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BERNARD LYNCH DEMONSTRATES THE ART OF PILOT EJECTION

... obtain tyres which will stand up to the terrific strain involved. Cobb took with him to Utah fifty tyres for his Railton A BIG BANG AND A VAST CLOUD OF SMOKE AND DUST This great mushrooming cloud was caused by the explosion of 50,000 lb. of T.N.T. inside ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 865 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Shows: At the Shaftesbury

... then, all the way through the play the audience are never allowed to rest quietly in their seats in preparation for the next big bang, as it were. The plot, horribly complicated, is most ingeniously worked out. True, the players themselves are somewhat ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1922
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1069 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

Parliamentary Pilots: Flying Candidates

... night's invitations were worded wet or fine, and the guests offered cocktails or fireworks or both. Hanworth also had a big bang last night, with a bonfire thrown in and an in formal dance to follow. Guests were offered facilities for burning their enemies ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1064 | Page: 48 | Tags: Photographs 

FLOOD

... launch started on its battle against the ever-increasing stream, and, as Amery turned to go, Henderson shouted Listen for the big bang in about six hours from now. Late that evening Amery sat on the verandah of the little club talking to Gilbert of the P ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1935
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2143 | Page: 64 | Tags: Photographs 

Motor Dicta: Last Monday A Week Ahead

... regularity, although after three or four years, the siilv little old one-eyed dam-fool island of ours comes into its own with a big bang and lieats all Teutonic solidarity with its own wonderful engines unparallelled at weight for age Mud and Blood. Hats off ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1922
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1146 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

Air Eddies: Taking the Strain

... of instants, the futility of searching for them with even the biggest batteries of the longest burning flares is apparent. Big Bang Busted Not being a gunner, I had always imagined that those tremendous bangs which punctuate the main anti-aircraft barrage ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1128 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BATTLE OF THE BERLIN FLAK-TOWER: Hungary's New Cabinet: The Remains of Italy's Navy: King Carol and Mme. ..

... PLENTY OF T.N.T. AND PLENTY OF LAUGHS IN BERLIN'S TIERGARTEN With another big bang and another vast cloud of dust this massive flak-tower was blown up for the second time in a month. On the first occasion 50,000 lbs. of T.N.T. were used, and the bulk ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1214 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

AIR EDDIES: Academical Hats

... to have one at Brook- lands, where a flying club is to be opened in addition to the school. Then on the 31st there is the big bang at Bristol, a genuine 15-in. pageant of the Hendon type. And so they continue on until the final conclusion, ample evidence ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1504 | Page: 76 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PAGEANTRY of WINGS: The Royal Air Force Display

... formation of fly ing boats is due from Southampton the enemy's balloon will come down in flames and finally there is the big bang which brings a great day to a close At Hanworth Park Captain J. A. Mansfield, M.C., has been appointed secretary of the principal ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1471 | Page: 56 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER

... the birds in my garden are a joy to me. I cannot appreciate the mentality of those French experimentalists who for their Big Bang in the interest of seismography placed animals round the place and a dog on a chain. The only animal that was killed was ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1425 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs