Apologies for hogging the headlines this morning but I was struck by the similarities between the US Airforce’s latest, if flawed brainchild and the highly successful craft we all knew in the ‘fifties.
Not being of a scientific bent, may I be allowed to comment on the amazingly prophetic illustrations from 60 years ago?
Do we owe both to the pioneering efforts of experts in the infamous Peenemünde laboratories in the ‘forties? Or was Leonardo da Vinci the real originator of rocket science?
Boadicea's Chariot 
Sacre bleu!
I’d forgotten all about this 🙂
Oink! Oink!
JW, que?
You’re a hogger, J. 🙂
Time for cricket. Speak to you soon.
Happy memories of ‘The Eagle’ and Dan Dare in particular. The following won’t mean much for non followers of Dan. He was my hero as a kid and I’ve grown up trying to emulate him, imagine how I felt the other day when I looked in the shaving mirror and realised I had turned into Digby!
OMG 🙂
Backside was bit slow there, JDubya! 🙂 Early wickets by England. SA 105 for 5.
Janus, good evening.
Happy days. Still got all my ‘Eagle’ annuals from the late 1950’s and early 1960’s and leaf through them from time to time.
I don’t know if you will have read the news about the ‘Dandy’?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9480264/End-for-childrens-comic-The-Dandy.html
Slightly ambivalent myself, to be fair. I always liked Desperate Dan but I was very much more a ‘Beano’ sort of boy.
I think rocket science was started by the Chinese several hundred years before Leonardo da Vinci (who I am not sure had anything to do with rockets anyway). Like JM I have most of the Eagle Annuals except for the very first one. My dear mother found it amusing to keep given the latest Eagle annual for a Christmas present even when I had gone to Uni.
Also,, like JM, I was a Beano Boy. All the characters in it were naughtier 🙂