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billd766

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  1. IIRC it looks like a full size concrete mixer truck, which holds about 9 cu/m of concrete when full. Depending on the concrete mix, that would weigh perhaps 15 tons plus the weight of the truck. Perhaps over 22 tons all up weight and not particularly stable at speed either.

     

    It doesn't look as though he even tried to slow for the U-turn.

     

    The poor woman never stood a chance.

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  2. 11 minutes ago, Yodarapper said:

    I’m on my phone and not sure where the private message button is?

    If you hover your keyboard mouse over his name, you will see his details come up on the screen, In the bottom left corner there is a message box that you should be able to send him a PM.

  3. 3 hours ago, Smilin in Thailand said:

     

    Free thinking people have a right to think and act autonomously.

     

    Brain washed fools like you just want us to shut up and get with the program.

     

    You will become extinct because you are spineless and incapable of rational thought.

    When you have nothing to respond with, simply attack the poster.

     

    Never mind the truth, never mind staying on topic. They don't matter.

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  4. 4 hours ago, retarius said:

    Why not arrest him?

    If he is not in Thailand, how can he be arrested?

     

    If he had been sent to trial, found guilty and THEN skipped the country, it would be down to the Thai police to ask Interpol to issue a red notice, that he should be held and THEN handed over to the Thai police.

     

    At this point he is only "alleged" to have committed a crime and he has not had his day in court yet.

  5. 5 hours ago, bradiston said:

    Excellent article. Should be pinned to the top of every forum!

    I agree that it should be, but it wouldn't make any difference. It would simply be ignored. It would however make more work for any of the modulators who would have to look at and read every post on every forum and check each post for contact.

     

    Then they would have to bar every poster that broke the rule, and ensure that each new poster is not a banned member who is recycled.

  6. 25 minutes ago, John Drake said:

     

    These helicopters will never be used in a war. OTOH, they just might prove useful during natural disasters.

    They are too small to carry stretchers internally and would need to be retrofitted with external stretchers as the Bell 47/H13 as used in the M.A.S.H. TV series were. This puts an extra external load on the helicopter and would be better if 1 stretcher each side were used to balance the load out. It would probably be able to carry 1 pilot, plus preferably 1 medic and 2 pax. I am not sure if it would be able to carry an underslung load, or how heavy that load would be.

  7. 5 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

    Well they have been attacked a few times by arch enemy Burma, the Japs caused some issues, us Brits bombed them a bit, the French tried a land grab.
     

     

    And how many decades ago was that?

     

    The problem with only buying 8 helicopters is 2 fold.

     

    1.   During normal training, the most helicopters available on a daily basis will be 5 or if they are very lucky, 6. 

     

    2.   In a real shooting war, 6 will be available for a first strike, for the second strike, they may be lucky to raise 4, for a 3rd strike they may get 1 or 2, there will probably be no 4th strike as they will all have been destroyed in action.

     

    It would be best if the airmen were trained in ground defence as there will most likely be no helicopters left.

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