Random Stuff!

[58terminus]

I see its set to be a full house.Reminds me of the old women knitting by the guillotine

 

[wolfheze]

No chance thankfully.'Arry is 70 and loves living on the south coast.He has never managed or played for anyone
in the uk north of Tottenham.This is just a nice little earner and for him a no lose situation.That's if he fully knows what
he has signed up for.Didn't he once say in court,presumably under oath,that he could hardly read and write.
The Blues ownership is so shrouded in mystery that any decent manager with a choice will say no thanks.
Remember Steve Bruce could not get away fast enough when he had dealings with the previous owners(if they are previous owners)
What has happened at St Andrews in the last few years is shocking and in any other business would have brought
criminal proceedings.

Hope he's going PAYE

 

[58terminus]

Hope he's going PAYE

More likely it's all contributions to his "pension" fund

 

[wolfheze]

View attachment 5032 G-AWBL in two guises. Courtline and in the later British airways negus scheme View attachment 5030Pan am 747sp . I can remember seeing a couple of these through the binoculars flying overhead on amber one View attachment 5031

 

[Butty]

Collection looking very comprehensive, wolfheze. I would be so tempted to construct a runway and play around with them. The kid in me.

 

[wolfheze]

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Collection looking very comprehensive, wolfheze. I would be so tempted to construct a runway and play around with them. The kid in me.

I'm afraid that reminds me of playing with my airfix airliners and making my own ILS. I got a cardboard box, cut a round hole in it which was then covered with tracing paper which had a runway centreline and horizontal bars drawn on. By holding a pencil beam torch next to the fuselage I could land my aircraft blind by lining up the torch beam with the centreline and using the horizontal lines to gauge the altitude. It actually worked quite well and I could land quite successfully without looking at my 'runway' on the lounge carpet!

 

[58terminus]

Think its time for another picture of the entire collection.
How about posting a list of the collection.Those of us of a certain age can tick off which we saw

 

[wolfheze]

Think its time for another picture of the entire collection.
How about posting a list of the collection.Those of us of a certain age can tick off which we saw

Will try to do that over the weekend

 

[Kevin Farnell]

I'm afraid that reminds me of playing with my airfix airliners

Me too! I used to mark out a runway and taxiways on the lounge floor with Lego blocks, the hearth being the terminal. Unfortunately, this is how most of my Airfix airliners lost their undercarriage. Carpet and plastic don't mix well!

One memory that really sticks in my mind, is a Christmas morning aged around 6 or 7. I opened a present which turned out to be an Airfix Concorde (the original model in BOAC colours) which my Dad had built and painted.
I can remember the paint being still 'tacky'(remember back in those days, enamel paints were the only choice). Within minutes, I'd broken off all of the undercarriage and chipped the nose.
I now cringe when I think of the hours that my late, wonderful Father must have spent building and painting the model, only to see it broken within minutes of me getting it.
Even broken, it sat on the shelf in my bedroom for many, many years afterwards.

Kevin

 

[wolfheze]

BA 747 100f
BA super VC10
BA one eleven x2
BA Trident 3
BA Trident 2
BA HS 748
BA Trident 2 hybrid livery
BA 707
British Airtours 707
BA Viscount
BEA Viscount
BAF Viscount
Britannia 737
Aer lingus 737
Lufthansa 737
Sabena 737
NLM F27
KLM DC 9 x2
Swissair DC9
Austrian DC9
British midland DC9
SAS DC9
Finnair DC9
Laker DC10
Laker Carribean 707
Laker one eleven
Courtline one eleven
Courtline super one eleven
Dan Air Comet
Dan Air One Eleven
Dan Air 727
British Caledonian super one eleven
British Caledonian one eleven
Aer lingus one eleven
Luxair F27
British Eagle DC6
Air Atlantique DC3
Air Atlantique Electra
Air Atlantique DC6
British Midland short 360
East African super VC10
Air Malawi VC10
Ghana airways VC10
Monarch 720b
Flybe q 400
Flybe BA 146
Flybe Mansion BA 146
Sterling Caravelle
Jersey european BA 146
Gulf air Tristar
Gulf air VC10
Pan Am 747sp
Qantas 707
Libyan arab 727 /200
Qantas 747sp
Alitalia 747 /200
JAT 727/200
Vanguard/Merchantman BA Hybrid livery
Northeast Trident one
Cymru airways one eleven
Cambrian one eleven
Cambrian /BA one eleven hybrid livery
Transavia Caravelle
Monarch A300
Hapag Lloyd 727
CP air DC8
Iberia 727/200
I'm not at home at the moment so I may have missed one or two.

