Tag Archives: Plane

Pic A Day – Feb 16th 2009

In which I photograph a plane in Farnborough

This post is part of a series of 28 posts which begins with Pic A Day - Feb 1st 2009, the latest post in the series is Pic A Day - Feb 28th 2009.

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Iceland – Day 1 – Stansted to Reykjavík

Date: 23rd July 2008. We travelled to Iceland with Mum – we would be repeating some of our earlier visit, but going to some new areas. We stayed at the Hilton in Stansted the night before flying. It wasn’t the cheapest of options, but given the convenience, it was worth doing. We had an oddity in that we [...]
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Zero G Dog

Following Stephen Hawking’s recent flight, and seeing this clip on HIGNFY, I had to track down the clip online.
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Smooth Emergency Landing

In the last day or so, a plane in Japan had a problem with it’s wheels – the front one stayed down. The pilot did an incredibly smooth landing, the video is online:
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Feasibility of airline plot

Over on ‘Interesting People’, a chemist discusses the feasibility of the recent ‘airline plot’ which caused so much disruption at Heathrow (after it was supposed to have been foiled). You also need quite a bit of organic peroxides made by this route in order to be sure of taking down a plane. I doubt that just [...]
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