On 19 June 2015 at 10:58, ANDY HOLT <[email protected]> wrote: > At RAF Duxford (less than an hours drive from my home) you can see > Concorde*, a SR-71, a Lancaster, a Vulcan**, one of the only two remaining > TSR-2s***, a Bf109**** and many many more. > Is the Lancaster at Duxford the other flightworthy one? I can't recall.
> * This was flown in to the airfield but could never be flown out again > because the runway was then shortened for the building of the M11. Well, that's a good way to "steal" a plane for display, hah. > ** There's another Vulcan less than 10 miles from my home :) > *** If you think the SR-71 was killed-off with unseemly haste read the > history of the TSR-2 Avro Canada CF-105 "Arrow"; look it up, and see why one of the first things I plan to do if someone ever invents a time machine is go back to 1959 and introduced my steel toe boots to Diefenbaker's crotch, repeatedly. Then again, that did give us the Gemini capsule, since I believe McDonnell (among others) ended up snapping up the unemployed Avro Canada workers. (Thanks Diefenbaker, you screwed our aviation industry in exchange for some shitty missiles we didn't want, and a bunch of early warning radar sites that were obsolete in minutes... oh and they're all environmental disaster sites.) > Yes, I know this is OT - but does seem a popular thread. > I'm sorry, what was the original topic again? :P Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers (DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on aircraft? Not transported by one, but I mean setup and used on one. Regards, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request.
