June 6, 2005 at 10:20 am
Here’s a shot of a B-17 on the deck 😮 , maybe you had seen it, but I had not.(from Axls Plane Gallery)
Probably another of those highly excited boy pilot’s :rolleyes: .
I have heard the remark a few time’s now, around the net.
That WW2 was fought mostly by children, on all side’s :rolleyes: .
I now day’s think this is a pretty fair statment to make 🙂 .
War is a sad business
By: STORMBIRD262 - 8th June 2005 at 16:28
Not bad Dave, thank’s for the link mate.
ahhh Daz, That shot became my first desk top photo, when I first got on line.
I had asked the big G the E, from C.W.D. was it a real shot, not computer gen stuff.
At first he thought it one of the Hanna’s fooling around in N.Z., When I got on here, you guy’s told me what it really was, and I passed that back on to Graham.
Like someone say’s on here, If you Don’t ask!!!
Great Flying!!!!!
By: DazDaMan - 8th June 2005 at 08:24
I’ll give that a look! 😉
By: Ontario-Warbird - 8th June 2005 at 01:40
I have a video clip of Jerry Billing doing a simular pass at his grass strip in Essex Ontario
www.ontario-warbirds.ca
Dave C
By: STORMBIRD262 - 6th June 2005 at 14:09
Interesting and disturbing all in one
Thank’s guy’s 🙂 ,
So it was not just a random nut job then :rolleyes: .
This was a nut job, who got paid to do it!! 😮 .
That’s a very fine line 😀 .
By: DazDaMan - 6th June 2005 at 12:34
Discussed once or twice before – Gerry Billings in Spitfire MK923:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=33336
By: F3Hadlow - 6th June 2005 at 10:52
This was a pretty low pass by the Spitfire last year espescially in this day and age!
By: Swiss Mustangs - 6th June 2005 at 10:49
nope – “Thunderball” used the “Skyhook” system with a bracket on the B-17’s nose, and the cast was rescued from a dinghy.
Here we see a different installation, with a wire being dragged under the tail to snatch the other wire between the two vehicles.
Martin
By: DazDaMan - 6th June 2005 at 10:46
Wasn’t the “Thunderball” pick-up from the sea?
By: Swiss Mustangs - 6th June 2005 at 10:43
but they did this also for real (not only for movies) – see a pick-up manouvre in the desert….
Martin