A Good Day to be British.

I liked him being referred to as ‘The Coniston Cowboy’.

Do you seriously believe this will happen?

No, if I’m honest, not really!

Still, Nigel seems to make a nice living out of the project, and it’s endless streams of fund raising dinners etc etc.

Not what I said. I pointed out that it’s not hard to show that most of the list isn’t just British in either content or execution; nowhere did I say or imply that they weren’t to be proud of – that’s your defensive conclusion.

I said:

Really? What a large and inaccurate assertion. 😀 I’d grant you that they were the products of British and French empires, but to claim that the compilers were frogs or rosbeefs exclusively, no, it won’t do, Watson. 😉 Literally thousands of non British and French people made those museums what they are today.

Nationalist claims are so often straw figures erected for the partisan to salute – sorry if I can’t resist knocking them over. Time to grow up and smell the coffee. 😉

All i can smell is the Bull&hit 😀 you but up for a reply, how much progress do you think mankind made because of those two Empires, “no it won’t do Watson 🙂 funny that to quote a ficticious character from a book written by a man who believed in fairies, btw why is that only people that can’t get over the British Empire are the people that hate it so much, a bit like youself, let the Empire go move on, it gets a tad tiresome after a while :diablo:
Pip Pip Chuffer 😀

EN830

For goodness sake will you stop dripping on with all this negativity!

The UK Aerospace industry is the SECOND largest on the planet, only the USA has a larger industry than we do.

It is simplistic nonsense to focus purely on final assembly. There is no value add, no technology and precious little employment in simply bolting bits of aeroplanes together built by other people. The REAL high tech is in things like wing design, manufacture and assembly, fuel systems, avionics, powerplants and the whole host of other systems on an aircraft or weapon system.

The industry today is truly global and there are very few totally indigenous aircraft any more. Just how much of a Boeing 777 do you think Boeing actually make?

No problem, next time I see a 777 flying overhead I’ll remember to think, I’m so proud of that, 500,000 British made rivets flying in close formation 🙂

…things like wing design, manufacture and assembly…

Which BAE Systems, or whatever they’re called this week, are trying to sell to the nasty foreigners.

EN830

For goodness sake will you stop dripping on with all this negativity!

The UK Aerospace industry is the SECOND largest on the planet, only the USA has a larger industry than we do.

It is simplistic nonsense to focus purely on final assembly. There is no value add, no technology and precious little employment in simply bolting bits of aeroplanes together built by other people. The REAL high tech is in things like wing design, manufacture and assembly, fuel systems, avionics, powerplants and the whole host of other systems on an aircraft or weapon system.

The industry today is truly global and there are very few totally indigenous aircraft any more. Just how much of a Boeing 777 do you think Boeing actually make?

And while there’s a lot wrong with the project and the twit running it, we do have an attempt at the World Water Speed Record on the go in the UK too in the shape of the (Buccaneer donor powered) Quicksilver team.

Do you seriously believe this will happen? I think there’s more chance of K7 being restored & Gina driving it to a new record!

Just how many other places outside of America can you go to see 1 or more origional ww1 aeroplanes still flying. I can only think of a few, Duxford and the Bleriot in Europe that recantly recreated a record breaking flight.

Omaka, New Zealand…

Isn’t there an original Sopwith something flying in Aussie too? Or is it no longer?

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You’re being quite mischievous, Mr “Ross”!

Well that a bit like saying we shouldn’t be proud of the British Museum because it’s full foreign artifacts, or that the French Shouldn’t be proud of the louvre because it’s full of art from all over the world.

Not what I said. I pointed out that it’s not hard to show that most of the list isn’t just British in either content or execution; nowhere did I say or imply that they weren’t to be proud of – that’s your defensive conclusion.

I said:

Britain has a great collection of wonderful stuff to be proud of, and it’s a global achievement too…

The British & the French put those to places together for the world to see, nobody else.

Really? What a large and inaccurate assertion. 😀 I’d grant you that they were the products of British and French empires, but to claim that the compilers were frogs or rosbeefs exclusively, no, it won’t do, Watson. 😉 Literally thousands of non British and French people made those museums what they are today.

Nationalist claims are so often straw figures erected for the partisan to salute – sorry if I can’t resist knocking them over. Time to grow up and smell the coffee. 😉

Rumor has it there is a pretty good collection of airworthy classic British aircraft still flying out of Coventry…….. 😉

Tom.

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It’s no longer the 50’s and 60’s with the Campells and their showbiz derring do’s, does anyone in the general public really care anymore, times have changed, I preffered the news article on the new Hindu temple in the Midlands, thought it was magnificent and more worthy in our changing society.

No, it’s no longer the 50s or 60s, but Richard Noble got the World Land Speed record in 1984, and then again with Andy Green at the wheel in 1997- the first ever supersonic record on LAND!

And while there’s a lot wrong with the project and the twit running it, we do have an attempt at the World Water Speed Record on the go in the UK too in the shape of the (Buccaneer donor powered) Quicksilver team.

If Joe Public dopesn’t care, then it’s his bloody loss- these are all magnificent efforts that we should all be proud of, and stuff some stupid bloody Hindu temple!

G-BOAA

Well done that man!

Andy Green

(the lesser one)

Rumor has it there is a pretty good collection of airworthy classic British aircraft still flying out of Coventry…….. 😉

Tom.

As well as a number of private collectors doing their best with Beagle Pups/Bulldogs, Austers and Miles…oh and someone in a pink shirt painting delicately carved lumps of wood in London Colney 😀 😉

Rumor has it there is a pretty good collection of airworthy classic British aircraft still flying out of Coventry…….. 😉

Tom.

On the news tonight Andy Green reckoned the car could go faster again, all that was preventing this were the tyres which have reached the limits of their design. He also said that they only used five of the six gears available.

🙂

Hair hair.TT

Sadly, gradually loosing mine 😉

Hair hair.

TT