Hand Baggage Down

So that he could sit in the cockpit doing forward thrust and going
down with sympathy. Why else?

 

Thought I might learn something ;o)

--
Greybeard

FLHRCI -01 UK 95 cu-in Stg 2. (The King)
Trumpet Trophy 1200 -96, (The Barge) for rainy days

ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk

 

I was once asked to re-send the contents of my backpack through
the Heathrow scanner in smaller batches because it was "too busy" -- I had
a laptop, external HDD, PDA, at least three power supplies, 2x EU->UK
power adaptors, a French extension lead, etc., etc... Basically my entire
working environment.

I've had to do it at Heathrow once.

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

It shirly is! No wonder the Yanks had so many UFO sightings.

I don't know what the high point of the visit was, it's hard to rate so
many interesting items. The IMAX Mars film is amazing. Seeing a genuine
Nazi V2 was pretty staggering but the Apollo 16 re-entry capsule
probably gets my vote.

I discovered my friends Dad, whom we stayed with, worked as an
electrical engineer for NASA inception in Apollo, Skylab, Star Wars
Laser (failed) development, the whole shooting match. It made for lots
of interesting stories but they pale against his account of greeting Von
Braun and the other German scientists and working for them for several
years. From their open relief at having escaped the hangman's noose (for
the use of slave labour etc) to their 1st hand account of Germany's
slide after Hitler was voted in and the Gestapo took control of the
population.
His telling of Von Braun debunked the adverse character reports some
media have promoted, not at all aloof or foppish and a hands on
technical genius.

 

My understanding is that most of them are considered de-commissioned
now.