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Originally posted by expat View PostNot always reliable. For many years the Outer Hebrides had a PA postcode, because mail was delivered from Glasgow airport, which was in Paisley. As well as causing many a letter for Harris to go to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this was an uncomfortable trap for travelling salesmen assigned this postcode area.Comment
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Originally posted by ratewhore View PostThen he'll know this song:
Plumbers - gotta luv em!!
He had more than one bottle of whiskey from grateful pilots after the successful deployment of their Martin Baker..."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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If you are ever near to the RAF Cosford museum near Telford you owe it yourself to go there. Vulcan, Lightning, AND TSR2. Totally awesome and makes you want to cry seeing where we are now compared to where we used to be as an engineering nation.Public Service Posting by the BBC - Bloggs Bulls**t Corp.
Officially CUK certified - Thick as f**k.Comment
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Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View PostIf you are ever near to the RAF Cosford museum near Telford you owe it yourself to go there. Vulcan, Lightning, AND TSR2. Totally awesome and makes you want to cry seeing where we are now compared to where we used to be as an engineering nation.Comment
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Seeing TSR2 almost brings a tear to my eye to be honest. Almost 50 years ago the UK was capable of stunning, world beating technology such as TSR2. TSR2 still looks modern all these years later. Where did we, as a country, go wrong? I really, truly do not know, but it is a tragedy that the UK has lost all that technology.
(Exact same story for the civil nuclear industry too now........)Public Service Posting by the BBC - Bloggs Bulls**t Corp.
Officially CUK certified - Thick as f**k.Comment
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And let's not forget the venerable Avro Lancaster, how the hell did they get it carry a 22,000lb bomb?
And the Dam Busters, nothing fills me with pride more than that, ingenuity, bravery, skill, drama, the fecking lot....
The Germans captured an unexploded 'Upkeep' from a crashed Lanc from the raid and developed their own bouncing mine from it, called 'Kurt' - gave it up as a bad job though, they never twigged you had to back spin it.....Comment
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Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View PostSeeing TSR2 almost brings a tear to my eye to be honest. Almost 50 years ago the UK was capable of stunning, world beating technology such as TSR2. TSR2 still looks modern all these years later. Where did we, as a country, go wrong? I really, truly do not know, but it is a tragedy that the UK has lost all that technology.
(Exact same story for the civil nuclear industry too now........)Comment
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Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View Post..... but it is a tragedy that the UK has lost all that technology.
(Exact same story for the civil nuclear industry too now........)Comment
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Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View PostIt's not all bad - we still have a thriving motorsport technology industry (amongst others).
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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