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Old 1st May 2011, 09:52 AM
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I thought you may find this interesting.
This is an actual aerial photo of my old ship in dry dock in Rosyth. The dock next to it is where they are building the new QE carriers. This is an artists impression of the two side by side.............

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Old 1st May 2011, 09:54 AM
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wow thats beyond incredible Mike! are you sure the new one will fit the dock? lol
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Just a fraction bigger
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Neil was telling me about this, any more tours planned?
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Old 1st May 2011, 10:47 AM
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wow thats beyond incredible Mike! are you sure the new one will fit the dock? lol
Carefully calculated so that the hull width at the top of the dock has just a few feet either side!

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Neil was telling me about this, any more tours planned?
Sorry Amar, I have now left the ship and have just a week to go before I hand in my i.d. card. If you ever get down to Plymouth though I'll happily take you on a tour of Devonport Dockyard.
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1997 4.2 A8SQ - the Projekt. 12 years and ongoing!
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2015 Q3QS SLine - Daytona Grey. Lots of extras! Long Haired Admirals cutter.

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2003 C5 A6 1.9TDI FWD - Loaner from D2 Doctor Lifex
1997 S8 - Ming Blue. Loaned out and written off. I loved that car. My first engine swap after cambelt failure.
1996 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. 178k on a cambelt! Trader's 8. Delivered to A8Parts at Lifex.
2003 2.8 A8SQ - powder blueish. Fill in for a while. Sold on.
1998 1.8T A4 Avant FWD. Ming Blue (there's a theme here), PEX for the 97 S8.
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wow thats beyond incredible Mike! are you sure the new one will fit the dock? lol
Thats not evan funny. She's actually wider than the dock at the flight deck, and it's going to be tight under the Forth Bridge


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Neil was telling me about this, any more tours planned?
Hey Amar you could put a sneeky bid on for the Ark Royal, she's exactly the same as Mikes, ish.

http://www.edisposals.com/is-bin/INT...mpTo=OfferList


Oh and they'll be worth every penny
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Fantastic. Didn't know we were planning on building anything so big.
What's it for?
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Fantastic. Didn't know we were planning on building anything so big.
What's it for?
Its to make us all feel protected and to justify our enormous tax bill pounds
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Its to make us all feel protected and to justify our enormous tax bill pounds
Couldn't they have just bought a couple of old estate Volvo's
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Some bits before they arrived at Roysth




These are those parts going together, this happened a while ago now.


And the red oxide coloured bit on the right side of the picture is the next unit to go on top. You can see the anchor pocket.


And we need them because Mike has had the best days out of the old ships and they are tired and old and showing thier age, and i need a job.

Deleting the ski jump has saved a few tax pounds too
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