If you could

I would like to meet Jesus (if he existed) and ask him why he did not stick to carpentry.

Jesus was the adopted son of Joseph, who was a Tekton, that is, one who built things from stone and rock. It would appear that most things of that time, in Jerusalem, was built of stone and rock, as there was very little wood around. It is a Jewish thing, that a mans son, follows in his fathers footsteps, ergo, Jesus may well not have been a Carpenter, but a stonemason.

Well that’s what I found out when I went back in time.

Just a hypothetical question,It seems in scientific circles, that going BACK in time, may well be in the future, quite feasible, however getting back to the future, will need a De Lorean.:D
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Go back to the garden of Eden and tell Eve “DON’T you stupid B!”

To be at Scampton a week before the dams raid to try and get Gibson to change the name of his dog, and explain how much bl**dy trouble it’s going to cause in the future if he doesn’t.

Another one is to be at 300ft over the Normandy beaches just to watch it all unfold beneath me

Oh and to tell a girl back in 66 that I dont want to babysit with her:D

I would like to meet Jesus (if he existed) and ask him why he did not stick to carpentry.

Watch the detonation of Tsar Bomba

A hill side with a good vantage point on the 17 May 1943, near the Mohne dam.

See the famous Mosquito raid against the Gestapo headquaters in Copenhagen

Watch the first flight of K5054

I have a few ideas on this. As I’m researching my family history, I would like to meet all my ancestors to find out how they lived, what work they did and what they were like.

I’d like to go back to my childhood and see my Grandparents again (they are dead now). Also to relive some fun holidays we had when I was little, in the family-owned caravan in Flamborough.

I’d like to go back to the times before WW1 and WW2 to warn people what was going to happen.

I’d like to go back and see Victorian times, I loved doing about the Victorians at school and I’d like to see what it was really like.

One big favourite idea would be to go back to prehistoric times and see what dinosaurs and extinct mammals were like, and see how different the planet looked when Antarctica was a rainforest. I was a keen fossil hunter when I was a kid and I found lots of fossilised bark on an old coal tip. I’d like to be able to go and see what those trees were like and see what would become Barnsley when those ancient trees were growing there.

I think the OP’s point was to visit and observe what happened not to change the course of history.

It makes you wonder though, shooting Hitler when he was a struggling artist and not known, pushing Bin Laden under a bus when he was studying, topping Lenin as a teen.. how would these things change the course of the world, and would it have made it a safer better place, and even knowing that it would save millions of lives and make the world peaceful and wipe out the arms races, the cold war, the terrorist threat, the persecution of the Jew, would you, could you?

Charlie,

That’s curious. My maternal grandfather was killed in 1918 against the Austrians at – I think, Caporetto ? I checked with CGC and they’ve confirmed that he is remembered on a WW1 memorial.

My previous moment? 14th October, 1066 but, armed with a Bren.

Interesting, John. My grandfather is in the CGC section of the cemetery at Staglieno, near Genoa. Their website will take you to the cemetery and you can download the memorial details. Just type in the relevant details in the fields in the site search engine and all the informatioin will be shown.

At Aintree 15 minutes from the off feeding Moggies horse 1/2 a dozen mars bars to “nobble it”

Standing behind him at the queue, buying 10, 000 lottery tickets with the same numbers on them as he has. 😀

Blooming Brilliant ROFL 🙂

At Aintree 15 minutes from the off feeding Moggies horse 1/2 a dozen mars bars to “nobble it”

Standing behind him at the queue, buying 10, 000 lottery tickets with the same numbers on them as he has. 😀

Charlie,

That’s curious. My maternal grandfather was killed in 1918 against the Austrians at – I think, Caporetto ? I checked with CGC and they’ve confirmed that he is remembered on a WW1 memorial.

My previous moment? 14th October, 1066 but, armed with a Bren.

The bookies area at Aintree a few minutes before the start of any Grand National won by a rank outsider.

Last Friday with the results of the Euromillions scribbled on a bit of paper

etc etc etc

Moggy :eagerness:

Standing on the beach at Kitty Hawk and shouting “Oooooooooohh It’ll never fly” 😛

Standing on the Dockside as the Vasa sailed and shouting “shut that door”

Standing on the front of the Titanic and shouting “Iceberg Dead Ahead” about 30 seconds before the lookout,

or standing on the deck of the ship nearby and shouting up to the bridge staff, “they’re distress flares you morons” or putting the headset on the sleeping Radio Operator and turning the volume up to full blast and shouting ” can you hear it now?”

I could go on.

Part of me would like to go back to a sunken lane outside the French village of Guillemont one late July day in 1916 just to see the 19 year-old uncle I never met, before he went “over the top” on what was to be his last day on earth. To reassure him that whatever happened, almost a hundred years on he would still be remembered. Though I fear the appearance of this visitor from the future would merely be taken as the harbinger of impending doom.

Then to sit on the Downs during the Battle of Britain and watch the criss-crossing vapour trails of the combat. To be in East Anglia to watch the 8th Air Force setting out for one of its raids.

Moggy

I am trying to pin point something but a general one would be to go back in time to before the car and mass building to see and hear the countryside in it’s pure form.When did you last hear silence and proper sounds without aeroplanes and cars..

Well Gary…I would not like to go back any further than my natural lifespan.
But I would have liked to go back and do things slightly differently.
I had a good start in aviation,I was a space cadet 1966 -70 and did quite a lot of chipmunk flying at Cambridge – and even better from the grass airfield at RAF Newton – I then (1970-72) was a Halton Apprentice and passed out from there with good marks,even though I spent most spare time down at the airfield as a part time gliding instructor with 613 Gliding School,I even won a PPL flying scholarship and went to AST Perth in may/june 1972 !
So what went wrong you may ask??
A combination of a crisis of self confidence and distractions onto Motorbikes/booze/cars and ‘ladies’ meant that I did not fly again for 12 years and wasted all that cross country gliding time – when I did restart gliding I struggled to learn how to ‘thermal’ (I had never done any previously due to lack of confidence) but eventually it ‘clicked’ and I learnt much about myself by pushing my personal limits.
So I would only like to go back in time with the attitude to life that I developed at the age of 31…nothing too spectacular 😀

Well, so many I don’t know where to start. But perhaps firstly with family I would like to see the circumstances of my maternal grandfather’s death in 1918 in Italy and life in my father’s home during WW1 in Woolwich. He had a mysterious childhood so I would like to shed some light on it.

Hang on a minute…..

Yak 11 Fan lost Janie, but has a Mossie in his collection? Could this be TV959?

Oh My!

Originally posted by DIGBY
Only decent thing about a P51 is a Merlin engine allbeit license built!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t forget the nice noise it makes as it whistles around the sky at an airshow.