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Hi,

This thread is for everyone who enjoys Planes and is interested in seeing different planes, talking about different airlines, etc.

I will start off with these pics from my holidays.

I know a lot of people are into old war planes but for me it is the commercial airlines, the huge jets that I find amazing.


Taken at East Midlands Airport, EMA:


http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1218105966


http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1218105966


Taken at Toulon Hyere TLN, France:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1218105966

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1218105966

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A couple I had handy. 747s rolling for T/O on a murky day at Manchester

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/5007/b2430vm7.th.jpg

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/471/vxlgob3.th.jpg

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Welsh Festival Of The Air - Swansea Bay - Sept 2007

Red Arrows, Eurofighter, Hawk and a glider.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltawh...7602031424721/

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Here's one I took at Farnborough in 2004 of a SA 747

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Really like the Virgin Atlantic photo Uncle Peter. :tu:

There is something about the 747 that makes it amazing.

I want to try and find an airport where I can get as close as ossible to take some good photos.

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Just a word of warning..

Last time Jenna and I parked up at the end of a runway (actually Gatwick on the west side of the airport as we were waiting for her mother to fly back from Jersey) we got the now common full stop and search by armed police under the terrorism act. So best to avoid the road directly adjacent to the perimiter fence.

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Ta :) if you want to get up close to 747s, 777s, A330s etc then there's no better place than the AVP at Manchester. There are a few other unofficial spots around the airfield you can get even better photos from at which the presence of spotters/togs are generally tolerated.

http://www.spotterswiki.com/index.ph...%28MAN/EGCC%29

People from all around the country visit, in fact I've spoken to a few foreign pilots and crew who regularly take time out to pay a visit and take some pics.

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Is this a yearly event? I never knew about this last year. :( I will try & go if its this year again

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Looking good. I've bookmarked that site. I might have to arrange a trip up there one weekend.

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I was hoping it was going to be, but there's nothing listed for this year. They didn't seem to advertise it very much, it was only by accident that I saw it on the Evening Post website.

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Nice video here Of a Thomas cook 757-300 taking off from Manchester. The sound is fantastic i recommend you turn up the sound for this one.

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Nice...I love the sould of jet engines spooling up espically when the seam to go on and on and on!!


And here's one of mine:

Virgin 747 - Cosmic Girl....On the way back from San Francisco in 2005!

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I won't link because of the language, but search for Spitfire low pass on youtube & choose the longer one...

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One of these days I'll get the SIA A380 when a) it's landing east-west and b) I have a card in the camera. So far I've had one or other but not both. They recently started an evening flight several days a week which goes over here about quarter to seven - the original A380 flight is 5 something in the morning, which I wasn't getting up for.

Tonight they're landing west-east, unfortunately, which at least means I'm not deafened every 90 seconds. Just the occasional distant roar of one taking off and a glint in the distance...

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some I took a while ago from my phone (K800i at the time) the Apache isnt that great as I just heard/saw them and snapped it, the Red arrows same again, heard thought grab phone and shoot.

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http://www.airliners.net/search/index.main

My faves are OO-TAx, OO-TNx

& OO-THA to THD

x = any letter

All the ones from work.

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XL360 at Cov

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/5...can1ma6.th.jpg

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/2...can2wm7.th.jpg

Unfortunately 11:30am wasn't really the right time to be taking pictures of this aircraft with the sun directly overhead.

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Was over flown by a RAF Tornado earlier that was certainly a little lower than it should be. Came right past the front of the house and then banked 45 degrees to the right. Awesome but did not have a camera handy to get a pick.

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Did your nice bearded neighbour 'Mr. Lin Baden' duck behind his bins at all? I think we should be told.

May not have got the A380 tonight, but this went past just now.
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...8/08/1.jpg?v=0

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We get Apaches, Chinooks and Lynx passing over the village quite often

Fantastic sights

Kymmy

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I've heard a couple of Apaches fly over me at Stansted Airport.

