Hi,
According to Midge Gillies: ‘Amy Johnson Queen Of The Air’, it was Squires Gate.

Best Wishes.
Robert.

Ok thanks, I wonder do they have a monument of some kind to her at Squires Gate?.
Regards Phil.

“Betrayal At Pearl Harbour” or how churchill lured Roosevelt into War By
James Rubridger & Eric Nave, if half of this is true it’s a wonder the Americans
are still talking to Great Britain:rolleyes:
Regards Phil.

Well done TVOC:D All the bl**dy BBC are bothered about is some Pakistani bint who will probably be dead by the end of the week.

well said:D

If you want the Police to come straight away when scumbags are at your front door, just phone them and when they say “they’ve nobody available”,
just say it’s ok I have a gun so i’m going to Shoot a couple of them. And when they arrive two minutes later mob handed and say “you said you had a Gun”, just say “you said you’ve nobody available”:D

Wasn’t around when Sputnik was launched, being a child of the sixties (by eleven months 😀 ), but I do remember the Apollo series, and watched as many of the BBC TV “Specials” as I could. Raymond Baxter and James Burke were the usual presenters, with Reg Turnbull as well IIRC.

I remember being woken in the middle of the night by my father, and blearily going dopwnstairs to watch on TV as the shadowy figure of Neil Armstrong made that “One Small Step…”

Apollo 12 was on (or leaving) the moon on my ninth birthday, and my school friends and I watched them while we ate the birthday tea my mother had prepared…her fears that a houseful of nine year old boys would be a real handful obviously unfounded as we sat and watched TV in awe.

I never had the full 1/144 Airfix Saturn V kit but I did receive their 1/72 Apollo Lunar Lander kit, probably that same birthday, and so was able to re-enact the moment of touchdown and blast off from the lunar surface.

I also remember getting very cross when an Aunt and Uncle turned up as I was watchign one of the TV Apollo 13 updates, and they kept getting in the way of the TV screen – didn’t they realis ethis was amtte rof life or death! :mad:.

Two years ago, and again this Easter, I finally achieved one of my boyhood dreams and visited Kennedy Space Centre and saw a real Saturn V, the Apollo launch pads and so on. What a big beast that rocket was! My teenage kids were bored rigid, and didn’t seem to think going to the moon was a big deal until I pointed out that the on-board computer in the Apollo capsules was probably a damn site less capable than the most basic PC you can buy these days, yet it managed to get men safely to and from the moon.
but it would be good to see us at least get back to the moon. After all, its nearly forty years since we were last there…

And to everyone who says “What’s the point? All that cash could be used to sort out some of the major problems on earth…” then my answer is “1. Because it’s there” and “2. because who knows what the spin-offs might be”. Just think how many useful things came out of the Apollo program – it ultimately did so much more than just let twelve men walk on the moon…

Paul F

I Agree with every word you say, we should have been on Mars 20 years ago,

have you read “Lost Moon” by Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger all about Apollo 13,
brilliant book.
Phil.

Br.130: Sovs. If our leaders were traitors – Callaghan is a puppet of “his KGB minders” in a recent effort – then Sovs did a superb job burying evidence from today’s researchers in their archives. So, proving a negative. What can we measure as fact?

Take TSR.2 in context – one platform in a wide Defence programme. When BAC declined Jenkins’ fixed price for 50 (GRE feared a loss – see the Bouncing Bombs biog.), Wilson ordered 50 F-111K/ WE177B to sustain the East of Suez role; plus Jaguar (R&D by Wilson)/WE177A (procured, Wilson) vice RAFG’s 64 nuke Canberra/US stores (acquired by Tory Macmillan); plus Buccaneer S.2B/WE177B (bought, Wilson) vice TBF Vulcan. Then many Tornado GR.1/WE177A/B, bought by Wilson and Callaghan, as were Polaris, its Chevaline update, and the order for Trident C-3.

A poor show, if they had been “Sov agents”. Is that enough, Br.130, to agree to differ?

TSR.2’s deletion gave BAC: Jaguar, Saudi Magic Carpet (“we could not have made the offer, never mind won, without US {F-111K offset}”, Healey,P.687,R.W.Howe,Weapons,Abacus,1981), AFVG (HSAL had quite as strong a claim for this), and in MRCA, leadership in (to be) BAE. Now there’s a conspiracy: buy now/pay later F-111K; bank the offset; quit Indian Ocean, thus F-111K, as unaffordable; do MRCA as entry ticket to EEC. Better than chunks of 50 TSR.2, eh?

Your’e missing the point, if you want to destroy an aircraft industry what better way than to have an agent at the very top, we never got F-111, it ended up costing more than TSR-2, Wilson was never going to order F-111, instead the RAF got the Buccaneer, not half as capable. BAC wanted to keep
one of the completed Aircraft for testing, the Government said yes, but only
if BAC paid for it, knowing full well that they didn’t have the money to do so.
If you were a Soviet Commander which Aircraft would you prefer to counter
TSR-2 or Buccaneer, MRCA as entry it to the EEC, thats bl&&dy funny:D
Denis Healey knew that the F-111 was in trouble well before TSR-2 was cancelled which is why the RAAF got theirs 10 years after the order, and at
two and a half times the cost, all this is in ” British Aircraft Corporation” by
Charles Gardner, The Government wanted TSR-2 dead with no chance of
revival, And as for Tornado, jack of all trades master of none. Now all this is happening while Wilson and others are under investigation by MI5 on suspicion
of being in the pocket of a Foreign Power, a little bit odd don’t you think.
Regards Phil.