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Actually, a better picture of me at work...  really...

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@Flying Nutcase - nope, that was taken in the Canadian Rockies. This particular mountain was about 2500m. The ones backing Kobe are only about 800-900m, though they do look impressive as they rise so abruptly from the coastline. Certainly seems high enough when you bike up them.

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Me and my much better half ,just notched up our 25th Wedding Anniversary last month.

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Congratulations Mr & Mrs. Carts! :salute:

 

This fantastic Indian summer we're having has been too good to waste so we had a little trip to the beach on Saturday afternoon.

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From left to right;  youngest son, Brian the school bear and yours truly.

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@Blooddawn1942  <-Won! Both a Kreator and a Boltthrower T-shirt! I actually look lite my avatar, (since it's me on the pic)
This is me when I cut off ½ a meter of beard this summer, since it was to hot even inside! Sporting my trademark 'predator' Haircut

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Me and my 5yr old son.

 

 

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Meh ;)

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Man, it tooked me a while! You look so american, Uther! Reading 6high's quote made it crystal clear to me.... :biggrin: 

How r u??

 

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Man, it tooked me a while! You look so american, Uther! Reading 6high's quote made it crystal clear to me.... :biggrin:

How r u??

 

v.Greiff

 

Me? or someone else?

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Me? or someone else?

 

Someone else, hon! :biggrin:

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Smedders! Where is that? Cornwall? Pembrokeshire?

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It's that part of the coast from Prawle Point to Salcombe in South Devon.     Its my favourite part of our planet :biggrin:.

 If you're prepared to drive down some obscure lanes and then - horror of horrors - walk a bit, you'll always find yourself rewarded with a private beach no matter what time of year. 

 

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That looks a lot like a beach near Dunedin, NZ where me and my friends thought we'd try out this "surfing" malarkey.

No one died at least, but that was about as good as it got.

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It's lovely and I should have remembered...my grandparents retired to Sidmouth....(who didn't?) and we used to go to Salcombe but I suppose I would have been about 12 last time I was there!

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Don't worry mate.  Having lived in Sidmouth these last eighteen years I can say with complete confidence "It ain't changed!" lol.

 

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Wow!!! Is "The Mocha" still there? The Mermaid bookshop where I bought "Hitler's High Seas Fleet" (my first book on war-related matters)? Are the pavements still covered in dog poo?

Nostalgia attack!

In fact, is that nearest building what used to be the Mocha? Mirrors on the wall so you could look at the sea whichever side of the table you sat on?

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The Mocha is still very much in business and is the building in the dead centre of the picture with a roof line slightly lower than its neighbours.  The Mermaid bookshop is now Paragon Books - still an independent - and the dog shit has been legislated away.  Luckily the healthy covering of guano has been retained. 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/celebritytravel/9267549/Jeremy-Vines-Sidmouth.html

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Thanks Arthur. Nice article. I think my brothers and I watched "The Battle of Britain" at the cinema there as well. Have a banana milkshake at the Mocha for me.

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Not really my face, but a nice selfie from a full reheat take-off during the air show at Laage AB in August with the static display area seen in the background.

 

 

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My family and a jet biplane. 

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Trupobaw - I love the crested bike helmet you have there. And yeah, jet biplane. Do we have them?!

 

MiG Cap - what aircraft are you in?

Also, awesome.

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Trupobaw - I love the crested bike helmet you have there. And yeah, jet biplane. Do we have them?!

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor

 

And a triple record holder :lol:  !

 

" 175 aircraft were built; it was only used in the USSR. The PZL M-15 is believed to be the world's only jet agricultural plane (e.g., the world's only jet cropduster), the world's only jet biplane and the world's slowest jet, at least as far as aircraft that have been put in mass production."

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Trupobaw - I love the crested bike helmet you have there. And yeah, jet biplane. Do we have them?!

 

MiG Cap - what aircraft are you in?

Also, awesome.

 

 

 

Eurofighter two-seater.

But I got also some Tornado flight time this yerar:

 

 

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OK, I'll play...

 

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Myself, my buddy Nikko the Shiba Inu, and my Triumph Bonneville.

 

Have no pics of me shooting, but I do quite regularly...

 

SWEET bike! I'm a Triumph nut myself. Here's my bike...but with my wife on it. I figure the forum would rather that than my ugly mug ;)

 

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And one of just the bike, with the visor removed:

 

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MarcoRossolini
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Bloody hell, a Mosin and an SVT, you lucky devil!

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Heres a couple of my shooting pics, nothing exotic, just an AK and an AR-15 at DFW gun range, had a try on a Colt 1911 and Gloc 17 too, back at home all I have is rimfire rifles.

 

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At the good ole hunting shack. Never was a photogenic guy.

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And here's an action shot.
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Bloody hell, a Mosin and an SVT, you lucky devil!

 

I happen to own several Mosins.  :biggrin:

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I happen to own several Mosins.  :biggrin:

Always good to have spares :)

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I happen to own several Mosins.  :biggrin:

 

I'm not envious. Not at all, nooo, nope. Arrghhhh!

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My son John with me at the Gettysburg Battlefield to finalize our study of the battle.  We took a couple of days and really went over it pretty good.  I had at least 40 of my line that fought for the South during that terrible conflict.  Most were assigned to Stonewall Jacksons Brigade and at least 10 or so with Turner Ashby's Calvary.    My son is a pilot in the USAF flying the C130 J series.  He started out simming with me..many moons ago, and he liked to takeoff and land more than combat.....so I figured he might turn out to be a pilot.  

 

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My wife Mary and I......

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Nice pics m8. :salute:   Isn't your son a member of these forums too?

 

I once flew from RAF Brize Norton in England to Hong Kong in a Hercules - our name for the C130 - took about five days

 

and by the time we got to HK we were all talking like this! :lol:     Your boy ever taken you for a ride in his?

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Yes...John is a member of the forums.....here but he doesn't post......I've never been up with him....He's headed to Germany tomorrow as his new station.  Looks like I've got a base of operations to go exploring there now....

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Me at work, off Somalia...

Test firing the Steyr Scout.

 

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Happy hunting, Trooper117. May your rounds find their target, mate.

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You're the man, Troop. Save Captain Phillips!!

And if a few pirates get messed up in the process, well, stuff happens. Take care when you're over there though.

 

Do you have any heavier weapons mounted on those ships, btw? A 50 cal, mayhaps a cheeky little 20mm HE spewing gun or ten wouldn't go astray, I would have thought.


At the good ole hunting shack. Never was a photogenic guy.

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And here's an action shot.
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You wouldn't be Canadian by any chance, would ya? Hunting, a took (that hat thing), ice-hockey...

If so, lucky you! I went there for the first time this summer. Brilliant place!

 

If not, um... well that's awkward.

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Glider training - Ready for takeoff!

 

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lol... seen that before :)

 

@FSM, sadly no... we have small arms but aren't allowed HMG's etc, which is a point of contention, because one day, a pirate team will turn up with one on one of their mother ships and will out range us!

Still, they will have to get onboard at some stage, and then they are the vulnerable ones...

 

Luckily, it's relatively quiet out there at the moment. When I came back last month, there had been only 5 incidents in 4 months on my route resulting in shots fired, which is nothing to what it was like 4 yrs ago! Then it was very dodgy :)

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Glider training - Ready for takeoff!

 

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Hats off to you for flying in spite of that paralysed arm.

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