Even though they were quite high, The noise they were making said they were on the roof.

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We have a military helicopter route right past us, along the Thames. Odd to see a bunch of Apaches or a Chinook or a couple of Pumas or a Belgian Sea King or a Luftwaffe CH-53 go past in the middle of London, but there you go. I suspect practicing low flying in urban areas comes in handy at the moment...

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Just had a Chinook fly over which is a rare sight here.

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The army flight path that goes over us follows the north side of the Chilterns (I live just off the A6 in that area.

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Thought I'd share with you a few photos from my trip to Filton on Saturday.
It's nice to see a Concorde outside. Soon it is going to be housed in a new hanger.
If only she could fly again..... Alas, it will never happen.

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A few more....

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Is it me or are there no pics ?

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When I manage to retrieve the pics from my old laptop I have some shots of a Ford Trimotor flying by overhead while I was parked near the EAA show 2008 in Oshkosh WI (Whitman airport)

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Luckily I only a few miles from Airbus at Broughton and I have family who work there. I got invited to the do when the A380 paid its visit to the factory who make the wings for it.
The beluga flys over my house twice a day.
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/03/47.jpg

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2013/11/7.jpg

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I'm afraid something went wrong when we did a server move over the weekend. Attached photos on old posts have been lost.

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The pics seem to be working fine for me.

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What about the ones in your OP?

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Ah yes, the old ones seem to have gone. Oh well.

Anyone else been to Filton to see Concorde at all ?

Nice pic of the A380 BlackThorn. :tu:

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A link for the anoraks like me

http://www.airliners.net/search/index.main

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Hom3r...I use that site quite a lot. Some great pics out there.
A few more too:

http://jetphotos.net/

http://www.planepictures.net/

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I was waching a programme about that beluga plane last night on Discovery, the anount of stuff they can load onto it was amazing.

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Seen that take off once when I was at Heathrow dropping some people off, talk about goose bumps, the roar of the engines made you want to hide under the car. It was one hell of an aircraft and IMO should still be flying today.

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I used to live within 2 mins walk of the northern perimeter and used to quite a lot sit near Hatton Cross watching Concorde take off in the dusk on 09R...Used to like this time the best especially in the darker months as you could then see the afterburners light up the sky :)

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Am I weird (ok, you don't actually have to answer that question) - I have quite a bad fear of flying, but I like being at airports, like looking at the planes frequently flying nearby, and like looking out of the window when I'm up in the air... oops:

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Not weird at all. I think the idea that we can get aircracft weighing huge tonnes of weight into the sky and see them fly like a bird is simply amazing and I find it facinating.

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These links are very scary (Sabena Sabotage)

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...=Google+Search

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You get a decent view from my back garden when 27 is operating at Liverpool. Usually boring stuff like these I took this afternoon but you do get the occasional unusual visitor especially when the footie charters come in for the Champions League games.

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I'm not really into planes, but I went Gibraltar last year and thought the runway was amazing!

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A work we've be studying the FedEx crash in Tokyo, :( Thank God It wasn't a passenger Jet.

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Air Force One just popped over with "BREWR84" (E4-B airborne command post) in tow.

Caught it on the Radarbox

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Are you running some radar software ? Is it any good ?

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Yes it's hardware based in fact, very similar to SBS if you've ever heard of that.

http://www.airnavsystems.com/RadarBox/index.html

The box processes the ADS-B and Mode S signals from the Secondary Surveillance Radars on aircraft flying overhead. The range is up to 200KM if your antenna has a good view of the horizon. You can share and receive signals from other users too so you can see what's happening in other parts of the world (time delayed for security reasons).

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Just thought I'd have a quick peek at what I could set up in 10 minutes, so got a copy of planeplotters (21 day trial) tuned into 131.525 and was quite amazed that I could at least plot the basic ACARS responses from round about 300 miles (comes in handy having a decent ham antenna on the roof ;))

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Have you tried ACARSD Kymmy? I don't think it's been updated for some time but it's free and works extremely well

http://www.acarsd.org/

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Not done any aircars decoding for years, must have a look at it again.

