Added to my ever growing list of books to buy from Amazon! Read Vulcan 607 a few years ago.
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Just realised that his newer titles include Mosquito and Harrier 809, both added to my wish list 
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I make a point of buying books like this as xmas pressies for my dad. Once he has read them, they find their way back to me 
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Headcorn Airshow this weekend
Traffic was horrendous on the way home backed up for miles luckily I went on my bike.
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Some nice shots there.
Well it seems the X-59 is out on the flightline and being readied for pre-flight testing.
Looking and sounding like it fell out of the 1950s era of “chuck anything at a wall and see what sticks” aircraft design, it’s intended to reduce the sonic impact of supersonic flight. Not wildly practical if this is what it takes!
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Nostalgia-ing hard here now…
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Nice view of the runway for takeoff and landing! (or anything else when the bird shits on your camera)
You’d fondly-imagine someone’s thought of that and built-in a fuckton of redundancies to various systems, but judging by the first half of the jet age, I’d not assume anything…
Is Boeing involved 
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For the sake of the poor bastards that have to fly the thing, let’s hope not…
Lockheed Martin Skunkworks project, so I’m guessing not!
Never heard of this project. Found a version without the fucking annoying music. After watching the version with the cunting noise…
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Just had an old bi-plane fly over.
It was so slow, it was hard to believe it could stay up.
There’s a Duxford flying day today - perhaps from there?
Quite a lot of wing area, so a decent amount of lift at low speed. The stall speed for the Tiger Moth is 25 knots ! Usain Bolt can almost run that fast.
I recall my dad, who learnt to fly in a tiger moth, saying it would take off at 27 knots. They used to practice dogfighting in them with one dragging a target (flag or some such) and others trying to shoot it to ribbons.
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That is amazing! That really is slow.