Handley Page Victor K2 Tanker XM715: Warm up and full power taxi on runway
Part of the Cold War Jets Collection at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, this is a fully maintained and working aircraft which attracts much interest and nostalgia. Piloted by Bob Prothero and Bob Tuxford.
See this aircraft at the Cold War Jets Open Day on 6th May 2012, where it will be one of many beautiful working aircraft which will carry out full power taxi runs along the main runway at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome.
Website: victorxm715.co.uk
Steam Trains (1950-1959)
Pinewood Stock Can material.
Shot along railway tracks as steam train approaches camera from the distance. Nice shot as locomotive and carriages pass the camera. Different location - steam train comes round bend and past camera - carriages are in British Railways livery. VS of different loco hauling train into station. High angle shot of large area of points just outside station - trains move back and forth. MS train leaving station platform. More shots of steam engines and trains. VS of shunter moving along track. VS of trains in loco yard - all kinds of engines including the A4 Pacific 'Miles Beevor' 60026. Nice shots of this streamlined locomotive moving off.
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Nimrod taxi run
nimrod preformimg taxi runs at elvington air museum
Operation Mugshot - The #twitterVforce/Victor XL231 Competition - The Entrants
The latest You Tube video from the #twitterVforce team is a compilation of all of the entrants for our exclusive competition 'Operation Mugshot' run jointly with Andre Tempest and his team at Handley Page Victor XL231 (Lusty Lindy)
The competition was judged by Sqn Ldr Bob Tuxford (Rtd) and the winning entrant will be destined for history as the design for the latest 'Lindy Mug'.
Could you have picked the winner?
Nottinghamshire is a great place... for days out
Woodlands, sports, museums, history and heritage - Nottinghamshire is a great place to spend a day.
Monica Bollywood St James Daisyhill
Jacobite Soul - Mike Culligan
An unknown soldier's grave-stone is on the verge of the Old Great North Road. An inscription is carved on the heavily marked obelisk made of stone. It reads: Here Lyeth A Rebel 1746. Sometimes known as the rebel stone. It is believed that the soldier who is buried here served in active duty for Bonnie Prince Charlie in the uprisings in 1745/6. A Jacobite army invaded England. They got as far as Derby, held a war council, and their generals turned back due to disagreements over support and their belief that the British supporters of George II (the King ) had raised an army in the field to meet them in battle. They were wrong. However, the King was on record as saying that he would have personally led an army against the Jacobites had they made it as far as London. This song is purely about paying my respects to an unknown soldier who may have been captured after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. A series of trials were held for prisoners.Captured Leaders of the Jacobites were executed in public. Bonnie Prince Charlie escaped but was hotly pursued by the government and their navy. This is a memorial stone which anyone who used The Old Great North Road would have passed. I wonder how many people have actually thought about the fact that it is a burial site for a soldier? At the time of this conflict, the threat of invasion of Britain by French backed troops was very high. If you are interested in the military history or the culture of Britain then you can visit a Jacobite museum in Fort William, Scotland. Soon there will be a new museum in Newark, England, which will educate people about how parliament and the monarchy came to conflict in the 17th century. Politics aside, I love local history and just wanted to pay my respects as those who laid this memorial also did even at the height of the conflict between government backed monarchy and those who opposed them, ie some of the Highlander clans and supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie. It is possible that this soldier died trying to escape on his way to jail and London was one of the places where prisoners were taken. This is therefore a military grave and it is believed that a military funeral was given to the soldier including the playing of a drum. Memorial stones are important for education and our connection with history and our past. This is more than that. A soldier is actually buried here. I will pass on any royalties from this to charity.I wanted to help people trace the effects of local history on all of us. The Jacobites played a key role as founder fathers of America. Indeed, transportation to the colonies by the British Authorities was a policy which actually helped to enrich America with the Jacobite spirit. Politics aside, they brought bravery and tenacity with them. It is said that U.S. General George S Patton had Jacobite blood lineage. General Patton served in both WWI and WWII.
How the Marshall Plan helped restore Dutch windmills
In 1952 some 29,000 guilders of Marshall Plan aid was donated to The Dutch Mill society, as a contribution towards the restoration of characteristic Dutch windmills.
Boston, Lincolnshire
Boston (/ˈbɒstən/) is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. It is the largest town of the wider Borough of Boston local government district. The borough had a total population of 64,637 at the 2011 census, whilst the town itself had a population of 35,124 at the 2001 census. It is due north of Greenwich on the Prime Meridian.
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Tractor
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction. Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially (and originally) tillage, but nowadays a great variety of tasks. Agricultural implements may be towed behind or mounted on the tractor, and the tractor may also provide a source of power if the implement is mechanised.
The word tractor was taken from Latin, being the agent noun of trahere to pull. The first recorded use of the word meaning an engine or vehicle for pulling wagons or ploughs occurred in 1901, displacing the earlier term traction engine (1859).
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