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Aug 3^rd, 2006 at 1:52pm

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... have always been anti-aviation. What with the Miles M.52 the TSR.2 etc etc etc.
Well I've found the historical precedent!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1836099,00.html
See what a pile of nitwits run my homeland? Nearly a century later and they're still pillocks!
Viva la revolution Grin

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Reply #1 - Aug 3^rd, 2006 at 2:30pm

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Viva la revolution Grin

Indeed but I don't think this attitude is confined to the British government by any means.

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Reply #2 - Aug 3^rd, 2006 at 5:20pm

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We watched "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" again last night. I particularly enjoyed the line "Brittania may rule the waves, but she doesn't rule the skies!" That was quite sufficient to prod Robert Morley into action Grin

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Reply #3 - Aug 4^th, 2006 at 3:48am

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Indeed but I don't think this attitude is confined to the British government by any means.

Undoubtedly not... but, I believe, this is a relative reason:
"We have also ordered a gas-bag of very considerable size,"
...we all got an overfill on that order.

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Reply #4 - Aug 4^th, 2006 at 7:42am

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Undoubtedly not... but, I believe, this is a relative reason:
"We have also ordered a gas-bag of very considerable size,"
...we all got an overfill on that order.

"We have also ordered a gas-bag of very considerable size," solemnly announced Mr. Haldane to-night, and without rhyme or reason members broke into shouts of laughter.

Apparently it is as risky to talk of gas-bags in Parliament as it is to mention a rope in the house of a criminal."

After 100 years nothing has changed.

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Reply #5 - Aug 4^th, 2006 at 7:39pm

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Thats brilliant that is. Still, retrospect is a wonderful thing and 100 years ago I doubt many of us would see the flying machine as a very useful and worthwile instrument. Grin

Woodlouse2002 PITA and BAR!!!!!!!!&&&&Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the Act made in the first year of King George the First for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God Save the King.&&&&Viva la revolution!

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