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The lifestyle of real fighter pilots might surprise you.

Conservative seat, still holding on to more than 50% of the vote, there had been some nervousness in the last few weeks after some quite tricky headlines for the conservatives about things like so—called sleaze but also around national issues like immigration which some had worried were coming up which some had worried were coming up on the doorstep a little bit. 0pposition parties, while they had not been expecting to take the seat were hoping to chip away at that majority. they held on to a pretty comfortably but there was a 10% swing to the labour party, turnout was a bit of a factor, tur...

SIR – It has been 12 years since HS2 was announced in 2009.

Working on his inventions last week because that was what he loved doing. there is quite a bit written about sir clive sinclair. at the end of the room —— review we said he was still working on inventions. his determination was he was working on designs believing a flying car was technically entirely possible. that is where he was act. he had never given up on it. and was working on it to the end. and way back, famously, he made small calculators. they used to be huge, bigger than a laptop, and he made little calculators. himself, apparently, he never used a calculator. he relied on a slid...

Should be assisting the raf in working out how it should arm its fighters for the next war. you just think that this can't be right. the calculations hazel did on a machine like this were extremely complicated. i have to keep subtracting until the bell rings, then i move along. they showed that the future fighters needed to carry eight machine—guns, each capable of firing at least 1,000 rounds a minute, in order to have the firepower to destroy enemy planes. captain fred hill presented this graph showing the analysis at a crucial meeting of the air ministry injuly 193a. but what only he and ...