Conor T

25/Shrewsbury

[Department for Transport @transportgovuk]

Introducing the very first Great British Railways train 🚆

You can now spot the new GBR train in real life as the new branding starts rolling out gradually across the rail network.

Another step towards a simpler, better railway under GBR which puts passengers and customers first.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Titanic victim Jeremiah Burke threw a message in a bottle overboard that read "From Titanic, goodbye all, Burke of Glanmire, Cork". It washed ashore a year later only a few miles from his family home in Ireland. It then remained in his family for nearly a century before being donated to a museum

[Conor T @dankaccount]

@TheNewsAgents @maitlis @lewis_goodall Lost my ear with this one. Distasteful and tone deaf.

[Joe Rogan @joerogan]

For the record, this isn’t an endorsement. This is me saying that I like RFKjr as a person, and I really appreciate the way he discusses things with civility and intelligence.
I think we could use more of that in this world.

I also think Trump raising his fist and saying “fight!” after getting shot is one of the most American fucking things of all time.
I’m not the guy to get political information from. If you want that from a comic, go to @ComicDaveSmith. He actually knows what he’s talking about.

[Conor T @dankaccount]

@smileyboyoff Hi

[george @StokeyyG2]

Ain’t no way this guy who has a suspended driver's licence, joined a court hearing while driving his car 😭😭😭

[Conor T @dankaccount]

@mccrabb_will @Wlo_oWl @cgbthree

[Conor T @dankaccount]

@crazyclipsonly Why didn’t they land in the water?

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

I missed the great Churchillian call to arms but I am guessing from the rash of “wtf was that about?” messages that a) there was no clear purpose that made sense and required a PM statement. B) He delivered it badly. C) He is vaguely hoping it will stir things up a bit. But frankly he would do so much better if he just tried to do the job. Govern. Lead. Stop all this performative bullshit. The longer he delays an election the angrier 🇬🇧 will become.

[Chase Mitchell @ChaseMit]

Must have been hard to thank them afterward

[Luke Rudkowski @Lukewearechange]

This clip is absolutely terrifying to me

[Danny Davies @DannyDcomedian]

Me on Monday when the pigs in blankets get put out https://t.co/OxnvKcvBHa

[Wild content @Nocapmedia]

My boy woke up and chose violence 💀

[Louis Theroux @louistheroux]

@piersmorgan I don't think you've got the cardio fitness, Piers, TBF. You'd gas out and after that I'd just be playing music on your chin like a boxing Beethoven.

[$𝔩𝔞𝔭☃️ @slvppy]

soon as he heard she was pregnant, mike-was-out-ski

[george @StokeyyG2]

A bloke in Ireland dug a hole on the beach with a kids spade and the news are reporting on it as a ‘cosmic event’ 😭😭�

[Alan Shearer @alanshearer]

Come on Harry it’s time to go! 🤪

[Conor T @dankaccount]

@GhostofGoose2 @NantwichMalcolm ‘Brings down the tone’ 😂😂 have a word with yourself

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This is the cockpit in which Charles Lindbergh sat while piloting the first aircraft to make a solo non-stop transatlantic flight, the Spirit of Saint Louis, in May of 1927. Note the periscope used instead of a forward window. The Spirit was designed and built in San Diego to compete for the $25,000 Orteig Prize, which was offered by New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic non-stop, either from New York to Paris or vice versa.

Lindbergh, a U.S. Air Mail pilot, believed that a single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane would provide him with the best chance of success. Under his close supervision, the Spirit was designed and constructed in just 60 days.

To enhance the center of gravity and minimize the risk of being crushed in case of a crash, Lindbergh had the large main and forward fuel tanks placed in the front section of the fuselage, ahead of the pilot, with the oil tank acting as a firewall. As a result of this design choice, there was no front windshield, and forward visibility was limited to the side windows. However, this arrangement didn't bother Lindbergh, as he was accustomed to flying in the rear cockpit of mail planes with mail bags in the front. When he needed to see forward, he would simply look out the sides.

To address the need for some forward vision, Lindbergh enlisted the help of a former submarine serviceman to design and install a periscope. Inside the cramped cockpit, measuring 94 cm wide, 81 cm long, and 130 cm high, Lindbergh couldn't even stretch his legs.

Today, the Spirit of St. Louis is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.