🚀 go-pugleaf

v$af$ppint@i-m-t.demon.co.uk wrote:

> - hi; in dipspc article, <20070713.1551.7055snz@flashy.nut>,
>            sum1@flashy.nut "Ian" volunteered:

...
> >And the late lamented Concorde, don't you think?
>
>         - indeed; there seemed to this ppint. to be quite a bit
>         of the form of barnes wallis' proposed supersonic air-
>         liner for (iirc) vickers in the lines of the concord[e].
>
Barnes Wallis designed a supersonic airliner, did he?  I never knew of
this.
I think the first was the Comet in the early Fifties, but two of them
went into the drink because of metal fatigue if I remember aright.


>         smoothly - but i don't actually remember now reading what
>         she was like to fly. is there any account of her handling
>         in a uk-published book, that you could recommend?
>
I'll pass on that one, but on the handling aspect, I spoke with a guy in a
village pub once who trained pilots to fly the RAF Vulcan Bomber at a
nearby airfield, Scampton, and when I remarked that it looked very cumbersome
and heavy and must be a pig to fly, he  said, no it's a marvelously good
aircraft and a delight to hfly. So, in that case at least, appearances
were deceptive.



>         [the cierva autogyro, and the sixties/seventies barnes
>         autogiro are an entirely different kettle of flying fish.]
> >>
You seem to be very well clued up on aircraft. Are you in the industry,
if I may make so bold as to ask?
....
> >Always willing to help out.  Unless it involves parting with money,
> >of course....
>
>         - you have a national stereotype, to which to live up?

Scottish, you mean? Well, yes, also I was heavily influenced at somewhere
between my  6th   and  8th year by reading A Christmas Carol. Hey,
thinks I, this Scrooge guy has it right: stay single and avoid having to
pay for childrens' upkeep and maintenance for some 18 years (for which
huge outlay you get a zero return), don't go throwing your money around,
frugal living, and repel any requests for a generous donation to a
worthy cause with contempt. I didn't like the subsequent events in the
story, when he hallucinates and loses his marbles and probably ended up
a poverty-stricken bankrupt after having foolishly given away all his
wealth.

>         - the happy^W contented satisfaction of a puddleglum?
> >>
You been at the cooking sherry again?

>         - love, ppint.
>           [the address from which this was posted bounces e-mail;
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-- 
Ian