Peter wrote:
No comments on the 100k please. We don’t want the mass media to think that planes cost any more than that
Or less than that 
Still the guy is the best UK GA can have on top of DfT…
Well, if the names are anything to go by, Timothy will be stoned to death trying to stop this procession thread, and Peter will eventually go to Rome the CAA in order to spread the gospel change their policy, and will be crucified.
Centuries later, they will both be celebrated as martyrs in the cause of aviation.
Sorry, I forgot:
Cobalt wrote:
if the names are anything to go by
Actually, and to my family’s infinite surprise and mirth, I am currently deeply immersed in uncovering my religious heritage. Maybe more a story for The Lookout than here 
Are you reading the Kind David report in that research? I think it “documents” the time your family namesake was around. Quite enlightening…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Saint_Timothy.jpg/180px-Saint_Timothy.jpg
You always be my saint, no research necessary.
Cobalt wrote:
Are you reading the Kind David report in that research?
The most interesting thing about David, in my mind, is that the sling-throwers were the elite soldiers of the day. They could launch a stone at close to the speed and accuracy of a hand-gun bullet.
Thus the Philistines putting forward their lumbering Goliath were always going to lose. It’s like putting Mohammed Ali against Wild Bill Hickok. Thus the whole David and Goliath meme is 100% the wrong way round. All wise money would have been on David at the outset.
Sorry, where were we?
Timothy wrote:
Sorry, where were we
XTD = several thousand miles.
You really ought to read the “Kind David Report”, alongside / after reading the Books of Kings and the Chronicles with all their inconsistencies (or Melakhim and Divrei HaYamim, if you prefer). It is a satire on the truth in written history in general, told from the perspective of Ethan the Scribe, who is commissioned to write “The One and Only True and Authoritative, Historically Correct and Officially Approved Report on the Amazing Rise, God-fearing Life, Heroic Deeds and Wonderful Achievements of David, Son of Jesse” henceforward to be known as “the King David Report”.
While not strictly useful as a tool in studying scripture (it really is a political satire, not a religious one, but more subtle than Orwell’s Animal Farm), it made me re-read these parts more thoroughly than before, and with more enjoyment.
Great thread drift – visiting Jerusalem a few years ago a friend organised a great tour by a local archaeologist – the likely hill which was the base of King David’s kingdom was quite modest!
