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This following film popped into my YouTube feed this morning
Old footage from Sudbury, poor quality but it bought back a fond wave of nostalgia
Of particular interest is the footage from inside CAV factory at 9 min 45
There are the workers doing deburr on the injector nozzles before heat treatment and sat next to them is a quality control Inspector worker checking that the nozzles are fit to go onto the next process
I worked as a QCI in this very role, 1977 - 1979
TWTD
Edited for clarity about my actual job and corrected dates
The word means the shortest line between 2 points, although is more usually used as a shorthand for the pattern created on a shape by a series of lines or panels.
The effect can be seen on the classic black and white 32 panel, 2 tone football which is made from a series of hexagons and pentagons arranged just so to create a sphere..... it is a work of genius.
Hippies were utterly enchanted by the work of renegade American architect Buckminster Fuller who mapped out the design for a dome made of a very lightweight but strong frame of sticks under tension that could cover huge areas in clear span, again by using pentagons and hexagons.... any survivor of the Albion Fairs might fondly remember the big dome they had as their main stage. Hippies and alternative folk galore have built their own interpretation of the frame utilising all sorts of materials from plastic water pipes, hedgerow sticks and aluminium tubing . The finished frame is usually draped in some dispiriting surplus tarpaulin that manages to make the resultant structure dark, slightly damp and somewhat depressing.
The esteemed designer Sir Barnes Wallis used a geodetic frame for his seminal Wellington bomber.... a skeleton of slender metal bars that gave the plane huge strength coupled with low unladen weight. It went on to be the most numerous British bomber of WW2.
Its successor, the Vickers Windsor, had an even lighter frame made of steel ribbon under tension, although the plane never got beyond prototype stage.
The shortest straight line on a curved or spherical surface also gives rise to the mind bending topic of spheroidal geometry.....maybe more of that on another day
You know when you are having a mad weekend away, out with mates and having a bit too much to drink. Maybe football weekend or Army/college reunion.....something like that
And you are on it, really on it. An early start in the battle cruiser, too much beer, not enough good food .... XXL super spicy kebab at 5 pm, more beer and then a late night curry washed down with more beer.
At some point in the day there is a regrettable shart or maybe a follow through, but you valiantly soldier on regardless.
That night, tired and pizzled, you don't change out of your clothes or have a shower; the following morning you have the breakfast of champions, a 'Spoons Full English washed down with a couple of pints of Abott and then you are back on it again, the conversation, beer and laughter are flowing and then......disaster as another fart goes badly awry. You have refoulment.
Or is it b)
The forcible return of an Asylum Seeker to their country of origin if their application is rejected.
This week we stand a good chance of seeing serial liar Johnson finally sent down the U bend of politics, hopefully forever.
But murmers abound of serial lurker Farage announcing his return to lead his motley crew of racists and the hard of thinking into the next General Election
Wth all the excitement on Tuesday, we have completely overlooked the fact that it was Burns Night.... that magical evening when Scottish people celebrate Wes Burns by eating a sheep's stomach rammed full of unmentionable offal.
But haggis is not the only contraversial Scotish delicacy, as the following tale shows
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