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[tigers_gonads]

Some seem to forget that we still do lead the way in jet engine technology as used both on the ground and sea and in the sky.

That and our lead in wing design and manufacture, landing gear, ejector seats etc etc etc.....the list goes on.

Shame we can't bolt it all together and build our own anymore 

[BazaJT]

I  can do nothing but agree with you there,and if I remember correctly weren't the Germans very very close to having the nuclear bomb first?Plus I think they were leading the way in rocket technology-as in their diminutive ME163 Komet-or was anyone else leading the way?

[tigers_gonads]

I  can do nothing but agree with you there,and if I remember correctly weren't the Germans very very close to having the nuclear bomb first?Plus I think they were leading the way in rocket technology-as in their diminutive ME163 Komet-or was anyone else leading the way?

I think the germans had all the pieces ............... its just they didn't have time / get the chance to put it all together before we came storming threw europe and spoilt the party.
If we had delayed D Day until 1945, I think it could have got very nasty over there 

[redelitev6]

I  can do nothing but agree with you there,and if I remember correctly weren't the Germans very very close to having the nuclear bomb first?Plus I think they were leading the way in rocket technology-as in their diminutive ME163 Komet-or was anyone else leading the way?

I think the germans had all the pieces ............... its just they didn't have time / get the chance to put it all together before we came storming threw europe and spoilt the party.
If we had delayed D Day until 1945, I think it could have got very nasty over there 

Lets be honest , if Hitler hadn't invaded Russia , things would be VERY different now-goose steps all round !

[2woody]

two words :-

TSR2

Labour

[Kevin Wood]

I have always fancied having a go at building a small jet engine.........I have a lot of spare time on my hands this year [strokes chin]

I quite fancy building one of these..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-8BX7dUk5c

Bit of the old and new. Log burning gas turbine.

[acope]

The first time I ever flew was in a Comet about 1969-ish, it was abit off putting watching the loose rivets in the wing panels vibrating up and down, I was only going from Birmingham to Belfast, been going for about 10 mins when they announced the plane was experiencing "difficulties so we had to then fly down to Heathrow, change planes to a Viscount and start all over again, the Comet seemed a great plane though.

[albitz]

I  can do nothing but agree with you there,and if I remember correctly weren't the Germans very very close to having the nuclear bomb first?Plus I think they were leading the way in rocket technology-as in their diminutive ME163 Komet-or was anyone else leading the way?

I think the germans had all the pieces ............... its just they didn't have time / get the chance to put it all together before we came storming threw europe and spoilt the party.
If we had delayed D Day until 1945, I think it could have got very nasty over there 

Lets be honest , if Hitler hadn't invaded Russia , things would be VERY different now-goose steps all round !

Yep,we would have ended up being ruled by Germany.


Actually, things might have been pretty much the same then........

[Gaffers]

I have always fancied having a go at building a small jet engine.........I have a lot of spare time on my hands this year [strokes chin]

I quite fancy building one of these..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-8BX7dUk5c

Bit of the old and new. Log burning gas turbine.

I likey.  Similar to that wood fueled car they drove around London.

[Kevin Wood]

I have always fancied having a go at building a small jet engine.........I have a lot of spare time on my hands this year [strokes chin]

I quite fancy building one of these..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-8BX7dUk5c

Bit of the old and new. Log burning gas turbine.

I likey.  Similar to that wood fueled car they drove around London.

I'm trying to figure out how to attach it to a brewery. Reckon that'd boil quite a bit of wort.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I've got a wort that needs getting rid! That looks a bit extreme though!!!   

[Lizzie_Zoom]

The first time I ever flew was in a Comet about 1969-ish, it was abit off putting watching the loose rivets in the wing panels vibrating up and down, I was only going from Birmingham to Belfast, been going for about 10 mins when they announced the plane was experiencing "difficulties so we had to then fly down to Heathrow, change planes to a Viscount and start all over again, the Comet seemed a great plane though.

It was.  I had the pleasure in flying in a RAF Transport Command Comet 4B in 1964, my first jet flight, and it was fantastic!  I will never forget flying in seats facing the tail and thus watching the ground fade away as the RAF pilot put the plane in a full steep climb to altitude, something a civilian pilot could never have done with non-military personnel on board.  It was brilliant!  So was the plane itself, being very comfortable and smooth in flight.

The other great thing I remember about that flight was my poor dad, Royal Navy, who hated heights, sitting beside me, going a funny shade of white, crossing himself and fingering his rosary beads like crazy!!  Wicked was I?  Well perhaps so, but it was funny!!

[tunnie]

The early ones were quite poor though, think the unpainted one looked "future like" on the run way, but I understand that was due to paint adding to much weight?

De Havilland rushed the Comet into service, to beat the Americans. Who were way behind, if they had taken their time, Boeing would not have been the dominant force it became

[Kevin Wood]

I think the metal fatigue lesson would have been learnt by whoever got there first, to be honest. Repeatedly cycling large pressurised fuselages to high altitudes just hadn't been done before.