English Electric Lightning.

[expat]

Samlesbury Aerodrome
Balderstone
Lancashire
BB2 7LF
United Kingdom

The clue is in the postcode

Not 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.

[Churchill]

Not 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.

http://www.yell.com/b/BAE+Systems-Ai...039/index.html

[cojak]

Then he'll know this song:



Plumbers - gotta luv em!!

Oh yes!

He had more than one bottle of whiskey from grateful pilots after the successful deployment of their Martin Baker...

[Fred Bloggs]

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.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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.

Been there and seen them - Cosford is great. Last time I went to Duxford they had the remains of what I think is the only other surviving TSR2. One of the development Concordes is there too, of course. It is easy for people to say "we were/are crap" but, even if I thought that (which I don't) it's hard not to be amazed by some of our technology.

[Fred Bloggs]

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........)

[stek]

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.....

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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........)

At the risk of being called a Cretin again - we really did let the TSR2 go to the Americans - we made the error of thinking we were working together and that they really were interested in buying it rather than killing it. That (and our continuing struggles to fund it without any other foreign orders) killed it.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

..... but it is a tragedy that the UK has lost all that technology.

(Exact same story for the civil nuclear industry too now........)

It's not all bad - we still have a thriving motorsport technology industry (amongst others).

[shaunbhoy]

It's not all bad - we still have a thriving motorsport technology industry (amongst others).

And if we gave everyone in the Public Sector a rifle, we'd have one of the largest standing armies on the planet!!