The British Government...

[ozzy72]

... have always been anti-aviation. What with the Miles M.52 the TSR.2 etc etc etc.
Well I've found the historical precedent!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchiv ... 99,00.html
See what a pile of nitwits run my homeland? Nearly a century later and they're still pillocks!
Viva la revolution

[Hagar]

Viva la revolution

Indeed but I don't think this attitude is confined to the British government by any means.

[gryshnak]

We watched "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" again last night.  I particularly enjoyed the line "Brittania may rule the waves, but she doesn't rule the skies!"  That was quite sufficient to prod Robert Morley into action

Gryshnak

[H]

Indeed but I don't think this attitude is confined to the British government by any means.

Undoubtedly not... but, I believe, this is a relative reason:
"We have also ordered a gas-bag of very considerable size,"
...we all got an overfill on that order.

8)

[expat]

Undoubtedly not... but, I believe, this is a relative reason:
"We have also ordered a gas-bag of very considerable size,"
...we all got an overfill on that order.

8)

"We have also ordered a gas-bag of very considerable size," solemnly announced Mr. Haldane to-night, and without rhyme or reason members broke into shouts of laughter.

Apparently it is as risky to talk of gas-bags in Parliament as it is to mention a rope in the house of a criminal."

After 100 years nothing has changed.

Matt

[Woodlouse2002]

Thats brilliant that is. Still, retrospect is a wonderful thing and 100 years ago I doubt many of us would see the flying machine as a very useful and worthwile instrument.