Posts by Rolf Clayton

More memories...

I am yet another person who grew up near Woodford when the Vulcan was being developed. We lived in Poynton near the end of the Woodford runway and the plane flew over our house at a few hundred feet as it was taking off, shaking the building and deafening those on the ground below - a terrifying but beautiful sight. I also remember the two small delta prototypes which AVRO used to acquire data to develop the design, one electric blue and the other a scarlet red.

When my grandchildren come to stay they like to visit the Vulcan (and the Spitfire) in the RAF Museum and have come to the conclusion that it is one of the most beautiful planes ever to have flown.

Nothing's new under the sun.

"Cloud computing"? What's new? In the late1960s the computing facility in the company I worked for was operated by a third party down the telephone line - all I had was a console. Plus ca change plus la meme chose.