Captain Timba 🛫
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Things that fly , float and run on rails. Naval history . Retweets are not an endorsement. Support UK farmers
Joined February 2009
2025 might well be remembered as they year in which energy security threats began to manifest across Europe GB had a near-miss event on 8 Jan which exposed NESO's poor demand forecasting. I have updated my previous analysis and found there has been no improvement over the past
watt-logic.com
2025 could come to be characterised as the year the lights began to flicker across Europe as threats to energy security begin to manifest. We almost ran out of electricity in Britain in January. We...
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The Handley Page H.P. 42 represents the absolute pinnacle of luxury biplane travel in the 1930s, a machine that prioritized comfort and safety above sheer speed. In an era where aviation was still transitioning from the open cockpits of the 1920s to the streamlined monoplanes.
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Just wow. The Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender was a 1943 prototype fighter that aimed for superior performance but was plagued by dangerous stall characteristics-2 of 3 prototypes crashed during testing. Program was canceled in 1945. The survivor is on display at the Air Zoo.👀
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For just $1,500 a day, your generous taxes help young pilots thrive at the KC-10 Driver Pilot Learing Center of Excellence! With tasty crew meals & days spent complaining about contracts, failed marriages & bad financial advice, HUNDREDS of young pilots have a bright future!
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Meanwhile in Germany, an AvGas powered helicopter sprays chemicals on iced-up wind turbines – so that the green climate illusion keeps running.
Winter in Deutschland heisst: Ein mit Kerosin gefressener Helikopter versprüht Chemikalien auf vereiste Windräder – damit die grüne Klima-Illusion weiterläuft. Ein Symbol für den Wahnsinn eines Systems, das sich selbst frisst.
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Gas boiler owners 'will subsidise heat pump users' with new levy under Ed Miliband's £15billion energy plans | Daily Mail Online
dailymail.co.uk
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is expected to unveil a bumper £15billion warm homes plan next month following months of discussions with the Treasury over costs.
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Statins work by blocking HMG-CoA reductase in the mevalonate pathway. That sounds technical. Let me translate: They don't just "lower cholesterol." They block an entire metabolic pathway way upstream of cholesterol production. This pathway also produces: - CoQ10 (heart muscle
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And what will 2026 bring for the UK as regards AWACS..? IOC at the end of 2025 for Wedgetail has disappeared - will it even get that in 2026? A reminder: E-7 is widely known as "the RAF's Ajax" inside Main Building @RoyalAirForce @ChiefofAirStaff @DefenceES
🇸🇪🤝🇨🇵 Great news, 🇨🇵 @DGA has awarded to @Saab the acquisition contract of #GlobalEye airborne early warning for 🇨🇵 @Armee_de_lair. An impressive capability for 🇸🇪 and 🇨🇵, a huge step forward for 🇸🇪🇨🇵 defence cooperation ! @Armees_Gouv @FranceinSweden @PlJonson @ForsvarsdepSv
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Even more worrying, gold standard ERA5 and NASA MERRA-2 reanalysis products greatly underestimate the water vapor injected into the stratosphere by Hunga Tonga: 150 Tg. 🌋 Also, turns out the stratosphere was already significantly moistening by 50 Tg in the decade prior to the
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On April 14th, 1962 the British unveiled the Bristol 188, a supersonic research plane with a Mach 3 ambition. However, equipped with Gyron Junior engines, it was only able to achieve Mach 1.88. Two built with only 55 test flights. Final flight was Jan 1964. Cost: £20 mil.👀
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Even if I wanted one, my house isn’t suitable, I can barely afford to heat it now, have just had pneumonia, but have to pay for others to have a heat pump as I turn my heating off a little longer! Green charge on gas boilers will subsidise heat pumps https://t.co/xHWMd6zlD0
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Ed Miliband’s new levy will form part of his £15 billion warm homes plan, which also includes loans for solar panels and grants for poorer households
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🚨Many in the UK who unwrapped a new drone this Christmas may face a rude awakening next week, when they will have to take a theory test before being allowed to fly outdoors. From 1 January, those intending to fly drones or model aircraft weighing 100g or more outside must
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The Danish Minister of Food, Jacob Jensen, who is the responsible for the Bovaerpoison in Denmark, is trying to threaten me with a woman, to get me to stop confronting him. You can't make this shit up. https://t.co/enFGrUSvPo
https://t.co/JYv1TPjwP0 Kent Nielsen 12/30 25
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I am on @GBNEWS talking about this around 1:30pm.
This is shocking! Who is going to stop mad @Ed_Miliband ? What has he got on the rest of the Labour ministers? And today we have the ludicrous headlines about more money being thrown at solar grants. Apparently, "solar energy is regarded as the cheapest & most reliable way for
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NOTE: "Morpeth" this WAS a superb long term Class 1 site....but then the Met Office took control and wantonly degraded it to Class 4. Disgraceful mismanagement that is now par for the MO course. https://t.co/JMoFABvwEe
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52.212586 -1.6854742 Met Office CIMO Assessed Class 4 Installed 1897 Cockle Park is 262 hectare farm owned and managed by Newcastle University for agricultural research. Despite its original “…
Monday was cloudy and dry for many, and rather chilly too. Here are the extremes 👇
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Concorde 002 icing trials. In the 1970s, engineers used a modified Canberra bomber from Boscombe Down as an airborne "icing tanker" to test Concorde prototype 002's deicing systems-spraying water ahead to artificially create ice clouds. One trial also hit a lightning strike.👀
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Met Office Hillsborough (NI) A truly awful site wtih surreal surroundings. What actually is the point of Met Office Climate Science? https://t.co/Plby4nPlxg
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54.45263 -6.07523 Met Office CIMO Assessed Class 4 Installed 1/1/1930 Archived records from 1959 This is a continuation review from that I started for Katesbridge and then developed the theme of at…
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@DianaHarding7 @Ed_Miliband I was just interviewed on @TimesRadio about this To get the types of savings they're talking about you'd have to buy Chinese solar panels and batteries, made with forced labour GB Energy is not allowed to invest in anything linked to forced labour so they won't be able to do
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