USAF out to potentially destroy RAF museum loan bomber

[T33driver]

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[mustangdriver]

I am trying to ask if there is information out there about how the other one was taken apart. The article I erad says basically they are all doomed to scrap. I would rather attempt to save the aircraft. Maybe by comparing notes we can see just how is the best way to take apart the aircraft if it comes to that.

That's the right attitude.

I meant no disrespect. So chill.

Would be nice. It was 43C today here, and at 11pm it's 33C (that's 110 - 91 F). Going to be over 40 for the rest of the week.

No worries.

I meant chill in a friendly way by the way. It is hard to catch a tone sometimes in how things are written.

[JDK]

I meant chill in a friendly way by the way. It is hard to catch a tone sometimes in how things are written.

Don't worry, Chris, I know what you mean. Thanks.

[peter]

Ok from what I have read and seen two things need to happen.
Someone needs to contact the museum directly and ask about the future of the Vulcan. If it turns out to be true and they have to dispose of it then action needs to be taken quickly. She could be moveds to a different area on the present airport sight if it is a possibility?? Then a building could be put up around it?
Secondly if it has to be taken apart then for god sakes speak to RAF Hendon and find out who was involved with dismantling of XL318 when she was moved to the RAF museum at Hendon.
Just my two cents.

[Mark_Pilkington]

BTW, for our international readers, a 'dill' is an insult, not a small pickle. However calling someone a small pickle is about the level of insult, although it's actually an abbreviation for a man-substitute with batteries.

Given the focus of journalistic correctness I do feel the need to add to James' advice to the world on the aussie slang use of "dill", and correct its orgins.

It universally means "idiot" here in Australia, but usually in a jesting, endearing or affectionate way rather than as a serious insult (we have far better words for that).

However its use well and trully pre-dates the arrival of battery operated marrital aids into the world and any impact on the vocabulary.

I suspect like many Australian slang terms it has its origins as an adaption of an overseas term:

dilly
"delightful or excellent person or thing" [b](often used ironically), [/b]1935, from an earlier adj. (1909), perhaps from the first syllable of delightful or delicious, or related to the nursery word for "duck." Dilly was also slang for a stagecoach (1818), from Fr. carrosse de diligence. The noun is 1935. Dilly-dally is from 1741, a reduplication of dally.

Interestingly the term James is linking it to is much older than its modern battery operated decendents.

dildo
c.1593, perhaps a corruption of It. deletto "delight," or (less likely) of Eng. diddle (q.v.). "Curse Eunuke dilldo, senceless counterfet" ["Choise of Valentines or the Merie Ballad of Nash his Dildo," T. Nashe, c.1593]

As James explained we are enjoying run of 40C days this week, and for those not fully aware of the Celcius to to Fahrenheit conversions, James and I are to enjoy 43.4 Degrees C today, or 110 degrees F.

But relief is on its way, we have a cool change expected on Saturday, 39C or 102F!

So we would certainly appreciate "chill"-ing

we now resume to normal programs and the scrapping of vulcans

smiles

Mark Pilkington

[Enemy Ace]

How about they just get their act together and start being a viable museum? I'm sure that wouldn't cost any more than moving a Vulcan halfway across the country by truck.