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  1. Paul Drake
    On this note, bearing in mind that this country's Civil Defence effectively no longer exists, I recently enquired of our local district council (South Somerset) what their budget was and what they intended to do if the Japanese radiation incident worsened and the population needed protection. They merely pointed me at the National Incident website. I went there and was not inspired by what I read. I suspect anything done in any kind of disaster scenario would be too little and too late.
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    It wasn't my birthday today but it could have been! BBMF Lancaster and Spitfire MK365 flypast at Sedgemoor Vintage Rally (while on their way to Yeovilton Air Day) but didn't have the camera. And back home had the Vulcan come round by the flat, 100 feet or less!
  3. Paul Drake
    At Sedgemoor Vintage Rally, a Wynns Pacific (ex M26 dragon wagon) and RAF refuelling trailer. Both are part of the Mike Lawrence collection. Wynns pic from Flickr. Refuelling trailer pic previously posted by Smithy (it's the same one). Also had a flypast by BBMF Lancaster and Spitfire MK365, while on their way to Yeovilton Air Day. When I got home had the good fortune to catch the Vulcan display (pics posted in Aviation forum). Could have been my birthday!
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    When at the Bristol Classic Car Show this year (entry organised by John Wardle) someone came up to me and the Land Rover and asked when I was going to do it up, I said it was! I painted it myself in Berlin Brigade scheme from green / black camo, roller and brush which is the way it would have been done in service, unless in for a full overhaul when it might have had a full spray job. It still has all its orignal dents etc.
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    Why aircraft spotters near airfields seem to; Forget their common sense, if they ever had any; Forget the highway code, if they ever read it; Do not understand the meaning of "Avon and Somerset Constabulary - No waiting", or the reason for it being there, or choose to ignore it altogether and break the law!
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    The following pics (cropped) were taken at Imber on 22 April 2011, these are visible from the Warminster to Imber road. If someone is going to do a book, will it include gate guards as in the aviation Wrecks and Relics books? Also do you count non targets on military training area. In the 1980's there were half a dozen stripped out Pigs on the training area behind RAF Barnham.
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    Not all today, Hunter was spotted Wednesday, the rest today, may be able to get some more pics on Friday when things arrive for Saturday's show.
  8. Paul Drake
    When I first went to the Somerset Steam Spectacular as public, I parked up, and one of the organisers, a lady, came over and admonished me for not displaying the Land Rover. I said it's not quite ready (meaning all the gubbins and gear that goes with a military vehicle) and she said Don't do anything to it, it looks like a working military vehicle, we get far too many shiny vehicles, which shouldn't be. The Landy is still not "restored", just kept working.
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    I was there as joe public, as I always have been when it was at Horndean, and I don't think anything could be improved from my own perspective.
  10. Paul Drake
    Yes, things like that do sell, I have seen a lot of stalls selling dug up items, some from WW1, some later. I myself have some Minie ball rounds dug up from an American Civil War battlefield.
  11. Paul Drake
    It's nice to see these odd things occasionally, unless of course you're a proper full time spotter. Our daily bread at Yeovilton is of course Sea Kings, Lynx and Hawks.
  12. Paul Drake
    It is a Polikarpov Po-2 registration G-BSSY.
  13. Paul Drake
    Both landing at Yeovilton this afternoon. (The pictures are not mine). The Lynx from HMS Endurance and one of the Wildcat team Lynx.
  14. Paul Drake
    Not quite true, Vietnam claimed 57,939 American lives. The first day of the Somme there were 60,000 casualties, of whom 20,000 were dead, the rest wounded or missing. It is true that there were more casualties in the American Civil War than in all subsequent American wars combined.
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    A sand coloured Series Land Rover with military markings, in the forecourt of West Coker (Somerset) garage.
  16. Paul Drake
    Haha, a good day for you then.
  17. Paul Drake
    July 1st 1960, first Vulcan BMk2 XH558 delivered to RAF.
  18. Paul Drake
    Today in 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
  19. Paul Drake
    I think it's called a Dragon gun he uses in one video, and it's awesome!
  20. Paul Drake
    Wow, it's just awesome that you own Rattlesden, there are far too few of those old bases left.
  21. Paul Drake
    Thank you Clive, that bit I didn't know.
  22. Paul Drake
    My electrickery knowledge is not as good as some, but if you select IR switch on and get no headlights, isn't that what it is designed to do?
  23. Paul Drake
    Nothing. It is the responsibility of show organiser to demand tax etc for vehicles on show, if they so desire, and the police to deal with it on the public highway (or the pavement which is where I see a lot of cars parked around here). In my humble opinion.
  24. Paul Drake
    There is actually a Barbed Wire museum in Wyoming!
  25. Paul Drake
    I waited from 21.00 and they came by about 22.00, the weather on their way up to Taunton must have been awful, but had improved this evening. I'm sure they will have had a great reception at Podimore as several people stopped and asked me the way there, and had they been by yet.
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