Fly Navy Phil

Felixstowe Council spent a lot of money on painting this Bus Stop, putting up a sign and installing a raised kerb for the busses. Only one problem - no busses come along this road!

@StealerTime @alanhinkes Superb! So lucky to have caught this opportunity. Thanks for sharing.

My politics is whatever this is.

Mothering Sunday 💐❤️ one for allt mums... And anyone who might ave forgot 👀

@iISeeNoSignals @YesterdaysBrit1 No, plenty of headroom. Just like the classic Minis I have owned.

@FlyNavyPhil @YesterdaysBrit1 However did you fit in it Phil ? Low headroom!

All is quiet in the Old Land.

@TheLaurences_ One of these days he is going to let him hug her.

A HAPPY PATRON 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉💙🥰 📸 Stu Forster

@exRAF_Al @SoapboxCharlie Part of it is due to the technology being analogue rather than digital back then. Nowadays you get a lot of “computer says no” which prevents operation.

It makes me wonder how our Navy sailed 3 days after the Argies invaded the Falklands. They left port slightly imperfectly, yes, but what was different to today was that previously we had an “offensive spirit” can-do attitude. Today there is hand-wringing bureaucratic inertia.

@YesterdaysBrit1 Yes, I had a lot of those singles and albums. No, not the Max Bygraves one!

Here's some decent stuff to choose from 🎵🎶from back in 1972.

@JohnHealey_MP #FlyNavy

This is the best of Britain in action👇🏻 theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

Of course he was.

Just a couple of points: How does he (or his staffer) have the temerity to show helicopters taking off from a ship when neither are in theatre? The music! “Get your kicks for free”. How distasteful is that?

@GoodbyJeff @ed800m @AlastairBruce_ @Telegraph @RoyalNavy @FalklandsinUK Nope

@ed800m @AlastairBruce_ @Telegraph @RoyalNavy @FalklandsinUK @FlyNavyPhil Is that you messing around??

This @Telegraph cartoon is sad Whatever people may think of political decisions/choices, as son & grandson of 3 wartime @RoyalNavy officers, and being in 1982 Task Force, I am certain our sailors would fight no less courageously than in Nelson’s time.

@GoodbyJeff @RoyalNavy Inevitable. The RN has been in serious decline for decades. Orders of ships and aircraft slashed, personnel leaving in droves, assets falling apart. I will always be proud of the Navy but this decline is an embarrassment.

@FlyNavyPhil @RoyalNavy Very true that Phil! 😀 Whats your views on the Dragon saga?

@RoyalNavy Are you there Jack? Your national needs you, stop fecking around.

@ALP_Annie @Albums2Hear Probably was then

#albumsyoumusthear Rainbow - Rising - 1976

One accidental note. One misplaced microphone. One moment that would echo through music history forever. January 1971. Abbey Road Studios. A young keyboardist named Richard Wright sat alone at a grand piano. The band had no songs. No direction. Just empty studio time and mounting pressure. Wright pressed a high B key. The sound fed through a Leslie speaker and a Binson Echorec, creating an otherworldly "ping"—like sonar searching through an ocean's depths. That single note became the opening of "Echoes," a 23-minute masterpiece that would define Pink Floyd's sound forever. Richard Wright was born on July 28, 1943, in a London suburb. At age 12, while recovering from a broken leg, he taught himself trumpet, guitar, and piano. Music became his language when his body couldn't move. He studied at the Eric Gilder School of Music and later the London College of Music, making him the band's most formally trained musician. Jazz and classical music shaped his quiet, contemplative style—a perfect counterbalance to the chaos around him. At Regent Street Polytechnic, studying architecture he didn't care about, Wright met Roger Waters and Nick Mason. With Syd Barrett, they formed Pink Floyd. While others chased the spotlight, Wright built soundscapes from the shadows. He composed the music for "The Great Gig in the Sky"—those haunting chords that made you feel the weight of mortality. He wrote "Us and Them," transforming a film reject into one of rock's most beautiful meditations on conflict. He sang the bridge in "Time," his voice a whisper of regret: "And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you..." His ethereal keyboard layers defined The Dark Side of the Moon, yet few knew his name. By 1979, creative tensions exploded during The Wall sessions. Wright was going through a divorce, struggling with depression, choosing his children over the studio. Roger Waters, hungry for control, issued an ultimatum: resign or the album gets scrapped. Wright left. But ironically, he was rehired as a salaried musician for the tour—making him the only band member to actually profit from The Wall, since the others bore the financial losses of the elaborate, expensive production. In 1983, Pink Floyd released The Final Cut—their only album without Wright. Fans didn't even know he'd left. When Waters departed in 1985, David Gilmour and Nick Mason invited Wright back. First as a session player, eventually as a full member again. For 1994's The Division Bell, he co-wrote five songs and sang lead on "Wearing the Inside Out"—his first lead vocal in over 20 years. Did you know this about Rick Wright? #mikesquestions

@Franksquarerig Be still my beating heart!

@FlyNavyPhil would only have eyes for these two at that airshow

@MintyGts I wouldn’t fit in the Lancia Stratos, so it would be the Hillman Avenger Tiger I think. Nice and rare!

Have a good look at the photo, what car are you driving home? 🏁🏁🏁 some really cool stuff hiding in there!!