Hi Dave,

Do you have any pictures?

Thanks in anticipation Steve.

Lets get one point straight the only reason any project or enterprise fails is bad/poor management – be that due to over optimism, inability to see changing circumstances and react to them, poor business planning, lack of control, poor comunication, bad relationship management etc etc etc.

To infer that people should not criticise because it damages the chances of a fatally flawed project being rescued, is ‘ostritch’ politics. As much as I would love to see a Vulcan fly again, I believe the money could have been much better spent. People have moaned about the scrapping of the BA collection at Cosford – well the money wasted upon this flight of fantasy would have saved them.

Steve.

Oh, well no harm in dreaming, probably more chance of an airworthy Wessex though than say a Vulcan………

Steve

TT,

Is this a complete Stirling in Wastwater? and are there any ppictures?

Thanks Steve.

I remember talking with an exceptionally interesting historian about the way we percieve history. Her argument went something like this:

Collectively we are far more concerned with the history that lies within living memory. This is because we have had ‘human contact’ with these events, be it first hand or through interaction with someone who was there, such as listening to a Grand Father who was at the Somme. A consequence of this is that interest in any given period starts to decline fairly rapidly after about a hundred years.

If this is true (and from casual observation I do believe there is something in this idea), then 60 years on we probably already have children in this country who will NEVER hear about the Second World War from someone who was there – and to these kids it will therefore seem far more distant and less relevant.

The danger here of cause is that humanity’s darkest hour will fade and be largely forgotten. This may seem incredible but how much real discussion of the Napoleonic wars is there? and yet in his day Napolean was probably as revilled as Hitler.

So do we really think that in 2045 there will be widespread interest in Spitfire wrecks or that war graves will be as revered as today – where are the dead from Waterloo?

Time moves on, and perhaps surprisingly so does the past as it is reinterpreted for the age. It may well be that ecconomic decline, a retreat into a fantasy of cyberspace, social collapse or something totally unforeseable will wipe out our interest in the past.

Given this I think that the merits of recovery verses leaving in place for the future are probably fairly evenly balance.

Steve.

Shuttleworth……go and judge for yourself, you won’t be disappointed!

Steve

Hi,

Mainly budget airline 737s and A320s coming and going from Luton, fair number of private jets doing the same, oh yes and the Police Helicopter is normally buzzing around (normally at 3am above my bedroom).

Steve