18-12-2017, 05:45 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by
Pug
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I'm 'looking into' sink-holes,atm...
Well,it's either that,ot the '£15 billion railway' the govt is so proud of has taken a wrong turn whilst tunnelling...it may be the Pride of London to this POXY govt - but it's one HELL of a lot of dosh to spend just to ensure a commuter can get from Romford to London Bridge 20 minutes quicker!
ESPECIALLY when one considers the very first thing that'll happen once it opens,is that ASLEF,TfL and Unite'll bring all the drivers out on strike!
[because that's the way to gain popularity,y'see...]
An expensive navigational error Pug, reminded me of Wrong Way Corrigan, only this chap was not tunneling, he was flying up in the heavens.
Douglas Corrigan*(January 22, 1907 – December 9, 1995) was an American aviator born innGalveston, Texas. He was nicknamed "Wrong Way" in 1938. After a transcontinental flight from Long Beach, California, to New York City, he flew from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland, though his flight plan was filed to return to Long Beach. He claimed his unauthorized flight was due to a navigational error, caused by heavy cloud cover that obscured landmarks and low-light conditions, causing him to misread his compass. However, he was a skilled aircraft mechanic (he was one of the builders of Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis) and had made several modifications to his own plane, preparing it for his transatlantic flight. He had been denied permission to make a nonstop flight from New York to Ireland, and his "navigational error" was seen as deliberate. Nevertheless, he never publicly admitted to having flown to Ireland intentionally.wiki.