The Sock
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- Location
- London, England
Fifty-eight days without rain. Plenty of wildfires in the UK, but this is just a sunset over London.
Taken by the Mrs.
Taken by the Mrs.
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Weather where you are?
- Thread starter helicopterjim
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Perry
Hero member
- Location
- West Dorset UK
Don't worry Hamish, that grass will come back.
The Sock
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- Location
- London, England
One of my riding buddies flew Bird dog (Cessna 310) for them back in the day. Their paths may have crossed, Sadly he is not with us anymore (not from flying or riding)
Ian Short
Full member
- Location
- Cambridge Ontario
Joe (Brother in law) spent a ton of time flying up in the Arctic as well (based out of Cambridge Bay and Yellowknife). He spent most of his career up there flying for Adlair (owner was pretty famous in arctic flying circles) and Summit Air which Ledcor eventually bought. He also did a stint with First Air and was Captain of their Herc.
When flying for Summit he was primarily in Dornier 228's and actually rebuilt 2 of them in Germany and then puddle jumped one from Germany to Yellowknife.
The other Dornier 228 was sold to a whack job cult leader, some of our Aussie and Kiwi members on the forum likely heard of, his name was Hopeful Christian. I believe he originated from Australia but ultimatley settled in New Zealand and set up a cult called Gloriavale. People can do their own research, but if hell is a real place it's perfect for this asshole.
As an aside I asked Joe not too long ago what happened to the cult Dornier, and he realated that the plane was essentially written off when the whack ass cult decided to repaint it and then proceeded to sand down the airframe, rivets and all, and repaint it with automotive paint.
Dirk Hadler was his name, a high time helicopter pilot who started his commercial career flying Bell 47s in The arctic. ( actually started his flying career delivering newspapers for the Medicine Hat newspaper flying a Piper J3 cub and throwing them out as he circled the local farm/ranches houses in southern Alberta, (you can't make this stuff up), Was a HD rider
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Ian Short
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- Location
- Cambridge Ontario
Nothing like air pollution for a nice sunset.
Paul
There is a big bunch of Ozzies and Kiwis bushfire people fighting fires on 3 continents at the moment, and a NSW-based Chanook is in Europe doing the same. It's a crazy world we all live in now. The TV news said 3 continents; for sure Europe and North America, no idea what the 3rd might be unless it's here in Oz; we do get fires in Winter; we could safely send help to where it was needed in the world. Winter fires never happened when I was a kid.
motoddrob
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- Location
- S/W Australia
I believe the 3rd continent was Antarctica Vince!!
piranha-bro2
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- Location
- Melbourne
The Mt Pinatubo eruption about 30 years ago gave us superb sunsets for about 12 months ... jet engines didn't like it much tho.
Not bushfire-related, but the mid-winter medical evacuation using Australian Assests from the US McMurdo Station Antarctic base was pretty impressive. Bit of a cold, dark flight.
www.abc.net.au
'Extraordinary' Antarctic medevac performed in extreme -43C conditions
The temperature on the icy continent was a frosty -43 degrees Celsius when an Australian crew evacuated a polar expeditioner after an "urgent request for assistance".
www.abc.net.au
Perry
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- Location
- West Dorset UK
I know we could do with the moisture but you really are the wettest of wet blankets !
You must be used to those.
Paul
Perry
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- Location
- West Dorset UK
No, I discovered Tena for men , soft, strong and thoroughly absorbant 
78jotadave
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Or maybe the effects of a tropical storm rolling up the Gulf of California and sitting over the Santa Rosas. I was out hiking with 'Peach' the dog when we got drenched by the storm; the sunset made up for it.
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There hasn't been a tropical storm in London since the demise of Victoria.
Paul
78jotadave
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I thought Vickie was still out and about.
Andy J
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- Location
- Isle of Man
Apparently we’ve always had sunsets and fires….