Tim Jones

I think Nelson would just say, forget all this talk, just go straight at 'em. Back when there was a Fleet to go straight at 'em that is.

@MAGANEWS_X The British invented the first VTOL jet in the late 1950s. The Hawker P.1127 which became the Harrier and its variants.

🚀🇺🇸 Incredible but true: the F-35B lands like a helicopter… yet it’s a $100 million stealth fighter jet 🤯 Thanks to its VTOL capability, it can take off and land vertically, redefining modern air combat. ✈️🔥

@OnDisasters It wasn't her size but aerodynamics requiring the same takeoff and landing distance as the much larger 747, and Concorde usually touched down at around 240mph compared to a 747 at around 150mph.

OTD in 1969, the very first British-built Concorde prototype —Concorde 002— took to the skies for its maiden flight. Flown by chief test pilot Brian Trubshaw, the quick 22-minute trip was a huge milestone for the joint UK-France supersonic project. A massive crowd of reporters showed up at the Filton airfield to catch a glimpse of the action. Even Trubshaw, who usually shied away from the press, was thrilled, calling the smooth flight "wizard—a cool, calm, and collected operation." After taking off from Filton, the plane actually had to touch down about 50 miles away at RAF Fairford. As it turned out, the runway at the factory simply wasn't long enough to safely test-fly the massive new supersonic jet! 📹British Pathé ℹ️Concorde Legacy

@Mattisamazing33 Watch out for penguins.

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses

@almurray Psychiatry is a lucrative field.

People are bonkers.

@Mattisamazing33 I said long ago that all political candidates should undergo rigorous psychiatric tests before being permitted to stand for any office representing the people. Follow ups should also be mandatory at regular intervals.

Can we have some national leaders who aren’t mad

Dear World When you read such things in the media as 'The United Kingdom will' or 'Great Britain will', don't assume this is the British people. It's the Starmer government, which gained power with fewer than 1 in 5 of the electorate voting for it. Cheers 👍🏻

@TufferB Mignificent

Been practicing on some scrap offcuts, pretty happy with that.

@VoicesofWW2 Ships? They were thinking they could use Rhine barges to cross the English Channel as they had no landing craft. That would have been entertaining to watch.

Plan for the invasion of the British Isles by Germany. It included the use of around 200 ships to transport at least 300,000 soldiers. This project never came to fruition due to the maritime superiority of the Royal Navy and the Luftwaffe's inability to defeat the RAF.

@James1940 @WeHaveWaysPod @ww2headquarters Nagasaki?

History tells us that air power alone has never forced surrender or capitulation - not even the tiny Italian island of Pantelleria, where the navy helped too. LEARN HISTORY- it’s there to help!!!tr.ee/3WsoffuABu @WeHaveWaysPod @ww2headquarters

Happy Easter! Does anyone know when King Charles will be making his Easter message?

@Mattisamazing33 Watched this family playing and fishing for half an hour 😊

I’ve just seen an otter for the first time in my life. I was too slow to get the phone out for a photo. Amazing 😍

@MrJamesMay Like the first 911.

Spitfires became progressively less pretty from the prototype onwards. Braced and ready.

I think I'll buy a dog for Easter.

You know this thing about a cyber truck racing a Porsche 911 on a short straight track? It seems they don't know what the 911 was designed for. Curves. Take that truck to Le Mans or the Mille Miglia and see what happens.

@TufferB I watch very little which was produced after 2020 anyway 👍🏻

If you have an hour and forty five minutes spare and are thinking of watching the Peaky Blinders film. Don’t.

@elonmusk So were the Astons, Mercedes and Jaguars the 911 was originally designed to race. Because corners 😉

Cybertruck is quicker than a Porsche 911, more powerful than a Ford Raptor

@almurray @WeHaveWaysPod @ww2headquarters @James1940 Did they tell you about the volunteer fat bloke who squeezed his way down the little hatch into the cordite room beneath the shell room and then couldn't get back out? True story 😬😆

HMS Belfast @WeHaveWaysPod @ww2headquarters @James1940

@Rainmaker1973 One who looks like James Bond, as his creator Ian Fleming showed us at the time. Here he is. End of discussion.

Who would you pick to play the next James Bond?

@Mattisamazing33 This parrot is una... Oops, I almost wrote it 😆

Please never use the word ‘unalive’ in my presence. The word is dead, or kicked the bucket will do. Or bought the farm. Unalive is stupid woke nonsense and should be killed