AirTalk.org Aviation discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'States/Ca Goto page 1, 2  Next          AirTalk.org Forum Index -> Glasgow Airport View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Blimpie Guest Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:10 pm    Post subject: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'States/Ca In fact in addition to the below there were another 18 Newspapers/TV Stations giving coverage to the plaque being unveiled at Glasgow International Airport in honour of Percy Pilcher, Glasgow's own Aviation Pioneer. The Links below run more or less the same story but the publicity wont do GLA/Glasgow/Scotland any harm at all ;-) http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/7518307.htm http://makeashorterlink.com/?B5DD218D6 http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7518307.htm http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2003/12/17/290049-cp.html http://newsobserver.com/nc24hour/ncnews/story/3135551p-2836995c.html http://makeashorterlink.com/?O3FD438D6 http://makeashorterlink.com/?E20E148D6 http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/7514079.html http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/7514079.htm http://www.belleville.com/mld/newsdemocrat/7514079.htm Blimps Back to top Adrian Tupper Guest Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 10:04 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:brt1j0$cvn$1 @sparta.btinternet.com: Quote: In fact in addition to the below there were another 18 Newspapers/TV Stations giving coverage to the plaque being unveiled at Glasgow International Airport in honour of Percy Pilcher, Glasgow's own Aviation Pioneer. It's not often you become famous for not being the first. -- Adrian Back to top Blimpie Guest Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:16 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Adrian Tupper" <adrian.tupper (AT) totalise (DOT) co.uk> wrote Quote: "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:brt1j0$cvn$1 @sparta.btinternet.com: In fact in addition to the below there were another 18 Newspapers/TV Stations giving coverage to the plaque being unveiled at Glasgow International Airport in honour of Percy Pilcher, Glasgow's own Aviation Pioneer. It's not often you become famous for not being the first. Point being? Blimps Back to top Adrian Tupper Guest Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 10:29 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:brtcgs$oer$1 (AT) hercules (DOT) btinternet.com: Quote: "Adrian Tupper" <adrian.tupper (AT) totalise (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:Xns9455E09F32F8Az (AT) 194 (DOT) 247.47.119... "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:brt1j0$cvn$1 @sparta.btinternet.com: In fact in addition to the below there were another 18 Newspapers/TV Stations giving coverage to the plaque being unveiled at Glasgow International Airport in honour of Percy Pilcher, Glasgow's own Aviation Pioneer. It's not often you become famous for not being the first. Point being? No-one gave me anything for not discovering life on Mars. Did you get a prize for not breaking the 100m record? Point being it's a bit of nonsense. There were lots of people trying to fly 100 and a bit years ago. -- Adrian Back to top Blimpie Guest Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:15 am    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Adrian Tupper" <adrian.tupper (AT) totalise (DOT) co.uk> wrote Quote: "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:brtcgs$oer$1 (AT) hercules (DOT) btinternet.com: "Adrian Tupper" <adrian.tupper (AT) totalise (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:Xns9455E09F32F8Az (AT) 194 (DOT) 247.47.119... "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:brt1j0$cvn$1 @sparta.btinternet.com: In fact in addition to the below there were another 18 Newspapers/TV Stations giving coverage to the plaque being unveiled at Glasgow International Airport in honour of Percy Pilcher, Glasgow's own Aviation Pioneer. It's not often you become famous for not being the first. Point being? No-one gave me anything for not discovering life on Mars. Did you get a prize for not breaking the 100m record? Point being it's a bit of nonsense. There were lots of people trying to fly 100 and a bit years ago. Oooohh, EDI envy, the point is that numerous US Newspapers and TV Stations actually mentioned Percy Pilcher and his achievments, don't you know they are even more parochial as a race than east coast central belt Scots? Anyway Adrian, wotsir name, her that sings 'True Colours' is now the official songstress of Ade and Co, Blimps (we know where you stand) Back to top Callum Johnstone Guest Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:52 am    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote Quote: Oooohh, EDI envy, the point is that numerous US Newspapers and TV Stations actually mentioned Percy Pilcher and his achievments, don't you know they are even more parochial as a race than east coast central belt Scots? And herein lies another problem. The fact that you see people from east central Scotland as a different race to you! We are all Scots, for god's sake!! Stop throwing insults at fellow countrymen, please. Back to top just jon Guest Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:00 