That’s because no one does! Lots of theories but nothing conclusive. Don’t react negatively, Merlin, everyone is helpful most of the time………….:)

Someone once suggested to me that the army units in London have a restricted amount of ammunition to prevent or make it impossible to stage a coup.

Personally I’d welcome a coup. I’m sure we can show the world how it should be done.

Even in post war years the RAF had over 400 maritime aircraft and now we have none. In a few years time we might have just five front-line squadrons of aircraft and that’s it.

When they stop making the Eurofighter and the Hawk that will be it – no more aircraft building in the UK and whose fault will that be? Both the MoD and BAE Systems, who firstly stopped making civilian aircraft. Then they sold our share in Airbus, though thankfully we still make the wings for various aircraft.

Finally, can I praise the Moderators for keeping this thread open. We have been off topic some time ago but we need to get this off our collective chests. We all feel ruddy peeved off by what has happened. We appreciate our heritage and only have pride in our once first-class aeronautical industry. We have a right to be upset and angry.

What exactly do you believe a coup would achieve, apart from downgrading our credit worthiness, making it nigh on impossible for the new unelected government to finance our day-today needs let alone our current debt?:(

They only play in mixed doubles, professionally. There have been a few “Battle of the Sexes” matches which the men have usually won, despite being handicapped.

In the long history of aviation archaeology in the UK (with apologies to Malcolm McKay and JDK for describing it thus!:D) has anyone ever investigated the crash site of the Rudolf Hess Messerschmitt 110? If so; who, when and what did they find?

Whilst I appreciate the crash resulted in a spread of surface wreckage I would doubt that an incident of this nature could have left no tangible trace. In connection with a research/writing project I’d be interested to know.

In view of the extraordinary circumstances perhaps everything was recovered and all traces of the crash excised.

This thread is running out of steam – a bit like the incident.

Says it all, really, doesn’t it? Brilliant.:D

Your explanation would only make sense if the moon’s orbit took 12 hours, but it doesn’t, it takes just under 28 days. Therefore the difference between the perigree and the apogee is about 14 days.

As posted earlier there seems to be no clear explanation, other than it is an illusion.

“For over 100 years, research on the Moon illusion has been conducted by vision scientists who invariably have been psychologists specializing in human perception. After reviewing the many different explanations in their 2002 book The Mystery of the Moon Illusion, Ross and Plug conclude “No single theory has emerged victorious”.[5] The same conclusion is reached in the 1989 book, The Moon Illusion edited by Hershenson, which offers about 24 chapters written by different illusion researchers.”