Of Spitfires, myths, and leg(end)s

As the airshow is designed to use aeroplanes as a way to tell the history and stories of the various aircraft to the public and pass on the legendary stories to future generations, I see nothing wrong with the title. The airshow does so using the aircraft as props to illustrate the stories, which are told by the commentators, the programme, the website, the DVD’s, etc.

The same stories could be told without the aeroplanes and the legends passed down but I doubt as many people would turn up to hear them without the fighters.

Fair enough, I hadn’t thought of it like that before.

Of course, it would be better if the organisers explained beforehand that “Bamboo bed sheets Producing Snow board whom does the have a strong aesthetically pleasing mode”.

Leg-ends. ‘Glad all over’.

Mark

Hi Mark,
A Truly wonderful profile shot :eagerness:not sure about that pilot though seems to be a bit tall brake failure ? :highly_amused::highly_amused:

Geoff.:D

The “thinly sliced Bamboo bed sheets” sound attractive. I hadn’t realised the Royal Garden Hotel, Rangoon, was so well appointed…! 🙂

Definitely a ’55 percenter’. 😉

Mark

Have I inadvertently taken some mind altering substances?

For those who read this after the previous few posts have been deleted by the mods…well…it has been deleted.

It made a lot more sense than the Burma thread, though! 🙂

Especially this bit:

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Leg-ends. ‘Glad all over’.

Mark

That is surely one of the best airshow pics so far this season.

Well shot indeed Mark.

The whole thing – Flying Legends – is lazy use of language. A legend is a tale, not a thing like an aeroplane.

As the airshow is designed to use aeroplanes as a way to tell the history and stories of the various aircraft to the public and pass on the legendary stories to future generations, I see nothing wrong with the title. The airshow does so using the aircraft as props to illustrate the stories, which are told by the commentators, the programme, the website, the DVD’s, etc.

The same stories could be told without the aeroplanes and the legends passed down but I doubt as many people would turn up to hear them without the fighters.

Led Zeppelin…Legend

Spinal Tap..Myth

Simples.

Hi I agree the Zep but this myth seems to have been alive in 1992 :highly_amused::highly_amused::highly_amused:

Would also like to add another myth Bad News saw them at reading quite funny :highly_amused::highly_amused::highly_amused:

Geoff.:D

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legend

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myth

Beermat

Your point is taken, but Flying Legends was probably thought to be a tad snappier title than The Great Duxford Flying Display of Aviating Skill and Legendary and Iconic Military Aviation Equipment and Materiel.

Led Zeppelin…Legend
Spinal Tap..Myth

Simples.

A legend is a story based on history, which may or may not have been true (at least in part, originally), but where the people involved are upheld as examples. A myth is older, usually related to religion, and is a deeper means of passing on a culture’s important rules and ways of life.

However, both are regularly abused nowadays in the inflationary language that’s all too common. In particular, myth is used simply to mean an untrue story, or any false belief, particularly in order to deflate something that is being held as a legend. I admit that I’ve done it myself.

The whole thing – Flying Legends – is lazy use of language. A legend is a tale, not a thing like an aeroplane. As the OED accepts the modern usage I’ll grudgingly admit it CAN mean a person. But not a thing.. The ‘burning of the cakes’ is a legend. King Alfred may be. But the cakes…no 🙂

Pedant? Moi?

A legend is a story based on history, which may or may not have been true (at least in part, originally), but where the people involved are upheld as examples. A myth is older, usually related to religion, and is a deeper means of passing on a culture’s important rules and ways of life.

However, both are regularly abused nowadays in the inflationary language that’s all too common. In particular, myth is used simply to mean an untrue story, or any false belief, particularly in order to deflate something that is being held as a legend. I admit that I’ve done it myself.

I always thought a legend was a foot!

Michael Foot thought he was a legend in his own lifetime.

Thanks, Moggy. Is that your own definition, or can you tell me your source?

A legend in the sense it is used at Duxford is aircraft that have achieved a significant place in history

I always thought a legend was a foot!

A myth is something that has never existed. In other words complete fiction
A legend in the sense it is used at Duxford is aircraft that have achieved a significant place in history

Moggy

I see the Flintstones idea of propelling an aircraft skywards hasn’t exactly worked…

Leg-ends. ‘Glad all over’.

Mark

Oh, and here’s that last shot, by the way…