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PeteXXX

PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
Location
Hamtun
To commemorate 90 years since the 1st test flight of the Spitfire...

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E&OE
 

Tenkaykev

Guru
Location
Poole
To commemorate 90 years since the 1st test flight of the Spitfire...

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Ooh, might be based at Hurn ( Bournemouth) airport before the start as there's lots of ancillary facilities available there. 🤞
 

Dogtrousers

Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
In France, before the advent of the electric telegraph there was a network of semaphore telegraph towers, the Chappe Telegraph, on top of each tower was a gigantic mechanical boy scout. I have a MBIFO photo of a monument at the site of one
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https://blog.xoxzo.com/2018/12/07/history-optical-telegraph/

The first two prototypes were destroyed by angry mobs. Possibly of boy scouts.
 
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