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#1 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:36 pm

To my shame I had not heard of Alexander Kartveli (Aleksandre Kartvelishvili) until this week. Reading it about him it is clear that he should be up there in the pantheon of great aeronautical engineers alongside people like Kelly Johnson et al.

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#2 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:41 pm



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#3 Post by Boac » Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:52 pm

Indeed - behind many of the iconic aircraft. Interesting 'demise'.

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#4 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:47 pm

Boac wrote:
Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:52 pm
Interesting 'demise'.
One would wish him a heart attack on top of Brit Eckland kind of exit. She almost did for Peter Sellers but not quite! ;)))
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#5 Post by barkingmad » Wed Jan 08, 2020 7:45 pm

Preferably BELOW Britt Eklund as the resultant untangling would be stressful and unfair to the poor lass?

But hopefully not before both had experienced ‘la petite mort’ ? ! :x

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#6 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:27 pm

barkingmad wrote:
Wed Jan 08, 2020 7:45 pm
Preferably BELOW Britt Eklund as the resultant untangling would be stressful and unfair to the poor lass?

But hopefully not before both had experienced ‘la petite mort’ ? ! :x
Very chivalrous, kind and sensible of you Sir! :-bd
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#7 Post by AtomKraft » Mon Feb 10, 2020 4:17 pm

A great Guy, Kartavelli.

But remember, half the 105 fleet are still in Vietnam....that's 350 jets.
I'm reading 'Not much of an engineer' by Mr. Hooker.....

A decent read and very much reminds me of how much change a single, talented guy can do.

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#8 Post by ian16th » Mon Feb 10, 2020 4:21 pm

Hooker?

Didn't he write M*A*S*H?
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#9 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:11 pm

AtomKraft wrote:
Mon Feb 10, 2020 4:17 pm
A great Guy, Kartavelli.

But remember, half the 105 fleet are still in Vietnam....that's 350 jets.
I'm reading 'Not much of an engineer' by Mr. Hooker.....

A decent read and very much reminds me of how much change a single, talented guy can do.

Thoroughly enjoyed Not much of an Engineer... Sir Stanley was an engineering genius.
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