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by no1traumanurse » Wed Oct 26, 2016 9:43 am
Canopy frame complete brought a lump to my throat. That moment is not too far off (hopefully within my lifetime), when you will reveal a finished cockpit canopy and we will cry seeing her true profile at last. Running Bluebird on Conniston might be the ultimate in engineering goals, for myself I will be in rapture just seeing her look how she was meant to be, whole.
As a child of the 60s, learning to read and developing an appetite for it, my memories (worldly memories, not family, friends etc) are overwhelmed by sadness. Commonest printform to learn new words? Newspapers, then as now not exactly brimming with happy tales. Newspapers leads to watching the news on tv, or they go hand in hand. So Aberfan, Apollo 1 and Bluebird are burned into my psyche...I really cannot recall a happy news event before Apollo 8.
This is more than just about Bluebird, in a way it is healing some wounds. Ok i know that sounds melodramatic but I bet mine won't be the only damp eyes.
There may be a mountain of work to do yet but the night is drawing to a close.