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బెల్జియమ్లో ఒకే చోట లక్ష రకాల పూలు సమావేశమయ్యాయి. పూలు అలంకరించే 30 మంది అంతర్జాతీయ వ్యాపారులు వాటిని ప్రపంచం నలుమూలల నుంచి ఇక్కడికి తీసుకొచ్చారు. బ్రసెల్స్లోని 'గ్రాండ్ ప్లేస్'లో వికసించిన ఆ పూలను అద్భుతంగా అలంకరించారు.
లక్ష రకాల పుష్పాలు ఒక్క చోట వికసిస్తే..!
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Published : Aug 18, 2019, 6:59 PM IST
| Updated : Sep 27, 2019, 10:27 AM IST
లక్ష రకాల పుష్పాలు ఒక్క చోట వికసిస్తే..! బెల్జియమ్ రాజధాని బ్రసెల్స్లో వరల్డ్ ఆఫ్ ఫ్లోరల్ ఎమోషన్స్(పుష్పాల భావోద్వేగ ప్రపంచం) పూల పండుగను నిర్వహిస్తున్నారు. ఇందుకు 'ది గ్రాండ్ ప్లేస్' వేదికైంది. ప్రపంచ దేశాల నుంచి 30 మంది పూల అలంకరణ కర్తలు ఈ పండుగలో పాల్గొన్నారు. రెండేళ్లకు ఒకసారి ఈ పండుగ నిర్వహిస్తారు. ఈ పూల పండుగ సందర్భంగా నగరంలో కొలువుదీరిన పురాతన 'మానెకన్ పిస్' శిల్పం కూడా ఒంటి నిండా పూలు పులుముకుంది.
ఒక్కసారి ఈ ప్రదర్శన జరిగే గ్రాండ్ ప్లేస్ లోపలికి ప్రవేశిస్తే ఆశ్చర్యపోవాల్సిందే. దాదాపు లక్ష రకాలకు పైగా పుష్పాలను ఇక్కడ మీరు చూడొచ్చు.
బ్రసెల్స్లోని ప్రముఖ పర్యటక ప్రదేశం అటామియమ్ స్పియర్ ఆకారంలో పూలను అలంకరించిన విధానం వీక్షకులకు ప్రత్యేకంగా ఆకట్టుకుంటోంది. ఇందులోని రంగురంగుల పూలని చూస్తేనే మనసు తేలికవుతుంది. ప్రముఖ బెల్జియన్ డిజైనర్ నటాలియా ఈ కళాకృతికి రూపం ఇచ్చారు
ఈ ప్రదర్శన మీకు మంచి అనుభూతిని కలిగిస్తుంది. ఇక్కడికి రాగానే మొదటగా వేలాడుతున్న బంతులు కనిపిస్తాయి. అవి అటామియమ్ స్పియర్ ఆకారంలో ఉంటాయి. 9 స్పియర్స్ ఉన్నాయి. బ్రసెల్స్లో ప్రతి ఒక్కరూ చూడతగ్గ ప్రదర్శన ఇది.
-నటాలియా సకలోవా, డిజైనర్
ఈ ప్రదర్శనలో మరో ప్రత్యేక ఆకర్షణ బీజింగ్ ఫ్లవర్ స్కూల్ రూపొందించిన ఆకృతి. పురాతన చైనా సంగీత వాయిద్యమైన 'కాంగూ' స్పూర్తితో వీటిని కళాత్మకంగా తీర్చిదిద్దినట్లు డిజైనర్ జూడి జాంగ్ తెలిపారు. ఆగస్టు 14న నుంచి 18వ తేదీ వరకు ఈ పూల పండుగ నిర్వహించనున్నారు.
