Today’s blood-pressure raisers:

– The work colleague who didn’t complete his tasks yesterday, leaving the next mug (me) to clear up the mess that he should have dealt with.
– The tw@t in the white van who seemed to think that just because there was a cycle track next to the road I should have been on it… After he’d hooted at me, and indicated by pointing at said cycle track, I subsequently caught up with him at the next set of lights (I can still make a MTB shift!), and using a few choice words, explained to him the relevant points of the Highway Code, suggesting to him that he read it. He drove off in a huff without saying a word.

I’ve just got around to watching the second episode (Turweston Wellington Collision), and I was quite pleasantly surprised.
The crash site of BK272 is close to the route I used to drive on my weekly deliveries a number of years ago.

Seriously lacking I thought was a site investigation; a fieldwalk at both crash sites would have been better than the seemingly endless repetition of the key facts.

It seemed to be pretty good, but like jettisoning I was

…frustrated by the presenter and that woman doing the voice over… …and too much repetition. …if he is a serious investigator why not actually start with the CHORLEY losses…

I too was rather annoyed by the initial lack of reference to Chorley’s work. AND the silly female narrator referred to him as W H Chorley…
Perhaps the most annoying error (which caused me to yell loudly at the TV, sending both my cats running for cover) was when said silly narrator referred to the Wimpy’s construction as “geodesic.”

That said, I am in 100% agreement with Soggy – We should be grateful for programmes like these, despite the compromises made to get it to appeal to Joe Public.

Have set the faithful PVR to record the series.
Thanks for the “heads-up”, scotavia.

Another (potentially) airworthy Lanc?

Great news. One can never have too many Lancasters. Thanks Peter!

I hate Brand. He’s made a career out of talking Class A bolleaux VERY LOUDLY.

What annoyed me today was a family member posting Britain First garbage on Facebook; a photo of a poppy exhorting us to remember the Fallen.
I don’t need to spell out the irony of this…:rolleyes::stupid:

Depends how I depart this life…

If I die in a fire (probably saving some other poor sod), it’d probably read:
“Here lies Don Bryans, the toast of Long Eaton.”

Or the current favourite:

In VERY small lettering:
“Get off my grave, you nosy ****.”

Slight (?) thread drift, but a conspiracy theory nonetheless…

The tinfoil-hatted tw@ttery has started already with regard to MH017; see this link.

Clearly, the people who write this garbage haven’t a clue about air crashes, and have no respect for the innocent victims of this atrocity.

Jim,
The Boeing 777 is still the safest twinjet in service; only four hull losses since it entered service.