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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Pooface on May 15, 2006, 11:14:59 AM
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i was thinking it might be fun to meet up with some of you sometime. was thinking that maybe we'd all organise a certain day to go to an airshow or museum together, have a little gathering. duxford is always popular, several airshows this summer, anyone think they might be interested?
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im always interested
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Duxford is cool. Count me in.
OTH - I live in Surrey, so Fairoaks is pretty cool too. Not quite so many fighters there, but a nice bacon sarny on sunday mornings. :aok
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Originally posted by Martyn
Duxford is cool. Count me in.
OTH - I live in Surrey, so Fairoaks is pretty cool too. Not quite so many fighters there, but a nice bacon sarny on sunday mornings. :aok
bacon butties with a decent pint are worth a visit! :D
reason i ask is that duxford have their big ole airshows over the summer, and im thinking it would be a great day out to have a little european mini-con at duxford, see the museum then have great seats for the show itself:aok
would be really great if we could get a group of 20 or so guys together:)
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i may have time if given enough notice
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I'm in!
From my calendar...
Duxford Flying Legends: 8/9 July
Farnborough: 17 - 23 July
Beltring W&P: 19 - 23 July
Wings'n Things: 6 Aug
Redhill: 20 Aug
If I get the first round, then I'll be completely sloshed by the time No. 20 arrives! Assuming each has to buy a round on arrival. ;)
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flying legends is the big one, loads of planes from all countries, it's this july, so some time to plan in advance...
Flying Legends Airshow (http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conEvent.880)
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That's 3 of us for Duxford.
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depends on what other people want to do. there are multiple ticket options, including the goldpass, which costs quite a bit more, but you get a VIP enclosure right next to the planes and i think you also get to go walkabout and take a look at all the planes before they all go up.
i dunno what people want to do and how much they want to spend, but i might be tempted to spend the extra cash.
there are 2 days, i was thinking the saturday, easier for most:aok
depends on what other people want to do though, im quite happy to do what everyone else wants to do
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How much for one of these tickets?
I'd consider it.
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Originally posted by Martyn
How much for one of these tickets?
I'd consider it.
i think it's 70 quid for the gold pass, gets you a ton of stuff, VIP enclosure, plane walkabout, i think early entry to museum, lots of stuff.
if you want the buffet lunch too it's 91 pounds, but i think i'd rather go with a bacon buttie or two from the burger shop:aok
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Ouch!
Then again it's once a year or so. If we get a few more, or join up with another crowd I'm in. I'll try and find some others to come along.
Hmmmm....
Is there a secret AH handshake or something? LOL
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I was puzzled at first, so I went searching and found that the Bacon Buttie is a type of English "health food".
Heat a large frying pan: melt and heat the dripping.
Add the bacon, watching out for fat spitting out at you. Fry until nice and crisp then remove from the pan.
Add the butter to the pan.
Fry the slices of bread on one side in the fat and butter for a minute or two only, just so that they soak up the juices.
Place two pieces of bread, fried side up, on the plates.
Build up the buttie with the bacon and sliced fresh tomatoes. Season with pepper. Pour over any other juices from the pan, top with the other slice of bread, fried side down, and serve.
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The Scots version is even more ... 'interesting'.
Do as above then coat in batter and deep fry. Serve with chips.
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i tell ya there is NOTHING better on a nice summer afternoon than a pint of fine english ale and a bacon buttie:D refreshing like nothing else
oh, and toad, your recipe forgot the secret ingredient, some nice ketchup!
oh wait, im not supposed to be drinking yet am i??:lol
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I'm a brown sauce man myself. White bread and butter, crispy bacon and HP sauce.
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White bread and butter, crispy bacon and fresh tomatoes.
YUM.
I lived in Switzerland for a while - they didn't have any bacon butties there. It's amazing how one can be permanently psychology scarred just knowing that the nearest bb is 500 miles away.
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Originally posted by Martyn
Serve with chips.
the yanks wont get that you muppet. the word french fries doesnt even apply either
well, for our unfortunate american cousins, who have never experienced the fine gourmet cuisine of england, chips are big wedges of potato dripping in fat and deep fried, served in wrapped newspaper, then covered in about 5 grams of salt and a pint of vinegar and some ketchup, goes well with fish. about 5000 calories per portion, yum!!! :D
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Originally posted by Martyn
I'm a brown sauce man myself. White bread and butter, crispy bacon and HP sauce.
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White bread and butter, crispy bacon and fresh tomatoes.
YUM.
I lived in Switzerland for a while - they didn't have any bacon butties there. It's amazing how one can be permanently psychology scarred just knowing that the nearest bb is 500 miles away.
yum, HP. and when i travel i always take BRITISH bread and bacon with me, because the stuff they sell in europe or the states as bread tastes like uttter crap lol, especially germany!! what do they eat for breakfast out there?!?!?!?!
personally, my favourite BB is toasted, then fried bread, on both sides, then covered in butter, lots of bacon, some crispy some really pink, topped with tomatoes, and then either ketchup or HP sauce served with nice hot homemade chips:cool:
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wouldnt a trip to the McDonalds nearest Heathrow be cheaper? :p
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Darn it PooFace!
I forgot that yanks speak a foreign language.
Curses!
