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  1. Airport — 2023-10-11 15:23:36
    …n to meet the growing civilian air transportation sector. {{Image url="Saunders-Roe_Princess.jpg" class="left" title="Flying boats became immense like the Saunders Roe Princess" width="100%" }} ::c:: == Spitfire == The **Supermarine** factory …
  2. Air Traffic Control — 2023-10-07 10:51:35
    …work of airway corridors that provide a safety zone for air traffic to operate in. Distances vary but aircraft that are flying along the airways under [[radar]] surveillance are kept five nautical miles apart horizontally or at least 1,000 feet v…
  3. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
    …C) funded the design and construction of SRN1 - the world's first man-carrying amphibious hovercraft. Saunders Roe, the flying boat firm at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, were given the contract, and the firm, under Cockerell's guidance, worked avid…
    …ly on the 20ft craft dubbed the "flying saucer". @@{{adsense}}@@ …
  4. Bouncing bomb — 2023-09-23 12:03:28
    …0" }} It is quite unique, an amazing original weapon, 133 men and just 19 Lancasters heading out in darkness at night, flying at tree-top height over enemy territory, aiming a bouncing bomb at German dams.…
  5. Agatha Christie — 2021-08-14 20:41:37
    … who encouraged her daughter to write. == Christie by Marriage == In 1914, she wed Colonel Archibald Christie, a Royal Flying Corps pilot, and took up nursing during World War I. She published her first book, //The Mysterious Affair at Styles//,…
  6. Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
    …d Corks == Bottling wine was a hazardous method for storing wine as French glass was fragile, this led to explosions of flying glass. So barrels was the fall back container, especially for export. {{Image url="Sir_Kenelm_Digby.jpg" class="left"…
  7. Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
    …aged 4 years later in **1903**. [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22633d Watch a reconstruction of the Pilcher plane flying.]] == Richard Pearse 1903 == {{Image url="RichardPearse.gif" class="left" title="Richard Pearse" width="280" }} As men…
  8. Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
    …. His only son Robert was also a railway engineer and worked with his father on many of his projects. {{image url="TrainFlyingScotsman.jpg" class="right" title="The Flying Scotsman. First 100mph train" width="400" }} == Britain and then the World…
  9. Monty Python — 2020-08-06 07:48:50
    … created in 1969 by Eric Idle,John Cleese, John Terry, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman and Terry Gillam. Monty Python’s Flying Circus, it's full title, was a ground breaking surreal comedy [[Television]] sketch show of 45 episodes broadcast by th…

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