R2OK!

Highlander · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 348 Location: Scotland

THE opening line of the traditional Skye Boat Song was never meant as a prophecy.

But yesterday it became literally true when a fast ferry, bought to carry Kazakhstan's extravagant and authoritarian president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, was flown from Scotland to the former Soviet state on one of the world's largest cargo planes.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1300702007

You couldn't make this up!!

Laughing

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Cherskiy · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject:

Yep, heard the An-22 droning overhead on its way there so popped outside and looked up! - first time I'd seen one in the UK. Huge, noisy thing.... Very Happy

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gfloyd · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject:

Did they take Borat away in that plane also? Laughing

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