The view or two from my "office"

Flashback · Jan 13, 2023

Bindibuys said:
I am coming over in Sept to visit daughter and help her pack up. Looking at flights now to IOM on sleezyjet. Also going to Malta on BA. All out of LGW

We're a 15 minute train ride from LGW, so you (and your daughter) and more than welcome to crash at ours the night before if you want an easy journey in/out!

Sprucegoose · Jan 13, 2023

OATEK said:
I remember flying in Saabs with Hazeltons back in the late 1980s, wonder if any of those are still in the Rex fleet?

We're those the one where the propeller fell off over Sydney?

SYD · Jan 13, 2023

Sprucegoose said:
We're those the one where the propeller fell off over Sydney?

Yep. Hence my comment that there’s at least one new prop in the fleet.

SYD · Jan 13, 2023

I hadn’t realised just how close that prop came to within houses….

REX flight's detached propeller found in bushland

The propeller that fell off a Regional Express plane over Sydney is located by police in bushland on the city's south-west outskirts.

www.abc.net.au

Sprucegoose · Jan 13, 2023

SYD said:
Yep. Hence my comment that there’s at least one new prop in the fleet.

That wasn't a shining moment for our country cousins.

I now acknowledge your wit, SYD!

Mattg · Jan 13, 2023

Back in Singapore

LadyC · Jan 13, 2023

Watching the huskies working during their day at the office in Colorado

Flashback · Jan 13, 2023

Transit in ADD... Madhouse! "Priority" bus gate.

Mattg · Jan 13, 2023

Flashback said:
Transit in ADD... Madhouse! "Priority" bus gate.
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Looks familiar!

Fortunately I didn't have a bus gate the other night. At least for J, I think ET normally gives you a different bus though?

Flashback · Jan 13, 2023

Mattg said:
Looks familiar!

Fortunately I didn't have a bus gate the other night. At least for J, I think ET normally gives you a different bus though?

They sure did. There's about 5 people in J on this flight, although GVA-ADD was pretty full.

GarrettM · Jan 13, 2023

Not as glamorous as some places, but it's nice enough. Dwellingup.
Maiden voyage for Daphne, our recently acquired camper trailer.

Flashback · Jan 13, 2023

My current office, Tana in Madagascar. Arrival process very smooth, door to curb in 5 minutes including getting my VOA and delivery of my bag. Won't complain about that......

Ade · Jan 14, 2023

At CBR. Looks like air ambulance.

Online registration look up says “Ambulance Service of NSW”

VPS · Jan 15, 2023

The Eagle Cambridge (not shown the coughtails consumed after the drinks here or the hangover that ensued - I must remember not to go out drinking with a young man 40 years younger than me)

During the Second World War, Allied airmen, who drank and socialised at The Eagle, used wax candles, petrol lighters and lipstick to write their names, squadron numbers and other doodles onto the ceiling of the rear bar. The tradition is believed to have been started by RAF Flight Sergeant P. E. Turner, who climbed up on the table one night to burn his squadron number on the ceiling.[5] The graffiti, in what is now known as the "RAF Bar",[2] was uncovered, deciphered and preserved by former RAF Chief Technician James Chainey during the early 1990s.[3]

When the university's Cavendish Laboratory was still at its old site at nearby Free School Lane, the pub was a popular lunch destination for staff working there. Thus, it became the place where Francis Crick interrupted patrons' lunchtime on 28 February 1953 to announce that he and James Watson had "discovered the secret of life" after they had come up with their proposal for the structure of DNA.