geoff wrote:

In message ?, Michael A.
Terrell ? writes
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?tony sayer wrote:
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?? ?? ?? ? There was also a big outcry at the time about the
?? ?? ?? ?pollution--apparently
?? ?? ?? ? folks were worried about damage to the ozone layer or
?? ?? ?? ?something, due to
?? ?? ?? ? inefficient engines spewing crap in the stratosphere. I'm not sure
?? ?? ?? ? whether there was anything to that (there so often isn't, in the
?? ?? ?? ? environmentalist cosmos), but that and the sonic booms were what got
?? ?? ?? ? supersonic flight banned.
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?? ?? ?? ? Cheers
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?? ?? ?? ? Phil Hobbs
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?? ?? ?? Just more symptoms on Not Invented Here syndrome.
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?? ?? ? Yawn. US SS military jets were banned from populated areas long
?? ?? ?before the first Concord was pieced together from British and french
?? ?? ?landfills.
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?? ?? Yawn ... zzzzzz Frank Writtle was 'working on them long before that...
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?? ? So, where are his flying, today?
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?? Well thats like saying where are Stevenson's locomotives working today
?? then;?.
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?? Rather pointless...
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? Yes, you are. Yet you keep trolling.

Do you even know who Sir Frank Whittle was ?


Tell me why I should care?


(without sneaking off and looking it up in google, of course)

--
geoff


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