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Old 06-05-07, 06:52 PM   #6
Chock
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Bit of a cheat this one, but since there is photo-realistic terrain of the UK in Flight Sim, here's my house:



The plane is flying roughly South. The road under the port elevator of the plane is the A6 main road south to London (185 miles away), Manchester is about 8 miles North along that road (i.e. out the bottom of the picture). The railway line under the starboard engine is the line to Manchester, if you go south on that line, it runs to Buxton (where you get the spring water from). West (i.e. off the plane's right wing is Manchester Airport (about 2 miles away) and about 35 miles past that is Liverpool. If you go off in the direction of the top left, you get to the Peak District and the Lake District is near to that. That's where the Dambusters practised for their WW2 raids, it's also where I go gliding and is also the place which inspired the William Wordsworth poem 'Daffodils' amongst other things. Almost directly right of the plane's nose, about two miles away, is Woodford Aerodrome, owned by British Aerospace. It's where they test fly stuff and make some bits for Airbus aeroplanes. If you watch the war movie '633 Squadron', Woodford is where they filmed the Mosquito fighter-bombers 'crashing', by taxying them across the grass at high speed and retracting their undercarriages (which they probably regret now, since there aren't any more airworthy ones!) Since there are two airfields nearby, aircraft industry places and the main city of Manchester all pretty near me, I imagine one of Mr Putin's MIRV warheads is probably aimed right at my house.

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