On this day

[V8Druid]

thought it might be interesting to have a thread on historical events like this after seeing someone's post from the Hastings Observer(?) obituaries about King Harolds death in October, 1066
and to kick it off I can't think of a better or more poignant one than this ... I saw it leave Filton for the very first time, as a youngster, from the side of the runway, which cuts across the main road into Bristol - was an awesome thing and had a sad end really after such an amazing track record in its flight history

BBC ON THIS DAY | 24 | 2003: End of an era for Concorde

 

[kabin man]

Lego patented today 1961.

 

[kabin man]

and this..

https://x.com/SVG__Collection/status/1849097394727616849

 

[V8Druid]

and this..

https://x.com/SVG__Collection/status/1849097394727616849

one of my all time favourite bands and one of their multitudinous 'best tracks' ...
always takes me back to my first year in Redland TTC in Bristol -- that album was always being played by someone or other in our hostel from morning 'til the early hours ...
that or Floyd's, Wish You Were Here album ..
great times
26 dedicated young p*ss heads in an old Victorian house, converted to house us, two to a room, in the garden of which they built, the student union bar and the refectory that fed us

 

[Storrsy]

and this..

https://x.com/SVG__Collection/status/1849097394727616849

Cracking band. Was listening to won't get fooled again earlier thinking what a tune it was.

 

[Vinpetrol]

thought it might be interesting to have a thread on historical events like this after seeing someone's post from the Hastings Observer(?) obituaries about King Harolds death in October, 1066
and to kick it off I can't think of a better or more poignant one than this ... I saw it leave Filton for the very first time, as a youngster, from the side of the runway, which cuts across the main road into Bristol - was an awesome thing and had a sad end really after such an amazing track record in its flight history

BBC ON THIS DAY | 24 | 2003: End of an era for Concorde

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It was something else that plane . I mind it breaking the sound barrier after passing Reading on its way to New York . You’d see it first then hear it once it went over . They stopped it flying that fast overland after a while and it wasn’t aloud to break the sound barrier til it was over the Irish Sea . What a feat of engineering

 

[TiltyShaun]

It was something else that plane . I mind it breaking the sound barrier after passing Reading on its way to New York . You’d see it first then hear it once it went over . They stopped it flying that fast overland after a while and it wasn’t aloud to break the sound barrier til it was over the Irish Sea . What a feat of engineering

Feat of Engineering but economic disaster!!
Is it only in aviation that development is going backwards?? Aircraft getting bigger but slower?

Edit. And public finance!!

 

[Smiffy]

Feat of Engineering but economic disaster!!
Is it only in aviation that development is going backwards?? Aircraft getting bigger but slower?

Edit. And public finance!!

I think they are currently trying to get two different supersonic passenger jets off the ground so to speak.
My god father was one of the test pilots for concord. Amazing man and amazing stories.
Also red arrows pilot,flew migs for some war torn African country. Private pilot to the sultan of Brunei.

 

[bobthebuilder]

I think they are currently trying to get two different supersonic passenger jets off the ground so to speak.
My god father was one of the test pilots for concord. Amazing man and amazing stories.
Also red arrows pilot,flew migs for some war torn African country. Private pilot to the sultan of Brunei.

A chap not far from us ,was a design engineer for Concorde ,in his front room was a 8 ft perfect scale model in a glass display box ,a beautiful thing

 

[V8Druid]

Statue of Liberty - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

the statue in Paris, under construction

some where I have a book about Gustave Eifell, who built the superstructure to support the statue, which was built in the back streets of Paris, in the 1880s, with a lot of pix of its construction ... dare say there are loads on the 'net these days .... an impressive piece of work in its day and gifted to the US, by the French

 

[kabin man]

https://x.com/archivetvmus71/status/1851308015502426142
Minder first aired today 1979...wow

 

[topkit]

I still watch it, George Cole and Dennis Waterman what a pairing they were just fantastic, It's still hillarious now just as it was back in 79. Funnily enough my Mrs is known as Err indoors! Even she finds it amusing.

 

[kabin man]

Probably the best docu series ever.
Still gets me a bit emotional..
https://x.com/FXMC1957/status/1851910088505606518

 

[Storrsy]

Thought as it's remembrance week it seemed a fitting time to walk out into the moors to find the site of a crashed US WW2 bomber, Liberator 63926.
Parts of the wreckage still there strewn over 1/4 mile. 10 perished. They were returning from a mission. In Bay of Biscay and likely came a cropper to fog when flying over Dartmoors highest peaks .
A few photos from today and one of it in flight over Cornwall. Couldn't find the engine which is still lying around somewhere nearby.

 

[V8Druid]

Thought as it's remembrance week it seemed a fitting time to walk out into the moors to find the site of a crashed US WW2 bomber, Liberator 63926.
Parts of the wreckage still there strewn over 1/4 mile. 10 perished. They were returning from a mission. In Bay of Biscay and likely came a cropper to fog when flying over Dartmoors highest peaks .
A few photos from today and one of it in flight over Cornwall. Couldn't find the engine which is still lying around somewhere nearby.

all those blokes back then had guts beyond words - end of