BC is the place that, despite having a provincial NDP government at the time, sent Reform to Ottawa overwhelmingly from ‘93 to ‘00. Yeah, it’s weird here.
Me and the missus bought one as an alternate to baseboard heat in our first place in Sooke in the early 90s. Pellets were cheap then, something like $4 for a 40lb bag. Problem was it needed power to run the exhaust fan. Running it during a power failure smoked out the house. Later versions...
Hoth was just an frozen ice-ball, right, with some dodgy indigenous species. Knowing that and the location of the rebel base, why not just do a Ripley and nuke it from orbit?
Nice. The golden rule of post-TRUMP 280s should have been: NEVER FUEL ALOGNSIDE (and if you have to, make sure it's a place where a small bribe/earner is enough to turn a blind eye to dumping your comp water in their harbour. It worked in Guam :p )
I seem to recall one of McNab's books mentioning that soft bog roll was a selling feature for a quikie tour of Crossmaglen rather than the rough wax stuff in Tidworth.
And since @Navy_Pete has alluded to the fun of water compensated tanks and fuel husbandry, despite the sterling efforts of our UDER, sometimes your gas was only as good as it's source, which during APOLLO was:
1. RN/RFA ( we reckoned they had a side hustle with the Sultan to get the good...
If you could dump fuel of suspect quality into an FT4, spin it and add a spark....it'd start. Fuel atomization/air assist was a nice to have.
570KF's on the other hand..........🤬
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