Are you in Canada?
DBY, an old Bell cuckoo that offers joyrides over this area - "Whirlybirds" vintage, like this but with added duct tape:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_47
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.
Last night an A380 on approach to Manchester over the M60 at Stockport.Nothing that big should be able to fly, hanging in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't . . .
Only the test articles* and the second orbiter, which never flew, remain - Buran was destroyed in a hanger collapse.https://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/06/stunning-images-of-abandonded-soviet-space-shuttles/In some respects, Buran was superior to the US shuttle, but it's misfortune was to be in development just as the Soviet Union was collapsing under the weight of its inherent contradictions.* Trufax - one of the test articles was fitted with a cluster of jet engines at tail end and could get off the ground under its own power, without the aid of a GBFO rocket. After a slightly chequered post-Soviet life, it's now safely parked in a German aerospace museum.
Andrij. I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT
Sunday afternoon I watched The Blades flying three of their Extra EA-300s over the Warren Classic Car Show from a lovely vantage point along NCN1.
...the connection between a car show and an air display...
The Dalek flying saucer has been up againhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-39884174/airlander-10-takes-to-the-skies-again
The world's longest aircraft has collapsed to the ground less than 24 hours after a successful test flight.The Airlander 10 - a combination of a plane and an airship - was seen to "break in two" at an airfield in Bedfordshire, an eyewitness said.Owner Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd said it appeared the Airlander broke free from its mooring mast, triggering a safety system which deflates the aircraft.
Kim, you are very bad!