A History Thread

[AlRums]

Titanic digital scan reveals new details of ship's final hours - BBC News

The 3D replica corroborates eye witness accounts about what happened after the liner hit an iceberg.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[AlRums]

Bergen Belsen: Eighty years on, survivors and families remember camp's horrors

180 British Jews join groups marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Germany.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[AlRums]

Lancashire's newly built M55 used as makeshift jet runway in 1975

The M55 opened to motorists just a few weeks after a military jet landed on it and took off again.

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Not something you see every day

 

[BrokenWing]

Lancashire's newly built M55 used as makeshift jet runway in 1975

The M55 opened to motorists just a few weeks after a military jet landed on it and took off again.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not something you see every day

I'm surprised a Jaguar managed to take off from it considering it's only just over 12 miles long.

 

[AlRums]

I'm surprised a Jaguar managed to take off from it considering it's only just over 12 miles long.

The longest runway in UK is at Heathrow, 2.5 miles or so.

I believe he had to take his run up under a bridge, certainly looks like it in the video.

 

[BrokenWing]

Yes, it was a joke on the **** poor performance of the Jaguar needing a 12 mile runway having watched them limp into the air whilst F-16s are climbing straight up using a quarter of the same runway.

 

[McTallshort]

Bergen Belsen: Eighty years on, survivors and families remember camp's horrors

180 British Jews join groups marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Germany.

www.bbc.co.uk

I was garrisoned at the barracks next to there in the 90s, its visited a lot. Lots of school trips etc

 

[Saintjay]

I was garrisoned at the barracks next to there in the 90s, its visited a lot. Lots of school trips etc

Ditto in Celle 93-96. So just down the road. So visted a few times.

 

[AlRums]

Yes, it was a joke on the **** poor performance of the Jaguar needing a 12 mile runway having watched them limp into the air whilst F-16s are climbing straight up using a quarter of the same runway.

Not arguing with you, didn't see the joke anyway

For info.

The Jaguar typically needed 580 m (1,900 ft) with typical tactical load.

The F16 needs 1000m minimum with any bomb load.

The two have completely different roles, the Jaguar is an attack aircraft more akin to the A10 whereas the F16 was designed as a fighter/multi role aircraft.

The last Jaguar built was in 1981 whereas F16s are still being built today with constant aero dynamic improvements and vastly more powerful engines so really they're chalk and cheese.

 

[BrokenWing]

I was in The RAF for 24 years as an avionic technician. I know how **** a Jaguar was.

 

[AlRums]

I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’

In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was five years old and living with his family in Munich when Adolf Hitler moved into a flat opposite. At first, his parents thought they were safe hiding in plain sight – until they weren’t

www.theguardian.com