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Is it graphical including realtime downloading and plotting on google earth or sat imagery like planeplotter??

Here's the one I tried
http://www.coaa.co.uk/planeplotter.htm

Might fire up the HF tomorrow and see what else I can get

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Took my antennas down when doing the gutters a few years ago, never did put them up again (or re-apply for me licence) but it's tempting :) Diamond X510 works well on airband (3x 5/8 on 2m)

@kymmy no it's text based but that planeplotter does look pretty tasty in comparison so I see the appeal

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Licence is now lifetime and free (though it's £20 to register for it then you just need to reaffirm details every 5 years)

I'm listening on either an FT8100 or FT7800, though I'm doing a TX test for some repeaters tomorrow up on Dunstable downs so might take the laptop with ACARS on it ;)

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I'll have a look at what I can do tomorrow night. It'll be either a Kenwood TM-D700E or an IC-R5 doing the recieving throguh a Watson W-300 dual band co-linear.

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Anyone got £2million?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7996306.stm

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Nice!

It's good to see old planes being restored and put back into the skies.

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Contrail photography can show up some interesting aircraft you wouldn't usually see landing at any of your local airports. Point a long-ish lens at those little dots in the sky on a clear day and Bob's your uncle.

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World Airways MD11 at 35,000ft operating on behalf of Air Mobility Command - most probably carrying troops/personnel to Germany.

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Crikey! You must have a good camera!

Went up to EastMidlands yesterday for a walk. Flights were operating in the other direction due to wind. There are so many Ryanairs!
I want to see the big charters come in now for the Summer.

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Just a Canon 40D with the EF100-400L IS lens at it's max focal length. You can get better results on a cold, clear day when there's no haze though. There's a daily Emirates A380 which usually hits the West Coast of the UK mid morning so hoping to catch that if it routes up this way.

You should check the AVP out at Manchester one weekend. It's possible to get some really nice shots with a compact digi or bridge camera. They were operating on 05 yesterday so it was possible to get some really nice head-on shots of aircraft taxying out like this Qatar Airways A330

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8232/a7aeo.th.jpg

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Heard good things about Manchester and want to get up there. Never been to Manchester before so might have to make a weekend of it.

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And here is this morning's Emirates A380 from JFK to Dubai passing over my house at 39,000 ft :)

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Just been for a few days in Anglesey so thought I'd sit on the sand-dunes watching a hawk or two tking off..

Lo and behold sat on the closest taxi-way (near the fire training aircraft) was a typhoon being worked on (we think he'd come in about an hour earlier with some sort of issue he wanted checking out before continuing on his way...

Anyway after about 30 minutes they started him up, gave him the thumbs up and he taxied to the far end of the runway, throttled up and lifted cleanly off, all of a sudden exactly in line with where we where sitting on the dunes he just went from 50ft, put his plane vertical and climbed right above us into the clouds...an amazing sight and not NOP for a take-off from valley (I used to be based there many years ago| The only thing I can think of is that he was watching us sat there and thought he'd put on a small display :D

Do have a pic on the mobile of him on the tarmac will try to post it up later

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Sounds good. Wish I'd been there.

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Talking about photo oppurtunities...

After 9/11 I think someone should have at least mentioned this one before the event!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8021830.stm

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I am off to Canada - Nova Scotia on Saturday. You can see most of the transatlantic planes from there, unfortunately they're too high to identify!

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See how good you are with managing planes for takeoff and landing in this little game.
It's easy on 1 runway but wait til you get 3 or 4 to deal with....

http://www.bigfatsimulations.com/airportMadness2.html

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Nice little game that, thanks :)

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Git I'm gonna be on that for hours :D

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http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=29347

Wales National Air Show

Swansea Bay, 11 - 12 July 2009

Swansea Bay is the setting for the highlight of the Festival calendar when the Red Arrows headline in Wales's premier air show. The festival will be jam-packed with amazing aerial displays and lots on the ground to explore and entertain too.

