The Pilot Who Played to His Audience

Carole and I were walking along the dike towards the car park of Manea Bird Hides. We had been looking out over the Fen towards Ely Cathedral. No birds of prey put in an appearance on this day, but there were many other things of interest to look at. We had our coffee and sandwiches and talked about every day things before calling it a day and making back to the car. 

In every direction there were fields and Fenland. The whole place was very remote. Then, as we walked, there came the sound of a lumbering propellered aircraft. We looked up instinctively and saw this single prop plane flying across the clear blue sky. It sounded as though the engine had a splutter to me. I half expected it to stall and fall from the sky. However, I'm no mechanic and would not know what a good or bad aircraft engine sounded like.

I pointed my camera up and I'm almost certain the pilot saw me because he started looping, twisting and turning right above a particular spot. As he flew off he would loop about and come back again. I'm sure he was doing it for me. 

I came to the conclusion that the engine must have been fine because he seemed to be manoeuvring the plane very well. 

Britain Should not Fret - The Cost of Restoring Carriers to Royal Navy

Britain should not fret over this expenditure. This often happens and it can be to the nations cost when something comes about and the UK is unable to respond. This is a necessary cost in the long run. We need the aircraft carriers.

Britain Frets Over Cost of Restoring Carriers to Royal Navy - WSJ

Nigel Farage - Polish TV interview (21/07/2012)

I do want the UK to stay in the EU, but I'm beginning to worry that if pro-Euro minded politicians do not try and sort some of the EU Parliament's short comings out, then there could be an exit for the UK. I'm pro-EU and British, but I must now admit that I'm in the minority of my countrymen. If abiding by democracy of this nations state; I think the UK would leave the EU at this moment in time. The clock is ticking and there seems to be no gain for pro-Euro Brits. Much of what Nigel Farage says is correct, but his solution to abandon the European Union would be a very sad course for us Brits in the long run.

 

Why de Havilland DH 106 Comet Crashed - British Airline Disaster 1954

de Havilland DH 106 Comet

In 1954 an Entire fleet of de Havilland passenger jets were fatally flawed, causing Britain’s status in passenger jet transportation to be internationally questioned. The then Prime Minister of UK, Sir Winston Churchill, pulled out all of the stops to get to the bottom of the terrible aviation disasters that rocked the nation of Britain and the entire world. It was a post war time and de Havilland had made British Mosquito fighter bombers during the war - they had a famed reputation and were now trying to lead the way in large passenger jet transportation.

During the month of January 1954 the de Havilland DH 106 Comet took off from Rome on the final leg of its long distance flight from Singapore to London. On board were 35 passengers and crew. The design of the plane had manufacturing defects from repeated pressurisation. What followed was horrendous and brought about the eventual decline of de Havilland aircraft and was a disaster for British Overseas Airways Corporation.