T Break thread 2023

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by S griffin

the staff are doing their job.

Yech! Keep the attitude right and dont forget the Otto Pilot surely… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMhYl74vw2c

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by E.B

Im right now sitting in the departure lounge at Melbourne Airport waiting for my flight to Spain to be called.... should get to my Mums in Calpe by Saturday night ready to party and celebrate her 90th Birthday on Sunday. Then 5 weeks of being a beach bum and bar frequenter. Gets me away from the Melbourne winter as well.

Chris, it's a shame that we can't meet up halfway in Spain as it's 180 miles between us and we won't be there until the 8th September. By the way it's ******g hot down there at the moment

[Paul D]

And don't forget the first rule of flying: make sure the number of landings matches the number of take-offs. If it doesn't match, look out the window to see if you're in the air!

[midgetman]

Oh they'll match no matter what happens, it's just the amount of control that varies. Unless he's abducted by aliens of course.

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[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by Paul D

And don't forget the first rule of flying: make sure the number of landings matches the number of take-offs. If it doesn't match, look out the window to see if you're in the air!

Unless you are asking a para?

Incidentally, my personal tally is more landings than take-offs at the moment.

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by midgetman

Unless he's abducted by aliens of course.

Dave is an alien travelling in-cognito. Actually…

[S griffin]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Dave is an alien travelling in-cognito. Actually…

Well it would explain a lot! Just kidding, I hope...

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Dave is an alien travelling in-cognito. Actually…

Now, where have I read that before?

[Gerard C]

In-cidentally and in-situ of your in-signature may be… (I knew you will show)

[Gerard C]

Copenhagen Historic GP 2023 live streaming seems to be avalaible through NBC Sports if you create an account (which I did not do):https://catvsports.cf/car-sports.php...rand+Prix+2023 Didn't find a link to the Live Timing tho.

[delta]

Ah Well not the greatest weekend for Tenther racers . MG David had engine wows . Our 1 st race was red flagged as nasty accident . Driver ok but broken foot and back injuries . Left us all feeling a bit down about todays race . Start got delayed and it then rained and I just had a steady run to P 4. My highlight was youngsters coming by afterwards telling me my engine sounded the best . Chuffed as I built it . Team Delta staying here tonight . Beer and Pizza . Head to Nurburgring in the morning .

[John Elwin]

Sorry to hear about David's problems - it's a long way to go for that to happen, but at least you are all in one piece. Enjoy the beer & pizza!

Say 'Hello' to Terence for me. Don't suppose you are passing my way, are you? If so, I'll put the kettle on!

[The Fat Clerk]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

Unless you are asking a para?

Incidentally, my personal tally is more landings than take-offs at the moment.

I'm the opposite, In the 1980's I took off over 120 times more than I landed, well obviously I did land but mainly on my backside, or on one occasion in the sea n

Those were the days

[Lancsbreaker]

Originally Posted by crmalcolm

Unless you are asking a para?

Incidentally, my personal tally is more landings than take-offs at the moment.

You were born in a plane?

[E.B]

With me it seems my suitcase has made one less flight than I have. Last seen at Barcelona airport when I checked in for my short flight down to Alicante. The airline's words of encouragement amounted to Üsually, lost bags turn up somewhere within 72 hours. Im getting bored with wash 'n'wear and/or buying something to wear each day. However it seems what was delayed luggage'' yesterday has today been re-classified as lost luggage!

Edit: They just rang to tell me they believe they have found it and will try to deliver it to Mum's home today.
I just hope the final leg of my bag's journey has not been given to Mañana Movers''! Her (90th) Birthday party is this afternoon and evening and not only are my clothes currently missing but also a few bottles to help with celebrations are in the bag also!

Happy Days!

[delta]

Fly ping eck . I’m sure it will turn up Chris

[Gerard C]

Breaking news! Lost AND fund dept at Barcelona airport are happy to report an afFordable mega Fiesta organized thanks to the courtsey of a passenger coming from Corkscrewland. Wandering half-naked and using a moped while wearing swimming suits only he could be arrested promptly! Happy day!
Happy birthday to You, Mamma Dave.

[Mike Harte]

In theory at least, the incidents of "lost" luggage should be considerably reduced nowadays from major airports around the world due to the vastly improved baggage handling with the assistance of modern technology. So I do hope that your missing piece turns up this afternoon, Chris.

It actually amazes me that during the 70s and the 80s that I only had one instance of any baggage going missing, taking into account at the height of my travels, I was taking flights at least once every fortnight and sometimes multiple times during a two week period; my personal record was 8 countries in just 11 days. Doing that, you quickly learnt how to live out of a suitcase; everything packed for easy access to all the important bits and pieces.

