…físicos alemanes eran capaces de determinar el tiempo en Londres a partir del sonido, lo cual era una información importante para la Luftwaffe alemana. Cuando el servicio secreto […] Rony Ross I have a book published in Israel in 1961. It is a collection of non-fiction spy-related short stories, originally featured in a magazine primarily intended for Israel Defense Forces personnel. The “Big Ben” story appears in this collection, and it’s possib…
…783-1786. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017. A fascinating look at the cultural importance of balloonmania: spectacle, literature, fashion, the sublime and aeronationalism. Needs a sequel! Fernando Esposito. Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. A much-needed analysis of the relationship between fascism and aviation, in both Italy and Germany (perhaps with an emphasis on the former, which is ab…
…home built and classics, right up to and including real ‘warbirds’. It’s a parallel experience to normal GA. It’s free from much of the hassle and bureaucracy and the anoraks that sometimes hang around GA airfields. It does however mean there is a lot of grass-cutting, and, if you screw-up, there’s no one there to drag your sorry ass out. It does though, allow one to fly, if one wishes, very old aeroplanes, non radio and imagine how it might have…
…/media/2?pg=32768 Hope you all find this as interesting as I do. cheers, niall Niall Baird oops – I meant “hi again DAVE!!!!!” sorry niall Brett Holman Or Brett :) Thanks, I’ll have to pass it on to my mother who has an Ancestry subscription. Gillian Coote Thanks for your interesting post about Crowan Parish, Cornwall. Looking at a branch of my family tree, there is my grandmother, Millicent Ann Holman, who was born to John Holman, born l854 at Wi…
…ent fruitlessness of military technology. Space. Britain is both geographically smaller than the United States, and closer to its neighbours (in terms of the distance between population centres, at least). It had less need for faster transportation internally, and as for for bringing Europe closer, this has not always been a universally cherished ideal in Britain (cf. Channel Tunnel, European Union, Napoleon, Wilhelm II, Hitler). America is far bi…
…erp – does it undermine my point or support it? Gavin? *NB – I know essentially sod all about this, so I’m just guessing and please don’t hold it against me. But I’d like to be corrected if I have the wrong idea. Chris Williams Blimey, that previous post is not half full of typos Para 1 ln 1 for ‘Hang’ read ‘Hang on’ ln 1 for ‘your’ read ‘yr’ ln 4 for ‘with’ read ‘which’ ln 5 for ‘buidings’ read ‘buildings’ Para 3 ln 1 for ‘Compare’ read ‘Given’ l…
…Erik: Yes, it’s not that silly, in that context. But the inventors were usually talking about more than a subtle induction of sparks at a distance. There was the ability to kill animals (not by simply zapping them), for example. On the one hand, Grindell Matthews’ original experiment is described by Barwell as producing a sort of electrical ray, but then in a riposte to Lord Birkenhead he explicitly states that it’s an electromagnetic, between x-r…
…pulled down; the ones on the other side of the road appear to be all original, so they must all have been repaired. Erik Lund Jakob, Jakob. You innocent young folks. That’s just what MacDonald and the Bolshies _want_ you to think. Brett Holman That looks like the spot, Jakob (although the map in the post implies that a house on the other side of the road was destroyed as well). Can’t find a mention of a blue plaque for this event, but Warrington C…
…ll be fatal to Christian civilisation, the one hope we have is that the Powers may be gradually brought together to act together in a friendly spirit on all questions of difference which may arise until at last they shall be welded in some international constitution which shall give to the world as a result of their great strength a long spell of unfettered and prosperous trade and continued peace. Source: Lord Lytton, BBC Empire Service broadcast…
…August’, its growth will be ‘enormously accelerated’ over the next year.He also revealed the existence of two new British aeroplanes, the Beaufighter, ‘for long-range fighter operations and for night-fighting’, and the Halifax bomber, which joins the Stirling and the Manchester as Britain’s heavy bombers: All three of these have already proved their worth, the first [Stirling] against enemy targets. Bomber Command has so far conducted 300 raids on…
