The modern era in a nutshell, my new house. You pull up rotten chipboard and underneath, original 1860 tiling.

There is a nice discernible diamond pattern, in the house archive was a photo of the Victorian owners, you can see the same pattern. The owner was a (nearly) lifelong…

I don't have the answer to that to hand (I don't want to just repeat various sensible guesses).

However you can get some idea of Professor Messerschmitt`s thinking on construction from this translation I made of a speech he gave during the war at a University Presentation…

Today, as it happens....well, co-authored, and as its about the aeroplane itself and not an engine 'book' the majority of the content is Dan`s.

But there is some new stuff in there about the DB 603 in particular.

Loads of people were saying there was no point in an Me 309 book…

I’ve just breached the fifteen thousand followers level, despite telling people not to follow me.

So, here we are !

I’m but a simple engineer with a desperately unhealthy enjoyment of engines and ww2 aeroplanes, and a pathological inability to let go of engineering mysteries…

If you want to understand the state of British manufacturing, try buying a sodding ladder.

I`ve been trying for 2 weeks to buy three 4 meter long scaffolding ladders (just plain old straight ladders).

Nope !

My local pub...

Its pretty classy.

Not too dissimilar to the place Frankie Boyle joked about in Scotland where he went in and asked for a lager-shandy.

'we dont do cocktails'

No history today, been busy...

Its a very complicated story to explain fully, but the ultra-short version is that generally the quality of the fuel and the volume you can make are inversely proportional.

So you need to perhaps understand what 'unable' means in that context.

In small experimental batches…

Despite the immense difficulties, international engineering collaborations in peacetime seem to often produce great success.

-Concorde
-Eurofighter
-Total F1 domination in the case of German and British collaboration....

Its a shame that various political difficulties couldn't…

Yes, Sachse survived.