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Go for your life! Free wallpaper for everyone :).

Welcome Simon, Here is an image captured in the last year by a mate in Europe. Hope you like it.

Many years ago aviation engineering took a fork in the road. Have you heard of Burnelli? Do you know anything about his designs? This is my second thread so nothing like getting off to a flying start with a bit of contorversy. The following link takes you to a site with much information...

Very nice. I like the whole display!

Here are some further details... Cockpit Panel Clock ACS-1M for Soviet MIG aircraft. The original multifunction wind up 2-day chronometer, 26 jewels, "K" (bright-white digits / hands), with heater and double sealed. Clocks for the fastest and highest-flying Soviet / Russian combat aircrafts...

Very cool evanglider. If you can have it serviced it should return to op specs of ~+/-6 seconds per day. The lubrication dries out and friction increases after about 5-7 years. Not good for movements/engines of any kind!! If it has been sitting for like 20 years since being decommissioned...

Hi timshatz, Did it look like this one? Out of a Mig 29. Wind it up and she goes for about 56hrs. Hacking movement, flight duration chronograph sub dial at 12 and seconds sub dial at 6. Built like a tank shell!

Waltham and Elgin, two pillars of the american watch industry. There are soooo many beaut vintage models you can have quite a field day picking amongst them. I'll mention Wakmann as a maker of interest. They were the outlet for Breitling on US soil, assembling the imported swiss components...

Gentlemen, Thankyou for the warm welcome and thoughtful replies. Yikes!! The next time I click on the [more] button in the smilies I'll go make a cuppa. :n00b: :!: As for watches in aircraft there is an unbreakable dependency on the instruments' accruacy and dependability for the pilot...

Hello all, Let me talk about my screen sig for a second. You see, I could have been someone elses child, if my dad had not been colour blind. He was so keen to become part of bomber command he twice sat the test for pilot training but was flunked out on green red recognition. So he was to...