Heard an interview with him and they’re going to start a service between Edinburgh and London using a plane with electric motors.
Apparently they’ll be using conventional engines in the short term but re-fitting them with electric motors.
So if that’s the case the aircraft must be propeller driven because there’s no such thing as an electric jet.
Therefore the journey time will be a lot slower and long distance flights will double or triple in length of time because propellor technology speed is simply limited by the Laws of Physics.
The ‘slow boat to China’ might end up being quicker than the rechargeable airliner with 1950’s speeds and more refuelling stops.

Elastic band like we had as kids?

the bloke is completely obsessed by this green stuff. suppose i would be if i had his money and government grants.

He might lose interest in his team and concentrate on his new ‘toy’.

I notice you say he is starting this service between Edinburgh & London - does that mean it's one way only?

We will have more migrants in the south wearing kilts and blowing bagpipes!

un less you have hearing problems there should be a ban on the racket they make when blown. any resemblance whatsoever they have as a musical instrument stops at hadrians wall.

I’ve heard that on the cockpit control panel there’s a slot for topping up the meter.
Can they refuel in mid air and how will the dangling jump leads connect up?

Absolutely spot on, Mr Accrington - I fucking detest the bagpipes. The Sweaties or Scotch (as I also refer to them, as it pisses them off no end)
most, are virtually creaming themselves when any mention let alone sight of bagpipes are brought up. And whilst not particularly PC nowadays - think it's just a good excuse for a fella to wear a frock!

Which links to the next thing that particularly boils my piss is when you go to a wedding and some 'lovely lovely person' with absolutely no connection to being scotch turns up in said frock thinking he's the dogs bollox - when in reality he's just saying look at me everybody -I'm an absolute bellend!

I'm fully in favour of IndyRef2 but only on the proviso, that I, and every other Englishman can have a vote too. We can then properly fuck the ungrateful whingers off and build that wall a bit higher.

Round where I live in Kettering - the local rival town, just up the road is Corby. (about as far as Peterlee is from H.Q.) I've worked there intermittently in the past and only visit when I have to (bit like Peterlee!) Anyway a significant chunk of the locals, some of whom have never even left Northants nevermind been up there actually speak with thick Glaswegian accents - it's fucking bizarre! There was a massive migration in the 60s when they all came down to work at the Steelworks, most of which disappeared in the early 80s.
I think up until it shut a couple of years ago they had the biggest Rangers Supporters Club, anywhere, outside of Glasgow. It's a truly wierd place.

The scotch of Corby were well pissed off at the first Indyref as they all wanted to vote - my response being that if it's that wonderful- fuck off back there and save me from your crocodile tears!

well said kettering. been to mccorby loads of times as my last wife was one of them and was the closest place to go to to buy scottish food like that square sausage, tatty scones and other foods of satan. her father hated the place and its residents saying it gave fellow scots like him a bad name. a glaswegian born in 1917 so you can imagine what it was like getting work in the early 30,s when he left school. even on this he got wound up as he said he,d never had a day without a job in his working life and they never mention the higher percentage that were in work than who were not at that period. yes they love to feel hard done by and everyone and there mangy dog is against them.

I’m going to Scotland in September…I always find our perception of the Scots blighted by the televised antics of the SNP….. not as popular as you’re led to believe.

I’d have thought hot air balloons would be more his style, although reaching London May take a while longer than you anticipated.

Scotland is a great Country to visit with so much space to yourself. Of many places I've stayed at, spent a week in Inverness with the family and wanted to go to John 'O Groats.

Did not realize it was 120 miles further north, when Inverness is a long way north as it is. Popped along to Dounreay that day and then took a road (?) back south towards Inverness which ran for about 25 miles with only passing places along the entire route.

Although spent nights in Glasgow & Edinburgh, I do like Stirling. Perth, Dundee & Aberdeen and spent nights in these places when working.

PS Regarding Corby, my older sister lives there, having moved there with her husband's job. The Company he worked for started in Walthamstow, East London and took Government grants to move to Bury St Edmunds, then Workington and finally Corby. Yes she has lived in some real grotty places!

I only went past it once going from Northampton to Wittering…..once was enough.

I tend to put Scotland in the same category as France and to a lesser extent Chairmany- they are lovely countries and very idyllic in parts. My main issue is with the people that live there- normally, miserable, rude and treat us English with utter contempt. Though I do accept that there are exceptions to every rule!

We stayed at a hotel in Germany and on the day we left I was at reception and the owner was there and I bought a booklet about the area and he pulled me up to tell me I’d picked up the German language version by mistake, I realised what I’d done and the…. …. appeared on my shoulder and so I said I know….he was a bit surprised and then asked me if we’d enjoyed our stay so I said ‘Sehr gut , danke’…his face was a picture, because he’d sit in the bar with his mates and they’d be talking loudly and taking the piss out of certain guests.

where next, barrow, luton or blackpool.

Barrow’s ok especially on Walney Island…Luton a utter shit hole and it was the first to pine I worked there in 1979, finally Blackpool

Barrow really does feel like the end of the world

Me and my Bro booked some accomodation there a few seasons ago- must have been the year they won the league. I picked him up in Leeds and we drove across. Stopped off in Kirby Steven to find out that it had been called off due to a waterlogged pitch- only them and Fleetwood were the games that fell that day. So bought a paper to check which other north west teams were at home and went to Blackpool v Walsall and watched a 2-2 draw instead. Most of the Blackpool fans were boycotting the games as the Oyston's were still running the show, so was a bit like watching Darlo at the Echo chamber! Then drove to Barra for a night out after the game Fucking Hell- the women were more scary than the men!

Lootown is indeed a shit hole and vowed never to go to that god awful stadium again, even if Pools were playing and it's not that far a stretch from me in the grand scheme. The 'lucky' few away fans that get to visit Kenilworth Road this season are in for the shock of their lives, when they turn up at that hell hole!

its not as if luton is a cheap place either. when working on the national express we had an overnight stay there and the digs were the most expensive the company had to pay and that included london and bristol. the good thing about it was we were only there about 10 hours so not long enough to get time off for depression. actually i do not mind kenilworth road as for me its got more about it than these new plastic breeze block modern grounds.

Pools have lost on all three occasions I've been in the away end- one being a Friday night game when we lost 3-0 think Stevie Howard got a hatrick for them.

Been in the home end once and almost broke my ankle outside the ground by inadvertently standing on the edge of a massive pothole in the dark (duly went down like a sack of shite)- the reason it was dark was due to Floodlight failure about half hour before the kick off on a Tuesday night. Sure Boydy was playing for them when they were in the Championship previously.

Only went as got a freebie, woman from work's son was on the ground staff. Anyway went with my mate who follows the Cobblers - it was 2-2 v Norwich, then in the 95th minute Norwich got a controversial free kick about 30 yards out- said to my mate I reckon they'll score here...... Darren Huckerby steps up- puts it in the top corner - all hell breaks loose in the home end, whilst me and my mate where sat there pissing ourselves laughing!