Ballistic bird crap…

Didn’t realise bird droppings could reach ballistic velocities. 😉

Your certainty makes you sound like a minimalist scientist type. 🙂

Wish I could be so certain about reality. Apart from modern scientists of the only other group of people who show such absolute certainty about reality is the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It must be just cluckin’ to have a true belief. If I had that I’d not have to think for myself at all, sweeeet, as the Cartman says! (If you don’t know who Cartman is you must be one of those sensible, grown-ups I am always criticised by. :))

I suspect the majority of us chickens have some uncertainty about stuff, and are forced to remain more open minded about phenomena we don’t yet understand. 😉

I would suggest that it is through the cracks in the current scientific paradigm that we glimpse the new scientific paradigm to come in the future. I am not so bright though, so I might be wrong. 😉

I had this once…….

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/album.php?albumid=222&pictureid=1683

Baz

Those weather balloons will fool you every time. 🙂

Hi Sarah…no problem re Trident’s as you can tell im a bit of a fan..lol

The Hatfield BKS trident shows the tail markings well! Must be the snow changing the white colour balance. 🙂
Your website for the Trident is worthy of the aeroplane. I recall seeing a Trident 2 in new half-flag livery (1968) fly over my home as a child. It looked so futuristic. The Trident had more wing sweepback than other jet types of the time, I think. It looked really something back then with the red wings and union flag on the tail.

I particularly liked the way the undercarraige worked with the offset nose wheel and the main gear twisting as it came in. British over engineering maybe but one of those things that makes an aeroplane likeable and memorable. When an early model Boeing 737 flew over you could see the tyres in the bays when the gear was up! No main gear doors. Quite a step down from the Trident’s design.

In fact, the red-wing BEA Tridents were so common overhead that when one flew over with silver wings it was surprising (and probably Iraqi Airways). It is only now, looking back from 45 years on, that the Trident looks more old fashioned. But I vividly recall how it looked back in the mid to late 1960s and it was a very elegant, raked-wing shape from underneath with the gear up.

Have you looked closely at the tail of the Trident at Duxford? I think the wording TRIDENT on engine no.2 is the wrong font. It isn’t quite right to my eyes.

Here are a few images I acquired from my Airline History Website days…

Sarah 🙂

PR photo by BEA for Trident 3b (1971 I think)

PR Poster by BEA for introduction of new Trident 1c (1965) – (the other side of the poster showed a Trident in flight)

Advert for BEA Trident equipped with Decca Navigator area nav system in BEA in-flight magazine (circa 1966 I believe)

I was calling scorpion a sweetie, not myself. LOL

We seem to see lots of cuts in military these days, the latest one the Sentinel Gulfstream intel jet. But I am not being serious here. 🙂

Here is a direct link to the larger source picture…

http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/ab64/raggidoll/aviation/BOACvc10and707sLHR70hotelstands.jpg

click the link. When the picture shows right-click and choose

save Picture as…

it will save it to your computer.

Sarah 🙂