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Howard Johnson
Film Handler

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From: Felpham , West Sussex, UK
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-12-2004 01:53 PM

I know that your George Bush didn't get a very good reception in the UK a few weeks ago but we didn't deserve this!!! I mean you could have hit Dick Vaughan at the National Museum of Film and Photography in Bradford ! Apparently a 15E Strike Eagle was on a training run from Lakenheath in Suffolk and the pilot dropped a 25lb practice bomb on Market Weighton. Perhaps he got bored and wanted tto liven things up! This happened at 5.15pm last thursday. See Yahoo news.

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from)
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 01-12-2004 03:30 PM

Unless you want people to think you've just gone crazy, you should probably post an article.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=437639§ion=news

quote:
U.S. jet accidentally bombs Yorkshire
Mon 12 January, 2004 16:25

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States Air Force says it is investigating how one of its fighter jets dropped an unarmed bomb on the Yorkshire countryside last week.

There were no injuries and only "limited property damage" in the incident which happened around 5:15 p.m. last Thursday, a USAF spokesman said.

The 25 lb practice bomb was dropped by a F-15E Strike Eagle on a routine training run from a base at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, eastern England.

The bomb landed in a "sparsely-populated area" near the town of Market Weighton in Yorkshire, the spokesman added.

"Trained and experienced base personnel including Ministry of Defence, and local constabulary authorities responded to the scene and an investigation team is determining the cause the incident," the spokesman said.

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Howard Johnson
Film Handler

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posted 01-12-2004 04:22 PM

Sorry Darryl I didn't know how to do pasting etc.

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from)
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posted 01-12-2004 06:23 PM

No need to apologize, but figuring out how to copy and paste would be a good idea.

Assuming you're using a PC: http://members.aol.com/jaynecg/private/copy.html

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

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From: Music City
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posted 01-12-2004 08:33 PM

Hey Howard...Any relation to THE Howard Johnson?

Mark

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

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From: Denver, Colorado
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posted 01-12-2004 09:59 PM

That method also works on da Mac, Daryl. Shows what you know.

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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

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From: Dallas, TX
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posted 01-12-2004 10:00 PM

Well, that was an easy war to win. Damn Yorkies and their pudding. [Razz]

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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posted 01-12-2004 10:01 PM

I never said it wouldn't work with a Mac.

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Leo Enticknap
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posted 01-13-2004 02:05 AM

Could you aim that big building in York city centre with lots of pointy bits sticking out of it next time please? I could make a bazillion turning that land into luxury flats and a multistory car park but there seems to be some religious cult or other squatting there...

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Howard Johnson
Film Handler

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From: Felpham , West Sussex, UK
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posted 01-13-2004 03:37 AM

Mark, do you mean the hotel & restaurant chain? I wish I was related!! Leo, how about that ugly building in Leeds I think that houses the social security or NHS?

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Leo Enticknap
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posted 01-13-2004 04:26 AM

...known as The Kremlin to the locals. I don't think that does the real Kremlin justice - it looks much prettier!

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Dick Vaughan
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 01-13-2004 01:39 PM

Howard thanks for your concern.

Holme on Spalding Moor,incidentally the location of a WW2 RAF bomber base, is quite a way from Bradford.

Not even the 48th TFW can miss the target by that much!

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

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From: Mount Vernon WA USA
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posted 01-13-2004 03:43 PM

This happens from time to time in the USA as well. What is more dangerous is parts falling off the aircraft (such as engine cowlings, doors, etc.) such as what happened a month or so ago in our area. Four panels (one as big as 6 feet in length) fell off one of our EA6-B's and landed in back yards, and other places as well.

I remember one incident years back where the Douglas Skywarrior (A3-B) aircraft was on a practice loft bombing mission. When the aircraft snapped up to loft the inert bomb, one of the J-57 jet engines detached itself from the aircraft. The bomb missed the target, but the engine scored a bull's-eye. [Eek!]

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Gordon McLeod
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posted 01-13-2004 11:41 PM

A few years ago a comercial aricraft dumped it sewage holding tank at a great hight and it of course froze in its desent landing though a roof a family dwelling landing in the living room as a several ton pile of froozen [bs]

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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!

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From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 01-14-2004 12:59 AM

Ah yes, beware the "blue ice"! I'm not touching those "condensation nuclei". Nope, not gonna. Wouldn't be prudent...

Best blue ice incident I've seen was a few years ago in San Diego. A 727 had a slow leak in the forward lav service fitting. While in cruise, a large amount of blue ice formed aft of the fitting on the right side of the aircraft. When the jet began its descent into SAN the chunk eventually came off--and hit the intake of the #3 engine. The resulting imbalance caused the #3 engine to shear its mounts and leave the airplane. The crew figured they had just an in-flight engine failure--they didn't know they literally "lost an engine" until they landed and the tower told them. Search crews went out and found the engine in the desert about 80 miles east of SAN.

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