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[Tazzieman]

Translucent?

Opaque?
Steamed up bathroom window?
The demister will turn on after Feb 8th

 

[BarnesH]

Any GA (plane or Helicopter) pilots out there who might be passing who could snap a decent quality picture? Is the factory inside any restricted airspace to prevent this? If they were made in UK I’d offer..!

 

[Stu_Barnes]

Opaque?
Steamed up bathroom window?
The demister will turn on after Feb 8th

and if it was a series Land Rover would take 2 weeks to clear...

 

[Tazzieman]

and if it was a series Land Rover would take 2 weeks to clear...

My S3 has no heater. A rag does the job.

 

[Shaky]

Any GA (plane or Helicopter) pilots out there who might be passing who could snap a decent quality picture? Is the factory inside any restricted airspace to prevent this? If they were made in UK I’d offer..!

Not a chance, it’s like Area 51, a closed airspace. You get anywhere near that factory airspace and you will be buzzed by two IAF (Ineos Air Force) jets.

 

[Krabby]

My S3 has no heater. A rag does the job.

Used to keep a squeegee in my SII

 

[Max]

Used to keep a squeegee in my SII

I have a flat wiper blade sitting on the dash of my SII...manual wiper in the misty rain

 

[emax]

Any GA (plane or Helicopter) pilots out there who might be passing who could snap a decent quality picture? Is the factory inside any restricted airspace to prevent this? If they were made in UK I’d offer..!

I don't have the French VFR maps on hand, but have a screenshot from a free nav app.

Hambach is imho in the light grey area right to the pop-up box (I have surrounded it with a magenta circle). The entire region is below R163B if I'm not mistaken. And flying below 800 AGL under an R-sector is a bit keen, I'd say.

 

[Barney]

Hello emax, maybe we should drive to Hambach together? Or fly?

 

[emax]

Worth a plan.

Flying would be fun, but the Hambach area seems so be under a restricted flying zone.

 

[Stu_Barnes]

I'll donate to the petrol / avgas fund

 

[Jean Mercier]

For me that region around Hambach is quite mythical!
I am since quite some years working on my genealogy. It begun, because I have a huge portrait of a certain "Stéphanie Maiglet" and I knew only it was the grand-mother of my Walloon grand-mother, but it stopped there!

And to make the story very short (searching wasn't easy and long, but I had luck): Stéphanie was the daughter of Frederick Maiglet or Megle or Megeli, who was a glassmaker and son of ...
I am therefore a descendent of some very famous glass making masters originating from the Black Forest (D) and Switzerland (they usually married between each other's families): Megely, Hockenmüller, Faller, Bonhomme, ... and some of them were working for a short period in the region around Hambach: 1620 Forbach (FR), 1694-1743 Creutzwald (FR), 1730 Köllerbach (D), 1750 Illingen (D), ... Glass needs fire, forest equal wood, therefore fire. Once the wood was burnt, they had to move. Deforestation!!!!!!
And later (1760) they or there descendants (my ancestors) moved to the region of Charleroi in Belgium, still famous for the glass factories. Coal there, mines, ... they almost didn't move anymore, the mines lasted "forever".

And to make it more special, my first job as a "junior consultant" in 1985 was in Charleroi in two glass factories (providers of the automobile industry), but at that time I didn't know I had some "glass making blood" in my veins!

(PS: I have in some other branches of my genealogical tree some famous gadabouts (beggars) and even a (Flemish) deserter of the Napoleon army, condemned to death, but he could escape, otherwise I wouldn't be here )
(PS2: You don't have to donate for my fuel, I ask some wood and coal to my ancestors)

 

[Tazzieman]

My grandfather stoked coal into the Battersea power station in London in the 20s to keep the trains and trams running.

But now we've digressed into family industries it's time to excise this thread elsewhere.

 

[caalm]

Considering this is the google earth image of the Hambach plant, and we know that the Grenadier does not have a traditional sun roof, I'm thinking that the vehicles at the top are Grenadiers and the predominantly white ones on the lower periphery are Mercedes?View attachment 7802203

My only comment would be I think that's an old photo because the streeview of that carpark (which is a year ago) has solar panel carports which aren't on the satellite view.

Also those carports are fixed into those white concrete slabs you can see on the satellite view.

Sorry to be a dampener

 

[Geordie Hillbilly]

The date on the aerial view is August 2020 and the street view is 2021, which does indeed show the solar panels with cars parked underneath which are not Grenadiers.

 

[DenisM]

The date on the aerial view is August 2020 and the street view is 2021, which does indeed show the solar panels with cars parked underneath which are not Grenadiers.

employee car park?

 

[DenisM]

My grandfather stoked coal into the Battersea power station in London in the 20s to keep the trains and trams running.

But now we've digressed into family industries it's time to excise this thread elsewhere.

A case of 'coal comfort'?