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Mikolaj got the job when you fired me.

For you, we are all Spartacus.

It would be so much nicer if you would start another thread to discuss the rights and wrongs of the war and left this one...

I’m biassed. I will admit to liking the S&S 34.

All the crook is doing is keeping Putin’s hopes alive.

I fancy that I did.

Here she is again, one owner later:

https://i.postimg.cc/pLg4jTYs/54-EC6-A06-54-F6-4-FDB-8589-CAD2-DE61941-C.jpg

Well done Edward.

This is after I owned her but I don’t think she grew much:

https://i.postimg.cc/3RZczZMq/ED3-A41-AA-9-F55-4-FEF-8479-EAA7-C9-E10-F9-B.jpg

21ft?

You may find this helpful. Note the date of autocephalous status:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine

https://i.postimg.cc/6TsgfZWY/37-ACB3-EA-3316-4-CE2-ABC3-1-D4003-E165-CA.jpg

For a G&T - Adnams Copperhouse

For a Pink Gin* - Plymouth

For a Dry Martini - Berry Bros & Rudd No.3

* A...

At risk of armchair strategising, Russia’s advance seems to have “culminated”, to use a term I learned in the last year.

Unfortunately western enthusiasm for supplying Ukraine seems to have slowed...

70+. I’m seventy.

I notice that my depth perception at night has diminished. I drive roughly one tenth of the annual mileage that I ran up until Covid. I no longer break speed limits and I have...

I remember this sad case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_theft_of_C-130

I’ve “flown” a full mission Airbus simulator. I know ​that I can take off and I cannot land!

Thanks Collin, well spotted - here we are:

https://medium.com/@Stefan.Korshak/march-23-day-393-china-and-its-friends-bakhmut-spin-russian-sticks-and-carrots-7df135cf80d

“Do you think we might improve the shining hour by putting a tack in?”

- My late father, as we thundered towards a lee shore.

Winner.

HW Tilman version:
”To marry a wife will cost you much trouble,
But to fit out a ship, the expenses are double!”

This armchair general, possessing no experience or insight, assumes that Ukraine will drive to the sea through the Donbas, blow the bridge, and wait.

My friend Tim Huxley is a Hong Kong shipowner and a lifelong petrolhead. He was navigating in the modern Mille Miglia when his co-driver hit a post. The post went either side of his legs and he...

That’s a good point. If I recall correctly the Tsar chose the Russian gauge for that very reason.

Edited: I remembered a myth! Here’s the real story:
...

Nobody thinks that “Johan R” is Swedish - Heimlaga, who is Finnish but speaks Swedish - caught him out, a few miles up this thread, and he pulled his horns in for a while. There’s nothing to suggest...

Well done, Poland!

Stefan Korshak’s report just now:

https://medium.com/@Stefan.Korshak/march-19-day-389-bakhmut-tilting-point-or-not-euro-ammo-germany-does-the-right-thing-1fc6436a8eaf

O’Brian was quoting Falconer:

”The ship no longer can whole courses bear,
To reef them now becomes the master's care;
The sailors summon'd aft all ready stand,
And man the...

I like “The Memphis Belle”.

“I do not say the French cannot come. I only say they cannot come by sea.”

Admiral the Earl St Vincent, speaking to the House of Lords on Napoleon’s planned invasion, 1803.

He was right.

Perun on the Russian winter offensive:

https://youtu.be/qPhycuLAtaw

Interesting stuff here^.

I’m inclined to think “that’s pretty much it for the Russian Spring Offensive”.

One point that the KAL 007 story and the current US drone story have in common is the failure of Russian interceptors to follow the “rules” for interception of an unknown aircraft.

I was flying on Korean domestic flights at around that time. 707s.

There was a story that became quite famous in CRM circles; it might even be true:

KAL domestic flight preparing to land at...

Now that Joe has served his sentence, can we hope that Doug aka Rum Pirate might be considered for parole?

https://i.postimg.cc/vZwpxhfg/04-E3651-A-200-B-41-D2-BCA8-7-B5610-AE8-A91.jpg

Signed, ratified and in force: dark green
Signed and ratified but not yet in force - pale green
Signed but not...

That’s what I think.

ICC issues arrest warrant for Russian president https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64992727

Indeed he does, because he is unwilling to travel by aircraft.

The various British Royal Train coaches were never armoured, and are not armoured. Neither are the various automobiles and carriages in the royal mews.
...

V-1. Nobody is going to get near, let alone shoot down, a ballistic missile travelling at Mach 2 in a piston engine fighter and the V-2 did not have wings to tip.

The V-I was a “flying bomb”, with...

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/14379

Article on RAAM munitions

Well done!

She is looking lovely.

That is interesting.

“The Kremlin reportedly tasked the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) to recruit 400,000 contract servicemen starting on April 1.”

The Russian Government seems to have only one idea.

The problem may not be the notorious Credit Suisse; it may be Swiss banking regulation.

Sometimes, I’m still quite proud of the British Foreign Office:

https://twitter.com/fionajlincs/status/1636135127204999170?s=46&t=3k5CvikAcVMQABVuL2BQuQ

Stefan Korshak’s question and answer session and some notes on his trip to almost Bakhmut:

https://medium.com/@Stefan.Korshak/march-14-day-384-your-questions-and-some-road-trip-pix-b24877395bae
...

That’s the same with geared turbines. There is no clutch and no gearbox; you have a separate astern turbine which is almost always smaller than the ahead turbine but is on the same shaft and drives...

Maybe not faster but certainly far more fuel efficient at the same speed. The “Aquitania” was built as a coal burner like her smaller sisters “Mauritania” and “Lusitania” and was converted to oil...

It looks like it, to me, because I am reading dates of May and June for the delivery of the rather inadequate quantities of new equipment.

Simple derailments should never happen. It’s that simple.

In Britain the permanent way upkeep and maintenance functions were re- nationalised pretty quickly.

No; the point I was seeking to make is that his “public image”, like that of the present England international squad under Gareth Southgate, which emerged from the last World Cup without a yellow...

Here is a list of yellow cards shown to Gary Lineker in his international career, during which he became England’s fourth highest goal scorer:

0.

Perun. War production and the state of the economy on both sides.

This is a heavy one:

https://youtu.be/xmO1kfCr_II