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Callum Johnstone" <callumjohnstone (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote Quote: "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in message news:bs07rm$pv7$1 (AT) hercules (DOT) btinternet.com... Oooohh, EDI envy, the point is that numerous US Newspapers and TV Stations actually mentioned Percy Pilcher and his achievments, don't you know they are even more parochial as a race than east coast central belt Scots? And herein lies another problem. The fact that you see people from east central Scotland as a different race to you! We are all Scots, for god's sake!! Stop throwing insults at fellow countrymen, please. The only reason people dont like the poeople from edinbro and that area is because of people like JC Back to top Adrian Tupper Guest Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 3:04 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:bs07rm$pv7$1 (AT) hercules (DOT) btinternet.com: Quote: "Adrian Tupper" <adrian.tupper (AT) totalise (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:Xns9456E4C1B43CCz (AT) 194 (DOT) 247.47.119... "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:brtcgs$oer$1 (AT) hercules (DOT) btinternet.com: "Adrian Tupper" <adrian.tupper (AT) totalise (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:Xns9455E09F32F8Az (AT) 194 (DOT) 247.47.119... "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:brt1j0$cvn$1 @sparta.btinternet.com: In fact in addition to the below there were another 18 Newspapers/TV Stations giving coverage to the plaque being unveiled at Glasgow International Airport in honour of Percy Pilcher, Glasgow's own Aviation Pioneer. It's not often you become famous for not being the first. Point being? No-one gave me anything for not discovering life on Mars. Did you get a prize for not breaking the 100m record? Point being it's a bit of nonsense. There were lots of people trying to fly 100 and a bit years ago. Oooohh, EDI envy, the point is that numerous US Newspapers and TV Stations actually mentioned Percy Pilcher and his achievments, don't you know they are even more parochial as a race than east coast central belt Scots? Anyway Adrian, wotsir name, her that sings 'True Colours' is now the official songstress of Ade and Co, Blimps (we know where you stand) I had never heard of him until last week. Didn't even know he was from Glasgow. -- Adrian Back to top Joe Curry Guest Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 4:23 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State The message <Xns9457994B9B22Fz (AT) 194 (DOT) 247.47.119> from Adrian Tupper <adrian.tupper (AT) totalise (DOT) co.uk> contains these words: Quote: I had never heard of him until last week. Didn't even know he was from Glasgow. He was from SCOTLAND, I knew that.... Back to top Callum Johnstone Guest Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 5:02 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "just jon" <mynew_addy (AT) msn (DOT) com> wrote Quote: "Callum Johnstone" <callumjohnstone (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in message news:bs07rm$pv7$1 (AT) hercules (DOT) btinternet.com... Oooohh, EDI envy, the point is that numerous US Newspapers and TV Stations actually mentioned Percy Pilcher and his achievments, don't you know they are even more parochial as a race than east coast central belt Scots? And herein lies another problem. The fact that you see people from east central Scotland as a different race to you! We are all Scots, for god's sake!! Stop throwing insults at fellow countrymen, please. The only reason people dont like the poeople from edinbro and that area is because of people like JC Well, I like people from Edinburgh. I have lived among them for quite a few years, and I can assure you the majority are nothing like JC. Callum. Back to top Adrian Tupper Guest Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:09 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Callum Johnstone" <callumjohnstone (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote in news:lmkFb.18$9a7.15 (AT) news-binary (DOT) blueyonder.co.uk: Quote: "just jon" <mynew_addy (AT) msn (DOT) com> wrote in message news:90c003be.0312200600.11bd4dc8 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com... "Callum Johnstone" <callumjohnstone (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:<o5UEb.10673$C71.823 (AT) news-binary (DOT) blueyonder.co.uk>... "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in message news:bs07rm$pv7$1 (AT) hercules (DOT) btinternet.com... Oooohh, EDI envy, the point is that numerous US Newspapers and TV Stations actually mentioned Percy Pilcher and his achievments, don't you know they are even more parochial as a race than east coast central belt Scots? And herein lies another problem. The fact that you see people from east central Scotland as a different race to you! We are all Scots, for god's sake!! Stop throwing insults at fellow countrymen, please. The only reason people dont like the poeople from edinbro and that area is because of people like JC Well, I like people from Edinburgh. I have lived among them for quite a few years, and I can assure you the majority are nothing like JC. That's right. We're mainly boring buggers who know nothing about aviation. -- Adrian Back to