There’s at least two FBA’s left – one of them’s in Brussels

Thank you – that’s good news. Always happy to be corrected.

According to this excellent thread on WWI survivors the Felixstowe is on the survivors’ list as well.

Allan

Hi Bryan,

There may be some info in documents in the National Archives at Kew as well

AIR 10/1306 is “Lynx IV Aero Engine: Descriptive Handbook (1927)

Also have a look at this list here. There may be one or two other of use. Hard to tell without seeing the documents though. Sometimes they have drawings, sometimes they don’t.

All the best

Allan

Didn’t understand what question #10 was all about:
Which is appearantly the 748, but why? No clue.

Three had names, the 748 only a number? :diablo:

Aaaah – we’re all posting at once. I really am going home now

AK

I’m talking about the Valiant:

The first type 660, WB210, flew on the 18th of May 1951, flown by Vickers’ chief test pilot ‘Mutt’ Summers and ‘Jock’ Bryce.

You made me stop my huff :p

SPOILER ALERT

Question 14 is wrong:
Which was Britain’s first four-jet bomber?
First to fly or first in service? In either case it was the Valiant not the Sperrin.

I’m going off in a huff (a small, inefficient E European car)

Maybe because the fear of something worse than the life you are experiencing gives a Government an extra degree of control.

That’s my concern – 42 days detention, no protests near parliament, control even over what comics can joke about. Ok, I’m not saying they engineered the attacks on 9/11 to do these things, but by God they’ve seized the opportunity it presented.

In fact I’ve often wondered if films like Threads, The Day After, Armageddon, Plague, Supervolcano et al aren’t sponsored by Governments covertly to ‘educate’ mankind as to what possible futures may be.

If not covertly sponsored then encouraged – do the credits say if a film council (ie Quango) sponsored Threads?

Perhaps Governments know that in 250 years time a Comet or Meteor will hit the earth, or a Supervolcano will erupt.

Now that’s getting too far into conspiracy territory for my liking. The best the US Goverment-sponsored Earthquake scientists can say is a 99% chance of a 6.7 magnitude earthquake in California in the next 30 years. Actually, I think that maybe proves your argument.

I honestly don’t think Governments are clever enough either to create a huge conspiracies or even to keep them quiet – I’m a believer in the grand cockup theory where they do odd things because they get it wrong. But don’t playground bullies cover their inadequacies by making people frightened?

So what did the threat of Nuclear war allow them to get away with?

Allan

How better to weaken your enemy than have it done from within?
The whole unilateral disarmament movement must have been welcomed at the kremlin.

Perhaps.

But, a limited strike by terrorists or a ‘minor’ power influenced by Religious Fundamentalism appears ever more likely.

When you consider how our various Governments have done much to perpetuate fear of terrorist attacks today, it makes me question how much our fear of Nuclear War was real and how much was from our own Governments. Why do we need to be asked to live in fear of something?

Allan