Brigadier General Chuck Yeager has died at the age of 97. While some suggest that the British test pilot Geoffrey DeHavilland might have done it when his DH108 experimental swept wing tailless jet broke up during a transonic dive over the Thames Estuary, killing him...
We note here a belated tribute to George P. Sutton, rocket scientist and textbook author, who passed away in October at the age of 100. No rocket scientist or engineer (or even space analyst or journalist) would be without at least one copy of his famous Rocket...
“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...
One of this writer’s favourite films is the movie rendition of Mark Twain’s fun time travelling tale A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949) starring Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming – a movie which, by the way, (spoiler alert) has a...
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...
It has been reported that British actor Ben Cross has died from a short illness at the age of 72. While Ben Cross never made it to major star status, nevertheless he made his international mark playing the 1924 Olympics athlete Harold Abrahams in the very well...
