{"id":4015,"date":"2018-10-01T08:41:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T08:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2018-10-01T08:41:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T08:41:40","slug":"fortunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"Fortunes"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a splendid 5th birthday party for Lily<\/a>, we found ourselves at East Fortune, specifically the Nation Museum of Flight. Displaying our new found tendency to be so far ahead of the curve that we come up behind it again, I proudly and possibly pompously showed my Member’s card, only to be told “It’s Doors Open day, no-one pays”.\u00a0 This explains the unfeasibly long queue to get in, the extra car parks, the raft of stewards and the crammed caf\u00e9.\u00a0 Ah well, it meant that the Concorde Experience was also open to all, and if it took 25 minutes to board, what’s that against 3\u00bd hours in Windhoek, plus 50 years to be in with a chance.<\/p>\n

Paul was absolutely delighted, as was I, to see the iconic Mach 2 signs. International politics meant the demise of this technological marvel, but for a moment we could imagine ourselves hurtling through the skies with barely a quiver in our champagne.<\/p>\n

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Tail of G-BOAA in hangar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Concorde interior<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wheee!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cockpit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Disembarkee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Later on, a caption for one of the Red Arrows, housed nearby G-BOAA, brought back memories of a day in 1999 when Rosemary and I, along with her friend Margaret, stood on the Mound in Edinburgh watching the procession to mark the opening of the Scottish Parliament. \u00a0\u00a0 I can’t have been the only person who burst in to tears when the Arrows appeared over the Forth, led by Concorde, the former trailing their trade mark coloured plumes.<\/p>\n

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Concorde in formation flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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1st July 1999<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Lastly, in the shop (there’s always a shop) I came across this lovely image.<\/p>\n

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Hawker Hurricane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hawker Hurricane credits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Recently I wrote up a page about Mum’s war work<\/a>.\u00a0 This is the type of plane she worked on, so here she was, tapping me on the shoulder, via a card made in Norfolk…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a splendid 5th birthday party for Lily, we found ourselves at East Fortune, specifically the Nation Museum of Flight. Displaying our new found tendency to be so far ahead of the curve that we come up behind it again, I proudly and possibly pompously showed my Member’s card, only to be told “It’s Doors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}