Culture in it’s realistic sense is about inspiring awe.
I have seen some pretty awesome things.
Some, such as the Santorini caldera or the Tennessee River, are natural but some are contrived by human endeavour.
The World Trade Centre in New York fitted that bill, the Sagrada Família in Barcelona tips that velvet too.
But…
Shock and [...]
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Plane Sense
Only 7% of flyers are funding green energy projects to offset the carbon emitted on their flights, according to a survey.
A study of passengers at Stansted airport revealed that 93% of those questioned did not offset their flights. Ignorance cannot be blamed: 56% of those questioned by the Civil Aviation Authority knew what the practice [...]
Dr Fox wields the axe.
Britain could be forced to “borrow” American warplanes for its new aircraft carriers as the Armed Forces’ core capabilities are eroded by budget cuts.
That means lease them. So I’m a bit vague as to the saving here exactly. It’s more that we’ll have to do something to save the embarrassment of having the ultimate floating [...]
The Viking spirit lives on!
A team of Danish volunteers has built a rocket capable of carrying a human into space, and will be launching it in a week’s time. The project, which has been funded entirely by donations and sponsorship, is led by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen.
Yup, Danes in space! Best of luck to the chaps.
Just Ten Rules
1. Wait until you see the whites of his eyes. Fire short bursts of one to two seconds only when your sights are definitely “ON”.
2. Whilst shooting think of nothing else, brace the whole of your body: have both hands on the stick: concentrate on your ring sight.
3. Always keep a sharp lookout. “Keep your [...]
Counterfactual in Name Only.
Just names…
The Supermarine Spitfire came within an ace of being called the “Supermarine Shrew”. Put the fear of God up the Luftwaffe that would. Reginald Mitchell didn’t like “Spitfire” himself and said it was, “The sort of bloody stupid name the Air Ministry would insist on”.
By the 1970s it had (I am told) become [...]
Going Ballistic!
An F-22 Raptor and F-15 Eagle from the U.S. Air Force Weapons School’s 433rd Weapons Squadron pull into a vertical climb over the Nevada Test and Training Range July 16, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald). Click here for full-size.
Interesting that the Raptor seems to be shedding a hell of a lot [...]
Skynet nouveau est arrivé!
Defence firm BAE Systems today officially unveiled its first ever high-tech unmanned stealth jet.
The Taranis, named after the Celtic god of thunder, is about the same size as a Hawk jet and is equipped with stealth equipment and an ‘autonomous’ artificial intelligence system.
The plane will test the possibility of developing the first ever autonomous [...]
Mach Loop Frankie Vaughn
…Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers
Lightning, my pilot, sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the Thunder…
- The Cloud, Shelley
It’s Friday! It’s well past time for some aeroporn. I would kill every last one of you, dear readers, for five minutes of throttle and stick (which is what you lot would ironically be on [...]
TSR2
I think it rhymes with “Berkshire Hunts”.
How can anyone, anyone, destroy something so beautiful? I have seen XR-222 (one of the two surviving airframes - Harold-bastarding-Wilson had the rest destroyed along with all the jigs) at Duxford and she’s a beauty. Aircraft were born to fly. That they are duralumin and magnesium is like the [...]
84 million reasons to be cheerful
I just heard some bugger scooped 84 Million quids on the Euro Mockery.
Wowsers! What would I do with that sort of wonga?
Decisions, decisions!
Obviously, firstly I would give a few quid to my family and ensure through wise investment that me, my wife and our little cat were set until the heat death of the [...]
Nick Griffin
Last night I watched my first party election broadcast of the season and it was a stormer.
Yes, it was the BNP. You can watch it here. For I shall be flogged naked through the streets of Nuneaton with a bull’s pizzle before I embed that shite. It’s almost unfiskable.
The photo of Churchill, the opening [...]
Defence Review 2010
There is an elephant in the room. Let’s talk about it. The elephant is called Trident. Conventional wisdom is that we should either scrap it or replace it with… er… Trident.
There is of course an alternative.
Let’s see what we currently have in the toy box and what Santa is bringing us…
We have Typhoon, we [...]
British Airways - The World’s Favourite Way To Sit In T5 Forever…
BA is buggered. When archeologists of the future dig it up they’ll find mummified corpses clasping John Grisham novels and bags of boiled sweets. They might conclude this was an early C21st funeral rite. And they’d be right in a way.
You might remember their famous ad from a while back…
Try this…
Oh, and the failways (sic) [...]
Shockas of The Day
First a US General makes a very strange explanation for something awful.
US general: Gay Dutch soldiers caused Srebrenica massacre.
Huh? I thought it was the Serbs what dun it and the Dutch hardly covered themselves in glory but my vague understanding is that this was due to dreadfully silly rules of engagement of the sort that [...]
