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Warning: Undefined array key "widget_center_top" in /home/chris/fourfax.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/index.php on line 11 The Apollo 11 mission to the moon is being recreated online. There are lots of ways to follow it, but the best way is probably via Twitter.  We Choose The Moon Three Twitter accounts have been created, one for Houston Mission Control, one for the Spacecraft and one for the Lunar Module. Follow all three to get updates in real time (well, forty years late!). If you’re not a serving member based at RAF Wittering or RAF Cottesmore you’ll need to be approved to gain access to the Families’ Day on Friday 24 July. If you haven’t yet received an Application Form, send an e-mail to this address and ask for one. Check out the new Ajax Login Dropdown at the top of the page! You can find the plugin here if you want to use it on your own blog. If you’ve registered for the Harrier 40th Anniversary Dinner you’ll probably already have received this, from 20(R) Sqn at Wittering:
OK, the new forums are up and running. Apart from a neat design, the main difference is that once you log into the main website you’re automatically logged into the Forums as well. About time, I hear you say. You’re welcome to go there and start leaving messages, tweaking your profiles and generally exploring. There are no messages there yet because I’ve got to copy and paste the messages from the old forums into the new ones. I’ll get around to it. I’m still recovering from the shock of deleting all the content last night! That was a scary 12 hours! I erased all the posts and pages off the website by mistake while trying to make a major upgrade to the Forums. Luckily I has a two-day-old backup but it took me a while to get it loaded. I promise to be more careful in the future. (In futurum videre?) James Harrod (twitter: @longpier) has let me know that he’ll be live blogging, twittering and uploading AV content to his website during the Southend Air Show this weekend. Our sister ATC Sqn, 444 (Shoreditch), will be helping at the Southend Air Show again this year, on Sunday 24 May and Monday 25 May. They’ve asked me to ask you to give them a call on the radio if you’re flying in the area on either day:
I’ve just realised that the Black Tie Dinner on Thursday 23rd July is only for people who have served directly with the Harrier Force i.e. no wives, ex-wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, partners, better halves etc. This is a shame – it’s probably a numbers thing. Families are welcome at the Open Day on Friday. That’s when I’ll be there… Wg Cdr Donald C Ferguson AFC, aka Fergy or Black Ferg, originally from Oban, passed away on 6 April 2009. His funeral was held on 22 April at Saint Pancras Church in the small village of Kingston near Lewes. These details from Alan Pollock: Continue reading Wg Cdr Donald C. Ferguson AFC From Erica Ferguson of bentleypriory.org:
The Bentley Priory Petition, passed on to me by Alan Pollock, needs to be signed by today, Saturday 25th April. CAS and others outside the RAF have been actively involved. Inevitably many are seriously concerned in the present debt crisis of careless precipitate action by HMG. ?The undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Save Bentley Priory, Battle of Britain HQ.? The additional info states: During the Battle of Britain, Bentley Priory in Stanmore, Middlesex was Hugh Dowding?s and 11 Group?s Headquarters. It is the spiritual home of Fighter Command and the remaining survivors of ?The Few’. The Ministry of Defence has sold the Priory to developers*, they are to convert the Priory into high value apartments and build many more in the grounds. At the very least, legislation is needed to save the whole of the ground floor from the developers, so it can become a lasting memorial to the men and women who saved this country and the world from Nazi tyranny. If you are opposed to this sale without necessary safeguards for preservation of the most important and historic areas and have not already done so, please add your name to the petition at the following link: From Larry Chambers:
John Farley, world famous test pilot and Harrier mate extraordinaire, has just had his book published – “A View From The Hover”.
It’s available from Flyer Books. I’m off to order my copy now!
Twitter is the new “social network” where users post short messages that others can read. It’s a kind of text messaging on the internet. Other descriptions of twitter and its uses include:
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