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To: Paleo Conservative
It sends totally the wrong message for ministers to be spending millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on two new, official planes at a time when jobs are being cut in the NHS

Then Recycle


6 posted on 06/20/2006 2:24:50 PM PDT by llevrok (The next "greatest generation" is now.)
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To: llevrok

The Comet, right?


9 posted on 06/20/2006 2:34:30 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Left created, embraces and feeds "The Culture of Hate." Make it part of the political lexicon!)
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To: llevrok

Great picture - Great Aeroplane!

And, these almost 60 years on, as the Royal Air Force's Nimrod, still flying every day.

Per Ardua ad Astra!


14 posted on 06/20/2006 3:42:03 PM PDT by Brian Allen (All that is required to ensure the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke)
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To: llevrok

The article states that 707 was the first jet liner. Is that true? I thought the Comet was the first.


28 posted on 06/20/2006 9:33:38 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: llevrok

One of the most beautiful planes ever. Too bad it killed so many.


29 posted on 06/20/2006 10:43:51 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (My other car is a Herkimer Battle Jitney.)
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To: llevrok

Quite a piece of history there. De Havilland designed these entirely by hand -- no computers.


31 posted on 06/20/2006 10:56:28 PM PDT by Lexinom
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