Thursday, November 11, 2004

Princess Royal in air near-miss

Near-miss for Princess Anne

Princess Anne has been involved in a terrible airplane incident!
Whilst flying to events in Scotland, her plane was involved in a near-miss with an RAF plane under military control. The two planes came within a shockingly dangerous 3.3 miles of each other.

The plane on which the Princess was travelling has the specifiactions detailed below:

BAE 125 Specifications
Engines:
Two Garrett turbofans

Length:
50ft 8.5in (15.46m)

Wingspan:
47ft (14.33m)

Top Speed:
533 mph (858 km/h)

Accommodation:
Up to seven passengers


The Vauxhall Astra, a regular car has specifications as below:-

Length:
4.51m

Width:
1.75m

Height:
1.5m

Going on length alone, the car is circa 3x smaller than the plane.

That would mean that it would make front page news if I had a near miss in my car, coming within 1 mile of a lamppost.

Somethings really aren't newsworthy are they?

Timbob

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Tim, Tim, Tim - the English word for 'airplane' is aeroplane... watch that!
lol