#FerrariFriday The wonderfully curvaceous #Ferrari 330 P4. The most beautiful & arguably most valuable car in the world, driven by 3x #F1 World Champion Jackie Stewart @FormulaOneWorld #FOS 2017

Best looking fighter ever? credit Steve Ryle

Happy weekend Jeff and friends 🙋👍👌🏁

The lovely Fairey Swordfish at Midlands Air Festival

#OTD in 2011. A remarkable win for Jenson Button (McLaren-Mercedes) at a wet Canadian GP. Button colliding with teammate Lewis Hamilton, pitting 6 times (including 2 punctures & a drive-through penalty), last at one point, & overtaking leader Sebastian Vettel on the last lap!

GUARDIAN: You said King Charles had raised Ukraine with Trump. Is he still helping you? ZELENSKYY: Yes, but I will not tell you how. GUARDIAN: What's he doing? ZELENSKYY: No, I can't. It's up to His Majesty to answer such questions. GUARDIAN: You have good relationship? ZELENSKYY: Yeah, we have very good relationship. We and Ukraine love His Majesty. You know, this morning when I spoke by phone with my wife, first of all — with all respect to Keir — my wife said, "Best regards to His Majesty." And then to Prime Minister, of course. GUARDIAN: Would you like to invite King Charles to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian people one day? ZELENSKYY: Between us, this very day, today, I want to invite him very much. I don't know from security point of view and so on. Yes, of course, we want to see him in Ukraine very much.

I don’t hate russia because television told me to. I hate what missiles do to apartment buildings. The conclusion came naturally.

Avro Lancaster at RIAT 2025

Born this day 12th June 1920. F.Lt. Colin Hamilton Macfie. DFC. One of THE FEW. bbm.org.uk/airmen/MacFie.htm He Survived!

10 years ago Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death in Birstall by a far right thug. Do you remember the Farage \ Tommy Robinson riots that followed it, No me neither. R.I.P. Jo

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10

Credit Lawrence Eastbury at Old Warden

Remembering rapid Welshman Tom Pryce, born #OnThisDay in 1949. Pryce started 42 GPs (Token, Shadow) between 1974 and his tragic death at Kyalami in 1977. He finished 3rd at the 1975 Austrian and 1976 Brazilian GPs, also starting the 1975 British GP from pole. 1/3 #F1

Sir Ken Adam, one of a very few known German fighter pilots in Britain's RAF during WW2, once shared his wartime experiences with this reflection: "Germans often ask me did I feel any qualms when I attacked German soldiers during the war. I say, ‘No, I didn’t’. Apart from anything else, when you’re flying in a single-seater fighter aircraft, you are not in contact with the death you create on the ground. You’re very much in contact with the death of your friends who are shot down or crash in flames, but not with the people on the ground. By that, I mean the military. Obviously, we didn’t attack any civilians. But having said that, even if I had been eye to eye with it, I decided that we had to win the war and we had to get rid of Hitler and the Nazis." Sir Ken Adam was one of approximately 10,000 German and Austrian Jewish refugees who fought for Britain during the Second World War.

11 June 1939. Jackie Stewart was born in Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He was nicknamed the “Flying Scot” and competed in Formula One racing between 1965 and 1973, winning 3 F1 World Drivers’ Championships and twice finishing as runner-up.

Eighty seven years old today. Not only a great driver and multiple World Champion but also a fearless pioneer of driver safety when the sport was needlessly killing three or four driver every year. Also a great shot !

The mysterious U-2 Dragon lady at Miramar air show 2018

This needs posting everywhere

Un 11 de junio de 1949 nacía el piloto galés Thomas Maldwyn ‘Tom’ Pryce. 42 GP, 2 podios y 1 pole dan muestra del talento que prometía. Ganador de la Race of Champions 1975. Ganador del GP de Mónaco F3 de 1974.

Alec Guinness almost said no to the role that would make him immortal to an entirely new generation. When asked how he came to be involved in a science fiction film, Guinness revealed his first reaction was far from enthusiastic: "A script arrived on my dressing table. And I heard that it had been delivered by George Lucas and I thought, well, that's rather impressive because he's an up-and-coming and very respected young director. So, and then when I opened it and found it was science fiction, I thought, 'Oh crumbs,' you know, 'this is simply not for me.'" But something kept him reading: "I started reading. And it seemed to me the dialogue was pretty ropey. Uh, but I had to go on turning the page and I mean that's an essential in any script. You've got to know what happens next or what's going to be said next." He eventually met Lucas, they got on well, and he signed on. Then came the contract negotiation that would become legendary. Guinness had never taken a percentage on a film before because, in his words, films "lose money like mad" when he takes a percentage. His agent suggested 2%. He agreed, expecting nothing. The day before Star Wars opened in San Francisco, Lucas called him personally: "He said, 'I think the movie is kind of going to be all right.' I said, 'I'm glad, George.' He said, 'Yeah, the press quite like it.' I said, 'Good.' He said, 'We're pleased with, you know, very grateful for little alterations you suggested, and so we'd like to offer you another half percent.'" Guinness thought he had 2.5%. But when he later asked the producer to put the offer in writing, he discovered the half-percent had quietly become a quarter-percent. He ended up with 2.25%. On why he thinks the film connected so deeply with audiences, Guinness offered a simple diagnosis: "A marvelous healthy innocence. Great pace, wonderful to look at, full of guts, nothing unpleasant. I mean, people go bang bang and people fall over and are dead. But, you know, no horrors, no sleazy sex… a sort of wonderful freshness about it, a kind of like a wonderful fresh air." He added that when he walked out of the cinema onto Tottenham Court Road, the real world suddenly felt "awfully sort of gritty and dirty and full of rubbish." It was, he said, "one of the few movies I've come out of recently where I really felt happy and uplifted." His warning to anyone looking for deeper meaning in it: "People are going to read too much into it. It's a simple, simple stuff for all ages." Though the letters he was already receiving suggested the reading-too-much-into-it had begun. One couple wrote asking if he'd come live with them for a few months to help fix their marriage.