Remember watching that on the news, dark times indeed!!
On this Day 1842 Engineers from #RAFLuton constructed the UK's first Flying Saucer Landing Gear Fail Landing Pad Device, located near the village of Henge and made from stone locals soon nicknamed it Bert as it's full title was a bit of a mouth full!pic.twitter.com/h08vB2cQGR
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I always thought it’s a shame the builders ran out of money just when they’d got the scaffolding up.
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NB it’s an old joke, I think from ‘Punch’.
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Story i heard was that it was named after one of the other builders called Bob?
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Bob Sarson. One of his stones.
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The claims this account makes get more unbelievable by the day. There is no way that Engineers could create a Flying Saucer Landing Gear Fail Landing Pad in 1842 without Risk Assessments, Hi Vis or Hard Hats.
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Note that in 1842 hi vis jackets were black and white.
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To this day we wonder at their technology that could constantly adjust the stones to account for the huge number of summertime variants across the Universe.
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I think the acronym FSLGFLPD is keeping with modern political thinking.
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You’d of thought one thousand eight hundred and forty two engineers would of constructed something a bit better than a pile of old stones.....
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