chance for Cornwall to have a unique, all-year, state-of-the-art aerospace attraction and education hub. All they had to do was let us stay where we are for another 8 to 12 months. But no, they won’t even let us relocate in realistic fashion, they would rather see this one-of-a-kind, award-winning business disappear. It’s utterly disgraceful.’ The online petition to save the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre has attracted more than 40,000 signatures and thousands of heartfelt messages of outrage and support. You can still sign it here: www.change.org/p/save-cornwall-aviation-heritage-centre
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Post by Savoury on Apr 5, 2023 22:20:25 GMT
Your link didn't work for me.. hopefully this one is better - PetitionEDIT: Signed, of course
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Post by tank621 on Apr 6, 2023 7:42:09 GMT
Your link didn't work for me.. hopefully this one is better - PetitionAh, thank you!
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Womp
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Post by Womp on Apr 7, 2023 14:59:34 GMT
So, you mean to say that ALL councils are assholes, and not just ours?
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BirdDog72
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Post by BirdDog72 on Apr 11, 2023 15:20:03 GMT
Signed here too. Hard to understand why they would behave like this, but I'm sure if you do the usual and 'follow the money' you'd get an answer.
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BirdDog72
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Post by BirdDog72 on Apr 12, 2023 11:47:34 GMT
This came up on my Youtube feed, very interesting
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