I also forgot to mention that our Northern Neighbours like it served with 16 cans of industrial strength lager - so I've heard, anyway.
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Originally posted by Martyn
Darn it PooFace!
I forgot that yanks speak a foreign language.
Curses!
I also forgot to mention that our Northern Neighbours like it served with 16 cans of industrial strength lager - so I've heard, anyway.
:D
funny how they took a fantastic language and made a mess out of it isnt it?? i mean, calling crisps chips?? and chips, well, diet chips french fries?? how could the french come up with such food, they eat frogs afterall!
silly jaques chirac dissing british and swedish (or was it finnish) food 2 days before they picked the host for the olympics:rofl go eat a snail you smelly git!
J/K :D :p
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You know I've visited quite a few times but somehow I have always missed the bacon buttie.
I don't even remember seeing it on a menu board. It was probably there but I never noticed it.
Next trip I will definitely look one up with a suitable ale and see what I think.
There was a great fish and chips place not far from Mildenhall that we all supported.
Used to get some excellent Beef Wellington with all the trimmings at the Bell Hotel in Mildenhall too.
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im hungry... :noid
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Have it in Oregon. I betcha all could do with a break from the rain and I can knock up some real English grub, 'cept the bacon here sucks.
*entices* It's 90 degrees here and Evergreen Aviation is just down the road.
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can't go to an airshow without the full english inc fried bread...puts fur on your ribs...
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an fried black pud :D
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Originally posted by Martyn
Darn it PooFace!
I forgot that yanks speak a foreign language.
I forget who said it, but I love the quote:
The English and the Americans are one people separated by a common language.
BTW they are french fries because they are "french cut" -- least that is what I have been told. Besides, don't you know they are "Freedom Fries" now since the French opposed the Iraq war?
Nah, I don't buy it either. "Liberty Cabbage" instead of Sauar Kraut didn't last beyond WWI. "Freedom Fries" lasted about 8 seconds before the laughter started.
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You Brits talk funny :D
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Bacon butties are an English delicacy - especially if it's Danish Bacon. Like Chinese take-away and Indian take-away.
... hmmmm ...
MacDonalds at Heathrow? American take-away? ... ... Nah! Small slices of cardboard in a pap-bap of air while watching planes that look the same simply going up and coming down - from a great distance.
I shall email the folks at Duxford and see if they have any bacon butties planned.
Actually - Duxford and AH have a lot in common. It'd be nice to have a little AH tent at the show and then kidnap passers-by and let them play AH - get them hooked. Maybe for a small fee ... ... might subsidise the drinks bill somewhat too.
Must be worth something to someone - hint hint.
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I will be at Flying Legends...............
I did the Gold pass thing a couple of years back when I took my father......
I think its value is questionable................. main benefit is a big marque to hide in if it rains................... seating out side is "compact".... meal is a set buffet and there are not enough table seats for one sitting flightline pass can be bought on the day separately.
I usually go by bike to avoid queues and buy a folding chair for £10 (or cheaper) then set up camp on the lawn infront of the burger/bar area.
Discarding the chair at the end of the event.
There is/was a UK mail bot for AH'ers that was run by the Kraits (it was originally set up for Airwarrior) which tended to pull all UK based squads togther and for many years became the organising focus for UK conventions.
The three main squads involved (Kraits, Firebirds, Wings of Death) are sadly now very depleted in numbers or playing elsewhere and the mailbot hardly used.
http://www.airwar.org.uk
UK conventions were run between 97 and 2003 with upto 40/50 attendees and after dinner talks given by ex spit/hurricane/lanc pilots and aircrew with as many as 25/30 PC's networked.
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Any chance of something being organised for Duxford this year?
Even if it's only a meeting area?
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RIAT at Fairford?
http://www.airtatto.com
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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?
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Originally posted by ChristCAF
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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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
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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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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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Originally posted by Martyn
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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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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Ok now ok..break it up..theres far too many Englishman in one room...move along...there ya go.
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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
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Originally posted by Kazaa
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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Maybe Jonny
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Quote
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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Brauno
I believe it was Gen George Patton
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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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Brauno
I believe it was Gen George Patton
I believe Patton was quoting someone else.
Quick google search . . .
(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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OK then - all AH members turn up at Duxford wearing a pink carnation.
...and just to make sure it's noticeable - you will not be allowed to wear anything else.
At all. :lol
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Hello my British friends, i wish i was British sometimes, you guys have a relaxed way of James Bondishness about you, plus the accent is cool.:aok
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Ah airshows, the smell of burger wagons and freshly trampled grass. I really must go to flying legends one of these days. Last warbird airshow I went to in England was at West Malling many moons ago. The aircraft were parked at the crowd line. Have you ever stood behind a Spitfire when it started up. Magic!!!! There was even an Me163 there, static of course.
All this talk of food, I remember one famous English snack not mentioned here. 'Ere mate, give us a cheese n chutney sammidge.' Now I'm hungry.
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I love food but man I think my vains started to harden just reading it.
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Now then, north east calling!
Very interested in meeting up for some bacon sarnies, gotta be brown sauce for me!!!
The sideline of an airshow adds an added touch of enticement too.
Let me know what transpires, locations, date, cost etc.
Anyone know if they do chicken parmo's daarn souf??
Hammy should know what one is!
Smiggy.
:lol
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