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Offline Martyn

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« Reply #30 on: May 16, 2006, 04:01:48 AM »
Any chance of something being organised for Duxford this year?

Even if it's only a meeting area?
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« Reply #31 on: May 16, 2006, 07:38:38 AM »
RIAT at Fairford?

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« Reply #32 on: May 16, 2006, 09:50:53 AM »
Come over to Italy Pooface... besides, I do work in the Munitions Area... there just might be some old TNT laying around! :t
Only 5 months left here... maybe England next for me?
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« Reply #33 on: May 16, 2006, 11:04:51 AM »
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Come over to Italy Pooface... besides, I do work in the Munitions Area... there just might be some old TNT laying around! :t
Only 5 months left here... maybe England next for me?


lol that would be fun!



as for duxford i think it would be really great. perhaps tilt you could get in touch with old guys too, get everyone together again, would be a blast!
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« Reply #34 on: May 16, 2006, 11:54:34 AM »
Email I sent/got from the organisers at Duxford...

Subject: Flying Legends Air Show

Hi,

I'm a member, and regular user, of the American on-line multi-user game Aces High. This is a simulation of a WW2 - mainly aircraft based - war, but it includes ships and vehicles as well. Pride of place is given to fighters and bombers of the 1939/1945 period with well over 60 different aircraft and vehicles modelled. There can be upwards of 400 players flying simultaneously against each other in 3 teams.

The website is: http://www.hitechcreations.com/

There's a very good match between Aces High and the show.

With the Flying Legends Air Show coming soon, some of the English players - WW2 enthusiasts all - have shown interest in coming to the event and meeting up as a group. This will be our chance to meet 'in the flesh' as it were.

We're considering purchasing (gold?) tickets which will give us better access to the planes/exhibits. Can you tell me if there's a party discount available - and if so what the prices and conditions are? Car parking etc?

Also - it's come up during discussions - we're very interested in obtaining bacon sandwiches at the event too. Do you happen to know if they'll be provided at, or close to, the event?

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Dear Martyn,

thanks for the email.  With regard to the gold pass tickets, we do not offer group discounts on these. If you would like to book some tickets (Gold pass or otherwise!), please call 01223 499353 (you will be charge a booking fee if you do it online).

You will be please to know that we do usually have bacon sandwiches on sale from the catering wagons that we have onsite, as well from the coffee shop located by new AirSpace hangar. Im reliably informed that they are very good too!

Hope that answers your questions,

Kind regards
Adam Kendall
Event Support Manager
Imperial War Museum Duxford
Cambridge
CB2 4QR
Tel: 01223 497984
Fax: 01223 837267
http://www.iwm.org.uk
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« Reply #35 on: May 16, 2006, 12:02:32 PM »
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Originally posted by Martyn
Email I sent/got from the organisers at Duxford...

Subject: Flying Legends Air Show

Hi,

I'm a member, and regular user, of the American on-line multi-user game Aces High. This is a simulation of a WW2 - mainly aircraft based - war, but it includes ships and vehicles as well. Pride of place is given to fighters and bombers of the 1939/1945 period with well over 60 different aircraft and vehicles modelled. There can be upwards of 400 players flying simultaneously against each other in 3 teams.

The website is: http://www.hitechcreations.com/

There's a very good match between Aces High and the show.

With the Flying Legends Air Show coming soon, some of the English players - WW2 enthusiasts all - have shown interest in coming to the event and meeting up as a group. This will be our chance to meet 'in the flesh' as it were.

We're considering purchasing (gold?) tickets which will give us better access to the planes/exhibits. Can you tell me if there's a party discount available - and if so what the prices and conditions are? Car parking etc?

Also - it's come up during discussions - we're very interested in obtaining bacon sandwiches at the event too. Do you happen to know if they'll be provided at, or close to, the event?

Regards

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Dear Martyn,

thanks for the email.  With regard to the gold pass tickets, we do not offer group discounts on these. If you would like to book some tickets (Gold pass or otherwise!), please call 01223 499353 (you will be charge a booking fee if you do it online).

You will be please to know that we do usually have bacon sandwiches on sale from the catering wagons that we have onsite, as well from the coffee shop located by new AirSpace hangar. Im reliably informed that they are very good too!

