The Bluebird Project

-as far as I know Barracudas were partly fabric covered with an ally frame?

Nah. Breathe easy, only the ailerons and elevators. the rest was all metal.

( Lawnmower museum)-Its really interesting, if you like that sort of thing...... Almost beats the Kendal Pencil Museum for heart stopping thrills and Many Hours of Harmless Fun dunnit? :shock: Ah, the Pencil Museum; the happy memories come flooding back! -Mind you I once visited a Snail Museum in T...

I'd put K7 in a different league to the other WWSR contenders that you mention. K7 and Donald got the record seven times. That puts it in a different league to all the other boats Wise words, mate. Is there anybody out there who does not believe that, given a less unfavourable set of circumstances,...

Renegadenemo wrote:

I always thought lager was poofter juice......

Not around here it isn't!

I beg your pardon. I forgot that lager comes in two different strengths.

That'll be wife-beater then.

I always thought lager was poofter juice......

That very impressive aerial photo' looks like tramping to me. There are individual splashes on each side of the boat and each appears to be in antiphase to the opposite side. Do others agree? Indeed. The trouble is, it probably tells us more about the state of the water at the time than anything ne...

Here you are, Bill. A treat for you; the very same Miss Grassby.
There are some other images on the web, but I won't deprive you of the pleasure of finding them for yourself

I've no idea what Tony Hopkins was doing pushing buttons on his fire panel.

... or what he was doing in bed with the girl from the garage, or driving the E-type with the DC7 number plate.... Lighten up, chaps; its called artistic licence!

Re: passing through 2 and I'm lighting up like mad.... brake going down ... engine lighting up now... relighting and now passing Peel Island.... relight made normal... I have now studied footage of this run using the latest M icro I mage N ano- G eometric E nhancement and there is something that loo...

I must confess that I'm not aware of any gee-whizz auto-relight systems on modern aircraft that might do the job for us I had in mind the set-up on the Rolls-Royce/Allison AE3007A, which incorporates flameout detection logic within the FADEC and attempts an automatic relight (it says here) before t...