Heads up - James May 'at the edge of space'

[Kevin Farnell]

To be screened tonight, on BBC 4 at 10.05pm.
James may travels to 70000 ft in a U2.

Regards

Kevin

[DaveB]

Cheers Kevin. Let's see if I can remember it! ;-)

ATB

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[Paul K]

Hope I can find this as a BBC Tellypod or whatever they are called, being TV-less as I am.

[DaveB]

For those on terristrial tv.. this programme is on NOW.. started at 21:00 on BBC2

ATB

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[Rick Piper]

Great Proggy

Strange but i cannot really find anything about the way James May presents stuff that i don't like

He seems to be as interesting and unoffensive as he could be.

I was glued to my seat the whole time.

Regards
Rick

[DaveB]

Hello Matey..

Agree with that. An excellent prog very well presented. No one bothered with my 'terristrial tv' finger prob either There was another prog on BBC4 at 10:05 also called 'The Edge of Space' featuring James May and I don't think it was the same one.. more to do with him training for the U2 flight than was shown on the BBC2 21:00 prog. Didn't have time to watch it but have recorded it so that's my afternoon viewing sorted.. unless it IS the same one!

Did you note the U2 landing?? There it was poodling along a few feet off the deck then it dropped like a stone :o

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[Rick Piper]

Hi Matey

I watched both

yep the U" was very odd
I noted on takeoff that the outrigger wheels just fell off the wings as it rotated.

no idea how they stop the wings hitting the runway after landing as the outriggers where not back on on their film and they cut away before it was taxying slow enough to drop a wingtip.

the landing was not a good one in their film as it looked like is just about stalled to me and hit the runway like a ton of bricks.

Great Rate of Clomb though with those huge wings (sustained 8,000 fpm to 35,000ft!) :o

the second program you recorded is even better than the shorter first one (similar program but with twice as much background depth)

Regards
Rick

[DaveB]

Excellent stuff. That's me sorted then

Cheers me dears ;-)

ATB

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[Garry Russell]

If thier're careful they can stop it without dropping a wing otherwise the small wingtip skids protect it as it drops one (Wing that is)

Garry

[forthbridge]

A cracking Prog. May has the sort of eager kid attitude to all that stuff (a bit like me I suppose) - but what a great prog.

Did anyone see the Airspeed at FL700? 104 kts!! :o :o

Makes you wonder what speed the lightnings that were taken up that high had - and what sort of control :o :o