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His greatest achievement must be the Saturn V Apologies for coming across as a Mr Know It All on this subject, but I did become slightly obsessed with this during my MSc studies at Imperial in London and read just about everything I could find on the topic. Next door at the Science Museum they have an original A4 / V2

Whats that like then? I've forgotten.

Ja wohl. May 3, 1945 Truth is he/they made the whole migration to the US happen so they could carry on there, They stashed all the plans and crucial parts in a mine in the west of Germany and hot footed in to a sector where the Americans were and surrended to them there, with much glee since their technological booty was immense, Directly thereafter they were testing their missile in the US (Operation Paperclip) - which led to first weapons and indeed the first successful orbit of a US satellite, although they were held back until other efforts failed

By the time they got the A4 (renamed to V2 by Hilter) right, the country was falling apart. The production was moved to underground mine by slave labour in horrendous conditions (which Von Braun was party to) The other open question was also the efficacy of the ordinance - yes they were terrifyingly destructive but even if they fires salvos it would not really have changed the course of the war. Only once tipped with nuclear ordinance did they become significant.

That's a subject of quite some debate with historians. More importantly was their A bomb project, the lead scientist Heisenburg - did he hold back or simply get it wrong? We will never know. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.882552?journalCode=pto

Just heard an aircraft overhead inbound to FAJS - Qatar Cargo A330 - exciting! Nothing else in the air - surreal.

He was a brilliant engineer and a great team leader - but an opportunist with few scruples. I guess one has to be to realise such ambitions.

The same man who put the idea to Pres Kennedy that they could get to the moon by the end of the 60's

The days before digital fly by wire, the concept only really because feasible with digital controls to stabilise the inherently unstable flying wing with no vertical stab., if I am not mistaken. There was a few other flying wing projects around that time, none were really successful. Until the B2

The German Rocket men ... that is one of the biggest tech stories of the 20th C. Basically most of them engineered their way over to the US after the war and finally got to the moon, which was their original intention back the the vaderland. Others that did not manage to escape the Russians went on to help them with their rocket projects (not by choice) One man was key:

So it looks like the blue strip along the fuselage was maintained but they decked out the the vert stab in Orange

More of a dark blue http://www.pilotspost.co.za/articles/160220-Allison%20on%20Airliners-South%20African%20Airways/03.jpg

I was wondering what preceded the ZAR.2 livery on SAA, edit: links to post card pics blocked

The 727 air stair - brings this story to mind "I could see no end to those people," she says. "They were running to the air stair from every direction" https://news-decoder.com/2018/04/19/eyewitness-dying-days-vietnam-war/ https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x55mn7 http://www.mofak.com/mission_improbable.htm http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8rl3jzitvSU/UD-E-SBcvXI/AAAAAAAAAMI/a142tZyqBUg/s1600/727%2Bevac%2Bda%2Bnang%2Bmar%2B25%2B%252775%2B%25282%2529.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wc7dQ7uOmZA/UD7PynCOTXI/AAAAAAAAALE/lJvT4lLz_Ck/s1600/LastFlt727c.jpg I think this type also needed a flight engineer (like the 707) - one of the reasons for its demise

BA VC10 if I am not mistaken from google http://www.concordespeakers.com/images/assets/vc10-2.jpg

Unfortunate choice of colours though

Spotted a VC10 there in British Airways livery, must have been the closing days of that bird. Also looks like a UTA DC8 there? When the SAA 747 first arrived here we went for a flip thanks to some family connections, I have a slide of me standing in the engine nacelle that i will have dig deep to find.

And traveled well ....

I am sure they were 60's vintage, really klapped out, Springbok embossing abounded. Can you remember doing some fuel stops?

The first overseas trip I went on was on a Luxavia 707 (ex SAA) - I think we stopped at Nairobi and Cairo for juice on the way

Probably a lot of freighters

I saw a Dreamliner floating in to FAJS this late morning, looked like Virgin.

Milan San Remo 2008 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RG1jI-hW3zY8972nYRoXFXTdO5tEILWf 2008: Cancellara outfoxes the hounds Fabian Cancellara started the 2008 season with a bang, beating Bradley Wiggins in the prologue of the Tour of California and then snatching his first of three victories at Strade Bianche two weeks later. Fresh off overall victory at Tirreno-Adriatico, where he won the stage 5 time trial, “Spartacus” was bristling to take aim at the 99th edition of Milano-Sanremo. It was 3km longer than in 2007, at 298km, following the addition of the Le Mànie climb. The race finished on Lungomare Italo Calvino and not on the traditional Via Roma due to construction and the Easter weekend. (from Velo news)

Okay .. lets try Milan San Remo 2009 on Google Drive https://drive.google.com/open?id=14HJXGO1ebKI6QjtiS_ZKj62m9wS1iaND

I've got a megaton of F2A Classic archives to share - any suggestions as to public share sites? I could share a dropbox libk but I fear that will kill my data cap.