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Offline Shallowhal

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Legend
« on: May 21, 2019, 11:00:39 am »
Legendary F1 driver Niki Lauda dies aged 70 https://jrnl.ie/4644549

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Re: Legend
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2019, 11:03:55 am »
Niki was looking for an assistant with great observational skill.

So he asks each guy that comes in "What's the first thing you notice about me?" and everyone says "You have no ears!". Needless to say none of them gets hired.

Finally one guy says "You're wearing contacts".

Niki Lauda says "That's awesome! You're the first guy to notice! Tell me, what gave it away?"

And the guy goes "If you had ears you'd be wearing glasses"
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.

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Re: Legend
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2019, 05:20:22 pm »
RIP

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Re: Legend
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2019, 08:44:22 pm »
Didn't let tragedy affect his life.
R.I.P.

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Re: Legend
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2019, 09:00:53 pm »
R.I.P.

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Re: Legend
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2019, 11:14:38 pm »
He was tenacious when one of his aircraft crashed,kept at the investigators to get to the bottom of it which they did...an uncommanded thrust reverser during flight in one of the engines.

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Re: Legend
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2019, 11:26:51 pm »
He was tenacious when one of his aircraft crashed,kept at the investigators to get to the bottom of it which they did...an uncommanded thrust reverser during flight in one of the engines.
I'm ex aircraft maintenance. If you're interested in the nuts and bolts,  I've a book by Michael Crichton called Airframe.

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Re: Legend
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2019, 02:26:34 am »
He was tenacious when one of his aircraft crashed,kept at the investigators to get to the bottom of it which they did...an uncommanded thrust reverser during flight in one of the engines.
I'm ex aircraft maintenance. If you're interested in the nuts and bolts,  I've a book by Michael Crichton called Airframe.

I love all the tech stuff but unfortunately i'm a shite reader....not illiterate, just haven't got the patience for a book..but i'd sit for hours watching documentaries especially aircraft.

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Re: Legend
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2019, 03:45:10 am »
He was tenacious when one of his aircraft crashed,kept at the investigators to get to the bottom of it which they did...an uncommanded thrust reverser during flight in one of the engines.
I'm ex aircraft maintenance. If you're interested in the nuts and bolts,  I've a book by Michael Crichton called Airframe.

I love all the tech stuff but unfortunately i'm a shite reader....not illiterate, just haven't got the patience for a book..but i'd sit for hours watching documentaries especially aircraft.
  Mmm have a great fondness for landing strips myself.
"So look into the mirror, do you recognise someone, is it who you always thought you would become, when you were young?"

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Re: Legend
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2019, 04:33:40 am »
I like reading books but there has to be lots of pictures as well.
i can't sit and look at something that looks like a phone book the way novels are.
anyway I hate every form of motorsport especially formula one.

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Re: Legend
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2019, 05:07:25 am »
He was tenacious when one of his aircraft crashed,kept at the investigators to get to the bottom of it which they did...an uncommanded thrust reverser during flight in one of the engines.
I'm ex aircraft maintenance. If you're interested in the nuts and bolts,  I've a book by Michael Crichton called Airframe.

Riveting.

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Re: Legend
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2019, 06:41:48 am »
I like reading books but there has to be lots of pictures as well.
i can't sit and look at something that looks like a phone book the way novels are.
anyway I hate every form of motorsport especially formula one.
Try a book called 'Shantaram', it's not about car racing and there is no pictures at all,
everything is left to the readers imagination.  Highly recommended.
Free from the local library or about a Tenner on Ebay.

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Re: Legend
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2019, 06:46:48 am »
Mmm have a great fondness for landing strips myself.
Fook sake ! Behave yourself Harry !!  rofl   rofl   rofl

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Re: Legend
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2019, 04:05:28 pm »
He was tenacious when one of his aircraft crashed,kept at the investigators to get to the bottom of it which they did...an uncommanded thrust reverser during flight in one of the engines.
I'm ex aircraft maintenance. If you're interested in the nuts and bolts,  I've a book by Michael Crichton called Airframe.

I love all the tech stuff but unfortunately i'm a shite reader....not illiterate, just haven't got the patience for a book..but i'd sit for hours watching documentaries especially aircraft.
  Mmm have a great fondness for landing strips myself.
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