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Wow. Avro Vulcan XH558 is back where she belongs: in the sky.

Takeoff:

Flight:

See also: “seen over market harborough“.

Landing:

Brilliant, just brilliant. Looking forward to seeing her at RAF Leuchars next September, if not sooner!

For the last decade or so, I’ve gone to RAF Leuchars Airshow with my dad, also with my late Uncle Hugh in earlier years, and with my mate Jim in later years. This year, however, I had been infected with the plague, and I’d misdiagnosed it earlier in the week as a late-summer hay fever land grab on my sinuses — our survey says? Eh-uhhhhh!

So in lieu of my earlier photos from Leuchars, here’s Bob’s. Cheers mate

US budget airline JetBlue have satellite TV built into the aircraft. Each passenger can watch live TV as broadcast on the DIRECTV platform (similar to Sky here in the UK), which is pretty damn cool. Something similar could surely be done with Sky on UK domestic flights, which would make up for the utter lack of entertainment on BA shorthaul

The martians released their black smoke, but the ship sped on, cutting down one of the tripod figures. Instantly, the others raised their heat rays, and melted the Thunderchild’s valiant heart.

Good grief, didn’t NASA learn anything from any of the different versions of The Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds? Those little probe dudes are gonna get heat-ray’ed back to the Stone Age, and we’ll be next! Auugh, run, flee!

At any rate, the US Mars lander MER-A “Spirit” has landed and communicated back to Earth successfully, with MER-B “Opportunity” due to land on the 24th.

Meanwhile, ickle wee Beagle 2 is hopefully sitting on Mars pinging away into the atmosphere, waiting for Mars Express to hear it bleating away. Today was the first opportunity for Express to hear Beagle after it moved into its final, lower orbit, but there’s been no word yet as to the result. It now looks like the 7th will be the first and best opportunity for Express to hear Beagle, as it will still be settling down into the new orbit for the next 3 days.

Here’s hoping …