Random Picture Thread Vers.4

First jet to do a non stop Atlantic crossing and also held the altitude record at 70,000+ feet. The golden age of British aviation.

 

360° bends, really? Do you ever get where you are going?

 

That’s a roundabout

 

During the sixties I occasionally visited RAF Wethersfield which was occupied by the Yanks at the time flying Super Sabres. One morning about ten there was a low flying jet, not a Sabre, which did a low pass along the main runway. As the sound was so unusual many exited their buildings to see what it was. By this time it had done another circuit and came into land.

It was a RAF Lightning.

At midday everyone heard it start its engines and rushed outside to watch it do its party trick of rotating into its 89° full afterburner climb on take off. Nothing the Yanks had could match it.

 

Still in service with NASA.

 

I think you will find that the V Twin Vincent’s had that facility “for when you ride in hilly countryside”.

 

Do you mean socket?

 

Whoever he is the union flag looks to be a wrong’un.

 

Yep, the RC174 350 was just as good. I used to Marshall at Brands in the late 60s and watched Hailwood choose the 6 cylinder RC174 350 rather than the 4 cylinder RC181 500cc when he raced on the international circuit against Ago on his 3 cylinder works MV. Result was he beat Ago by half a lap.

 

His what?

 

It's true I tell ye.... you just get there a little lower down than when you started

 

I used to have a track for Matchbox cars which looked like that

 

I read about that yesterday, the aerial shots show just how wide it is and it goes on for miles. It’s all a massive disgusting con