Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[Rotary John]

I am taking the fifth Johnno !!!!!!
you should know me better than that——— if you look in the small print ‘Twas posted by 2us70 and not i !!!!!!!!!!
but you are correct in your maths it is 41 years since i retired .

I actually noticed that after I posted my comment, but I figured it would get a response from you anyway.

[jackiewilson]

I actually noticed that after I posted my comment, but I figured it would get a response from you anyway.

Doesn’t take much to rattle my cage these days—— i seem to be mad at the world.
If people would simply do the job they are qualified and paid to do—life would be a lot simpler .
I never once had a days benefit payment. If i didn’t go to work , then i didn’t get paid——and probably the sack .
I just get sick and tired of strikes and disputes —— dads getting three months sick leave when your wife gets pregnant ——- what kind of company can sustain that kind of idiocy ??????????
World ‘s gone crazy and i am the only sane person left !!!!!!!!!!

[powerabout]

Have you followed the Nigel Farage saga.
He has become unbanked in the uk.
An eu law still on the books in the uk says he is a PEP, politically exposed person.
How to remove the opposition or what?

[jackiewilson]

Have you followed the Nigel Farage saga.
He has become unbanked in the uk.
An eu law still on the books in the uk says he is a PEP, politically exposed person.
How to remove the opposition or what?

WHAT WITH OUTDATED EU LAWS AND A HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION- LEFT OVER FROM “BREXIT” —- WE NEED A “NIGEL FARAGE” IN GOVERNMENT TODAY !!!!!
Nigel was always a very smart and well educated man—— if he’d played his cards right he would have made prime minister, except for his radical views, to be successful in politics you have to lie [untruths] and pretend to be someone you really are not. Farage has never done that.
All politicians run with the hare and hunt with the hounds —- say one thing and think or do the other.
an honest politician is rare as rocking horse sh-t .
WHY?——because there is no such thing !!!!!!!!!!!! If you want to be a politician you have to be prepared to sell your own granny with a smile on your face while sucking a lemon.!!!!!!
Nigel can not only see a problem —- and the solution ——-but also the consequence of such action. Unfortunately the public can’t stand that—— for wrongdoings they want action —-but not the consequence.
We have a mass invasion of illegal immigrants——- nobody wants them——human rights commission
[in Strasbourg of course] says its inhuman to send them to Ruanda.
Nigel’s solution would be to sink the boats in the middle of the channel——- but of course the people do not want that [or at least, thats what they say—— maybe not what they think].

[FUJIMO]

[jackiewilson]

Attachment 520861

In Arundel today there was a rescue operation underway to recover two American airmen who were reported MIA when their LIBERATOR crashed in 1943.
Operation was a complete success.

[FUJIMO]

...details please...

[Redbirdman]

[QUOTE=jackiewilson;3393503]Doesn’t take much to rattle my cage these days—— i seem to be mad at the world.
If people would simply do the job they are qualified and paid to do—life would be a lot simpler .
I never once had a days benefit payment. If i didn’t go to work , then i didn’t get paid——and probably the sack .
I just get sick and tired of strikes and disputes —— dads getting three months sick leave when your wife gets pregnant ——- what kind of company can sustain that kind of idiocy ??????????
World ‘s gone crazy and i am the only sane person left !!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE

It IS a young man's job--retiring at age fifty is one of the perks--

What was your age when you retired---JIM?

[powerabout]

Jackie
What happened to he P1 boats Wilson Custom Composites built?
Dont see any news on them?
Lots spent, new boats and engines, did the class disappear, anyone know?

[jackiewilson]

...details please...

Do not have a lot more to tell you Fuji—— that was it —just a photo of the site —-was all very low key. I just sent the photo that was in the news ——had been rumours for years that the plane had crashed .
final comment was the two airmen had been found and the remains were being shipped to the USA.
See if i can find out more ——

[jackiewilson]

FIRST PROGRESS REPORT

Did have a stellar day in the shop yesterday working ON “THE DUCKWORTH”.
Am feeling quite chuffed with the way things are going. ——but——-HELL OF A LONG WAY TO GO YET.
May have a more positive piccy at the end of todays proceedings ——-no visitors planned , so i should get a clear run——-should get the whole seven hours in !!!!!!

[2us70]

I retired at age 56. I know 2 guys who worked for my department for well over 40 years. One of them was trying to out last his ex wife for his retirement. The other just cant bring himself to walk away. As of now I am not sure if either of these guys have retired

[jackiewilson]

Some days you eat bear !!!!!!!!!
spent all morning doing the intakes for the DFV, failed miserably. !!!!! They were nothing like i wanted them to be —-TOO LONG ——WRONG ANGLE—-IN FACT —A MESS.
So i scrapped them and went down a different route . Spun them up on the lathe out of solid aluminum—-drilled —tapped —- and polished them ——one at a time . Then chucked the manifold because it was the wrong angle. Only done one ——but it does look the dogs cajones !!!!!!!!!

As Scarlet uttered —————​“TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY”

[Lake X Kid]

Attachment 520861

In Arundel today there was a rescue operation underway to recover two American airmen who were reported MIA when their LIBERATOR crashed in 1943.
Operation was a complete success.

A group of US veterans is digging up a field where a bomber crashed during World War Two, killing several American crew members.

A B-24 Liberator was in a group conducting a bombing raid near Paris in June 1944 when it took severe damage from anti-aircraft fire.

The crew managed to fly the plane back to England but it crashed in a farmer's field near Arundel, West Sussex.

Seven airmen bailed out but three were believed to have been killed.

Search for missing US WW2 airmen begins in Arundel field - BBC News

[jackiewilson]

Many thanks Roy. I saw that on a daily mail newsflash , but nothing since . My son in law tells me that two years ago a liberator was uncovered in Arundel. Maybe it’s the same one . I have lived here for the last 10 years and it’s the first i have heard.
I will delve a tad deeper and see what I come up with.