Thunder City Aircraft For Sale... Lightnings, Hunters and Buccaneers

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Well it's been a sad last year or so for Capetown's Thunder City, and now the aircraft are up for sale.

http://www.go-dove.com/event-15794?lcid=en

Hopefully their next owners / owner will operate them with as much professionalism as Thunder City did.

Pailton Baby Farm - surprise Pram Museum!

My expecting wife and I visited the Baby Farm at Pailton... it's not
exactly as it sounds, I'm sure if you could buy babies from a farm, many ladies would be happy to not go through child birth! The baby farm is actually a shop for toys, prams, baby clothes etc...

Anyway, we didn't find what we went for, maternity clothes, but we DID discover an amazing museum tucked away upstairs in one if the barns... a museum of the history if prams!

The collection includes John Lennon's and Prince Charles's Prams!

It was fascinating, a great private collection, made publicly viewable! I applaud you, the baby farm!

Pram Mueum Official Website

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Broken down :o(

After a great day at Cranfield working on Lightning XS458, I had a troublesome journey home...

On the M1 I felt some vibration through the steering, so pulled into the nearest services, and inflated my tires. Upon inflation of the rear left, it made a funny creaking noise... looked behind it and found it was literally splitting open in front of my eyes! So I fitted the spare and carried on...

Then the front right blew-out about 10 miles later near the next services (A45)! Damn Damn Damn... ran out of spare wheels...

To cheer myself up, I walked to the services and got some food.

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VW Golf GTI 115bhp Exhaust Fault Finding

After the engine light coming on, I read the fault code, below:

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The advice given for code 16804 was to check the inlet and exhaust for leaks... and we could hear a blowing from the engine area, so I set about finding the fault!

It's hard to find a leak on an engine that's running, as the exhaust is really hot! So I improvised using a camp-bed air pump shoved up the exhaust pipe!! And with the addittion of some Fairy Liquid as a substitute to "Snoop", I found several leaks! ....along with a wet camera and very wet T-Shirt!

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Cheers, Scott