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On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 17:15 +0000, Clare Shepherd wrote: > After all Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the > jet engine,was English., as were many important inventors. It can > appear so today because in the *)s we seemed to give up on > engineering, largely. I watched the programme about the first business to get a man up to 100km fascinating, enjoyable and a tribute to the guys and gals involved. Given our history - it could all have been done here. In the end it did have a Virgin logo on the side though I mnissed the bit as to how it got there at the last minute when they actually went for the $10M prize. -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html