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@WoodlandNomad @SirPatStew Even if you're not a fan it's worth a watch. I've been contemplating my own situation a lot recently as I face my own mortality head on with my Cancer diagnosis. It's given me food for thought.

@sarcasmazoid @SirPatStew I will have to watch that. The consequences are always an interesting angle and no version of life is ever perfect.

Today’s topic of conversation while wandering through the woods was: if you could go back to a point in your life, would you and if so to what age? MissTC and I both said yes. For varying reasons we choose the start of our teens. Would you go back & do things differently?

"Here 'Til The End" Through all the fog You had been calling Through the darkness You brought me home Felt the soft whispers Told her my story Unfinished and tarnished Here 'til the end

@thedriver1 Brilliant result.

Following on from the post about flying fast… One of the quiet miracles of the Boeing 747 isn’t how fast it flies but how slowly it can go during landing. This giant was designed in the 1960s, at a time when most airports were built for much smaller aircraft. If the 747 was going to change the world, it couldn’t just cross oceans, it had to fit the airport when it arrived. The solution was one of the most ambitious high-lift systems ever put on a civil aircraft… the triple-slotted flap. As the flaps extend on approach at the back of the wing, they don’t just increase wing area, they completely reshape the airflow. Three slots allow high-energy air from beneath the wing to re-energise the flow over the top, delaying that aerodynamic stall and dramatically increasing lift at low speeds. The result? A 400-tonne aircraft that can approach at speeds not much higher than aircraft half its size. Meaning it stops in less tarmac, making even the smallest airports accessible. That innovation mattered. It meant the 747 could safely operate into airports never designed for something so big, opening up routes, cities, and continents that would otherwise have been out of reach. The world didn’t have to rebuild aviation overnight. The aeroplane adapted to it. This is what made the 747 revolutionary. Not brute force, but elegant engineering. Massive capability paired with surprisingly gentle manners. JUMBO, my book, explores moments like this in depth, the ideas, those compromises, and breakthroughs that allowed the Queen of the Skies to change how the world moves. If you love aviation for how it works, not just how it looks, this one’s for you. If you want to know how short, is truly short, for a 747… Then preorder JUMBO now on Amazon and learn how this jet changed the world. #JUMBOBook #Boeing747 #QueenOfTheSkies #AviationEngineering #AvGeek #AviationHistory #FlightDeckView #HighLift #Widebody #AirlineHistory #BookLaunch #AviationLovers

712 knots. 820 miles per hour over the ground. Yet not supersonic. The fastest I’ve ever travelled in a commercial aircraft. This moment came high over the North Atlantic, riding the jet stream at altitude. The number on the screen looks extraordinary, and it is, but it needs some context. Despite the headline speed, this wasn’t supersonic flight. At cruise altitude the air is thin and cold, and what really matters to the aeroplane is Mach number… speed relative to the air around it. This was about Mach 0.86, right where the Boeing 747 was designed to live. And that design matters. The 747’s wing was revolutionary… highly swept (37.5degrees), exceptionally strong, and optimised for sustained high-subsonic flight. That sweep delays the onset of shockwaves as airflow accelerates over the wing, allowing the aircraft to cruise faster and more efficiently than anything that came before it. In the late 1960s, this was unprecedented, a wing built not just to lift mass, but to manage speed. Add a powerful tailwind and suddenly the planet starts slipping past very quickly indeed. That’s what I’ve always loved about the 747. It doesn’t shout about speed. It simply absorbs it, 1,000,000 lbs of aeroplane, fuel, people and purpose, and it carries on with quiet confidence. Elegant. Honest. Utterly over-engineered. A Queen built to move the world, quickly and gracefully. If stories like this resonate, my new book JUMBO dives deep into the engineering, the decisions, and the moments that defined over five decades of the Boeing 747. Preorder now on Amazon or in any good bookstore. More little Jumbo snippets coming in the next few weeks. Sorry if you think I’m spamming you but I want to share a book I’ve poured my heart into. #Boeing747 #QueenOfTheSkies #AviationHistory #AvGeek #FlightDeckView #Mach89 #JetStream #NorthAtlantic #AviationPhotography #LongHaul #JUMBOBook #LoveThe747

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@bagshaw2112 2008.

The TV GAME IS BACK What is the year - this is tough please repost so others can play. Tv teaser! What was the year ? #saturday #retro #tv

@N0TINSERVICE Yes I passed first time - just after my 18th.

Somehow I did at 17 😆😂

@MartinKnight_ My dad had mainly mercedes refrigerated vans when I was growing up as part of his business. Also had a Bedford CF, a Transit, and a few others. When we eventually got a car I started with car sickness 😂

What car did your Dad first drive when you were a child? My father had one of these except it had wooden panelling.

@bagshaw2112 🎵 Music 🎵 #magiceye

@bagshaw2112 🎵 Music 🎵

What do you see !! … #magiceye #stereoscope !!. Who will be #firstin and #topten . PLEASE PUT #magiceye in your replies to be in the #topten goodluck please repost so others can play along 🙏 JUST A BIT OF FUN 🤩 #monday

Rainy Night Walk, Slaithwaite, west Yorkshire, 1984, by Michael Kenna, Widnes-born photographer.

@bagshaw2112 1966?

THE CHARTS ARE BACK ❤️❤️ What year ?? History is history 👍 Please repost so others can play ! A nice UK chart .what year is it from Try to do it without using google or Grok . . #music #popchart #monday

@thedriver1 Great game, City very poor. I won't get ahead of myself though. We've been here before. They have to play like that against Wolves, and every week have that intensity and aggression.

@thedriver1 We finally got one that went out way 😂

@manufcnow Finally. Great goal.

MBUEMO GOALLLLL!!! ABSOLUTE LIMBS!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 x.com/b8734089817182…

@KirstyT75 🎵 🎶 Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby 🎵🎶 😂

Eternal flame by the bangles. Bollox I'm screwed. 🤣🤣🤣

Yesterday’s amazing sunset Manchester 📸 | Flossie Takes Photos (IG)

85th anniversary of 1st flight of Lancaster bomber: 7,377 built & 3,736 lost during WW2 Privileged to know many Bomber Command veterans. None knew they had just a 50/50 chance of survival: 55,573 deaths out of approx 125,000 aircrew. Imagine that loss rate in any conflict today?