Some Interesting Facts About Planes (Part 1)

1. They fly

There seems to be something oxymoronic about that title, but maybe something in here will amaze, astound or simply be useful next time there's a pub quiz on.

1. The 747 is an Illegal Aircraft!

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Land Rovers, Cooking Oil & Compressed Air

Land Rovers, Cooking Oil & Compressed Air

I seem to start all my blogs with the same sentence of that it has been sometime since my last post. This instance is no different, but I won’t make apologies. I very rarely mean them and I had nothing interesting to say – probably still don’t!

However, for those few people out there who stray on to our site looking for more interesting adult content I thought I would put fingers to keyboard again. The biggest news is after a long line of lesser vehicles I finally managed to get a Land Rover 110 again. The classic 109 I had been rebuilding was sold, and I have just heard yesterday also gained its first MOT in 10 years in no small part to my tireless efforts over the last year. I may have even shed a tear if it wasn’t for the fact that sitting in the car park as I type is a vehicle that makes me smile every time I start her up. As little as a month and a half ago I saw the ad in the free ads paper and drove up to Washington as quickly as my Terrano would carry me. 24 hours later I was towing back a Land Rover.

The astute amongst you may have noticed the key word of “towing”. That is because £1200 had just bought me a vehicle with no engine. A week later I was taking the poor Terrano north to Scotland and buying an engine. A week later and my Land Rover was on the road. The soft top military 110 has a long to do list, but they are all improvements and it wants for nothing – well maybe some more diesel in the tank but that would be it.

The biggest planned job is already in the works. A full twin tank conversion cooking oil conversion, reducing my yearly running fuel bill from £1800 to £300 a year.  Bits have been purchased, some from Ebay, some from Salvage Yards and others were found in my shed. Some are designed for cars, others have come straight off a Combination Boiler that had been discarded. I am going to post some video of the first “Green” journey when the install is done.

Along with all this rampant Land Rover fun I managed to get my industrial compressor working. Formerly a 3 phase supply beast it now sports a 240v single phase motor attached to its massive air tank. Now starts the fun off finding how many jobs I can use ridiculously high pressure air for – where did I put my air rifle pellets?

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Volvo Lets Windows Drive Your Car!

Let's hope it doesn't.... crash! AHAHAHAHAH ROFLMAOAOOFOFO!!¬¬`11`!¬`111ELEVEN

I was going to write a blog today about the over-designing of cars, how Chris Bangle royally killed BMW for a few years with his much loved* 'flame surfacing' design language, how Audi almost had it perfect until the latest A4, and then found it again with the latest A6 and A7 models.

* (only by Chris himself)

I was then going to say something about the Ferrari 458 Italia being wonderful, and how when I heard that November 2011 will bring the Ferrari 458 Italia SPYDER I literally had to go and change my underwear.

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Master Plan of Surviving the Apocalypse, and I dream of Jeannie John Lithgow.....?

When the 3rd Rock from the Sun turns Apocalyptic!

Last night, the LostJohnnies.com crew and some friends went out for a bit of a pre-New Year's Eve meal at our regular haunt and as usual the conversation swerved onto the usual topics of conversation:

• September 11th 2001 and conspiracies surrounding it
• Zombies
• Apocalypse
• Airborne Infectious Diseases
• and how restaurants can simply "run out" of burgers.

Our discussions of zombies and a pandemic of airborne disease led us into an hour-long planning session of what we would do if there was ever a situation where we had to get the hell out of Dodge and survive. The Walking Dead-style:

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Thank You Range Rover Drivers! You Have Tried Your Best...

But still the snow comes.

This weekend has seen a rabid, vicious return of the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming. With temperatures exceeding 30 degrees across Britain we have been unprepared for such unseasonable heat and face-meltingness. People have literally left their houses to find their cars are nothing more than a puddle of molten metal with the badge floating on top. Global Warming has made Britain akin to the surface of the sun!

Of course, for a change, I'm being facetious.

Britain is currently under ten inches of snow and makes the darkside of the moon look tropical by comparison. But HOW CAN THIS BE? As a species we've been ruining our planet with our big gas-guzzlers and neow-y almost-trans-sonic aeroplanes... how can the country be COLDER now than it has been for the past 16 years? Could the Governments of the world have been..... WRONG?

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Its a V8!

Introducing my new Land Rover badged toy.

If I scrolled through the many articles that Rich had written over the past few months I would expect to see many references to cars, probably Audi or of the super car type. Rich and I have always had different tastes in motor vehicles. His needed to be sleek, modern, safe and above all Audi. Mine had to be big, be able to drive through snow or bogs and usually have a Land Rover badge on it - it costing less than a grand also usually helped.

Well recently some of our favourite things have been combined in my recent purchase. It is still a 4x4, it is still big and it can drive through anything i point it at, but up front, past the wood trim and leather seats is a 4 litre V8. Yes my petrol guzzling Land Rover Discovery can now hold its own on the motorway as well as the off road track. Don't get me wrong, Rich Vs Me in a drag race is probably no contest and he will leave me in his economical emissions dust, but for grin factor, boy racer scaring, people rescuing fun you can't beat that beautiful combination of Land Rover and V8.

As a result of this new purchase my passion for projects is reborn, and once I have the LPG working (12-16mpg on petrol is killing my wallet) Car computers, on board diagnostics, radio installs and off road kit will all be documented on our new and improved Lost Johnnies.

 

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Chief Executive Officer, Great Britain PLC.

We don't need a Prime Minister! We need a CEO!

Why is it so hard to get Politics right?

Once David Cameron and Nick Clegg have finished their four year reign of terror over these rain-sodden little islands we call home (if you're British, that is) we should get rid of the whole 'Prime Minister' concept entirely. No more Parliament. No more MPs.

In 2014 we, the People, should demand that Britain is run like a publically traded business.

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You Don't Have To Be Evil To Work Here

But it helps...

It is common lore nowadays that Google is a squeaky clean company with nothing to hide.

Just look at that pristine white, angelic, virginal homepage. Untouched and undesecrated by the filthy hands of nasty humans.

It is, of course, merely a front. A front to the most evil of evil empires that the world, Hollywood or even James "Hello, I'm.. oh dear where are have your knickers gone?" Bond has ever faced.

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