Shuttles in the autumn when they retire them from service.

Another giant leap backwards for mankind:( First the moon, then Concorde, now this. Is anything in place to replace them? I doubt it – no money I suspect. Ahh well it was nice while it lasted.

Martin

It’s all earth orbit stuff, though; since Apollo ended, we haven’t (in person) GONE anywhere.

I agree and I think it is a crying shame that we haven’t gone anywhere else. It feels to me as though we are now just playing in our own backyard.

It wont be long that men on the moon will pass from living memory. Its not as if technology has not moved on since then. After the moon landings we should have been looking at colonisation maybe set foot on Mars. IMHO I think it could have been done with all the technology advances we have had in the last 40odd years. When you think about it, it took less than that to go from tentative steps into the air to jet power and less than 7 years to put a man on the moon even with the ‘limited’ technology we had in the 1960s.

We just seemed to be focusing these days on fighting petty wars rather than furthering mankinds reach into space (but thats a debate for another thread)

Maybe mankind has lost its desire to explore.

I find myself asking are NASA going to loose another capability here, should they have developed a new Shuttle?

I think they are, which is one of the reasons I think we are taking a leap backwards for mankind. Didnt the UK toy with the idea of a ‘Space Shuttle’? IIRC I think it was call HOTOL or something.

Martin

Nice find. As an educated guess the brackets would be used to hold the cabling that plugs in to the aircraft.

Martin

Don’t think it as a series but a one of episode of the Science type show QED.

It appeared to be a single nonstop view of the UK coastline from a camera mounted on a Hawk I think….the stinger at the end as they explained how they did it, was that it was a rear facing camera and the footage was being show in rewind.

This show is available on the BBC iPlayer in the BBC Archives

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/aerialjourneys/5334.shtml?all=1&id=5334

Martin

Is it just me, or can you see one gable of the burnt out WW1 hangar at far right in the first shot? 😮

Wonderfully evocative pics by the way. Thanks for sharing.

Could this be the one that was blown up for the film?

Martin

Has there been any official confirmation that ‘Jane’ will be in Dambusters? or is it just speculation/assumption that she will be fly?

It may be just me but there seems to be a lot of speculation that the restoration to fly is for the film and and that PJ is funding it. I havent seen or heard anything from the Pantons to say this is the case other than that she will fly and the restoration is being funded by the museum.

Martin

[QUOTE=’568 crew;1526410]Anyway just watched a documentary (circa 1984) about Avro Shackletons, amazing photography and footage of 56 squadron Phantoms scrambling to intercept a Badger.[/QUOTE]

I remember that one. I still have it somewhere on VHS. IIRC it had interview footage with ‘Bomber’ Harris and finished with a Shackleton on fire on a dump somewhere.

Martin