BOMBER CREW PART 2 TONIGHT

Chris – its a new one since Steve visited last but you know about her – we have G-TOMC (ours) G-HRVD and the new one, G-CCOY, the frame for which was sprayed at the weekend and looks very smart indeed, even if we do say so ourselves Mr E.

Tom is on her centre section and the back section is being finished.
Hrvd is attached to her spangly rear section and awaits work starting on c/section
CCOY is just a frame at present and needs hyd platform etc attaching (in hand), the very good rear section is in primer ready for paint and attachment

TT

Where have you found another one from??? How many does that make now???

Thanks mate- you and JN are welcome anytime – just give me a heads up first so i know youre coming….and of course you can take photos of the t-6 (s) ya muppet!

BTW – talking of the t-6 our frame xrays are done….the back section is almost completely reskinned – and looks the b******s….(can send you photos if you pm your email address but cant manage to post em on the forum cos i dunno how!)

Hopefully you might see a Harvard wot looks like a Harvard (and not a climbing frame)…and we’ve had another join us since then…!

Merry Christmas!

Ben

P.S.
Was it only September…seems ages ago!

the ailerons are hooked up, (although rather embarassingly when you turned the wheel they either both went up or both went down when we first tried it..ahem)

To borrow a phrase from Harry Enfields DIY bloke – “I don’t believe you really wanted to do that!” 😀

Nice to hear she’s coming along, looked fab at Brunters in September. I’ll have to come along and have a nose again in the new year. I promise not to fiddle with anything!

Eh up Steve!

Well, the control surfaces are all now on and connected, the ailerons are hooked up, (although rather embarassingly when you turned the wheel they either both went up or both went down when we first tried it..ahem) the pipework is now all done, finished the cowl cooling gill connectors, fire ext ring needs doing and the exts charging, new batteries buying, and the electrics need finishing off, still needs to have the headlining fitted but we have some seats (from eBay!) which we will refurb in due course…

Need to fit the instrument panel too at some stage – only a couple of dials to find….then the crunch time comes, ground run the engines for 10 or so hours, then get her inspected and get her airborne, once the CAA have their £1500 of course… 🙁

Then a ferry permit to DX and full certification….hopefully…..

How’s she coming along then TT, do tell mate! 😉

An AIRWORTHY Beech…one day…one day…….. 🙂

And didn’t those Whitley’s look weird as they came in over the hedge for a mass landing – like a gaggle of geese on approach.

I must dig out that old Whitley kit I’ve got stashed away.

BOMBER CREW PART 2 TONIGHT CH4 21-00 😉

And they even found time to show a Whitley…. Ah bliss!

Brilliant programme – not sure how reliable the Beech 18 bombing course is though 😉 but great fun nonetheless.

There I was enjoying a Buzzcocks gig last night when it suddenly hit me what I was missing 😮 😡

Hope it’s repeated soon. 🙁

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/B/bombercrew/

CHANNEL 4 have a website for the show, there is an online game you can play to experience a bombing mission, to quote the site

“How did it feel to take the controls of an Avro Lancaster on a a night-time bombing raid? To find out, play Bomber Crew- The Raid”

amazing game, that must have been just what it was like for the RAF Bomber Command crews!

I don’t know much about him, but Brendan strikes me just as a heck of a character, with a good personality to ‘front’ the show; clearly he’s not an expert in everything, which is why we have the brilliant John Romain there, and why we will no doubt have Sally B and the CWH Lanc crew there in time as well. All the right people, doing the right jobs.

Oh dear, do I detect a touch of the “green eye of the little yellow god” appearing over Brendan O’B? The point is that he has a “presence” in front of the cameras which a lot of the other experts don’t have to the same degree. Also he’s a good bloke. I was doing a corporate day at Redhill with a Tiger Moth which wouldn’t restart after a stop for fuel. 32 swings later and an anxious guest in the cockpit, up stepped the man in question complete with crocodile boots and scarf and said “this is the technique”. Mags off, 4 winds forward, 16 winds back and “bingo” off she went. I’ll be first in the queue when he writes his biography.

EN380 wrote;
“Great programme, though I’m not that keen on Brendan O’Flannel or what ever his name is”.

Just think how we thought when we were told Mr slicked back hair, shades and ‘fake’ A2 was going to present the Sally B to the trainees as ‘the bomber expert’.
Ask yourself this, as the ‘chief instructor’ what has he actually instructed?

There are far better people that wouldhave been better suited for his ‘role’.
He should have stuck to landing Pipercubs on Lorrytops!

Bomberboy

Bomber Crew

Yeap. Agree about Brendan O’Brainiac.. Don’t quite see what he’s adding to the program. The instructor, who’s doing all the flying, appears more than capable of carrying the program.

Alzar

Great programme, though I’m not that keen on Brendan O’Flannel or what ever his name is.

Noticed that at one point the Beech 18 flew over St Ives, just as well Steve wasn’t the ‘Target for today’.

Arse. At least it’ll be repeated 9000 times on Discovery Wings…

JC

Top notch stuff, especially listening to the stories recounted by the veterans.

Regards,

Paul

I so wish that C4 would put ‘Spitfire Ace’- and then this as well of course- out on DVD.