Engineering Britains Superweapns

[BrassMan]

It's being repeated on More4 now.

Is it wrong to feel slightly betrayed that all that fantastic engineering was thrown away?

[spikeyhead]

BrassMan said:

It's being repeated on More4 now.

Is it wrong to feel slightly betrayed that all that fantastic engineering was thrown away?

Am stuck in the Netherlands with no idea what's shown on tele, however


http://defense-update.com/features/2009/may/higho_...

will give you a taste of what our technology is capable of

[Alfa_75_Steve]

Thanks for the heads-up.

I've set Sky+ to record the re-runs later this morning.

[T89 Callan]

It's a great show, makes me feel proud to be British and an Engineer but also pisses me off to see the complete and utter state that successvive governments have turned this country into.

A very sad decline from the days when Engineers, Scientists and Mathmeticians were revered to now..... when wes, layabouts and drug addicts are people of stature.

Anayway, well worth watching and avaliable on 4od.

[Eric Mc]

Just watch the nuclear bomber episode this morning. A pretty well put together programme.

[DJC]

• sigh*

We *still* engineer "super" weapons.

Several people on ph are involved in the industry.

[MartG]

T89 Callan said:

It's a great show, makes me feel proud to be British and an Engineer but also pisses me off to see the complete and utter state that successvive governments have turned this country into.

Have a read of 'Plane Speaking' by Bill Gunston - it's surprising we still have an aviation industry at all after what the UK Government has done to it virtually since the airplane was invented

[Eric Mc]

The aircraft designers and heads of the companies involved were often their own worst enemies - especially in the commercial field. In many ways, they played a big hand in their own demise. Gunston does not pull any punches in his criticism of the aviation executives as well.

It's a very good book by the way - as is "Project Cancelled" by Derek Wood.

[Frankeh]

It made me proud the be British for about 30 minutes, then reminded me of everything that's bad about this country.
The government.
I also watched this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sjs/Doun...

Took them 8 years to design and build.
In 8 years they had one of the worlds first breed reactors built and running.
It took 3 years to build a bridge over a train track near where I live!

Things just used to get done back then.
It's very likely a health and safety issue I'd imagine.