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Mosquitoes, Comets and Vampires: The de Havilland Museum

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Mossie Memories

This is one of my favourite aircraft museums. In the 70's when I was in the Air Cadets, we were allowed to use the .22 shooting range at the Hawker Siddeley site in Hatfield. In the summer we were often treated to a display of 'circuits and bumps' by the only remaining flying Mossie at the time. The roar of those twin Merlins as it hauled the plane back off the runway is something I will never forget.

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London Blitz bomb web map a hit-and-miss affair

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UXB sites

This site may be useful for those looking for UXBs. I feel a little sorry for those addresses mentioned where the bomb is known to be in their front or back garden, let alone the Latham Timber yard site where there are supposed to be 4 plus 1 in Leyton Marshes backing onto the timber yard.

http://www.contaminatedland.co.uk/sere-dip/estd-uxb.htm

May not be totally accurate but interesting for the London-based just the same.

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Curiosity's laser turns Mars rocks to 'glowing plasma'

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This is the voice of the......

In the best traditions of Captain Scarlet two rings will pass over that rock, it will reform & become a Mysteron!

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Ex-Soviet space gunboats to be FOUND ON MOON

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Ryan Space

Would you have to pay extra for food on the trip?

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Man FLIES with Android-powered homemade bird wings

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...and so runs the legend of the

Flying Dutchman!

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Quantum computing in our lifetime - IBM breakthrough

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Many years ago....

someone from IBM predicted that the world would need just 4 computers. It looks like they are still working on that assumption.

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RIM defends PlayBook as more execs bail

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Headline: Amazon set Fire to Playbook - Rim left sore

That is all.

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LOHAN to suck mighty thruster as it goes off, in a shed

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Fixed Atmospheric Rocket Testing

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Will the looters 'loose' their benefits?

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I would not be much good at looting....

I would be the only one found reading a book in Waterstones. Well you have to check out the first chapter before you take it.

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Travelodge blames 'vindictive individual' for email database breach

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Working Endlessly?

What a strange phrase. That means that their experts are still going with no hope of achieving a result, Flying Dutchman like - rather like a government IT project. Perhaps they should have worked thoroughly instead.

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Russia, NASA to hold talks on nuclear-powered spacecraft

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The UK contribution

We could make a nice warm cup of tea for the Improbability drive.

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Helium hole hiccup halts Hadron

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Some said....

that a black hole would be created when the LHC was turned on. It looks as though a couple have - one in the LHC insulating layer and another in the UK governments finances.

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