Another row!

Well, no, not really, but I’m sure something will transpire…

Here’s an example of innovative Britain – remember TSR 2, Blue Streak, hovercraft, that nice Mr Wilson’s ‘white heat of technology?’

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The question is, where do we think the first manned, or passenger-carrying version will fly?

12 thoughts on “Another row!”

  1. I always thought Harold’s comment was prompted by accidentally emptying his pipe into his ample lap.

  2. Nice one Bravo,

    The tech is nothing new. Phantoms had BLC Boundary Layer Control in the 60s. The next step from this is using electronic signals to warp the metal skin and alter the shape of the wing.

    Bleriot used wing warping when he crossed the channel, go figure.

  4. all the best ideas come from the UK. but they go to the states that invests in them and helps businesses expand, here we penalise them with punitive taxes and idiot rules and regs.

    We deserve to fall into obscurity.

    Even now the government is doing its best to stop banks getting back into making money by increasing tax so many are thinking of moving to France.

  5. True Hugh,

    The spams tried to claim the tech for that. Thanks to an innept patent claim by British Waste of Space, they still think they discovered the swept wing theory.

  8. Well i think it looks rather whizzo.

    Mind you, I went all teary watching the Battle of Britain TV prog with Ewan McGregor and his hunky RAF pilot brother Colin. My Dad was an RAF ground mechanic who worked on Spitfires. He had models of them at home when I was a kid and took us to air shows to see them. The sight and sound of them still raises goosebumps.

    But i wasn’t so much teary over that as over the superbly matter-of-fact way the surviving pilots described their experiences. Not a smidge of sentimentality – pure unassuming British stoic grit.

  9. Gentlemen, the Septics invented the jet engine and VSTOL as any fule kno’ – just like ‘Les Grenuiles’ invented transatlantic supersonic travel and ‘Airbus Industrie.’

    🙂

    OZ

  11. O Zangado :

    Gentlemen, the Septics invented the jet engine and VSTOL as any fule kno’ – just like ‘Les Grenuiles’ invented transatlantic supersonic travel and ‘Airbus Industrie.’

    :-)

    OZ

    Although the Septics often claim to have invented all these things, along with a lot of other things invented in the UK, radar, integrated circuits, radio etc. spring to mind the Yanks actually DID invent television, or at least the sort that is in use today. The first electronic TV was invented by a guy called Philo Farnsworth, who was brought up in Idaho. This man was the model for Professor Farnsworth, in Futurama.

  12. Four-eyed English Genius :

    O Zangado :

    The first electronic TV was invented by a guy called Philo Farnsworth, who was brought up in Idaho. This man was the model for Professor Farnsworth, in Futurama.

    FEEG – That just about says it all. Until my dying day I will spit on the grave of Harold Wilson and his ‘white heat of technology’ soundbite whose government at the same time provoked the death of British technology (go and read the real story of TSR-2, for example), innovation and manufacturing, on the grave of Anthony Crosland who destroyed the education system and, hopefully soon, on the grave of Denis Healey, a marxist who presided over the financial ruin of a once great country.

    And relax! 🙂

    OZ

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