The recent decision by the FAA not to award “astronaut wings” to suborbital space tourist “passengers” of Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic commercial astronaut carrying operations has caused controversy, not least because many would-be...
An article by Tom Fordy in the Daily Telegraph declared the James Bond space-plotted movie Moonraker (1979) as the most influential of 007’s adventures, both to other movie makers (yes some scenes from it have been stolen by others), but also because its...
“Shurely shum mishtake Mish Moneypenny,” as Sir Sean Connery might have said is his oft-imitated lispy Scottish accent, but we are sad to report that the famous James Bond actor has died at the age of 90. Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. and...
The Yorkshire-born accomplished actress Dame Diana Rigg has passed away from cancer at the age of 82. Ms Rigg was a noted beautiful woman in the 1960s who originally gained fame for here role as the action girl Emma Peel in the 1960s tongue-in-cheek spy TV series The...
The recent attempted anti-ship ballistic missile tests by Iran against a mock-up of a modern-day US aircraft carrier in effect mimicked the “Rods from the Gods” attacks from above that US and Japanese carrier borne dive bomber aircraft did during World War...
We are sad to report the death of Ennio Morricone, 91, who died in hospital after complications following a fall. For aficionados of the Italian made “spaghetti” westerns, there was only one composer: Ennio Morricone. His scores for A Fistful of Dollars...
