combat formation flying during WWII was about far more than making impressive shadows to scare the enemy. Bomber crews learned fairly quickly that wingtip drafting extended the range of every bomber in the squadron - albeit only by about 1-2%, but this was enough to afford the pilots some wriggle room during cannon fights. The lead was by relay: the lead bomber would peel up about 100 feet and throttle back to the rear, the new lead taking the next thirty or forty miles.
source: a distant relative was a waist gunner. The stories he'd tell, never the same one twice. Which is how I know he wasn't bullshitting.
yep, they have to stay within the vortex cone. There's a dead zone right through the middle of this, and if they can keep their nose in it (like literally follow right behind the wingtip) then they'll benefit on both wings. Too far left or right and they'll roll, too low they'll get downdrafted, too high and they'll skip and possibly stall. Two smaller aircraft could follow one larger one, one in each vortex, or one larger aircraft could pick either vortex (or even both if it's big enough). Oh, and as autopilot goes: I don't think so or the air forces would be using AP during midair refuelling manoeuvres. No, I'm afraid it's all down to big brass bollocks there and exceptionally skillful flying..
don't know about that situation but the main library in my city (Nottingham) has always (to my recollection anyway) had a section aside exclusively for phone directories, both Yellow Pages and the domestic phone book, for the entire UK.
BT Phonedisk SE 1994(?), freebie on the front of I think it was PCPro. Several hundred thousand domestic line numbers, from every UK directory, on one CDROM.
re your last comment: are you saying that there are situations where you have to prove the nonexistence of a document such as a marriage certificate?? Waitwhat? I would've thunk that if someone were convinced that you had been married before the burden would be on them to prove it and not the other way round?
Remove your number from Facebook listings (easy done) and write the administrators with a tort-actionable letter stating they have seven days to remove it from their database (not so easy; you will have to be prepared to take it to small claims court to action the tort, which in the UK is £5000 so make the option a claim for £4999.90. If you do end up taking a claim, you will likely get a summary judgment in favour since you made a legal request to a company, who are very unlikely to send a representative to challenge it. International borders be damned, they do not exist; when a company trades in the UK they play by UK rules or they fuck off.
All good:) Props to the Finnish education system, but I figure it's polite to at least make an attempt to learn the language of the country you're going to (even if you do end up murdering tenses, etc). For me, there's very little worse for my mood than trying to give a German tourist directions around Nottingham when he only wants to speak German. My response when I encounter such ignorami is to point at their map and wave with the other hand in the universal greeting "If you can't be arsed to make an effort how do you expect others to help you?" Let them find their own way.
Nope, no such finding there. The dockets were dismissed on the grounds that the Associative were not themselves holders of the copyrights (which they did not specify), which is correct under the Copyright Act.
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Budweiser != beer.
Budweiser = chill filtered gnats piss.
no, if they'd bothered trying to convert you'd end up in the drink.
what, you expect me, a sophisticated nerd, to drink ::gag::Budgnatspissweiser::gag::!?
I'd rather die of thirst than drink that if it was all that was on offer.
combat formation flying during WWII was about far more than making impressive shadows to scare the enemy. Bomber crews learned fairly quickly that wingtip drafting extended the range of every bomber in the squadron - albeit only by about 1-2%, but this was enough to afford the pilots some wriggle room during cannon fights. The lead was by relay: the lead bomber would peel up about 100 feet and throttle back to the rear, the new lead taking the next thirty or forty miles.
source: a distant relative was a waist gunner. The stories he'd tell, never the same one twice. Which is how I know he wasn't bullshitting.
mid air refuelling.
That is all.
yep, they have to stay within the vortex cone. There's a dead zone right through the middle of this, and if they can keep their nose in it (like literally follow right behind the wingtip) then they'll benefit on both wings. Too far left or right and they'll roll, too low they'll get downdrafted, too high and they'll skip and possibly stall. Two smaller aircraft could follow one larger one, one in each vortex, or one larger aircraft could pick either vortex (or even both if it's big enough). Oh, and as autopilot goes: I don't think so or the air forces would be using AP during midair refuelling manoeuvres. No, I'm afraid it's all down to big brass bollocks there and exceptionally skillful flying..
oyfg, to have mod points!
Honestly, do the editors even bother to read... oh, never mind.
Local dark ale, every time.
Don't mention the - oh, never mind.
don't know about that situation but the main library in my city (Nottingham) has always (to my recollection anyway) had a section aside exclusively for phone directories, both Yellow Pages and the domestic phone book, for the entire UK.
BT Phonedisk SE 1994(?), freebie on the front of I think it was PCPro. Several hundred thousand domestic line numbers, from every UK directory, on one CDROM.
Yes, indeed.
re your last comment: are you saying that there are situations where you have to prove the nonexistence of a document such as a marriage certificate?? Waitwhat? I would've thunk that if someone were convinced that you had been married before the burden would be on them to prove it and not the other way round?
Hi Joey's friend, he says you owe him five Bucks and he wants it by Friday or he's sending his "friend" the Thumb Collector.
Remove your number from Facebook listings (easy done) and write the administrators with a tort-actionable letter stating they have seven days to remove it from their database (not so easy; you will have to be prepared to take it to small claims court to action the tort, which in the UK is £5000 so make the option a claim for £4999.90. If you do end up taking a claim, you will likely get a summary judgment in favour since you made a legal request to a company, who are very unlikely to send a representative to challenge it. International borders be damned, they do not exist; when a company trades in the UK they play by UK rules or they fuck off.
All good :) Props to the Finnish education system, but I figure it's polite to at least make an attempt to learn the language of the country you're going to (even if you do end up murdering tenses, etc). For me, there's very little worse for my mood than trying to give a German tourist directions around Nottingham when he only wants to speak German. My response when I encounter such ignorami is to point at their map and wave with the other hand in the universal greeting "If you can't be arsed to make an effort how do you expect others to help you?" Let them find their own way.
ooh! Worth looking at, then! :)
I still see catalogue shops with spined print copies, every page laminated and mounted on steel rings. Like a carpet swatch (and just about as thick).
I like Google Drive. 5GB and counting, baby!
A friend and I spent sixty weeks developing a shop-in-the-box solution back in 1998-9, for fifty six of those weeks it was at the "90% done" stage.
That's forward thinking. I did because there's a fair bit on there concerning English Family Law.
tha's no good to me if I'm trying to order a pint and some flakeys in Helsinki! :x
if Apple don't get wind and sue the pants off Dotcom for undercutting.
Nope, no such finding there. The dockets were dismissed on the grounds that the Associative were not themselves holders of the copyrights (which they did not specify), which is correct under the Copyright Act.