ఇదీ చూడండి: భూటాన్ విద్యార్థులకు ప్రధాని మోదీ 'క్లాస్'
లక్ష రకాల పుష్పాలు ఒక్క చోట వికసిస్తే..! బెల్జియమ్ రాజధాని బ్రసెల్స్లో వరల్డ్ ఆఫ్ ఫ్లోరల్ ఎమోషన్స్(పుష్పాల భావోద్వేగ ప్రపంచం) పూల పండుగను నిర్వహిస్తున్నారు. ఇందుకు 'ది గ్రాండ్ ప్లేస్' వేదికైంది. ప్రపంచ దేశాల నుంచి 30 మంది పూల అలంకరణ కర్తలు ఈ పండుగలో పాల్గొన్నారు. రెండేళ్లకు ఒకసారి ఈ పండుగ నిర్వహిస్తారు. ఈ పూల పండుగ సందర్భంగా నగరంలో కొలువుదీరిన పురాతన 'మానెకన్ పిస్' శిల్పం కూడా ఒంటి నిండా పూలు పులుముకుంది.
ఒక్కసారి ఈ ప్రదర్శన జరిగే గ్రాండ్ ప్లేస్ లోపలికి ప్రవేశిస్తే ఆశ్చర్యపోవాల్సిందే. దాదాపు లక్ష రకాలకు పైగా పుష్పాలను ఇక్కడ మీరు చూడొచ్చు.
బ్రసెల్స్లోని ప్రముఖ పర్యటక ప్రదేశం అటామియమ్ స్పియర్ ఆకారంలో పూలను అలంకరించిన విధానం వీక్షకులకు ప్రత్యేకంగా ఆకట్టుకుంటోంది. ఇందులోని రంగురంగుల పూలని చూస్తేనే మనసు తేలికవుతుంది. ప్రముఖ బెల్జియన్ డిజైనర్ నటాలియా ఈ కళాకృతికి రూపం ఇచ్చారు
ఈ ప్రదర్శన మీకు మంచి అనుభూతిని కలిగిస్తుంది. ఇక్కడికి రాగానే మొదటగా వేలాడుతున్న బంతులు కనిపిస్తాయి. అవి అటామియమ్ స్పియర్ ఆకారంలో ఉంటాయి. 9 స్పియర్స్ ఉన్నాయి. బ్రసెల్స్లో ప్రతి ఒక్కరూ చూడతగ్గ ప్రదర్శన ఇది.
-నటాలియా సకలోవా, డిజైనర్
ఈ ప్రదర్శనలో మరో ప్రత్యేక ఆకర్షణ బీజింగ్ ఫ్లవర్ స్కూల్ రూపొందించిన ఆకృతి. పురాతన చైనా సంగీత వాయిద్యమైన 'కాంగూ' స్పూర్తితో వీటిని కళాత్మకంగా తీర్చిదిద్దినట్లు డిజైనర్ జూడి జాంగ్ తెలిపారు. ఆగస్టు 14న నుంచి 18వ తేదీ వరకు ఈ పూల పండుగ నిర్వహించనున్నారు.
ఇదీ చూడండి: భూటాన్ విద్యార్థులకు ప్రధాని మోదీ 'క్లాస్'
UK CONCORDE COLLECTION
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS/ BRIAN ASQUITH STILL HANDOUT/ BRITISH MOVIETONE
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Surrey, UK - 30 July 2019
1. Various interiors of Concorde cockpit at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge
2. Various exteriors of Concorde
3. 85 year old Brian Asquith, a former Concorde passenger, climbing stairs into Concorde
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Toulouse, France - 1989
4. Still of Asquith and Captain Edouard Chemel at top of stairs to Concorde on the 20th anniversary of Concorde's first flight
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Asquith, former Concorde passenger
"A few weeks after I'd met Captain Chemel he rang me one evening and said 'There's going to be a 20th anniversary of flight to Toulouse, are you going on it?'. And I said 'No', and we chatted on. And after a while he said 'So you're not coming on the flight?' and I said 'Well no', and he said 'But you'd like to wouldn't you?' and I said 'Well yes'. And he said 'Well I'll have a word with the organisers and see if I can get you on board as my engineer'."