Me too! I used to mark out a runway and taxiways on the lounge floor with Lego blocks, the hearth being the terminal. Unfortunately, this is how most of my Airfix airliners lost their undercarriage. Carpet and plastic don't mix well!

One memory that really sticks in my mind, is a Christmas morning aged around 6 or 7. I opened a present which turned out to be an Airfix Concorde (the original model in BOAC colours) which my Dad had built and painted.
I can remember the paint being still 'tacky'(remember back in those days, enamel paints were the only choice). Within minutes, I'd broken off all of the undercarriage and chipped the nose.
I now cringe when I think of the hours that my late, wonderful Father must have spent building and painting the model, only to see it broken within minutes of me getting it.
Even broken, it sat on the shelf in my bedroom for many, many years afterwards.

Kevin

I also had the Airfix BOAC concorde. It must have been tooled up before much information was available about the real aircraft as I seem to remember the nose in particular didn't bare much relation to the real thing. I can understand how you chipped the nose as it was quite delicate being covered with a blue transfer.

 

[Butty]

The kids in us. Come on we still want to play. I wanted flight deck, but I never got one, so made one myself using string, stairs, odds and sods of Lego, meccano, cereal boxes, old washing up liquid bottles and of course sticky back plastic.

See in the day Blue Peter did impact on our lives.

Great collection of planes wolfheze. Imagine that lot coming into BHX!

 

[wolfheze]

Great collection of planes wolfheze. Imagine that lot coming into BHX![/QUOTE]
Most of those have visited birmingham at some time.

 

[wolfheze]

The kids in us. Come on we still want to play. I wanted flight deck, but I never got one, so made one myself using string, stairs, odds and sods of Lego, meccano, cereal boxes, old washing up liquid bottles and of course sticky back plastic.

See in the day Blue Peter did impact

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The kids in us. Come on we still want to play. I wanted flight deck, but

See in the day Blue Peter did impact on our lives.

Great collection of planes wolfheze. Imagine that lot coming into BHX!

The kids in us. Come on we still want to play. I wanted flight deck, but I never got one, so made one myself using string, stairs, odds and sods of Lego, meccano, cereal boxes, old washing up liquid bottles and of course sticky back plastic.

See in the day Blue Peter did impact on our lives.

Never had it either. Remember the ad on TV around Christmas. Did make a cable car out of Lego which travelled along a length of cotton from the bedroom window to the front garden .

 

[Ray Finkle]

It's going to be an interesting last day of the season with three teams facing the drop. I don't think I've ever wished so hard for a Villa goal

Birmingham travel to Bristol City, Notts Forest are at home to Ipswich and Blackburn travel to Brentford.

19 Bristol City 44 -6 51
20 Birmingham 45 -20 50
21 Nottm Forest 45 -13 48
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22 Blackburn 45 -14 48

 

[paul]

Got my ticket for bristol city ray

 

[Barry Beeth]

As a (relatively) neutral from west of the M5, surely blues n city could play out a bore-draw as the other two in the dogfight aren't both gonna win?

(Lights blue touch paper and watches on from baggie towers)

 

[Ashley]

Absolutely brilliant performance and gives us all important momentum for the last game.keep right till the end of the road .

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Bristol City beat Brighton this evening so are now safe from relegation. They will either not be too motivated against Birmingham City or will play in a way that shows all the pressure is off. I had a sneaky feeling they'd beat Brighton this evening (that's what Bristol City does - win when not expected and lose when they are expected to win, and have always done it since I've been interested (the 1950s). A more perverse team (in all the decades) you'd be hard to find.

I don't usually predict match outcomes but Bristol City v Birmingham City looks a draw to me.

 

[Ray Finkle]

I can see Barry's point about playing for a draw but if Blackburn and Forest do pull off wins then all three finish on the same points, with Birmingham then going down on goal difference.

Go for the win and hope that the Bristol players minds are already on the beach.

I think Blackburn have the toughest game of the three.

 

[58terminus]

I keep having flashbacks to May 22 2011.