Eye-catching black and whites

[martc]

[martc]

Fleminginkatu, Helsinki, 1925.

[forddeliveryboy]

Winner of the 1911 inaugural Indy 500 race, over a track built from 3.2 million paving "bricks" in 1909. Below here he is in the winning car Marmon Wasp, for a 1926 photoshoot.

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

[MiniMinorMk3]

[Joey spud]

[Remspoor]

Glasgow

[D.E]

Northampton. What's parked behind the dark 100E?

[Metal Guru]

On 15/11/2024 at 17:24, martc said:

That looks so futuristic even now nearly 100 years on, yet it’s really technology that already 100 years old.

[busmansholiday]

12 hours ago, D.E said:

Northampton. What's parked behind the dark 100E?

Mk V or VI Reliant (my dad had a Mk VI).

[RayMK]

It's a MK V (shorter roof gutter and shallower windscreen than a MKVI).

[Remspoor]

[busmansholiday]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Exeter ByPass...

[Joey spud]

Well you did say I could "crash at yours" tonight...

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-rooftop-dakota-the-story-of-the-bea-c-47-that-crashed-onto-the-roof-of-a-house-near-northolt-airport/

[Remspoor]

6 hours ago, Joey spud said:

Well you did say I could "crash at yours tonight"...

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-rooftop-dakota-the-story-of-the-bea-c-47-that-crashed-onto-the-roof-of-a-house-near-northolt-airport/

You left the landing light on.

[Remspoor]

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

You left the landing light on.

Wondered who'd be the first! House in darkness tho

[lesapandre]

4 hours ago, Remspoor said:

You left the landing light on.

Must be a Loft-hansa plane.

[High Jetter]

8 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Must be a Loft-hansa plane.

Loft boarding issue?

[sheffcortinacentre]

Can you imagine a new build being able to support that?

[lesapandre]

20 hours ago, Joey spud said:

Well you did say I could "crash at yours" tonight...

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-rooftop-dakota-the-story-of-the-bea-c-47-that-crashed-onto-the-roof-of-a-house-near-northolt-airport/

Remarkable that the house is still there repaired.

[Westbay]

was just chuckling thinking '..wonder what the wording on the insurance claim form said... '😂

[lesapandre]

On 16/11/2024 at 16:58, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Algeria 1961.

[Metal Guru]

52 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Remarkable that the house is still there repaired.

I looked at a similar house near there. While we waited outside a largish plane came over bound for Northolt, probably 50ft higher than that one. We’d made up our minds before the estate agent arrived.

[lesapandre]

Yea if you go out into the suburbs directly adjacent to for example Heathrow and the flight path it is a very strange experience with the jets that low. Some quite nice houses and streets but all a bit run down.

[EyesWeldedShut]

7 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Yea if you go out into the suburbs directly adjacent to for example Heathrow and the flight path it is a very strange experience with the jets that low. Some quite nice houses and streets but all a bit run down.

I moved to St Margaret's Road in Isleworth back in the day and thought it not too bad the first night we slept there. Didn't realise that most stuff didn't start dropping into Heathrow until after 6am. Feck me. Right over the roof at what sounded like zero feet. You got used to it after a bit but it was still not that pleasant. Folks don't seem to mind looking at the property prices these days.
Out the Wraysbury end was probably the worst as stuff (usually) took off in that direction so was, accordingly, much, much louder. OK, so planes these days are much quieter than 1988 but there's way, way more of them now.

(I did an economics course back then where the boffin teaching demonstrated the economic multiplyer of LHR on the economy of the London Boroughs of Hounslow and also Hillingdon. Marvellous stuff but didn't help with the inability to have a conversation in our back garden)

Just to not turn this into a Grumpy Thread moan - here's a B&W Isleworth Picture - AFN in the early days.

And later when they were The Porsche People

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

23 hours ago, Joey spud said:

Well you did say I could "crash at yours" tonight...

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-rooftop-dakota-the-story-of-the-bea-c-47-that-crashed-onto-the-roof-of-a-house-near-northolt-airport/

It was heading for the aticama desert.

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Yea if you go out into the suburbs directly adjacent to for example Heathrow and the flight path it is a very strange experience with the jets that low. Some quite nice houses and streets but all a bit run down.

I think this was Ruislip or nearby, so Northolt rather than Heathrow. They have stuff like Galaxies   and Globemasters  going into there, dread to think what that’s like just above your roof.  
 

The planes certainly come down very low over the M25 too going into LHR, quite distracting if you don’t know it.

[Remspoor]

[MiniMinorMk3]