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Did anyone else see the spitfire that has just gone over Accy? Gave me goosebumps

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******!, I wish I'd still been there to see that.

As it was I was tucking into breakfast at work :)

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probably going to BAE at salmesbury. I missed that too, damn!!

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now your gettin technical :D

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They are very similar in appearance but also quite different.

OOh I feel a prize coming on. :)


Here's a photo of a Spitfire and a Hurricane.

For 100 ackers who can tell me which is which?

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Brilliant! I wish it had come over here. Isn't it funny how nostalgic we all get over the Spitfire? I'm the same with the Lancaster too - they were real aeroplanes (Oh lord, West, you're showing your age!).

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The Spitfire's the top 'un

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100 ackers coming your way yerself :)

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Not being an ackers millionaire like Willow I can't go offering extravagant prizes. Can anyone tell me what everday item, used by chavs and aristocracy alike, is related to, in fact descended from the Spitfire fighter plane? If you've been down Accy today you will have probably seen one.
Being the generous soul I am, I'll donate the 100 ackers I won from Willow to the person who answers the above correctly. There is a one-word answer that is acceptable.

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Anything Burbury pmsl

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wristwatches

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Apparently there's a timer thing on the Spitfire that's unique. The guns are really close to the body of the plane and so there is a clever bit of technology that means that the bullets don't rip the propellors to shreds by shooting out exactly in between them. This is according to Chris by the way, I know nothing about planes.

Don't know why that would relate to anything today but that's why I suggested wristwatches.

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I'm brain dead tonight but I seem to recollect there being a timer on some planes in WWI but don't ask me what because I can't remember. :D

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I'll keep the 100 ackers and put you all out of your misery. Bearing in mind the uniform Gayle is pictured wearing in this week's 'Observer' I thought she may have been nearer. The item referred to has probably been used by some of the ladies on Accyweb.

The Maclaren Baby Buggy is one of those great stories of British invention. The book "Century Makers" lists the Maclaren buggy as one of the hundred clever things we take for granted which have changed our lives over the last century.

It all began in 1965 when Owen Maclaren designed and patented his prototype Baby Buggy. As a former test pilot and aeronautical designer, Owen Maclaren had been involved in the design of the Spitfire fighter plane undercarriage before World War II and therefore had immense knowledge of lightweight, rigid, load-bearing structures capable of folding neatly.
He was spurred on by a visit from his daughter, her airline director husband, and his first grandchild who was born in the United States. The trip to England meant coping with an unwieldy pram. So, after finding himself wheeling his grandchild around in a clumsy, heavy conventional pushchair, he had the inspiration to improve the humble vehicle. He did more. He invented a new generation of baby transport.

Full story here:http://www.maclaren.co.uk/

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Just because I was wearing an RAF uniform don't be fooled that I may have any knowledge about planes whatsoever. I wore it because it fit. Actually, it was too big and the Army uniform fitted me far better but it wouldn't have been fair to put Clare into the RAF uniform, she'd have been swamped by it.

By the way, it was so big I started way below the surface of it.

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You can wait for hours and then three come along all at once.

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Now I feel like a number 7 bus!

:D I haven't a clue what happened there Gayle. The last post was the one I was aiming for but the two before it both have something missing (one a smiley and the other the colour!)


On the subject of baby buggies. Yes I used them but I'd never have guessed the answer.

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The wheels possibly, are they not used as caravan wheels or something? Or was it wheelbarrows?