Jim Aitken

Grimbarian in exile

[Jim Aitken @nuclearjimbo]

@Hush_Kit @CombatAir What’s wrong with continuing on from Mk.1a & Type G, Mk.3c, Mk4a, Mk.10b etc?

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@Hush_Kit It’s seen the Gannet and thought, “mum?”

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@clark_aviation On the other hand, it prompted the development of the two speed, two stage Merlin so it wasn’t a complete dead loss!

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@MunicipalDreams Absolutely well worth a watch, ideally with a copy of Fitzwalter and Taylor’s Web of Corruption close at hand

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@clark_aviation And welcome home sir! Undercarriage lever a bit sticky was it, sir?

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@Olliethecollie1 @Hush_Kit My dad told me that he was out drinking with Dick Heath, who was a Lightning F.6 pilot and our neighbour, when he compared the hand driers in the gents at the Harvest Moon to Jaguar engines

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@Hush_Kit There’s the scene in the wonderful Jonathan Meades film - “Remember the Future” - where he measures technical progress of things like Emley Moor transmitting station with the Tonybennometer, which is calibrated in units of Tonibenns. This moment must have had a very high reading

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@olivercrocker @OffTheBill_ @Classicbritcom @CameronYardeJnr @archivetvmus71 @TheAnorakZone @pcstratford @ConfessionsPete @SaucySeventies @penswordbooks @PSHistory @Roundthearchiv1 Or to put it another way, “Buy the book, Alec. Buy the book”

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@RealAirPower1 “Don’t talk to me or my son ever again!”

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@Matt_VickersMP Remind me, which government sold off the Hercules fleet and cut the Wedgetail purchase? Donkey!

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@dskittles187 I farted, sorry about that

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@MrJamesMay @Airfix Handley-Page V/1500 please

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@HalifaxBank Oh and by the way, what’s the point of your automated telephone banking line directing callers to the mobile app when that doesn’t work?

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@HalifaxBank Any idea when it’s going to be fixed? I need to transfer some money to a family member urgently

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@RAFMUSEUM Has the flypast been arranged by @RAF_Luton ?

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@TheBillaton Definitely his departure and aftermath - “I always thought it was only little boys who needed uniforms with shiny buttons to make them feel big, Inspector”

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@ValkStrategy @Hush_Kit Diamond DA42 family?

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@Hush_Kit Not if you’re planning on building very, very long carriers

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@MatthewHawxe I can’t which account you’ve hijacked but could you kindly fuck off?

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@AriFleischer Get fucked