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Neill Watson
Personal blog · historicracer.comhistoryculture
Neill Watson writes Historic Racer, a personal blog at historicracer.com about history and culture. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Accidental Fighter Pilot”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Neill Watson's aviation history writing, such as the story of RAF engineer Taffy Holden, who accidentally took off in an English Electric Lightning in 1966. The comments only cite or link it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Historic Racer is Neill Watson’s magazine of historic motorsport, driving reports, aviation and collectables: 275 stories and 715 photographs.
Most-linked posts?
- The Accidental Fighter Pilot3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-14
What Hacker News says?
This reminded me of Taffy Holden, UK's RAF technician, who in 1966 accidentally took off in Lightning after making an error. English Electric Lightning was one of the fastest fighter jets of its time. > The account has been widely published across the internet, but we make no apology for running the story here, as it’s a fascinating tale and it’s good to hear the original account of how Taffy Holden, an RAF Engineer…
Comment linking /aviation/accidental-fighter-pilot/
on “Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance”Submitted The Accidental Fighter Pilot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSometimes you survive, like Taffy Holden: http://www.historicracer.com/aviation/accidental-fighter-pil... Not drunk, and not just a mechanic, but still!
Comment linking /aviation/accidental-fighter-pilot/
on “Found: A plane wreck that could solve a 50-year-old mystery”
