Pilots

[pete]

https://www.facebook.com/share/x75huYcGvoNJcdtZ/

[pete]

[ChrisJ]

Seems that this was only a concept - these two flew

SNECMA Coléoptère - Wikipedia

and FlyNano Nano - Wikipedia

 

 

[pete]

BBC News - Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703

[exeterjeep]

Another Boeing plane - much older though.

United Airlines flight 433 lands safely without panel in Oregon

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68584134

The missing panel was next to the landing gear, on the underside of the aircraft, according to images of the aircraft on social media. All outgoing and incoming flights were paused at the airport to search for debris, none was found.

 

[Sparky]

Can't stick this one on Boeing, much as they're getting what they deserve lately.  On this occasion it's poor maintenance.

[Bibs]

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

B36?

[Bibs]

Spot on!!

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Six turnin’, four burnin’

[Bibs]

[Bibs]

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew –
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

I guess he didn’t write that whilst squashed in a seat next to a sweaty fat guy in the back row of a Ryanair 737?

[Bibs]

Haha, he was inspired to write in in a Mk I Spitfire at 33,000'! 

[pete]

[C8RKH]

That must be a very old folklore - I believe BA inherited the "Speedbird" call sign from BOAC, maybe it was more of that era as in 1974 when BA was formed that was already 30 years after 1944 and so the pilot would have been well into his 50's if BA. 

[exeterjeep]

In 1939, the airline adopted the call sign, deriving it from the airline’s emblem, which featured a stylized seagull in flight.

Speedbird House was an office block at Heathrow Airport. It was originally the headquarters of BOAC and, until the company moved, of British Airways

[Bibs]

[Chillidoggy]

17 hours ago, Bibs said:

Don’t let the tree-huggers see that.

[Sparky]

Obviously a chemtrail.

[Bibs]

I think they were releasing a huge amount of refraction on that one! 

[Sparky]

I've heard refraction turns you into a vegan and a Just Stop Oil protester.  And a friend said it can also change your gender.

[pete]

How is the dress making going

[C8RKH]

 

[Bibs]