Posts by DominicA

Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain

Re: The most amazing engineering

I went to junior school at RAF Scampton (Dad was a Vulcan pilot on 35 Sqn) and grew so accustomed to the Vulcan noise that when we moved I missed it.

I can't deny having a bit of dust in my eye when I saw 558 fly for the last time on her farewell tour. The Vulcan was only beaten for beauty (in my eyes) by Concord. A shame that there isn't still one flying example of either for younger generations to marvel at.

BBC crowdsourced mobile map: A bit quirky, but useful

A load of rubbish for a bit of PR

I was intrigued by this when I saw it yesterday so decided to go have a look at the town I live in (in Oxfordshire). Only a few blobs of signal measured - most of it was 'no data'. Well I know from personal experience that bar a few places I can get signal on 2 different networks across the whole town.

This was a bullshit study that has been given far more credence than it deserves. Far too much 'missing data' to draw any reasonable conclusions without making the inadequacies clear.