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Gloster
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Correct. He was the leading designer of late Victorian and Edwardian theatres and music halls.
To you to design the next question.
Thank you. Architecture is an interest of mine, as some previous questions of mine in this thread will demonstrate!
Where were 32 Blackbirds made?
Gloster
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Brough?
No, not Brough. Would you like to share your reasoning......I am curious!
Peter Mugridge
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The Lockheed "Skunk Works" perhaps?
Gloster
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I will do so when the answer is revealed in case I am in the right area.
Correct. Well done. A remarkable and beautiful aircraft......although 12 crashed!
However, I love its missile evasion strategy.....to accelerate to Mach 3.<classified> and simply outrun the missile!
Your turn to set us a black project......(although if they had been made in Brough, that really would have been top secret!
)Gloster
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Correct. Well done. A remarkable and beautiful aircraft......although 12 crashed!
Your turn to set us a black project......(although if they had been made in Brough, that really would have been top secret!
I wondered if it was an aircraft from Blackburn Aircraft who, I think, were based in Brough near Hull. They did produce a Blackburd, an unstable prototype torpedo-bomber.
Peter Mugridge
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Thank you.
Sticking with an aviation theme... one of the standard radio calls is "Ready for departure".
When was this specific all introduced, and why? What prompted it to be mandated?
Sticking with an aviation theme... one of the standard radio calls is "Ready for departure".
When was this specific all introduced, and why? What prompted it to be mandated?
Ah, so you were much closer than I first thought, in that case. 32 was the exact number of SR-71s made.
It wasn't after Capt Van Zaanden (not sure if that was his name as I can't Google!) at Tenerife was it?
Peter Mugridge
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Copy; you are cleared to set the next question. Over.
Goodness me! I surprise myself sometimes, especially considering that I walk into a room to retrieve something and promptly forget what.....!
His name was actually Jacob van Zanten but that was pretty darn close!
Still the most deadly aircraft disaster in history, and both aircraft were on the ground (well, not quite, but they were to start with)
Ok, a gear change to antique restoration now......what natural substance is used to protect gold leaf on paintings and fabrics?
DaleCooper
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Honey
No, it's not honey
GRALISTAIR
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Linseed Oil?
No, it's not linseed oil
DaleCooper
Established Member
Isinglass
Ashley Hill
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Acetate?
OhNoAPacer
Member
Wax
DaleCooper
Established Member
Shellac
Close but not quite
Nearly....
Is the correct answer......the secretion of the Lac beetle is used as a protective layer to coat gold leaf.
Over to you to squeeze out the next question (although hopefully not from your abdomen!)
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DaleCooper
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D6130
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The blue veins in certain types of cheese? 
DaleCooper
Established Member
No, neither is it the blue veins in certain types of leg.The blue veins in certain types of cheese?
OhNoAPacer
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Also called Newton's Beads, it is where a chain of metal beads in a jar can be made to seemingly pour themselves out if the jar when the end of the chain is pulled out and dropped towards the ground.
DaleCooper
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That's right, there are videos on YouTube showing the effect. Your turn...
OhNoAPacer
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Isaac Newton was MP for The University of Cambridge for two non-consecutive terms, 1689-90 and 1701-02. What was his only recorded speech concerning?