top Blimpie Guest Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 11:24 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Adrian Tupper" <adrian.tupper (AT) totalise (DOT) co.uk> wrote Quote: "Callum Johnstone" <callumjohnstone (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote in news:lmkFb.18$9a7.15 (AT) news-binary (DOT) blueyonder.co.uk: "just jon" <mynew_addy (AT) msn (DOT) com> wrote in message news:90c003be.0312200600.11bd4dc8 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com... "Callum Johnstone" <callumjohnstone (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:<o5UEb.10673$C71.823 (AT) news-binary (DOT) blueyonder.co.uk>... "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in message news:bs07rm$pv7$1 (AT) hercules (DOT) btinternet.com... Oooohh, EDI envy, the point is that numerous US Newspapers and TV Stations actually mentioned Percy Pilcher and his achievments, don't you know they are even more parochial as a race than east coast central belt Scots? And herein lies another problem. The fact that you see people from east central Scotland as a different race to you! We are all Scots, for god's sake!! Stop throwing insults at fellow countrymen, please. The only reason people dont like the poeople from edinbro and that area is because of people like JC Well, I like people from Edinburgh. I have lived among them for quite a few years, and I can assure you the majority are nothing like JC. That's right. We're mainly boring buggers who know nothing about aviation. Good post, say it like it is Ade's, I admire you for your honesty.. Blimps Back to top Hans Knees Guest Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 6:22 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State Quote: The only reason people dont like the poeople from edinbro and that area is because of people like JC Well, I like people from Edinburgh. I have lived among them for quite a few years, and I can assure you the majority are nothing like JC. I have not been around here very long but on looking back through the records it would be that there are gangers who are not truly Glasgow, Volks who live in glasses houses should not throw the pebbles.? I admire JCs loyalty to his airport and hait those who wish to silence his opinions. Afraid of what? Truths? Back to top Adrian Tupper Guest Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 10:24 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:bs5a36$ku9$1 @sparta.btinternet.com: Quote: "Adrian Tupper" <adrian.tupper (AT) totalise (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:Xns9458E161E3B1Ez (AT) 194 (DOT) 247.47.119... "Callum Johnstone" <callumjohnstone (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote in news:lmkFb.18$9a7.15 (AT) news-binary (DOT) blueyonder.co.uk: "just jon" <mynew_addy (AT) msn (DOT) com> wrote in message news:90c003be.0312200600.11bd4dc8 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com... "Callum Johnstone" <callumjohnstone (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:<o5UEb.10673$C71.823 (AT) news-binary (DOT) blueyonder.co.uk>... "Blimpie" <blimpie (AT) btopenworld (DOT) com> wrote in message news:bs07rm$pv7$1 (AT) hercules (DOT) btinternet.com... Oooohh, EDI envy, the point is that numerous US Newspapers and TV Stations actually mentioned Percy Pilcher and his achievments, don't you know they are even more parochial as a race than east coast central belt Scots? And herein lies another problem. The fact that you see people from east central Scotland as a different race to you! We are all Scots, for god's sake!! Stop throwing insults at fellow countrymen, please. The only reason people dont like the poeople from edinbro and that area is because of people like JC Well, I like people from Edinburgh. I have lived among them for quite a few years, and I can assure you the majority are nothing like JC. That's right. We're mainly boring buggers who know nothing about aviation. Good post, say it like it is Ade's, I admire you for your honesty.. And I admire your roundabout admission that (by implication) Joe is neither of the types of people I mention. -- Adrian Back to top Adrian Tupper Guest Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 10:31 pm    Post subject: Re: GLA/Glasgow Getting Lots of Media Exposure in the 'State "Hans Knees" <hansKnees (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in news:bs7cps$aefcd$1 (AT) ID-218984 (DOT) news.uni-berlin.de: Quote: The only reason people dont like the poeople from edinbro and that area is because of people like JC Well, I like people from Edinburgh. I have lived among them for quite a few years, and I can assure you the majority are nothing like JC. I have not been around here very long but on looking back through the records it would be that there are gangers who are not truly Glasgow, Das ist korrekt. Ich think that most gangers here live nicht in Glasgow. Quote: Volks who live in glasses houses should not throw the pebbles.? Das ist also korrekt. Das ist probably what happened to the glasshaus at Glasgows Botanic Gartens. Quote: I admire JCs loyalty to his airport and hait those who wish to silence his opinions. He has lots of kritiks. But he keeps his kopf held hoch. Vorsprung durch teknik. Quote: Afraid of what? Truths? Es ist der truth dass hurts. 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