Unfortunately, I suspect Sir Thomas Legg has done them an unintentional favour by exeeding the actual remit he was given. All too easy now for MP’s to bleat about moving the goalposts and suchlike.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8308825.stm

In hand-to-hand fighting you need to keep spinning around and saying “Hah! Hah! Hah!” for no apparent reason.

Maybe the baggage handler is passing them on to a cross-dressing pilot who likes to fly by the seat of their pants.

Quite a good film too,re released on dvd a few years ago,purely from memory-Avro Ashton used for flying sequences ??

That’s the feller. The one they used in the film had two test Olympus engines as well as the usual quartet of Nenes, which looked pretty odd for an “airliner”. Been looking at DVD’s on Fleabay but the cheapest I could find was about £8.00, which seems a lot for something I’ll probably only watch once; prolly be on telly the week after I bought it too.

At the risk of sounding non-PC, I suspect he got it for pretty much the same reason that Trevor McDonald got his Knighthood.

“Cone of Silence” by David Beaty, about the flawed “Atlas Phoenix” airliner.

When you put a bedroom light out, it never really gets any darker.

No matter how busy a city, or how important a building is, there is always a parking space right in front of the main entrance.