#englishelectric

[nojarama]

Happy anniversary to OMD’s album, ‘English Electric’. Released this week in 2013. #omd #orchestralmanoeuvresinthedark #petersaville #englishelectric #metroland #dresden #thefuturewillbesilent #nightcafe #petersaville

[music-nostalgia-truro]

New Stock Arriving Every Day! Just picked up this gem of an issue by the amazing Big Big Train Very Limited Edition issue on 2 x ORANGE VINYL LP SET #bigbigtrain #englishelectric #orangevinyl * Retail & Online shops * https://www.discogs.com/seller/MusicNostalgia/profile * https://musicnostalgia.airposwebstore.com/ * Lemon Quay Truro Cornwall #vinyladdict #nowplaying #vinyl #records #vinylcollection #nowspinning #recordshop #record #cratedigger #recordstoreday #vinyligclub #onmyturntable #instavinyl #musiclover #vinyljunkie #truro #cornwall (at Music Nostalgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7T-5fEJY90/?igshid=crf92enpjnvl

[jason-1971]

English Electric lightning imperial War Museum, Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire

iXM135-is Duxford's preserved F.1, and very nicely presented she is too. Wearing 74 'Tiger' squadron colours, I suspect it's the Tigers scheme from when they were the RAF's display team back in 1961/1962. XM135 was the very first full-production Mk.1, first flown on 14th November 1959. She served with the CFS at Coltishall from May 1960, then moved on to 74 Squadron, 226 OCU, the Leuchars TFF and was delivered to storage with 60 MU in June 1971, becoming the last F.1 to fly in the process. She was disposed of to the IWM in 1974 and has been on display at Duxford ever since.

XM135 is famous for being the aircraft in which an engineering officer had an extremely scary experience when some ground running tests went badly wrong... on 22nd July 1966, the aircraft was with 33 MU at RAF Lyneham being worked on to fix a persistent electrical fault that only showed up when the aircraft was accelerating. Wing Commander Walter "Taff" Holden was undertaking taxiing tests to see if he could replicate the problem. The canopy was off, ground locks were in on the undercarriage and the ejector seat safety pins were in. Initial slow(ish!) speed taxi runs on Lyneham's 'lazy' runway did not show up the fault, so Taff tried a further run but inadvertently advanced the throttles too far into the reheat position; now a Lightning doesn't give you much time to think in reheat, and before Taff could figure out that the throttles hadn't jammed but were just through the reheat gate, disaster loomed in the shape of a fuel bowser crossing the runway in front of him. Just missing this, he was soon about to cross the main duty runway - as a Comet on its take off run shot past! Having avoided disaster twice by pure luck, the end of the short lazy runway was coming up fast and he had no choice but to lift off, having had no luck trying to get the throttles back to idle - and having run out of time to do anything about it.

Luckily Taff had some limited hours on lighter prop-driven trainer aircraft - Tiger Moths, Chipmunks and Harvards - and this experience enabled him to calmly explore the aircraft's handling and make some attempts at landing. His first two attempts to line up on the runway didn't go well but on his third attempt he got it right - and only made the error of landing in the attitude a tailwheel aircraft would, with the result that he scraped the tail and in the process cut the brake chute's cable. When he deployed the chute, then, it simply dropped off immediately and he had to rely on the wheelbrakes alone to stop him before the runway end. This they did... with 100 yards to spare. 

[forestpines]

No prizes for guessing where this was taken... #train #railway #museum #engine #locomotive #nationalrailwaymuseum #sciencemuseum #locomotion #deltic #englishelectric #apt #advancedpassengertrain #shildon #darlington (at Locomotion) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzn-xwkH7tE/?igshid=1ne198xgy4bno

[weehughie]

Just a first play with a light box... • • #lightbox #lightboxphotography #esddi #esddilightbox #corgi #lightning #lightningf6 #englishelectric #corgilightning #corgimodel #nasa #apollo11 #lem #lunarmodule #lego #legophotography #legophoto #legoapollo11 #legolunarlander #lunerlander #legolove #legolover #neilarmstrong #buzzaldrin #leica #leicaq #leicaqtyp116 #11promax #macro https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTXGfGBpXr/?igshid=hrykhodmm09t

[thewastegate]

This English Electric Canberra sat alongside the 747 at today's Insignia Sports Tourer launch. #englishelectric #englishelectriccanberra #canberra #canberrabomber #canberraplane #bomberjet #bomberplane #aeroplane #plane #militaryplane (at Cotswold Airport)

[nunoxaviermoreira]

Colas Railfreight (Colas) Class 37 37521 Yeovil Pen Mill 6/9/18 by Thirty Seven 401 https://flic.kr/p/NNzBYm

[sagesolar]

XM279 CANBERRA NOSE FLIXTON by toowoomba surfer http://bit.ly/2yV53Ir

[nrg78]

A caminho da #AvaFer algum #Trainspotting a velhas senhoras #Camellos #EnglishElectric #1400 (em Estação Ferroviária de Porto-Campanhã)

[mybusylittlebee-blog]

New #assassinscreed #tattoo. I can not wait to get this in my #modelling pictures. So happy with it. Thanks to #englishelectric tattoos Steve who did this amazing piece.

