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@efrwar Ha Ha Ha! Your anger at this is almost as funny as the clip itself. Are you a stooges fan? The original stooges had no easy time of it in the 30's with Columbia boss Harold Cohen screwing them for all he could get out of them. Two of the trio died of stroke - Curly at a very early age in ...

@R33Racer Here's a quote from Wiki on the Lightning (or P1) "Roland Beamont (Lightning development-programme chief test pilot), after flying most of the second-generation "Century series" US fighters of that era, made it clear that in his opinion, nothing at that time had the inherent stability a...

Why do we get so much of Dame Janet Baker's cooing when the sublime artistry of performers like Gladys Ripley and Bernadette Greevy goes unaired? What a joke politics sometimes is.

What a great clip! Many thanks for posting. But what happened to the Constitution? Looks as if it were in advance of our Bristol Brabazon at the time.

I am not sure that these aircraft were even equipped with radio, given that takeoff clearance from the tower to the pilot had to be made visually by flashlight. It is also said that the four Bristol Jupiter engines had to ben run gently for 20 minutes before takeoff to minimise risk of seizure wh...

This is a good graphic on how many people feel about their

employment - and lives! At least do yourself a favour buddy by turning

around and taking the same road downhill.

What a hero Baird was. Working with only a crude photocell, he contrived a system that would move the whole picture sequentially across its fixed spot to achieve the same effect later methods would get from a single beam traversing a lens image.

You are right, my cartridge ink is pigment rather than dye based. But of the two products, I would have thought that dye would more readily stain than solid pigment. And on viewing your video again I imagine a bleach based solution would get roughly the results shown (if used on dye) when flushed...

Sorry for my last post - I was confusing the single engined F16 with the twin engined F18.

I once met a pilot who flew the Blackburn Firebrand. A victim of ministry despotism of the time, he was ordered to test fly the new aircraft with a massive torpedo underslung. To gain the lift required from the load, on the short wingspan available, the massive engine torque applied quite simply ...

26862 - Absolutely!!! This fabulous (now sadly literally 'fabulous') Munich beer, before the seventies was nectar indeed. Soft, heavy and with a fantastically dry exotic-wood like taste, (very crude that, but in hope I am in the general ball park), this wonderful product has been sold out, not on...

These are not Migs or Sukhois at all but North American Super Sabres. Your credulity needs to be in overdrive for this film anyway - at the height of the cold war that Boeing would hardly have been met by such an obliging Soviet air force. They not only spare it from being shot down summarily, (r...

Hi tiadaid - I was working in a creative department in the advertising industry when those ads first appeared in the early eighties. We thought them downright awful then, I am afraid! The idea itself isn't that bad; a world-travelled businessman reminiscing on the range of attractive air hostesse...

mossie60 - quite agree with you re. the supreme professionalism of Mr Dimbleby. What a pity he then had to go and queer his pitch with those two sons of his, the second rather more than the first.

Wish I could get a DVD of this magical sequence. This little fellow

(and his perfectly chosen musical accompaniment) are a joy to behold.

Many thanks for the pleasure!

Except for the unstylish and old fashioned tail fin! Should have been swept back like that of the later Boeing. But I agree that the 707 was a beauty in aeronautical elegance, outshining in looks many that came after it. But Comet got there first, if only briefly.

You don't get a second chance which is why you don't take no chance. You have to assume that everything is buggered before you take off, unless yore preflight checks prove otherwise. Clearly these guys didn't take that step.