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Old 15th Jan 2016, 19:55
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Danny42C
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The Good Old Days.

Chugalug,

Ah, the HP 42, the pride and joy of Imperial Airways in the sunny days when I was young and we had an Empire with Empire Air Routes to match ! Flying from Croydon with a wing loading of 9lb/sq.ft, hardly more than a TM's 7lb, it must have been just a big TM, and you could put it down in any cabbage patch if necessary. Wiki notes that it never killed a passenger in the whole of its career, I believe that it never injured one, either - it was a gentle giant.

This Thread seems to have become our private Communication Channel; but I suppose that a generation reared on "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" sees nothing remarkable in carved Ancient Egyptians capering about among the heiroglyphics.

Cheers, Danny.