Comments on: A thesis update http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:55:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Airminded · Panic! http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-50542 Airminded · Panic! Thu, 31 May 2007 15:17:14 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-50542 [...] at the end! — which is good because it was the first real outing for my current chapter on defence panics. The deadly-dull paper title was “Moral panics, defence panics and the British air panic of [...] [...] at the end! — which is good because it was the first real outing for my current chapter on defence panics. The deadly-dull paper title was “Moral panics, defence panics and the British air panic of [...]

]]> By: CK http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35994 CK Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:25:28 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35994 It'll have to be a toast to absent friends I'm afraid Nabs. Somewhat in the manner of <a href="http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/collections/maritime/march/fallenangels/atlantis.html" rel="nofollow">Bertram and Klausmann </a> I'm beached about 1500 clicks up the coast and the gyrocopter's absolutely U/S. Can I suggest you lot do a few circuits around the bar doing the "dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka" scene from BoB? That should put the other patrons at their ease. It’ll have to be a toast to absent friends I’m afraid Nabs. Somewhat in the manner of Bertram and Klausmann I’m beached about 1500 clicks up the coast and the gyrocopter’s absolutely U/S.

Can I suggest you lot do a few circuits around the bar doing the “dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka” scene from BoB? That should put the other patrons at their ease.

]]> By: Nabakov http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35898 Nabakov Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:07:27 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35898 Oooh very tasty CK. And that's a Handley Page Hercules too that is. Are you in for a drinkie poos with Brett, m'self and possibly Barista (who can vouch for my offline carnet) in an utterly cool and private Melbourne CBD venue quite redolent of thirties glam travel in the next week or two? I'll even do my impersonation of <a href="http://www.bookpalace.com/acatalog/Home_Bill_Lacey_Art_1145.html" rel="nofollow">Harry Hawkes</a> even if you squiffpecificallylly request I don't. We could talk about aviation. Oooh very tasty CK. And that’s a Handley Page Hercules too that is.

Are you in for a drinkie poos with Brett, m’self and possibly Barista (who can vouch for my offline carnet) in an utterly cool and private Melbourne CBD venue quite redolent of thirties glam travel in the next week or two?

I’ll even do my impersonation of Harry Hawkes even if you squiffpecificallylly request I don’t.

We could talk about aviation.

]]> By: CK http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35852 CK Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:12:48 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35852 Well then Nabs, Brett could also do worse than work in Jack Hylton and his band on the air and in the air on the Pericles over London: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbn8zKscZWQ Well then Nabs, Brett could also do worse than work in Jack Hylton and his band on the air and in the air on the Pericles over London:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbn8zKscZWQ

]]> By: Nabakov http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35851 Nabakov Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:09:45 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35851 And of course with shapes of "Things To Come". And of course with shapes of “Things To Come”.

]]> By: Nabakov http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35849 Nabakov Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:06:26 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35849 Y'know Brett, never mind reworking your thesis as a nice scholarly but lively Pimlico publication, why not churn and saucier your research into a sly, knowing yet delivered with gusto alt-history novel a la Well's 'War In The Air' meets Moore's 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' via 'Crimson Skies' and 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' yet set in a post WW1 European cockpit. Y’know Brett, never mind reworking your thesis as a nice scholarly but lively Pimlico publication, why not churn and saucier your research into a sly, knowing yet delivered with gusto alt-history novel a la Well’s ‘War In The Air’ meets Moore’s ‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ via ‘Crimson Skies’ and ‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’ yet set in a post WW1 European cockpit.

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35818 Brett Holman Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:52:07 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35818 Glad you've enjoyed my ramblings! I do know of Dyson -- he's a brilliant guy (I think the first I heard of him was in connection with his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere" rel="nofollow">Dyson sphere</a> concept). But I didn't know of that quote, it's most interesting. Thanks for the tip! Glad you’ve enjoyed my ramblings! I do know of Dyson — he’s a brilliant guy (I think the first I heard of him was in connection with his Dyson sphere concept).

But I didn’t know of that quote, it’s most interesting. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Pete Peterson http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35771 Pete Peterson Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:51:10 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35771 I think I have read about half of your blog in the six hours since I discovered it! first THANKS. Next, do you know some of the books by Freeman Dyson? In "Weapons and Hope" he describes, as he saw it, the outlook for a young Briton in 1937. "Feeling ourselves doomed, we were comforted by the thought that the whole society in which we lived was doomed equally. The coming war would certainly bring massive bombings of civilian populations. We expected bombing, not with old-fashioned high explosives, but with poison gas such as the Italians had recently been using in Ethiopia, or with the anthrax bombs that Aldous Huxley described in Brave New World." (There's an exxay in another book where he talkes about his experiences in Bomber Command, where he got to know Tait, one of the commanders of 617 Squadron. (I suspect you know of Dyson already, but if you don't. . .) thanks again! and wishing you well with your thesis! Pete Peterson I think I have read about half of your blog in the six hours since I discovered it! first THANKS.
Next, do you know some of the books by Freeman Dyson? In “Weapons and Hope” he describes, as he saw it, the outlook for a young Briton in 1937. “Feeling ourselves doomed, we were comforted by the thought that the whole society in which we lived was doomed equally. The coming war would certainly bring massive bombings of civilian populations. We expected bombing, not with old-fashioned high explosives, but with poison gas such as the Italians had recently been using in Ethiopia, or with the anthrax bombs that Aldous Huxley described in Brave New World.” (There’s an exxay in another book where he talkes about his experiences in Bomber Command, where he got to know Tait, one of the commanders of 617 Squadron.
(I suspect you know of Dyson already, but if you don’t. . .)
thanks again! and wishing you well with your thesis! Pete Peterson

]]> By: Mae West http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35712 Mae West Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:15:03 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35712 Great shower honey. Thanks. Great shower honey. Thanks.

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35679 Brett Holman Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:56:03 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/01/15/a-thesis-update/#comment-35679 No, no, no, sorry, I'm just really slack is all! I'll email youse tonight. Or tomorrow. <blockquote>a crazed airhead who wears a vintage flying helmet and googles 24/7.</blockquote> I thought that was me. I certainly google nearly that much. No, no, no, sorry, I’m just really slack is all! I’ll email youse tonight. Or tomorrow.

a crazed airhead who wears a vintage flying helmet and googles 24/7.

I thought that was me. I certainly google nearly that much.

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