[nojarama]

Happy 10th anniversary to OMD’s album, ‘English Electric’. Released this week in 2013. #omd #orchestralmanoeuvresinthedark #petersaville #englishelectric #metroland #dresden #thefuturewillbesilent #nightcafe #petersaville

[music-nostalgia-truro]

New Stock Arriving Every Day! Just picked up this absolute gem of an issue by the amazing Big Big Train. Very Limited Edition pressing #bigbigtrain #englishelectric #bluevinyl * Retail & Online shops * https://www.discogs.com/seller/MusicNostalgia/profile * https://musicnostalgia.airposwebstore.com/ * Lemon Quay Truro Cornwall #vinyladdict #nowplaying #vinyl #records #vinylcollection #nowspinning #recordshop #record #cratedigger #recordstoreday #vinyligclub #onmyturntable #instavinyl #musiclover #vinyljunkie #truro #cornwall (at Music Nostalgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7T-p-ZpW3t/?igshid=1o5uju3m5ctms

[crockerdance89-blog]

OMD's video for new song The Punishment of Luxury is a neon condemnation of consumption society: Watch

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, a.k.aOMD, are set to returnSeptember 1st with their13th full-lengthalbum,The Punishment of Luxury(via 100% Records). The follow-up to 2013'sEnglishElectrichas thus far been previewed with two singles, IsotypeandLa Mitrailleuse, and now a third listen has come via the album's title track.

The Punishment of Luxury is an addicting jolt of bright '80s synthpop, replete withAndy McCluskeyandPaul Humphreys' pristine harmonies. As sugary sweet as it all is, however, there's something ominous in its allure, rumbling down there in the lower end of the mix. It's a reflection of the song's themes about the false sense of happiness our consumption culture has given us. Lazy girl/ Dirty boy/ Surrounded by your broken toys/ And you don't know how to make the pain just go away, goes one verse.

Most people in the western world are materially better off than their predecessors ever were and yet we are unhappier, McCluskey explains to Consequence of Sound. Now we have many possessions that we don't need because we've been persuaded to buy. This is the punishment of luxury.

The song comes to us via its neon-lined video. Instead of taking inspiration from the actual artwork for which the track was named - as OMD did with theLa Mitrailleuseclip - the Punishment of Luxury video takes its visual cues from the repetitive, glowing nature of modern pleasures. There are twirling strippers, raining dollars, and an infinite number of Like buttons. There's even a rotoscoped snippet of 45, because what would commentary on our current consumerist culture be without a reference to the President of the United States?

Check out the video above. You can also catch OMD when they kick off their 2017 tour later this month.

OMD 2017 Tour Dates: 07/28 San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom 07/29 Los Angeles, CA @ Microsoft Theater 07/30 Tijuana, MX @ El Foro 08/02 Mexico City, MX @ Pepsi Centre 08/05 Punta Cana, DO @ Hard Rock Cafe 10/23 Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street 10/24 Belfast, IE @ Mandella Hall 10/29 Liverpool, UK @ Empire 10/30 Bristol, UK @ Colston Hall 11/01 Southend, UK @ Cliffs Pavilion 11/02 Ipswich, UK @ Regent 11/03 Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchange 11/05 Leicester, UK @ De Montfort Hall 11/06 Nottingham, UK @ Royal Concert Hall 11/07 Sheffield, UK @ City Hall 11/09 Reading, UK @ Hexagon 11/10 Southampton, UK @ Guildhall 11/11 Guildford, UK @ G Live 11/13 London, UK @ Roundhouse 11/15 Bexhill, UK @ De La Warr Pavilion 11/17 Manchester, UK @ Academy 11/18 York, UK @ Barbican 11/19 Glasgow, UK @ Royal Concert Hall 11/21 Birmingham, UK @ Symphony Hall 11/22 Gateshead, UK @ Sage 1 11/25 Erfurt, DE @ Traum Hits Festival 11/26 Hamburg, DE @ Grosse Freoheit 11/28 Berlin, DE @ Huxleys 11/29 Liepzig, DE @ Taus Auenesse 11/30 Munich, DE @ Tonhalle 12/02 Offenbach, DE @ Stadhalle 12/03 Dusseldorf, DE @ Mitsubishi Electric Hall 12/05 Tilburg, NL @ TBD 12/06 Antwerp, BE @ De Roma 12/08 Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks

[forestpines]

RAF roundel on the side of an EE Lightning F.1 at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. #plane #aeroplane #airplane #jet #fighter #fighterjet #fastjet #englishelectric #lightning #iwm #iwmduxford #imperialwarmuseum #raf #roundel (at Imperial War Museum Duxford)

[audiovenue]

Due in soon, English Electric Network Switch. #englishelectric #networkswitch #dataswitch #luxman #amplifier #audio #l590mkii #luxman590 #hifisystem #musical #audiovenue #ealing #maidenhead #hifi #audiophiles #bowersandwilkins #805d3prestige #805d3 #hifisystems #hifishop #ealing #maidenhead #audiovenue #w5 #chordcables https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Tag9NlYCY/?igshid=taifctjc44jm

[weehughie]

Vertical... • • #lightning #englishelectric #englishelectriclightning #fighter #interceptor #raf #royalairforce #cosford #rafcosford #cosfordmuseum #rafcosfordmuseum #rafmuseum #royalairforce #roundel #rafroundel #coldwar #nationalcoldwarexhibition #xg337 #lightningf1 #vertical #verticalclimb #iphonex #museum #aircraftmuseum #militarymuseum #coldwarmuseum (at The Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford) https://www.instagram.com/p/BomdHBbBhk9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p04yewvewbaa