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Title: Cold War Hot Jets
Post by: Nickbat on 15 November 2013, 15:08:23

Don't forget! Part 2 is on tonight at 9.00pm BBC2

V Bomber time! :y

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j5cf8 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j5cf8)

Title: Re: Cold War Hot Jets
Post by: omega3000 on 15 November 2013, 15:18:42

Missed part one  :( Still should be worth taping  :y

Title: Re: Cold War Hot Jets
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 15 November 2013, 17:12:49

Well worth watching if the last episode was anything to go by. :y

Title: Re: Cold War Hot Jets
Post by: ronnyd on 15 November 2013, 17:47:04

Still got last weeks on the recorder so will watch ,em back to back. :y

Title: Re: Cold War Hot Jets
Post by: steve6367 on 15 November 2013, 20:18:21

I missed these, just watching E1 on catchup :-)

Title: Re: Cold War Hot Jets
Post by: tunnie on 15 November 2013, 21:48:27

Watching it now. Bloody good. How beautiful and graceful and agile the Vulcan looks, compared to that lard-ass bit of American junk, they could not take off in a straight!

Title: Re: Cold War Hot Jets
Post by: kevinp58 on 15 November 2013, 22:11:21

Great progam just shows we can be and have been the best of the best just a shame we always let it go.

Title: Re: Cold War Hot Jets
Post by: Nickbat on 15 November 2013, 22:13:40

Quote from: tunnie on 15 November 2013, 21:48:27

Watching it now. Bloody good. How beautiful and graceful and agile the Vulcan looks, compared to that lard-ass bit of American junk, they could not take off in a straight!

Indeed, they were beautiful aircraft. :y

I will never forgive Wilson's Labour Government for scrapping TSR2. It was so advanced that I believe it would have set Britain up as a world leader in aircraft manufacture for decades. Of course, we shall never know what might have been, but it was a golden opportunity lost.  >:( >:( :(
   

Title: Re: Cold War Hot Jets
Post by: tunnie on 15 November 2013, 22:16:45

Quote from: Nickbat on 15 November 2013, 22:13:40

Quote from: tunnie on 15 November 2013, 21:48:27

Watching it now. Bloody good. How beautiful and graceful and agile the Vulcan looks, compared to that lard-ass bit of American junk, they could not take off in a straight!

Indeed, they were beautiful aircraft. :y

I will never forgive Wilson's Labour Government for scrapping TSR2. It was so advanced that I believe it would have set Britain up as a world leader in aircraft manufacture for decades. Of course, we shall never know what might have been, but it was a golden opportunity lost.  >:( >:( :(
 

We would still have found a way to screw it up, we had that chance with DeHaviland for commercial jets.  I feel the subs were the best solution, they have lasted well, still key today.