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| Thread ID: 125632 | 2012-07-10 00:03:00 | Simply beautiful - big bird in flight | Zippity (58) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1287378 | 2012-07-10 06:20:00 | Real niiice Zippity, thanks for posting it! LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1287379 | 2012-07-10 07:53:00 | Remarkable how it kept it's nose up so long after losing speed. They came VERY close to scraping the tail before the nose dropped. After a stressful day at work it leaves me wondering if I've got the wrong job, as it looks so peaceful and serene. On the other hand, a balls@# at my job at worst costs $1000. A balls@# with that thing costs $x0,000,000, so maybe there's loads more stress in that job too! Sod it. They can bill me! |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1287380 | 2012-07-10 08:00:00 | What was really amazing in aviation was the speed of development between 1903 (Wright bros) and 1945 when the war ended and the beginning of the jet age. Yeah, sad but true. War is fantastic for fueling development. Pity about the associated costs in life and planetary damage. We probably wouldn't have the internet if it wasn't for the millitary. We probably wouldn't have GPS or satellite TV if it wasn't for the military. We probably wouldn't have cellphones if it wasn't for the military. Why do we put so much of our resource dollars into how we can better monitor and kill other people? What if we put the same efforts into health and peace? Joblessness and education? Ethics and environmentalism? Sod it. It's easier to kill people. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1287381 | 2012-07-10 09:03:00 | Yes thanks Zippity | BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1287382 | 2012-07-10 09:46:00 | Thanks Zippity. A great post. :thumbs: |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1287383 | 2012-07-11 00:12:00 | Nice post Zippity :thanks: |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1287384 | 2012-07-11 05:15:00 | Just found a great video on YouTube showing the near-crash at Wellington airport www.youtube.com The clip suggests late 1950s but I was only 12 in 1959 and I remember it as someone older than that. I particularly rememember the plane sitting at Ohakea for a Very Long Time The clip shows that the near-crash was a very very very near thing! the closest any Vulcan ever came to crashing? I too, was a young lad at the time. At the air show held on opening day in 1959 a Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber aborted its landing when it touched down short of the runway, rupturing its left main landing gear drag link, the wing attachments and engine fuel lines; the aircraft flew to Ohakea air base where it was stranded for several months being repaired. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1287385 | 2012-07-11 06:48:00 | I'm dead sure that a Vulcan was here in 1957 or 58 as well, or maybe earlier even, because I remember being herded outside onto a playing field to watch one fly over on its way to Whenuapai. It can't have been any later because I was at a different school in 1959. Nothing on Google about it though. :( Saw the last Lancaster fly in during 1964 though, it came past low and close and we were in the only classroom in the whole school with windows facing that direction and high enough up to see past the trees out front. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1287386 | 2012-07-11 07:53:00 | 1956 www.pprune.org This flight (XA897) later crashed at London's Heathrow with all but two of the crew being killed. My Dad had been listening on his ham radio gear to the air crew talking to the London tower prior to landing when the transmission suddenly quit. Dad thought that it was due to atmospherics. It wasn't until a few days later that we learnt of the bombers sad fate :( 1972?? topbirdsandeveryfing.typepad.com www.avrovulcan.org.uk |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1287387 | 2012-07-11 09:51:00 | I have a Vulcan on Super 8mm movie film taken (I think) in March 1972 at the Royal NZ Aero club Air Pageant held at Paraparaumu. Could be the one with the RNZAF roundel on it. Might have too dust of the old projector and have a look. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
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