My watch has two modes: bright mode (when it is in the ‘wrist up’ position) and a less bright, power save mode. 50% of these modes has successfully transitioned from BST to GMT overnight.

The engines (and their thrust lines) on the Saab 340 and the 2000 are not parallel with the fuselage axis - both point to the right.

Stiff jet stream stretching out the high altitude clouds above the South of England this afternoon…

In this fresh Design Deep Dive I tell the story of how the Soviets and the Japanese copied the DC-3 in the 1930s. I spent a zillion hours on this, so I hope that someone with a similar obsession with aviation history will find it interesting! youtu.be/xbnMeSoo97A

As an aside, the Winnall showroom has on display the most beautiful original Roadster I have ever seen.

Now I’m tempted to try it! Not very far away, across the border, BUD also has a couple of heavenly spotting hills like that, warmly recommended! This is the sort of angle you get on 31R arrivals.

I’m also yet to manage that. But my dad spent most of his career flying one, and, from time to time, I sit down and make an effort to gain a deeper understanding of it.

‘Square windows’.

Tim Takahashi (of the Air Force Institute of Technology) wrote a paper a couple of years ago on what a modern day version of this would look like and what the resulting additional t/o derate would mean for noise...