For me the Vulcan was truly an iconic bomber in its time doing it's final work during the battle of Falklands with flying colours. Making UK 🇬🇧 proud. Of course it was the great efforts of everyone that kept it flying! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏🙏
Perspex/glass is structurally weaker than steel/aluminum. Further, the Vulcan had a strategic role initially, so all round visibility was deemed less of a demand
Also perhaps, may have been implemented to inhibit flash-blindess, if unable to don their curtains in a timely manner. Maybe the old adage "it's a feature". 😊
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Rob Salvage talking about things he doesn’t know about again I see! The ships which arrived at Bristol didn’t just rely on the tides to help them up the river.. they were towed up by men from the village of Pill, Somerset and without the skill of this ancient maritime village which sits on the muddy banks of the Avon about 5 miles down stream Bristol would have never became the city it did! Just passed Pill is an area called Hung Road where there ships would be moored up to wait for the next tide or to lighter and you can still see the heavy mooring rings in the walls today. Pill Provided the muscle and knowledge which came from the boatman, towboatman and Hobblers to tow the ships up the river and pilots to get the ship safely up the Bristol Channel and the river.. Pill still has its Hobblers which have been doing the the job for 500 plus years.. these boys now work at the Bristol Ports and are still the only licences boatman Hobblers in the river! I suggest the next time you want to get any information about the river then talk to a Pill Shark rather than a radio presenter with a nice voice and an expensive musto sailing jacket! PILL SHARKS RULE ⚓️🦈🏴☠️
I drove up to Heathrow to see the last international Concorde retirement flight (to Barbados) by that time they didn't care about take-off noise and she literally blew a hole in the clouds to reveal a sky blew circle! sadly missed! I can see why she was so special to the people of Bristol. Thanks for sharing; the music is very apt!
SATURN V , it doesn't get a cooler than this! U...S...A.... I remember watching these launches on TV as a kid in the 60s 70s. There a F5 engine on display at Rocketdyne in Canoga California on DeSoto street, right in the parking lot. Amazing technology, developed by men with slide rulers and pencils, much trial and error. And success. When the new administration's cut the space program the old engineers took their knowledge and insights to the grave, there was no younger engineers to pass thw knowledge on to.
Slavery was great for Africans, a much better life than the average English slave got. So much misinformation amongst mentally ill leftists, gen Z and millennials
Great video, thanks for posting. I remember the Harry Brown well. When we were kids we went swimming from the Holmes Sand and Gravel wharf on a particularly hot summer’s day. Probably not a wise decision, but that’s kids for you!
Forever 'On The Buses', Eastern National at Wood Geen, London. I remember them running in north London, among a sea of red Routemasters. Looked well out of place.
I flew from Bahrain to London in 1980 on the Concorde with British Airways and it was the best money I’ve spent flying.The speed on takeoff and landing at the angles was great and when to moved up to the breaking of the sound barrier it was excellent.I was invited up to the cockpit saw the curve or earth and darkness above and then the captain signed my certificate to say I was upfront.The device was amazing.Sadly missing this great plane as we will never see it again. Well done to everyone who built and flew the Concorde. Thank you
I flew from Bahrain to London in 1980 on the Concorde with British Airways and it was the best money I’ve spent flying.The speed on takeoff and landing at the angles was great and when to moved up to the breaking of the sound barrier it was excellent.I was invited up to the cockpit saw the curve or earth and darkness above and then the captain signed my certificate to say I was upfront.The device was amazing.Sadly missing this great plane as we will never see it again. Well done to everyone who built and flew the Concorde. Thank you
St Mary on the Quay would have been a better example to show how far the old harbour used to go into Bristol city centre. Also, missed the chance to explain the origins of the phrase, "Shipshape and Bristol fashion".
Hi, this is the Bristol Harbour Railway. It starts outside M Shed and in this video, runs down the New Cut to the Bonded Warehouse at Cumberland Basin. This section of line is currently out of use due to a land slip in the river bank but hopefully will be back in use when the works are completed.
Brilliant! Wish I'd been there for the production. had me perplexed because I was sure that the docks were closed by 2001. I remember bringing in carbon black from the Philblack for storage there in the seventies and there was no sea traffic then. Did they bring the Luce in just for the play? Is there a video of "Up the Feeder", I wonder?
The Lucie was hired in for the production by the Bristol Old Vic Company. When the ship arrived, the Russian captain and Estonian crew had no idea they were going to take part in a play. You can watch they play (it's about 2 hours long so treat it as a night at the theatre) - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WWqIEt_l_1I.html
I think it's fairly safe to say that nothing much has changed. Bristol still has a rubbish bus service, mainly, I believe, because it's monopolised bt First Bus, with the help of Bristol City Council who give them the contract every time. Of course, this is not helped by the fact that First Group own the bus station, so they're holding all the aces. inevitably therefore we have buses that don't turn up, buses that are late, surly drivers and dirty buses.
It was being rebuilt when I was little and reopened when Lindsay was 4 months old. Around when we met my new uncle with the same name as me I was a bit shy of, cause I was 3, nearly 4.
Brian Ashman at the controls of the Stothert & Pitt grab crane! He would shout down to me to help move the grader out of the way to continue unloading the Brown.
