Birkenhead Spitfire

According to WBA fans WOLVES fans are dingles……..

You asked BOTH of them?

Regards,

kev35

You’re not helping Dan.

You’ll only encourage him.

Go stand in the corner.

Moggy 😀

It was just a ferry flight. Across the Mersey.

I’m wondering if this comment can be classified as a war crime? 🙂

I guess you did reference a Gerry, although I thought my pacemaker was acting up when I read it first;)

Dingle????

According to WBA fans WOLVES fans are dingles. WBA fans are throstles which is old English for THRUSHES, as we all know they are really irritating!!!!!!!

Spitfire crashed,pilot baled out, survived. How often would we be having services down here in the South East?

The Wirral News report refers to ‘losing a propeller’ and also mentions the pilot ‘bailing out’ rather than ejecting.
However, the pictures in the Wirral Globe report cited quite clearly show the propeller hub attached to the engine. Maybe a reduction gear failure?

Edit: Got it, P7533.
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=74938

:p Groans

It was just a ferry flight. Across the Mersey.

Just send me your address, Trumper, and the lads will be over. I could do with some new wheel trims.:dev2:

I gather the unfortunate pilot landed on the roof of the Royal Southern Hospital. Best place for some TLC, I suspect.:D

LOL,:D
I did read somewhere a pilot bailed out near Duxford and landed on the roof of the Red Lion Pub at Whittlesford during the war,drink first then TLC 🙂
Did they find out the cause of the crash at Birkenhead,it just said a test flight?.

Just send me your address, Trumper, and the lads will be over. I could do with some new wheel trims.:dev2:

I gather the unfortunate pilot landed on the roof of the Royal Southern Hospital. Best place for some TLC, I suspect.:D

Well if it had landed intact it would have been stripped to bits within minutes by the locals,bricks under the wheels,radio pinched aerial bent 🙂

The Dingle

Or on the vernacular “De Dingill”

is an area of Liverpool the opposite bank of the Mersey to Birkenhead between Livepool 8 / Toxteth / Lodge Lane and Otterspool promenade

Moggy

Apparently there are quite a few of them in a TV soap.

But I too was wondering why hold a service to commemorate something that common when I read it on the beeb website. After all, many pilotless aircraft fell to earth all over the country, I’m all for commemoration of those that took crew to their early demise, but this one?…hmm.

Welll Birkenhead is a bit of a Spitfire free zone (believe me I know…) so I guess they are picking up on the fact that this was an unusual happening – although I am not sure how that equates to a ‘service of commemoration’. I would have thought a special exhibition in the Town Hall would have been more suitable in the circumstances (that thankfully did not have a tragic outcome).

Considering the pilot baled out over The Dingle and the Spitfire carried on over the Mersey its a miracle it did not hit any building or person as that part of the Wirral was (and is) very built-up. Maybe thats what they have in mind in organising a service….

I know this is blatant thread drift but what on earth is a Dingle?

eject?

Why is it that reporters always seem to describe any egress from a stricken aircraft as ejecting? What is wrong with baling out? When did this more accurate phrase fall out of favour?

Quote ‘The engine is now on display alongside other war plane artefacts at Fort Perch Rock in New Brighton.
Fort Perch Rock is managed by Doug Darroch, whose father Doug Darroch Senior witnessed the crash’

Any advertising could be classed as good advertising……why not ?

Welll Birkenhead is a bit of a Spitfire free zone (believe me I know…) so I guess they are picking up on the fact that this was an unusual happening – although I am not sure how that equates to a ‘service of commemoration’. I would have thought a special exhibition in the Town Hall would have been more suitable in the circumstances (that thankfully did not have a tragic outcome).

Considering the pilot baled out over The Dingle and the Spitfire carried on over the Mersey its a miracle it did not hit any building or person as that part of the Wirral was (and is) very built-up. Maybe thats what they have in mind in organising a service….

No, we have it from the horse’s mouth.

Definitely Birkenhead.

Moggy

Oh for heavens sake get your facts right! Douglas Bader was to be found in the Stork Hotel in LIVERPOOL, not Birkenhead:diablo:

It’s been all over the local weekly papers such as here http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/9962846.Ceremony_to_remember_the_day_Spitfire_crashed_in_Birkenhead_Park/

and here http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/wirral-news/local-wirral-news/west-wirral-news/2012/09/26/memorial-service-to-mark-70-years-since-a-spitfire-crashed-in-birkenhead-park-during-the-second-world-war-80491-31902646/

Yes it does seem a bit OTT, actually

Not even in the same league 😉