The Random thought thread

[Marty_d]

You do know where the G string goes, don't you OME?

[facthunter]

Yer a Bunch of crusty old Pervs.  Nev

[Marty_d]

Just trying to help the man.  As Peter said - if it gave him a black eye, he's not wearing it right.

[old man emu]

Who said that it was me wearing it?

[red750]

My daughter went to the first day of the F1 GP weekend yesterday. Was initially turned away although she had bought her tickets months ago. The reason? The zoom on her camera is 125x, equivalent to 3000mm. Maximum allowed is 30x. She was directed to another security area where she was waved through. 

 

[onetrack]

We were woken at 1:30AM this morning by a huge heavy aircraft directly overhead, making a vast amount of noise. We're not on a regular RPT aircraft flight path, and only occasionally get a twin piston aircraft overhead, mostly doing training, I'd say. Occasionally, someones private Hawker-Siddeley jet with its screaming little engines will fly overhead on descent into Perth - but that's usually in the early evening. I think it might be Gina's or Twiggy Forrests bizjet.

 

But this flight this morning was a very big aircraft and exceptionally low, and I'm really surprised it was allowed to follow the flight path it did, and so low, at that time of morning. I have no idea what it was, maybe an extraordinary flight for an aircraft leaving the Middle East mess at an odd time, outside normal flight times.

 

I regularly used to watch the Emirates A380 arrive just on sundown every day, over the Northern suburbs, as I came down the highway from the North. It would come in from the West, do a 90° RH bank and fly a direct line to the airport, landing from the N. It would do that like clockwork, but since Iran was bombed, I haven't sighted it since.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by onetrack

[facthunter]

The other runway is too short unless the wind is quite strong  from the appropriate direction.. Nev