The Bluebird Project

Interesting programme. Is there any footage of K4 on the water with the Goblin engine? At one point during the programme K4 seems to have exhaust stubs and a jet engine soundtrack!

Ahh Bill-remember though-you cant weld or rivet balsa wood!- Goof on 633 squadron-anyone notice the series one Landrover in the film supposedly dated about 4 or 5 years before they were invented? :ugeek: Not to mention the decidedly post-war grey Fergie being used as a tug. Pre-production prototype...

I was dragged kicking and screaming last Friday from the engine bay I'm working in and taken to Goodwood for the Revival. I bumped into Bluebird K3 whilst heading for the aircraft section, I wasn't prepared for that! http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q300/Wallace_of_65/Image0303.jpg Raleigh Runabou...

I though he was going for a barrel roll at the end! Stirring stuff, thanks for posting it.

I worked for a company that supplied pumps to Pinewood and managed to really drag out a couple of visits for one of the Tomb Raider films and Die Another Day. The sets were just mind blowing and some of the stuff laying about the place was cool, I spent quite a while looking at the Jaguar with the s...

Was this episode shot in the 007 stage?

klingon wrote:Looks like a cross between a TR2 and a Cylon!

Funny you should say that, I always think of the Cybermen from Dr Who! It's the 50th aniversary of the CV8 this weekend, I will take a better photo of the blue CV8 just for you.

Renegadenemo wrote:Tragic to see Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson reduced to a scrapyard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Hunter

Would I dare to say someone might be getting silently rich in the background?

I have met the end of the diary archive and thoroughly recommend it as a riveting read. Did you ever try losing that knife and fork Bill?