The Bluebird Project

Bill,

With all your anxiety about the air start system, I saw this today and thought of you...
It's the business end of the 3rd stage of a Saturn V rocket, but I'm sure NASA would share some of those bottles around if you asked really nicely...

S

I still think it was fundamentally the fuel system wot done it... Sorry I've not looked in for a while - just dropped by to read the diary and see if you've got any closer to running the Orph yet... Anyway, could help but think that it is never easy to say that one thing caused an accident. Search ...

I wonder what shade of blue that is? (***ducks and runs for cover***)

At least when Dave LeGrys took the bicycle speed record in 1986 he had the decency to use his own power to get to 110mph - albeit very close behind a pace car...

Mike, Some of your other readers will just think you are having a laugh with Photoshop... Seriously though, have you thought of doing a Haynes manual a bit like the one the Vulcan chaps did? I think though that you do have to live up to the motto of "every manual based on a full strip down and ...

Renegadenemo wrote:Stuart, you will no doubt be delighted at this long-overdue news!

Proper engineering

S

The trouble with Wiki is, anyone and everyone can meddle with it, so what it says now isn't what it'll say tonight, and so on. (Especially if it's flagged up now that it says something the usual suspects won't like!) Biggest contributor there by far would appear to be Neil, who seems to be turning ...

Bill, For what it's worth... When engineering giants undertake complex projects, they enter into commitments to their shareholders, customers, suppliers, and employees. Their shareholders expect a premium over "putting the money in the bank", and their customers, suppliers and employers ma...

How the Steam Record was broken Way back when (well, August 2009 anyway) Don Wales drove a steam powered car to a new record of 148.31mph. I saw the car on display at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Ansty last week, and I can now reveal his secret weapon (with apologies for the quality of pi...

That's a distance from "men in sheds" isn't it!!?? The shoes and wedges represent about 60 hours on the most amazing machining centre. We reckon the men in sheds would have literally spent months on this work. There was a hierarchy in the aerospace machine shops of old. Right up there at ...