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What inspired you as a child ? A child today hopefully seeing the exploits of Elon Musk and Space-X launching and recovering rockets with showmanship seldom demonstrated by serious rocket scientists may have their interest sparked in science and technology? Personally my love of technology came yes from rocket science, but also crucially from growing …
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LHR – JFK don’t those six letters cause some excitement to even the most seasoned traveller, there is still just a little romance left in air travel. Romance here is the “feeling of mystery, excitement and remoteness from everyday life” as opposed to love ! For me part of the romance comes from the Airport …
Register here to attend a free workshop on Google Earth Engine at Google’s London Office on the 15th November. Earth Engine is Google’s cloud-based platform for planetary-scale geospatial analysis that brings Google’s computational capabilities to bear on a variety of high-impact societal issues such as deforestation, drought, disaster, disease, food security, water management, climate monitoring …
Back in June of last year I visited the now disused Aerodrome at Filton to visit Concorde 216 G-BOAF as part of my quest to visit all the Concordes in a year. Then Alpha Foxtrot was a rather sad sight parked in a remote corner of the airfield visible only from a Car Showrooms car …
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” So goes the well-known philosophical thought experiment, however rather than a discourse on observation and perception I’d like to hijack the experiment for an argument I have been making on and off for the last …
If you are interested in finding out how data can make a real change to peoples lives in Kenya, come along and find out about Gather a startup I have been helping over the last few months… Gather is holding its first public launch on Tuesday 20th June at 7.00pm at the Urban Innovation Centre …
All the Concordes… where are they ? To visit every surviving Concorde in a year… Mission Accomplished… Well I enjoyed that challenge, here for your reference are details of my quest all eighteen airframes visited in a year. To find out more click on the date, link in the table below for details of each …
So my last Concorde completing my year long quest to visit all eighteen remaining airframes… Concorde 101 Or is it 01 and what are these numbers all about anyway… Well is started quite logically, the two Prototype aircraft were 001 and 002, the pre-production aircraft of which this is an example would be 01 and …
Alpha Golf, first flew in 1978 but did not enter service with British Airways until 1980 as it remained otherwise unsold by British Aerospace. There are a few pictures of the airframe as a “whitetail” online, looking rather sad without any livery. Upon entering service in April 1980 water contamination in the hydraulic system resulted in an …
Alpha Echo is a gem, beautifully preserved and very well looked after by a small but enthusiastic team, you could imagine the flight engineer selecting REFLIGHT/START Switch for Engine Number 3 to START and the Olympus 593 spooling up. Concorde 212 G-BOAE was completed in Filton in early 1977 and entered service with British Airways that summer. Over the next …
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