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Hi did anyone see the Canadian Lancaster fly together with BBMF
I was quite the expert modeler when I was 12. I had about 40 Airfix planes all lovingly-crafted, air-brushed and suspended using cotton threads and drawing pins from my bedroom ceiling. My horrid little brothers used to shoot them down with a spring-loaded, rubber-sucker, dart gun. This used to lead to WWIII.
I was rubbish at airfix. Always put too much glue on , get it all over my fingers and the cockpit glass would end up frosted with the stuff. .....poor pilot wouldn't have been able to see a thing !
always knew you were sniffing substances well well ;)
Ah the smell of airfix cement!
yea!
I remember spending weeks (months probably) as a kid building an Airfix Lancaster. It looked brilliant. :-)
Then I painted it and the scale equivalent of a 53 inch thick layer of paint somewhat spoiled the look. :-(
Happy days.
Thanks seaside. I’ll look that up. As you can imagine Lancaster bombers were a big part of my childhood in the 1970s. I had posters, Airfix models and I read Guy Gibson’s autobiography ‘Enemy Coast Ahead’ when I was about 10. Dad was an ordinary bus driver but his superpower was that, due to the mechanic’s skills he learned in WW2, he could mend pretty much anything. I think that’s how I became an engineer. His biggest passion was playing the church organ, which he did well into his dotage. His funeral was very well attended and he was buried in a plot for free because he was so appreciated by the church. I also had a great uncle who was a quite and stable sort, he’d been an ambulance driver in the desert rats and spent two years sleeping out in the frost under his ambulance in North Africa. Heaven only knows what he must have witnessed. He couldn’t talk about it much either.
Nice story NigWit - I dont know if you've seen the short film on YouTube called Lancaster.....gives an snapshot of life on the Lancaster.
While company progress is in limbo. This old fossil is 80 years old. My Dad was in WW1 and all he would say is he was digging trenches in France and once when they had to retreat was left behind with Spanish flu, didn't want to talk about it. He was always a very stable quiet man and now we realise he may have had what now we know as PTSD.
A friend of ours a long term soldier saw his mates blown up in Northern Ireland. He now shows the same signs.
Whether we believe it or not we are so lucky to be able to invest here and leave relatively simple lives without major hinderances. Enjoy.
Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings Director), is undertaking a re-make of the 'Dambusters' film, based upon the information now released !
He did an amazing job showing the First World War in colour recently ... so this new film should be great !
My old dad, who died 3 years ago at 93, was Lancaster ground crew and a stand in rear gunner at age 19. I once offered to take him to Duxford but he said the last time he saw a Lancaster bomber it was when he removed someone’s decaptitated head and he’d prefer not too. He used to tell a story about shooting down a Messerschmit, which became more unbelievable every time we heard it but I believe him about the body parts. He was still in shock the day he died.
Probably because all the fossils on this board are roughly the same age!
He died when I was young, I always wished I had asked him far more than I did. I remember as a child seeing his sextant and other relatively primitive navigational kit (primitive compared to modern methods) in the garage when I was a child.
Yep, it O/T but lets face it what else is currently going on with HUR!
...and my mother worked at the factory putting rivets into the fuselage of the Lancaster ....Small world eh?
I will get that book.
Of the 3 primary targets identified only 2 were breached. I have read before that the third (the Sorpe?) was potentially the most strategically significant. Do they comment of how much more effective the operation would have been if that had also been breached? Proud to say my Dad was Lancaster navigator.
Okay, this is 99% off-topic. And I know it's not the weekend, which is the usual O/T time. But I've got a long drive south tomorrow (about 470 miles) to attend a party, so I'll be otherwise occupied.
This will be one of my usual long posts, so people who can't read quickly can skip to another thread now!
Christmas is coming, and when it arrives the Beeb will no doubt roll out its usual stock of old film fare. The Sound of Music, The Great Escape, etc. Back in the distant past, I liked re-watching The Dambusters. And also had a copy of the original book.
But a review in The Times has pointed me to a new book about the entire operation: 'Dam Busters' by James Holland, pub. Corgi. And the thing is, it's a completely 'new' thing, because the original by Paul Brickhill was written decades before the full story was realeased from an Official Secrets Act cloak, and before the Freedom of Information Act was instated.
And it's fascinating. Utterly rivetting. I'm only a fifth of the way into it, but it's a reason I'm only posting sporadically here for now.
Right, it's nothing about the oil industry. Instead an ultimately successful military operation that took place 75 years ago.
But here's a funny thing. While reading, I can't help drawing parallels with the Hurricane Energy story so far! It's uncanny.
It involves (amongst many other things) a person considered a 'mad scientist' by his detractors, even though he already had a solidly founded and recognised background in his field. His detractors included some very powerful people in prominent places. It involves raising funds and diverting resources from elsewhere to get proofs that the concepts were sound and would work. It also includes a thing called a Lancaster, how the operation was a resounding success, and had a massive strategic knock-on effect to the UK in general in their struggles against assorted hostile foreign powers.
I could continue, but won't bother.... Or at least, not for long.
Reading this 'thriller' (which is fact, not fiction) is (I find) great for personal morale in some gloomy times!
I highly advise putting it on your Christmas - stocking wish list, or simply buying it now, to keep your minds off the SP, Brexit, Paris burning, and stuff like that.