…ind one of the wheels, looking towards the cockpit) in his Aircraft (1935) — it’s reproduced in England and the Aeroplane. Thanks for the references — another good one for flying boat enthusiasts is Graham Coster’s Corsairville: The Lost Domain of the Flying Boat (2000). Finally, I have to admit I didn’t know what jc was referring to. The answer is this. Pretty impressive stuff! Centaurus Acceptance Tests – new voice recordings – White Water Lan…
…Holman Alan: Yes, that’s another cliche the filmmakers dutifully included — and we still haven’t exhausted them all! Tony: No, I haven’t come across that book before. I was thinking too that having 110s in the film would complicate the story-telling. Most people would just think it’s a bomber, so you’d need scenes explaining that it’s actually a fighter, and what it was supposed to do, and then scenes showing them getting ripped to pieces and so…
…and Evening Mail can be found as London Evening News And Evening Mail (1901-1905), London Evening News (1901-1918), London Football Evening News (a single issue, 3 February 1904) and London Evening News And Post (again, a single issue, 15 August 1902). Name changes and mergers may be responsible for some of the confusion — at some point and Evening Mail was dropped from the masthead — but that doesn’t explain why single issues would be filed under…
…gest telescope, at Wanstead Park in Essex, a tubeless refractor using a 7.5-inch diameter, 123-foot focal length objective lens donated to the Royal Society by Christiaan Huygens. Though the optics were not good enough for serious work, some wag approved of the maypole’s new role, for one morning the following verses were found affixed to it (so it is said): Once I adorned the Strand, But now have found My way to Pound On Baron Newton’s land; Wher…
…ou come across anything NS-related. Cheers Peter Brett Holman Thanks again — I wish he had hazarded a guess though! Peter Lewry I tracked down a copy of The Great Delusion and have just finished it. A very interesting read, that ranges widely from well-researched common sense to the downright whacky. I also didn’t expect the anti-internal combustion engine and pro-steam power from coal chapter. Some laugh out loud moments too that might well have…
…3-Jul-09 09:27:11 UTC – Identi.ca […] https://airminded.org/2009/07/01/the-best-things-in-life-were-free/ […] Chris Williams It’s always been famously slow, but… I really can’t see how bandwidth charges are the problem here, to the extent that they have to start PAYING PEOPLE WHOSE JOB IT WILL BE TO COLLECT RENT. They can provide this via the SAS’s existing infrastructure, after all. Perhaps our world-wide opposition to the change might inclu…
…’s about what I would expect from my experience with Australian librarians — about half are fantastic, the rest are just surly. And the proportion of surliness seems to increase with the size of the library. (Though I probably wouldn’t be terribly happy if I had to work at Colindale, it must be said!) Overall, though, I’d tentatively regard the BL as one exception (and there are others) to my above snark about service. (I’m not used to being look…
…n at the moment), and another to the National Archives of Australia, where service records can be obtained (hopefully online, if not photocopies can be ordered). In looking through these records, the big surprise was that Private Mulqueeney did not die at Gallipoli, as my family’s oral tradition held. Upon reflection, the reason for this is obvious — over the years, as the family members who could remember John themselves passed away, the succeedi…
…I re-read it at the start of working on my thesis (and summarised it in a previous post), and bits like ‘English airmindedness has not been treated in detail, but the best sources are …’ (pp. 126-7) set me to thinking. And the rest, as they say, is a history PhD. Or will be….
…, best individual blog, best new blog, best post, best series of posts and best writer. But there are two new categories for other forms of history social media: best Twitter feed and best podcast episode. And, even more significantly, I’m one of the judges (along with Katrina Gulliver and Shane Landrum) for two categories, best group blog and best new blog. So please make our decision as difficult as possible by nominating many excellent group an…
