The Café (There is no Topic)

Eric
It has happened to me several times. I believe sessions "time out" after 20? minutes of no activity so when you try to "post" what you have created your session has closed so you get that message.
Normally if you just try and post again it works but if you are unlucky what you had in your session is lost!

"A round the world flight scheduled for 2014" 
That's 12 years ago! Did I miss something?
Or did they perhaps discover that for practical long distance electric powered flight humans are just too heavy! 

For those on aero modellers who are pilots at full scale I saw this article about flight 'computers' starting from the 1930s.  Specialised slide rules for often required computations.

hackaday.com/2026/03/23/the-zero-power-f...mputer/#more-1037235

 

The Macready "Speed to fly" ring fitted round a glider variometer was a form of circular slide rule calibrated for the characteristics of the particular glider.
 
The principle was to set the ring for the rate of climb achieved in a thermal as it then gave you the best speed to fly to cover the distance to find the next one.
In the UK it always seemed a bit optimistic as the chances of actually finding the next thermal before "the ground got in the way" were pretty slim for much of the year! 

Today i went to my appointment at 2 o clock i booked in 
And was told you dont have an appointment, upon which i produce the letter saying that i had
She look at her screen and after a couple of minutes she says
No you dont have an appointment it was cancelled and you were referred to the chronic pains unit
I told her i had never received a letter i and have definitely never been to the chronic pains unit
When was the letter sent,  a day after the appointment says she
So what do i do now may i ask, wait another year in agony for another appointment, by this time experlatives were beginning to reach my mouth
I returned home
Shit luck Davey strikes again

I think your post was remarkably calm given the trouble you went to to get back to the UK during a war. I almost always get text messages in parallel with the snail-mail notices.

I hate to say I told you so but back on 21 February I warned what a shambles our NHS is.