6. Tilt down from ceiling to passenger seats in Concorde's cabin
7. Mid of windows and seats
8. Tilt up of seats
9. Various of tables set for in-flight meal on Concorde
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Asquith, former Concorde passenger
"Sitting behind the pilot, in the cockpit, when we were coming into London, Captain Chemel's sitting in front of me and he's shouting 'Brian, Brian look at this, look at this', and you could see the lights of London going for miles. He was like a school boy, he really loved what he was doing."
11. Over shoulder of Asquith looking at a photoletter from Iceland signed by the pilot, John Massie, with a cachet commemorating the first Concorde flight from Iceland to the UK
12. Mid of Asquith seating in seat 7B which he sat in on his Concorde flight to Iceland
BRIAN ASQUITH STILL HANDOUT - AP CLIENTS ONLY
AIRSPACE - 1984
13. Asquith and his wife Anne sitting in seats 7A and 7B on their Concorde flight to Iceland
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Asquith, former Concorde passenger
"So these seats, 7A and 7B are where my wife and I sat on our day trip to Iceland, an hour and 20 minutes from Heathrow to Keflavik."
15. Close of Asquith holding his ticket and boarding pass from his Concorde flight to Iceland
16. Various exteriors of Concorde
17. Tilt down of John Carter, Lead Concorde Steward at Brooklands Museum, walking around the only operational Concorde Simulator in the World
18. Wide of Carter inside flight simulator
19. SOUNDBITE (English) John Carter, Lead Concorde Steward, Brooklands Museum
"She was the fastest civil airliner ever built and the most successful, not the only one of course but the most successful. She carried passengers across the Atlantic in three and a half hours, half the speed of a conventional aircraft. So that was her main appeal. But also the service on Concorde, the excellence of the cuisine, made her a very, very special aircraft to fly for all its passengers."
BRITISH MOVIETONE
Toulouse, France - March 1969
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20. Various of Concorde's test flight
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Surrey, UK - 30 July 2019
21 Various exteriors of Concorde
22. SOUNDBITE (English) John Carter, Lead Concorde Steward, Brooklands Museum
"Well I don't think any Concordes will ever fly again but there will certainly be another supersonic airliner, in fact a couple of those are being developed at the moment in the USA. But no Concorde will ever fly again because the airframes now are too old, they're out of certification, and frankly all the people who operated and maintained that aircraft are pretty much all retired now."
23. Wide of front of Concorde
24. Low shot of Concorde's famous pointed nose
25. Various of Asquith at his home reading magazine article about Captain Chemel
26. Close of message from Captain Chemel to Asquith reading (English) "To Brian Asquith, with my best souvenir Corcordialement."
27. Wide of Asquith walking towards table and opening Concorde food and drinks menu from the date Prince Charles and Princess Diana got married
28. Asquith turning pages of menu
29. Close of list of food and drinks in menu
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Asquith, former Concorde passenger
"Until 1967 the British had been calling Concorde Concorde without an 'e' and the French had been calling it Concorde with an 'e'. And at the roll out of the first French prototype on 11 December 1967 Tony Benn, who was the Minister of Technology, was present and he stood up and made a speech, and according to his diary he said that in future Concorde would be spelt with an 'e'.
31. Close of a postcard of the roll out of the French prototype signed by Tony Benn and dated 11 December 1967, the day of the roll out, on which he has written (English) "A great day for Aviation."
32. Mid of Asquith looking through stamps, letters and postcards from his collection
33. Close of postcard signed by 20 different Concorde pilots
34. Close of 'Imprimaturs' (the first stamps printed from an approved and finished printing plate) for the first British Concorde stamps released in 1969
35. Close of two flown covers (an envelope which has been flown in an airplane) carried on first commercial supersonic flight, Paris - Rio de Janeiro, 21 January 1976
36. Tilt up to a cover, carried on Concorde's maiden flight in 1969, signed by the test pilot who was flying it, Andre Turcat.
37. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Asquith, former Concorde passenger
"On 12 January 1972 Prince Philip flew on the Concorde and he took the controls for part of the time, including speeds in excess of Mach 2. I also have in my collection a letter, written in his handwriting, saying that he had flown in Concorde and giving some details about the flight."
