Comments - THE FIFTH INITIATIVE IS ... - Gaia Community2024-03-28T10:53:34Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A20628&xn_auth=no [IT] was while watching…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2022-02-02:5313775:Comment:1280902022-02-02T15:35:01.009ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p> [IT] was while watching the <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A316&commentId=5313775%3AComment%3A14002" rel="noopener" target="_blank">BBC film of the microlight flying with…</a></strong></p>
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<p> [IT] was while watching the <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A316&commentId=5313775%3AComment%3A14002" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC film of the microlight flying with</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A316&commentId=5313775%3AComment%3A14002" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> the geese</a></strong> - that <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/reflexions-of-a-dyslexic-s-mind" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I was <em>reminded</em></a> by <em>the shot of the jumbo jet on</em></p>
<p><em> approach to</em> Heathrow Airport - of seeing for the first time a <strong><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/22/newsid_3725000/3725963.stm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PanAm</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/22/newsid_3725000/3725963.stm" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Boeing 747 land at Heathrow</a></strong> after <em>I had guided it </em><em>onto approach</em></p>
<p><em> from</em> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-yellow-peril" target="_blank" rel="noopener">London Radar</a></strong>, which was situated then on the north side of</p>
<p> the airport. <br/><br/><br/></p> At a time when the likes of t…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2019-07-02:5313775:Comment:365342019-07-02T18:32:55.958ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
At a time when the likes of the 200 seat Boeing 707 and McDonnell Douglas DC 8 were the largest commercial aircraft flying, Pam American Airways first approached Boeing in 1963 with a daring proposition to "design the biggest passenger aircraft the world had ever seen". Aviation law however, required that in the event of an emergency, all the passengers could be evacuated in less than 90 seconds, such that the concept of a full "double-decker" was completely out of the question. It was a…
At a time when the likes of the 200 seat Boeing 707 and McDonnell Douglas DC 8 were the largest commercial aircraft flying, Pam American Airways first approached Boeing in 1963 with a daring proposition to "design the biggest passenger aircraft the world had ever seen". Aviation law however, required that in the event of an emergency, all the passengers could be evacuated in less than 90 seconds, such that the concept of a full "double-decker" was completely out of the question. It was a setback which changed aviation history for better or for worse. Boeing went back to the drawing board and came up with a "giant twin-aisle cabin, 20 feet wide fitted with 400 seats and speedy access to eleven emergency exits, satisfying aviation law. Boeing pulled out all the stops and presented THE IDEA to PanAm in a specially constructed board-room, to the exact dimensions of the proposed cabin. PamAm were so impressed that they signed off on the twin-aisle design there and then. With a nod to the original brief, Boeing even incorporated a short Upper Deck that seated first-class passengers and just like that an aviation ikon was born.<br/>
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<a href="http://www.natgeotv.com/int/inside-incredible-machines" target="_blank">http://www.natgeotv.com/int/inside-incredible-machines</a><br/>
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