Spitfire

Bugger!, I wish I'd still been there to see that.

As it was I was tucking into breakfast at work :)
 
Noooooooooooooooo! I wish I'd known. I would have been out there looking at it.

Any idea why it was passing? Where did it come from? Where was it going?

Saw a Lancaster on Sunday but that was coming back from an air display in Morecambe.
 
They are very similar in appearance but also quite different.

OOh I feel a prize coming on. :)


Here's a photo of a Spitfire and a Hurricane.

For 100 ackers who can tell me which is which?
 

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Brilliant! I wish it had come over here. Isn't it funny how nostalgic we all get over the Spitfire? I'm the same with the Lancaster too - they were real aeroplanes (Oh lord, West, you're showing your age!).
 
For beauty alone I would choose the Mosquito, but I have to admit to being fond of earlier aircraft like the Sopwith Camel and the German Albatross (was that Fokker?). Loved the cute little manoeuverable FokkerDr1 as flown by Manfred von Richthofen too. I would love to have been able to fly in one of those. (without all the shooting and killing)
 
Not being an ackers millionaire like Willow I can't go offering extravagant prizes. Can anyone tell me what everday item, used by chavs and aristocracy alike, is related to, in fact descended from the Spitfire fighter plane? If you've been down Accy today you will have probably seen one.
Being the generous soul I am, I'll donate the 100 ackers I won from Willow to the person who answers the above correctly. There is a one-word answer that is acceptable.
 
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Apparently there's a timer thing on the Spitfire that's unique. The guns are really close to the body of the plane and so there is a clever bit of technology that means that the bullets don't rip the propellors to shreds by shooting out exactly in between them. This is according to Chris by the way, I know nothing about planes.

Don't know why that would relate to anything today but that's why I suggested wristwatches.
 
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I'm brain dead tonight but I seem to recollect there being a timer on some planes in WWI but don't ask me what because I can't remember.
 
I'm brain dead tonight but I seem to recollect there being a timer on some planes in WWI but don't ask me what because I can't remember. :D
 
I'm brain dead tonight but I seem to recollect there being a timer on some planes in WWI but don't ask me what because I can't remember. :D
 
I'll keep the 100 ackers and put you all out of your misery. Bearing in mind the uniform Gayle is pictured wearing in this week's 'Observer' I thought she may have been nearer. The item referred to has probably been used by some of the ladies on Accyweb.

The Maclaren Baby Buggy is one of those great stories of British invention. The book "Century Makers" lists the Maclaren buggy as one of the hundred clever things we take for granted which have changed our lives over the last century.

It all began in 1965 when Owen Maclaren designed and patented his prototype Baby Buggy. As a former test pilot and aeronautical designer, Owen Maclaren had been involved in the design of the Spitfire fighter plane undercarriage before World War II and therefore had immense knowledge of lightweight, rigid, load-bearing structures capable of folding neatly.
He was spurred on by a visit from his daughter, her airline director husband, and his first grandchild who was born in the United States. The trip to England meant coping with an unwieldy pram. So, after finding himself wheeling his grandchild around in a clumsy, heavy conventional pushchair, he had the inspiration to improve the humble vehicle. He did more. He invented a new generation of baby transport.

Full story here:http://www.maclaren.co.uk/
 
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