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Post by atlex on Oct 11, 2019 14:28:39 GMT
gosh the swear filter, filthy beemers.. ate that link
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Post by dadbif on Oct 12, 2019 7:15:54 GMT
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Post by Zed. on Oct 12, 2019 10:23:27 GMT
f1 has been using similarr for a while, also they used nitrogen gas as a valve-spring medium (sorta allows 20k rpm  ) all clever stuff  Rich. |
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Post by dadbif on Oct 18, 2019 7:40:06 GMT
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Post by Zed. on Oct 18, 2019 11:06:20 GMT
 #not jealous like..... in july '08 fuel was $4.739 per gallon (US gallon? 4 Litres)... in july '08, the $-£ exchange was $2-£1 (the good days to import ) so UK exchange cost would have been around £2.35  *UK fuel was around £1.30-£1.50 a LITRE then  poo. Rich.
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Post by dadbif on Oct 20, 2019 10:48:45 GMT
My son bought me a subscription to site called “motortrend”, excellent for car programmes covering all aspects. Mainly yank I’m afraid but well worth a look.
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Post by Zed. on Oct 20, 2019 11:47:28 GMT
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Post by atlex on Oct 23, 2019 14:45:52 GMT
Surviving a tree-strike in an F16..
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Post by howardb66 on Oct 23, 2019 16:11:53 GMT
Some flight line engineers once pulled TV aerials out of a friend’s aircraft, allegedly.
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Post by dadbif on Oct 24, 2019 7:13:56 GMT
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Post by atlex on Oct 28, 2019 14:46:54 GMT
doesn't because they want money or a free trial sign up  |
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Post by dadbif on Oct 28, 2019 14:47:34 GMT
Just deleted it for that very reason, pity
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Post by atlex on Oct 28, 2019 22:31:36 GMT
This is funny, a look at crappy corporate ad music.
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Post by howardb66 on Oct 29, 2019 11:10:47 GMT
Saw this on ph. Ignore the ads, interesting the MX5 makes a contribution-
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Post by martiny on Oct 29, 2019 14:45:40 GMT
This is funny, a look at crappy corporate ad music. Oh, God, the whistling. It just makes me want to shoot myself in the ears. Thanks for that. It touched a lot of raw nerves. Not just about the inane music, which is just the icing on the cake, but about ghastly faux caring corporate ads generally. I first noticed the cynicism right at the end of the '80s; there was a kind of bubble of environmental enthusiasm, particularly around protecting the ozone layer and saving the Amazon rain forest, and at its peak almost every TV ad told us their product was ozone friendly. Fine if you make hairspray but eventually it didn't matter if you made biscuits, beer or toys - they all reassured us they contained no CFCs. And yes, the oil companies had beautifully shot adverts to tell us how much they cared about the Amazon rain forest. Britain was just getting into the fashion for SUVs at a time when it wasn't obvious how they'd advertise such environmentally unfriendly things. I needn't have worried. Land Rover found a way with an audacious bullprarrie canoe fantasy with the perfect adventurer couple charging into the rain forest in their Discovery or Defender or whatever it was, rampaging over everything and then stopping when they discovered the delicate little orchid they had come to save. Or discover for medical research. Or something. Anyway, buy the most environmentally unfriendly vehicle we make, idiots, because then your neighbours will think you care about the rain forest. That was my lightbulb moment: people swallow this, because people are Canoeing idiots. |
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