And wear their famous top hats? which were made at the Hat Works just down the road from Runway 47 !
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On this Day 1929 the 747 "Jumbo Jet" made its maiden flight from #RAFLuton to Stansted airbase. Its distinctive raised cockpit position was added into the design to ensure pilots could continue to look down on everybody else. #AvGeek #Aviationpic.twitter.com/rAbwbB1MdU
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I just love the sound of a 747's Vauxhall Viva engines...
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The same distinctive sound as the Tupelev T-95 ... after the engine designs were leaked to Stalin’s Russia by 6th man of the Cambridge spy ring after visit to
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The oversize front fans of the early RB211’s were not a great success
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Amazing, Swindon hasn’t changed a bit in the 112 years since 1929
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And the original external low pressure compression jet fans clearly visible from this angle.
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I still maintain that the re-purposed Spitfire propeller jets used on the 1929 version were far superior to the so called "jet-engines" we tend to see on some later models
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These were known to the Govan riveters who built them as the "Sproose Hoose" because of the size.
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Yes but you haven’t thought this through - then they wouldn’t be there to land on.
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