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Apart from the foregoing, the only other UK 'aviation' activity appears to be that the British state is applying for the loans to buy a small handful of F─35s and an expensive pair of 'sitting-duck' naval vessels for'carrying' them. But nothing wrong with a country being governed by the 'royal' family &c, is there?
They would be topics, not 'threads', as you put in in your comment (or 'post' as you would put it). And they wouldn't, in this section, be about a family, 'royal' or otherwise, for this is on aviation. Even so, it seems to some of us hardpressed subjects that (especially in England) the U K is governed more by the royalfamily, physicians or surgeons, BBC and the likes of Jamie Oliver than its elected representatives. And the conditioning that makes for this is so subtle that the outturn tends to be accepted willingly. But life's okay for the likes of you, isn't it?
Eric Melrose Brown was born in Leith, Scotland, on Jan. 21, 1919. His father, Robert, had been a pilot in World War I, and the boy was raised on tales of aviation. By 8, he was flying with his father. In 1936, they attended the Swastika-draped Olympic Games in Berlin and met Ernst Udet, a fighter ace, who took the youth up in a two-seat Bucker Jungmann. He said that he never forgot the flight at 17 years old— terrifying, exhilarating loops and dives, ending with an upside-down final approach and a roll upright at touchdown.
Britain was virtually bankrupt, but surrendering the project was divisive. Captain Brown wrote about it in “Miles M. 52: Gateway to Supersonic Flight.” His other books include “Wings of the Luftwaffe” and “Wings of the Navy.” After retiring, he became an aviation trade group executive and president of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He quit flying in the 1990s, but continued to write and lecture, living in Copthorne, England.
The biggest news in U.K Aviation right now is the death of Eric 'Winkle' Brown
Holder of two Guinness records for most types of aircraft flown (487 basic types as 'Pilot in Command') and number of carrier landings (2,407)
He was also an excellent writter including regular columns in enthusiest magazines and books. His opinion of the flight characteristics of aircraft and their comparison to similar aircraft is generally recognized as authoritative.
Today the 'Plane Stupid' protesters that caused untold disruption and monetary damage to Heathrow Airport and its users, and who were given to expect a custodial sentence for their crime, were sentenced to only a suspended one, which may make them seem almost innocent. And posters in praise of their organization were in the meantime, probably with party-political collusion, displayed in London bus-shelters &c. I am disappointed. The background to this is that it has, at last, come to be acknowledged that London needs more air-transport facilities, which would require a new runway at Heathrow, greater capacity at Gatwick or a new airport in the Thames Estuary off Southend-on-Sea (which seems the best one to me). And the ridiculous delay in coming to a decision on this is affording the 'environmentalists' etc a remarkable opportunity for asserting themselves
Here's another resurrection of one of Bitain's greatest aviators – Major James Bigglesworth, which is to do with dogs being trained to pilot planes. And mightn't the canine pilot be better than the human, in the sense of a properly-trained dog being less likely to impress us by banking at low altitude, sweeping down to make close passes or other foolhardy maneouvres? Dogs Might Fly about dogs learning to fly planes sounds barmy but it's true | Daily Mail Online
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BRITISH world renoun pilot passes @ 97
