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.)
To: llevrok
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!)
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)
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
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.)
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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