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BAC English Electric Lightning! If I could afford a jet go big or go home!
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When I worked at British Aerospace I saw (and heard) one of those taking off on full reheat. Toddled down the runway, lifted off slightly, rotated to 90 degree straight up and whoosh! Gone up through the clouds in seconds! Power to weight ratio of greater than 1 - which means it could accelerate while going perpendicular!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Mad, insane aeroplane, the wing flaps were part of the fuel tanks and they leaked like a sieve. How cool, I wanted to fly one, sadly got too tall and eyesight went then I wanted to go to Thunder City is South Africa, but thats not an option now! (you crash one jet!)
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When I trained at Vickers Armstrong (what became British Aerospace ) in Weybridge Surrey UK in 1968 ( I was fifteen ) , there was a TSR2 on the runway, I sat beside it several times and ate my sandwiches. It never flew again as far as I know.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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TSR2 the coolest Jet of the '60s!
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Yes it was an incredible machine - unfortunately Harold Wilson scrapped it - years later we got the Harrier but the TSR2 was first.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The TSR2 had several issues, before VLSI everything had to hand wired making it very labour intensive to maintain & the slab side fuselarge would mean at low level you would get blown around (the US Navy had the same issue with the A5) at the point in time the Hawker P1127 Kestrel was showing promise and became the Harrier (Once it was realised the supersonic Pegasus engine would destroy what ever surface it was landing/taking off from). Still a really cool machine though, lots of theories why TS2 was scrapped.
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At an air show near San Diego some years ago I saw a Harrier "jump jet" do its thing.
Appeared for what looked like it would be a normal landing. Then just stopped. In the air.
Danced forwards backwards and sideways along the strip at about 100 ft altitude.
Then it got REALLY noisy, rotated to stand on its tail.
And disappeared vertically.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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To this day the only aircraft that can fly backward in wing born flight! 
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I thoroughly approve of your choice. Why you ask? My mothers uncle worked for English Electric and designed the wings for that beast (and for the Canberra).
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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A true engineer I bet sports coat with leather patches on the sleeves!
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Haha, not quite, too high up the food chain I think. But he always drove convertibles with his foot flat to the floor even in his 70's. But he did wear the classic horn rimmed specs 
I found an old photo of the EE design/engineering team with the P.1 (prototype) from around 1954/55 - yes, he's wearing a sports jacket 
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
modified 6-May-21 23:07pm.
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F18 Super Hornet, fully armed.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Ok, a Hairier Jump Jet then, so I can come and go from the driveway much to the chagrin of my neighbors.
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Ron Anders wrote: Hairier Jump Jet
Is that a Dog or a Cat?
Despite having spent many years based at the home of the Harrier (there are two or three places claiming that accolade), I would like a Hotol (British Aerospace HOTOL - Wikipedia[^]); failing that I'd like a Concorde.
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A reliable one.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Lots of second hand 747s going cheap at the moment...
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You probably mean 737 - but they do not fullfill the reliable requirement. A380 are also going to be pretty´cheap soon.
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No, I did mean 747s. Almost all 747s have been permanently retired from passenger service worldwide. It happened very quickly.
At first, for many airlines, their 747s were just temporarily mothballed due to the pandemic but almost all airlines worldwide have now decided to permanently retire them. Most airlines were planning to retire their 747s within a few years anyway but the plans have been rapidly brought forward.
See news article here for example: British Airways retires entire Boeing 747 fleet on coronavirus travel slump | Deccan Herald[^]
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Now you got us curious - It cannot be for you ; if you were at that level of remuneration, the Code project lounge is probably not the place you would come to ask for this, I am more thinking about a cigar smoke fulled room with leather sofas, old libraries with false books, and lots of people in suits.
If it is for a friend, I am not entirely sure he would take advice from a bunch of software engineers to spend a few millions.
So : what is this question ? 
/edit: if you are really seeking for advice, gulfstreams are indeed good, already owned a bunch, but I settled for a Falcon 8X two years ago.
/edit2: *cough* *cough* I really wish people would stop smoking the cigar. That book in the library looks really strange.
modified 19-Mar-21 13:18pm.
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It can't make it across the Atlantic - especially not in rough seas.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Bummer 
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A development of the Caspian Sea Monster! an 'Acranoplan'
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