On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:56:24 +0100
"Gareth.J.Martin" <g.j.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > (iv) the chances of being stamped as terrorist and dragged
> > into the back of the airfield to be shot by
> > over-paranoid airport authorities, for carrying a
> > camera around in a
> > photogenic spot which happens to be in the proximity
> > of Heathrow airport?
> >
> >
> Knowing the UK probably high!
That's what I feared :(
> You should be OK if you let them know
> you're there.
Either that, or they'll just post snipers in advance and skip the
"dragging into the back of the airfield" part :(
> Pah! Concord! Urrrggg! :) As far as I know dear old
> Richard is still negotiating to buy them from BA.
Wouldn't that be Sir Richard? If I recall correctly? Well, I did not
know that -- good news indeed.
> I hope he succeeds. As
> much as I think Concord is like lobster I still would love to see
> someone keep it flying.
Bah, you obviously do not know beauty, even if it flies over you at
subersonic speed :) And even if you don't, it being the only
passenger jet going supersonic makes it interresting in its own right
:) (of course, a passenger-non-jet going supersonic would be
interresting too....)
--thomas
(who still thinks that, well, the concorde *is* beautifull...)
>
> All the best,
> Gareth.
>
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> "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible
> is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
>
> Arthur C. Clarke's Second Law.
>
> "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not
> wave in a vacuum."
>
> Arthur C. Clarke
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