This little story about one of the world’s strangest areas has been doing the rounds and appears in several newspapers. It concerns Sunday observance issues in the Western Isles of Scotland. But first some background.
Tag: Flying
Innovation and Invention
Mankind has a huge potential.
Just recently we recognised the 100th anniversary of the flight across the English Channel by Louis Bleriot. His aircraft looked like this:
Just one hundred years on, update.
As it happened, just a few minutes after my Post on Louis Blériot I came across this epic adventure including a leg of over 4,000 km across the Pacific Ocean. It really does put the last one hundred years into contrast!
By Paul Handover
Just one hundred years on …
On this day, 100 years ago, the Frenchman, Louis Blériot, became the first man to fly across the English Channel!
By Paul Handover
Flying
I just saw the video of Concorde taking off on it’s last departure from Heathrow. The first flight was in 1969. Man’s first landing on the moon was 40 years ago today. Hey, I remember that day! I left my home near Gatwick shortly after 3am to cycle some 100 miles to Bournemouth to see some relations. It was a beautiful clear night and I could see the full moon very clearly as I cycled along. Passing various houses I could also see people huddled round small black and white televisions watching man’s first landing on the moon. As I continued to cycle west the sun shone and it turned out to be a beautiful day. The other thing I remember is getting sun burnt on the left side of my body. Strange that, and I never worked out why dogs howl at a full moon….
By Bob Derham
Dogs and flying.
Anyone who has owned a dog will know that there is something very special about the relationship between a dog and humans. Dogs have the ability to provide the purest form of unconditional friendship and for us complicated humans this closeness is so precious. I mean who would have thought ……
Concorde – the aviation icon, that is.
Health warning. If aircraft and flying don’t give you a buzz then give this post a miss!
There’s a Forum in the UK that is subscribed to mainly by private pilots but also has a decent share of members from all walks of aviation including pro pilots and Air Traffic Controllers. Love of iconic events in flying is often talked about.
Recently there has been a thread about the last flights of the Concorde including links to radio calls between aircraft and London Controllers.
The Moon, 40 years on.
Probably one of the highlights in my life was watching the Apollo 11 flight to the moon and back. I took a week off from my job at ICI in Sydney, rented a TV and hardly slept during the whole event.
For those who shared those feelings of excitement as man reached out beyond his home planet, NASA has some wonderful archives including the Apollo 11 audio in real time.
America and mankind at its best.
By Paul Handover
Wow!
Even after being a private pilot since 1981, aviation still gives me a huge thrill. How about this, courtesy of the Daily Mail newspaper in England.
By Paul Handover
Learning from Dogs 