The show is free to watch and includes the one and only Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the unstoppable Royal Air Force Typhoon Eurofighter and the Royal Navy's crack helicopter team the Black Cats and more.

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Interesting visitor to Manchester today. Libyan Air Cargo AN124 Ruslan. Picking stuff up to take to Chad (I didn't ask what it was). Shame it was a really nasty, murky day.

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After someone else just asked where to find the ATC sim I thought I'd have a look for the one I used to play.. Eventually found it :)

So for the more serious ATC geek ;) (Gawd I nearly became one as I had a choice of ATC when I joined the RAF as my 2nd choice, but my first choice came through) :)

http://www.atc-sim.com/

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No display, sorry. ;)

When Typhoon takes off, it's SOP to climb at 70 - 80 deg because the engines are so powerful. If there was a problem on take-off the plane would be miles away before it could be turned for an emergeny landing. Hence the near vertical climb-out. :D

It's good to have a brother who is an engineer on the Typhoon project ! :angel:

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Here's some Awesome Air Photos in a PowerPoint show.

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Nice little video in conjunction with 100years of naval aviation showing off the hawk trainer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8034466.stm

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Just reading "Angels and Demons" ...the follow up to the DaVanci Code.

At the beginning of the book Tom Hanks's character gets flown from USA to Switzerland in 1 hour in some SupaPlane --- can't wait to see what this looks like in the film.

Has anyone seen it?

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WOOPS!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8045432.stm

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So that's what happens to all the unclaimed luggage...

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For those of you who really don't listen to the safety demonstration when onboard a plane, you really should.
But in case you fly with South West airlines, I'm sure this guy will get your attention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivjybzdXVmI

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Stealth bomber photographed breaking sound barrier.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/05/51.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...d-barrier.html

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If it's a stealth bomber, shouldn't it look like this. ;-)

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Also when did the stealth bomber have supersonic capability??? :rolleyes:

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...d-barrier.html

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Yep, I know it can happen at subsonic especially on a humid day at Hi-G's.... More peeved off with the typical overstatement headline that most newspapers seem to use to get readers.. (but I'm sure that's a whole other thread :D)

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A few photos from yesterday. I was passing by briefly near East Midlands Airport so got a few shots...

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This may interest a few people:

Monday 15th June BBC4

9.00pm - The Secret Life Of The Airport
New Series 1/3

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Some shots of this afternoon's practise sessions for the Wales National Airshow in Swansea this weekend, unfortunately curtailed by rain.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltawh...7621103460633/

http://walesnationalairshow.typepad....ional-airshow/

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Unfortunately the weather didn't play the game today. Only the RN helicopters were able to do their display before the flying was cancelled. Better luck tomorrow.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltawh...7621103460633/

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Better day today, I haven't posted any to Flickr yet but a few have escaped onto my twitpic page. :-) http://twitpic.com/photos/delta_whiskey

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Nice photos. It's great to see these. :tu:

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Lets see if there's any hangar pilots around and how many of you know your cockpits, I.e.:

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Si thee :Sprint:

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binnacles behind pilots ejector seat suggest a navigator on board, so my guess is a Tornado ..

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I'd say it was a Sea Harrier ;)

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Nope it's a tornado

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/07/30.jpg

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I can't see the cigarette lighter on that dashboard??? :erm:

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There is one...it's called the afterburner..

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The satnav's a bit complicated mind you...

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Why you carry a RIO, of course ;)

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http://twitpic.com/a4qqd

That one is awesome!
Didn't know they could do that. Unless the picture is wonky.

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seeing it makes it believable - what you may not realise is that the machine is actually travelling backwards during this manouver ....

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Well, that makes a lot more sense!