38. Wide of Prince Philip's letter
39. Close of Prince Philip's signature
40. Close of a flown envelope commemorating Prince Philip's flight on Concorde, which he piloted at Mach 2 on 12 January 1972
LEADIN
It's 50 years since the supersonic airliner Concorde took its maiden flight.
One huge enthusiast of Concorde is 85 year old Brian Asquith, who flew on the plane numerous times.
Now stamps and rare memorabilia he's collected through the years are to be shown in a national exhibition.
STORYLINE
With its confined space and complex flight controls, the cockpit of an aircraft is out of bounds for most passengers.
But Concorde's cockpit became a familiar spot for 85 year old Brian Asquith after he befriended a pilot.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the supersonic airliner's first flight. It took place on 2 March 1969, followed very shortly afterwards by the second Concorde flight on 9 April 1969, which was the first of the British planes.
Brian Asquith flew on Concorde a total of six times - but three of those flights were free, after he befriended a Concorde pilot through the Concorde Study group which he runs.
30 years ago, on the 20th anniversary of Corcorde's first flight, he even flew with the pilot in the cockpit.
"A few weeks after I'd met Captain Chemel he rang me one evening and said 'There's going to be a 20th anniversary of flight to Toulouse, are you going on it?'. And I said 'No', and we chatted on," he explains.
Asquith adds that Captain Edouard Chemel then managed to speak to his organisers and get him onto the flight as his "engineer", despite the fact that he had virtually no experience in this area.
He says sitting behind Captain Chemel in the cockpit on the return journey was an unforgettable experience:
"Captain Chemel's sitting in front of me and he's shouting 'Brian, Brian look at this, look at this', and you could see the lights of London going for miles."
Asquith also flew on Corcorde numerous times with his wife Anne, including a day trip to Iceland for their 25th wedding anniversary.
Today, on board the Concorde which now sits at the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey, he goes back to the seats they sat in, 7A and 7B, on that trip.
According to the British Airways website Concorde made just under 50,000 flights and flew more than 2.5 million passengers supersonically.
It flew at a speed of 220 knots (250mph) and a cruising speed of 1350mph, which is more than twice the speed of sound.
"She was the fastest civil airliner ever built and the most successful," explains John Carter who is Lead Concorde Steward at Brooklands Museum.
"She carried passengers across the Atlantic in three and a half hours, half the speed of a conventional aircraft. So that was her main appeal. But also the service on Concorde, the excellence of the cuisine, made her a very, very special aircraft to fly for all its passengers."
He adds that although Concorde will never fly again, future supersonic airliners are currently being developed in the US.
As for Asquith, his interest in everything to do with Concorde and her history has become a lifelong passion.
His collection of Concorde memorabilia and stamps, which he has been growing since 1968, is called "Faster than a Bullet - The Concorde Story" and will go on display in a national exhibition next month.
It includes in-flight menus, boarding passes and flight certificates along with a huge array of philatelic (related to stamps and postal history) material from artists' proofs to first day covers (envelopes which have been flown in an airplane).
Here at his home in Surrey he shows off a postcard signed by twenty Concorde pilots, impramaturs (the first stamps printed from an approved and finished printing plate) for the first British Concorde stamps released in 1969 and a cover, carried on Concorde's maiden flight in 1969, signed by the test pilot who was flying it, Andre Turcat.
He also has a postcard of the roll out of the French prototype Concorde in 1967, signed by Tony Benn who the Minister of Technology at the time who confirmed that Concorde would have an 'e' on the end after the British and French couldn't agree on the spelling.
There's even a letter written and signed by the Queen's husband Prince Philip describing his experience of flying on Concorde and actually taking the controls for part of the time in 1972.
"Faster than a Bullet - the Concorde Story" will go on display at "Stampex International" at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London from 11-14 September 2019.
Stampex International is Europe's largest philatelic showcase bringing together over 100 traders and 12,000 visitors from all over the world.
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