Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tone Newsgroups: uk.rec.sheds Subject: Re: Hey it's the 1970s Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 06:02:06 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <20220721123620.81e4b4b5a808c6ee9477c787@eircom.net> <20220721160936.44b1ec31e93725a500d0a039@eircom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 05:02:06 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="20cb48030b7c3b747bcb778acf8e6406"; logging-data="3052588"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+5XaUfSlc2Tevc1WaEWlS4nce01BLWFXA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:KNsglcmG12XDanctwEd9clAtSes= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1809 On 21/07/2022 23:16, Julian Macassey wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:09:36 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: >> For some time my brother had a house in Twickenham directly under >> the take off flight path for Concorde (among other flights). I heard, or >> rather felt, the mind-hootering and building shaking noise it made once. >> Many years later I went inside the one at the air museum in Seattle, it >> looked to be a very cramped and uncomfortable thing to fly in. > > Concorde was expensive and fast. There are people who > like to spend money on such things. > A bit like HS2 then? Tone