The one occasion that one of the two suitcases that I usually travelled with happened in Tokyo. I was delayed going through immigration because of their processes back then, and by the time I got to the baggage carousel, one of my cases was nowhere to be seen. The big problem for me was that I was only scheduled to be in Japan for about 36 hours so it was important that the case was found promptly. Then a catastrophe occurred, the official dealing with logging the details of the lost case then "lost" both my passport and the airline ticket which nobody could then find.

So the police had to be called and they gave me a report which I needed to register in my hotel, and which I had to hand in to a police station in the city. When I checked into the hotel, there was a message from the airport to tell me that the suitcase had been handed in to the authorities at the airport; apparently, another passenger had taken my black suitcase mistakenly believing that it was his navy blue case. I'm still puzzled by that, but at last they then delivered them to the hotel later that evening.

After reporting in to the local police station and completing multiple forms about my still missing passport and ticket, I returned to my hotel room and then received a phone call from the authorities in the airport to tell me that my bits had been found; someone had, seemingly, knocked them into a waste basket and an observant cleaner had noticed them. For reasons best known to them, these items couldn't be delivered to me; I had to take the hour plus journey out to Narita airport to collect them. So, back I went, however at that time there were very big protests taking place around Narita, and the police and their defence forces had created a ring of steel around the area and everyone entering had to show their documents before being allowed into the airport and, of course, I didn't have them because the authorities in the airport had them. And that meant that I was escorted off the airport express coach, which back then was the easiest and quickest way to travel between the city centre and the airport with their own designated traffic lanes. I was then escorted by an armed guard to retrieve everything and then took the journey back.

[S griffin]

Yes, I think they have measures in place to make sure lost luggage isn't lost for very long. So fingers crossed for you Chris.

It was more common back in the day when airports weren't as organised as they are now. Glad it all worked out for you Mike and that it only happened once. That sounds like a lot of hassle to get it back.

[GORDON STREETER]

My sister flew down to use our place in Spain with one of her sons and his wife, unfortunately his luggage didn't appear. However as he is about the same size as me he just used some of my clothes for a few days until his case was delivered to him
Sue and I flew back from Mexico years ago but her case went "somewhere else" she got it back 3 months later completely ruined with most of the stuff soaking wet or missing
Being frequent travellers to Spain we don't have to take any luggage at all and can just go to the airport with a passport and phone. If we did we would't put anything important in a case that we couldn't carry on ourselves.

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER

However as he is about the same size as me

If you still have a spare pink tutu… A VGC pair of very big big castanets and an old guitar would be much appreciated too. Thanks Gordon! Asking for my friend!

[Gerard C]

Good news it seems some is having some fun in Spain. First "play list" I got (thanks for "sharing"):https://fr.style.yahoo.com/stars-en-...104212905.html I swear I din't go further than the first pic, for obvious reason. Honest!

[grantp]

Crikey Mr. Harte, that all sounded a bit too dramatic for my liking.

When I was a regular traveller to and from the continent I ought a decent, strong briefcase and a saddlebag for it.

The Scandinavians would always ask for duty free booze to be provided and the Finns liked cigarettes too. So the briefcase was useful for some such goods to save the need for an excess of plastic duty free bags.

The saddlebag would hold a weeks worth of office clothes, etc. For most flights the carry-on restrictions were, back then, quite generous and for awkward size restrictions the soft saddlebag and the option to remove it from the briefcase worked very well. Even better when flights were full and overhead lockers overflowing. The bag could be fitted in somewhere and the briefcase could go under the seat.

Longer trips to hot places were not so easy but I always made sure I had at least a day or two's necessities with me just in case anything I had to put in the hold went missing.

[Mike Harte]

Grant, possibly I should have explained that I was often away for 6 to 8 weeks starting in the Netherlands before going on to the Far East. Business attire varied from country to country, fairly casual in Singapore to proper suits and ties in Hong Kong. Thus I needed the 2 suitcases, mainly for clothes, but also to bring samples of goods back with me.

About Hong Kong, in the 70s and 80s, as I said, you were expected to wear a business suit no matter the weather. It always made me laugh that ex-pats would wear their suit jackets when outside of the office regardless of how hot or humid it was, yet the moment that they stepped into their highly air-conditioned offices, where it felt like stepping into a fridge, they then removed said jackets and proceeded to roll up their sleeves. I did the opposite.

[S griffin]

Some things haven’t changed about travel, but plenty of other things have. Not surprised the Scandinavians wanted duty free booze, but then it’s been common for people to get that cheaper in another country first. I’m amazed how you could carry all that around Grant, must have been a bit of a struggle. But your story is interesting all the same, so cheers for it