Absolutely marvellous! Funny – seeing it from the side I kept thinking ‘Stuka’ for some reason…
Looking directly from the front, the wing fences actually point inwards towards each other – looks to me like two airliner (maybe a Caravelle?) wings have been cut and shunted together to make a sculpture. That would alter the wingtip angle to give it that Dornier-like rake…
Span appears to be around 70 feet or so – but the wingtip rake doesn’t look acute enough for a Dornier..
Very classy way to travel – funny how everything always looks so much less cluttered and more cared for in old photos.
According to a vehicle search, only the Brough is still around…
Easily seen on Google maps…
What a fantastic feeling of an upbeat future ahead in that film, with designers turning out world-beating products!
Now it’s all doom and gloom, and it seems our best designers have deserted us…
I’m all for it, but very surprised it’s on the books, given the nod this country gives in the green direction…
I’m all for it, but very surprised it’s on the books, given the nod this country gives in the green direction…
Jim – an Aussie member of a Harley forum I’m in sent in a photo of a project he’s working on at the moment, using two jugs from an aircraft radial engine. It’s 247 cubic inches – 4047cc!
From memory, the cliff scenes in ‘The Guns of Navarone’ were filmed just south of Lindos – those cliffs are great for high diving into around 60 feet of clear, blue, warm water…
Wow – that’s nearly 900 metres deeper than the Titanic!
Was that shots of the silver ingots on the video?
Wow – that’s nearly 900 metres deeper than the Titanic!
Was that shots of the silver ingots on the video?
What makes me sceptical about time travel back in time is that we haven’t seen any time travellers yet – surely historians in the future would want to see first hand the Battle of Thermopylae, Jesus, the Dambusters, etc, but to my knowledge these onlookers have never been reported in history, apart from perhaps the Cumberland Spaceman saga, linked to two tall figures in white space suits observed on video watching a Blue Steel test at Woomera in 1964…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solway_Firth_Spaceman
Another thought that occurs to me is that if time travel can only go into the future, it’s a one-way ticket!
What makes me sceptical about time travel back in time is that we haven’t seen any time travellers yet – surely historians in the future would want to see first hand the Battle of Thermopylae, Jesus, the Dambusters, etc, but to my knowledge these onlookers have never been reported in history, apart from perhaps the Cumberland Spaceman saga, linked to two tall figures in white space suits observed on video watching a Blue Steel test at Woomera in 1964…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solway_Firth_Spaceman
Another thought that occurs to me is that if time travel can only go into the future, it’s a one-way ticket!
What’s saddest about this is that Mr Revill, the owner of the farm and airframes has always welcomed people to view the airframes with the express wish that photographs are for personal use and not to be used on public fora such as this.
Any talk of “expose’s” and tosh is just going preclude locals like myself with no desire to make a song and dance of the collection from enjoying vists to the farm, so could we just leave it there please?
My friend is a local, and I asked him if it was OK to use the photos he took for me in this forum, and he said yes, so obviously Mr Revill hadn’t made him aware of his wishes regarding publication. There are plenty of other images of the collection already online.
To me, if he owns the aircraft, he can do what he likes to them – the scrapman would have!