Thats the Barnt Green Inn, Birmingham...an old favourite pulling joint
Thats the Barnt Green Inn, Birmingham...an old favourite pulling joint
^^^^Nice pub
I was on the English ale tonight.
For the Best'o'British boys bang this bonza Blackburn Buccaneer up your blurter...
Designed during the early cold war for under-the-radar low-flying attacks on Russian carriers it was the last big carrier jet the Fleet Air Arm fielded before they down-sized to the Harrier, after the F-111 fell through.
And to its left is the Hawker Hunter which famously flew under Tower Bridge in London in a 1-man rogue pilot protest at the lack of official recognition of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the RAF. I bet that racket put the wind up some Westminster fart-pipes
That famous incident occurred right about the time I won a life or death cut throat 6 inch swimming race against 100 million competitors; the 50th anniversary of which was also celebrated recently and also in a modest and low-key style
Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident - Wikipedia
Unfortunately it was before the age of the ubiquitous mobile phone and security camers so here is a Nigel-esque rendition
and a CGI job
Hawker Hunter mate, class aircraft right there. it was sadly blighted by that prat of a pilot who crashed one at the Shoreham airshow. Nice Art Deco airport Shoreham, if you haven't been I would advise going. Really nice driving around there as well. One of the last trips I did with my grandfather who was in the RAF.
One should listen twice as much as one speaks
Nice one loops and BC!
^Nice and yes how times have changed!
...and here is the diminutive Harrier designed by Hawker Siddeley for the RAF and Royal Navy and then gratefully and grovellingly adopted by our merkin cousins who, try as they might, simply could not get any of their VSTOL attempts to fly, bless them
Shown here in its finest hour facing of against a fearsome 1982 Argentine antique Skyhawk with its late model advanced Avionics hump on the back.
Amazingly the vintage Skyhawks are still in service with the Argentine Air Force today.
The Harriers are also still in service with the USMC amongst others.
The Skyhawk also saw service down under, as seen to the right. The Aussie Navy adopted a later model than the Argies but went cheap and dumped the Avionics hump-back package.
This 46% Loch Lomond single malt packs a bit of a kick.
And before Stumpy chimes in, no I do not have a problem with ants. Each of my liqueured whisky bottles stands in its own individual bowl of water which affords a protective mot-moat.
Do they need it? I just close the lid and make sure not to spill any when I pour it
Now that I have started I think I really need to do a retrospective of retro-jets of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm
So we have the diminutive Hawker Seahawk on the left which got the ball rolling in the 40s/50s. Twin shoulder intakes and twin armpit exhausts look like a twin jet bit it only has one jet engine
Followed by the famous 40s/50s DeHavilland Vampire with the twin boom (also flown by the French Navy).
The similar straight wing but larger twin boom 50s DeHavilland Vampire was a 2 seater
DeHavilland loved their twin boom designs and brought out the huge Sea Vixen (centre) as their larger design in this mold.
The Sea Vixen was followed by the already featured monster Blackburn Buccaneer which gave way to a downsize in design back to the long serving Hawker Harrier.
Back on topic I am drinking my Cuarenta-y-tres from a funky little toilet bowl glass. You can suck your drink through the straw handle or blow bubbles to get the liqueur aroma in the toilet bowl.
They look very nice Joe and I am surprised they have not fallen prey to drunken pub-pilfering in the past, a-la glass under the jumper stylee, although you would need something baggier than your sky-blue Harrington to pull off that raid.
That isn't Prag in the next stall is it? He has been MIA for a while.
...and you've have fallen at the first primatological hurdle here Joe.
If she orders a coke you are supposed to order a coke too.
You are supposed to mirror what she does and she will warm to you for reasons that even she does not fully understand.
He's in Andy Burnham International Airport
I was there about the same time as you as well!
Did you see me crusing around with the hood down blasting out "insane in the membrane" by Cypress hill?
I could have swore I clocked you with a Thai Barbera Windsor and about a dozen suitcase clanking like a Wetherspoons bar shelf at last orders
Shalom
I am only relating the learnings from my primatology mentor Frans De Waal which I read in his chimpanzee politics books recently.
I have yet to actually test out the movement-mirroring strategy myself, but it has a certain ring of plausibility, to my ears anyway.
Anyway, back to business, and its a big jet bonanza at the retro jetro fleet festival this week.
The Gloster Javelin, centre, was not a Fleet Air Arm jet but was a competitor against the DeHavilland Sea Vixen prototype for the RAF new fighter tender in the 50s.
The Vixen only became the pride of the FAA after losing the RAF tender to the mighty Javelin and then undergoing a naval redesign as a carrier-based fleet fighter.
I think the 50s and 60s were the real zenith of lithe and imaginative jet design aesthetics on the British drawing boards.
I like to imagine that the awesome British Javelin Missile, scourge of the Russian armoured divisions in 2022, was named after the elegant delta-winged legend (but probably it was not).
^I am hesitant to be first out of the traps with this risky move to tell the truth
A well deserved beer after a coastal path hike
50 lashes for James Squire
I bet he deserved it the filthy pervert
I am liking these 8283s with the cushion collar and thicker soles with more air inside
I used to have 3 pairs of black 1460s but I don't think I could pull them off at my advancing age (I mean stylistically, not physically)
I had forgotten about the hilarious creaking noise that the rubber soles on Docs make when you are padding round. It sounds like the deck of a ship.
^^ Loops at school you had to "Break In" your DMs, if they were new you were expected to chase someone around and kick them, if you didn't you got a kicking for being a cvnt and then they jumped on and scuffed up your new 12 hollers. The perils of being fashionable at 14. Fuk me i have just looped at the price now.....
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