If they'd had some of these at Hendon I'd have out-geeked even swisstone

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I love it when someone takes a silly but simple idea and logically works it out to its end. Such as, for instance, "wouldn't it have been cool if 1970s TV sci-fi had been filmed with real spaceships rather than models, and they now appeared at air shows".

Thus: the Sci-Fi Air Show.

Read about the Orion (since Pan-Am went bust, now operated by United, hence the new paint job). Or the Eagle Transporter, kept flying by the large pile of spares procured from BAe to cover the frequent crashes during stunt flying. (The AAIB report on this incident is legendary in flight safety circles.) And it's worth pausing the slideshow to see some other craft creeping into the background here and there. (Look in the background to the right here.)

It's a lovely joke. But I want this picture to be real so much it hurts.

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[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

Doh, did I really type 5? Yes, I did... I'm actually picturing a close-up fisheye view of Thunderbird 3 seen from the ground close up, bathed in spotlights on a launch pad against an evening sky.

This is a small trip back into a childhood fantasy world... As a teenager I used to have a fleet of three Airfix Orion IIIs with Pan Am decals hanging in formation from the bedroom ceiling, somewhere above my Saturn V. I have no recollection of what happened to them all, yet they were once my pride and joy.

I've gone for that excellent Night Eagle wallpaper... my previous favourite Eagle image was this: