Nice bit of airtime for the proejct

Slightly alarmed to hear her mention that Donald Campbell & Bluebird crashed in 1921 though. Guess that’s what you get for letting a new born baby drive a jet powered boat…

I always find images like those absolutely fascinating. It really brings home how much the world has changed in the past 20-odd years: and how much safer it is now- even if it doesn’t always feel it.

Englishrussia.com is a brilliant site for this sort of thing: there’s always photos of similar abandoned installations all over the old USSR
Check out this one:

http://englishrussia.com/2011/10/22/what-is-hidden-inside-a-bomb-shelter/#more-72042

There’s a load of photos – but look out for the one that has the aircraft recognition poster for enemy aircraft. You might spot some familiar shapes….

Yes – thanks for posting those DER: being in black and white makes them more chilling – it’s like a direct link to the images taken there during the war.

Paul – Well… Germany certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on right-wing loonies: then or now….

…it just happened to be the bad luck of a lot of the poor s@ds in those Life pictures to be in the wrong country at the wrong time. Personally I can feel sorry for some of them. When I look at that picture of the Hitler Youth, it’s the words of another fervent nationalist that come to mind

“If any question why we died
Tell them, because our fathers lied”

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They’re excellent images- I think there’s some of Stalingrad too, where the same thing’s been done.

Seeing those reminded me of these

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-17095519

– again, very haunting I think

religious and sectarian persecution goes on in parts of the world, still. With all parties killing and torturing in the name of their “almighty”. It sends a chill down my spine when I think of it.

One of the things that depressed me most about these images is that almost identical pictures could have been taken in the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut in the 80’s, in the Balkans in the 90’s, in Rwanda at the time of the genocide there… the list goes on. We never seem to learn, do we?

Auschwitz is one of the places that I’ve always been determined to take my children when they’re old enough: I don’t think there’s a more important place they could go.

The American Eagle / F104 team aren’t even aiming for 1000mph… their target is about 850. The real competition for Bloodhound is this guy….

http://www.aussieinvader.com/

…designed in part by John Ackroyd, who designed Noble’s Thrust 2

Now an American taking the record is one thing. But an Aussie?
Oh, the shame….

If you asked the general public, I would think Bader – and Gibson as a distant second – would be the only names that many could come up with.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206547/World-War-Two-Lancaster-bomber-crewmen-s-remains-discovered-German-field-69-years-crashed.html

For all it’s other faults, must admit the Mail is good on these sorts of story