So not only are you building a rocket escort van … you now want to put a pulse jet on your motorcycle 
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No lol, this was when i was an apprentice with too little supervision and a 50cc with an 80 big bore kit on it. I convinced myself i could make it go faster. I couldn’t
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All it would need is a separate fuel injector, a small combustion chamber and off you go
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I’ve started re-reading the Jack Tanner series. The first 3 books are nothing special, but they are quite entertaining and written well enough. The last two were a bit disappointing. I got the impression he had had enough by then anyway and was probably contracted to write a certain number of books and that’s why it sort of trailed off in a way that was quite unlike the first ones.
It’s not overly realistic, but most of it is believable enough - especially to those without military experience. I have 3 as paperbacks and bought the last 2 on Kindle. Now they are all on Kindle and I’ve been able to buy each one for 99p by being patient. Bought the last one (which is actually the France one) last week, so time to read through them again.
It starts in Norway in 1940 and then goes on to France and the withdrawal through Dunkirk etc, then over to fighting in Greece and the desert in N Africa and so on through the war. Follows a sergeant in the BEF who later becomes an intelligence officer and ends up with a commission (which is where it starts going pear-shaped imho) as the war progresses.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074C53T3Y?ref_=dbs_p_mng_rwt_ser_shvlr&storeType=ebooks
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Story of my life !
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Damn it, you beat me to it, but I was going to say ‘situation normal’ 
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If you haven’t already been aware of the Europe@War or MiddleEast@War or SouthAmerica@War series, you should check them out. They are concise, detailed, extremely well written backgrounds on the subject matter a particular series is focused on. Today, I received additional books on the Ukraine War I’ve been reading up on and I am as usual, extremely impressed. Tom Cooper is one of my favorite series authors…I’ve got several of his books on the middle east wars.
Volume 3 is coming out in September.
Volume 1.
Volume 2.
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Now that I have upgraded my licence to be able to drive a bigger truck, I need to be assessed in Incident Response (i.e. driving under lights and siren) and off road driving in a bigger Rural Fire Service truck before I am allowed to do it for real.
Assessment next Saturday so time to bone up on the Rural Fire Driver and Off Road Driver Manuals/Workbooks. There is a theory as well as practical component to the test.
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Has some info on their F-104A/B usage.
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I bought a book at the airshow this weekend.
Høk over høk (Hawk over Hawk. An expression meaning there is always someone better, or above you), the memoirs of Svein Heglund, signed by Heglund himself.
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Another reason why I prefer real books over electronic files.
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I do too. But I do most of my reading on my Kindle. An overfilled bookshelf in the livingroom is the most beautiful furniture one can have. Many of my books are also memories of something special. I read that book when…
And some books, like this one, is also a collectors item.
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Holy heck, is that propeller nose cone struck? That doesn’t look healthy! 
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He got hit by the canopy of a Fw.190 that he shot down. The engagement is somewhat of a mystery as Heglund claimed the 190’s had Italian markings and the engagement took place over France in 1943.
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I typically keep a kindle 3+ years before upgrading (unless I lose it in the seatback of a plane). Kindles are the most robust, dependable, honest pieces of tech in my life. I bought the latest for the warm light after buying into all the negative press about bluish screens at night. The warm night lighting is totally worth the upgrade. Anyway, not a book. But technically it is what I am “reading right now”.
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Just finished the first Jack Tanner book (The Odin Mission) I was yakking about before and I found it more entertaining this (3rd) time round. Must be getting soft in my old age!
Only found one “hollywood” moment so far, though I do wish authors would stop putting romance into war novels - at least those about fighting on the front line, anway.
If you like D-Day Dawson style WWII yarns, I would recommend giving it a read - it’s very cheap on Kindle.
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I find the size of Kindle too small for my liking. but good for traveling I guess.
I have 10inch ebook reader and would welcome 12-13ich version though. I like big latters 
its PocketBook brand. not robust at all, but works when carefully handled.
it has customizable backlight with customizable warm light effect so one can tune the backlight based on personal preferences or based on the lighting conditions.
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