Hope that answers your questions,

Kind regards
Adam Kendall
Event Support Manager
Imperial War Museum Duxford
Cambridge
CB2 4QR
Tel: 01223 497984
Fax: 01223 837267
http://www.iwm.org.uk





sammiches! yay!!! :D

ok, well i think im going, and despite what tilt has wiseley said im thinking of the gold pass. im not sure what you guys want to do, or how many want to come but the more the merrier! if some people want to go for the normal ticket we still wont have any trouble meeting up and seeing the museum together;)
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« Reply #36 on: May 16, 2006, 12:49:50 PM »
The snag is if I go, my daughter would want to come and my wife would want to too. That's £210 excluding the petrol, meals on the way, compulsory visit to the in-laws, making sandwiches to eat en-route (wife insists!), meals out on the way back, inevitable repairs to the car, negotiations with the neighbours (to watch house), aplogies to the boss (something is BOUND to go wrong over that w/e), letter to the bank manager about reason for overdraught extension, etc. etc.

Bottom line cost could be £400+ plus a month on valium and emotional stress for the next 6 months. :(

However ... I shall start scheming and plotting and see what I can come up with. hee hee
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« Reply #37 on: May 16, 2006, 01:02:54 PM »
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The snag is if I go, my daughter would want to come and my wife would want to too. That's £210 excluding the petrol, meals on the way, compulsory visit to the in-laws, making sandwiches to eat en-route (wife insists!), meals out on the way back, inevitable repairs to the car, negotiations with the neighbours (to watch house), aplogies to the boss (something is BOUND to go wrong over that w/e), letter to the bank manager about reason for overdraught extension, etc. etc.

Bottom line cost could be £400+ plus a month on valium and emotional stress for the next 6 months. :(

However ... I shall start scheming and plotting and see what I can come up with. hee hee



:lol :lol :lol

lol mate. would be great if you could make it, hope you can:aok
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« Reply #38 on: May 16, 2006, 01:07:46 PM »
OK - so we get there. How do we recognise each other? I'm easy to recognise...

<=== that's a picture of me!
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« Reply #39 on: May 16, 2006, 01:36:00 PM »
Ok now ok..break it up..theres far too many Englishman in one room...move along...there ya go.
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« Reply #40 on: May 17, 2006, 09:36:43 AM »
I would love to go, but do we really have to take Jonny with us !

I mean the kids like 15, well at least someone could get in cheaper if you said he was your son !

:rofl :rofl :rofl
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« Reply #41 on: May 17, 2006, 10:04:14 AM »
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I would love to go, but do we really have to take Jonny with us !

I mean the kids like 15, well at least someone could get in cheaper if you said he was your son !

:rofl :rofl :rofl



:lol :lol :lol


im 17 you dweeb! :rofl  :furious


dude, you gonna drag your ki flying arse down, or up as the case may be? would be great to meet you in the flesh :)


and filth, you're just jealous!:D
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« Reply #42 on: May 17, 2006, 10:45:18 AM »
Maybe Jonny
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« Reply #43 on: May 17, 2006, 12:41:17 PM »
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 I forget who said it, but I love the quote:

The English and the Americans are one people separated by a common language.


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« Reply #44 on: May 17, 2006, 02:38:50 PM »
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Originally posted by MajWoody
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 I forget who said it, but I love the quote:

The English and the Americans are one people separated by a common language.


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I believe it was Gen George Patton
I believe Patton was quoting someone else.  

Quick google search . . .
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(Of England and America) ‘Two nations separated by a common language.’ Sometimes the inquirer asks, ‘Was it Wilde or Shaw?’ The answer appears to be: both. In The Canterville Ghost (1887), Wilde wrote: ‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’. However, the 1951 Treasury of Humorous Quotations (Esar & Bentley) quotes Shaw as saying: ‘England and America are two countries separated by the same language’, but without giving a source. The quote had earlier been attributed to Shaw in Reader’s Digest (November 1942). Much the same idea occurred to Bertrand Russell (Saturday Evening Post, 3 June 1944): ‘It is a misfortune for Anglo-American friendship that the two countries are supposed to have a common language’, and in a radio talk prepared by Dylan Thomas shortly before his death (and published after it in The Listener, April 1954) - European writers and scholars in America were, he said, ‘up against the barrier of a common language’. Inevitably this sort of dubious attribution has also been seen: ‘Winston Churchill said our two countries were divided by a common language’ (The Times, 26 January 1987; The European, 22 November 1991.) (http://www1c.btwebworld.com/quote-unquote/p0000149.htm)
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