Pembroke Dock Sunderland T9044 recovery Daily Mail article

Actually it was a B-32

Well, obviously. There isn’t much air on the moon and the B-32 was pressurised.

Oh. No. Hang on a minute………..

I’ll take your word for it Mike. I have never been much of a reader of The Sport myself.

Moggy

Actually it was a B-32, which would make revovery worthwhile as no other examples survive.

TIGHAR are gathering funds as we speak…………

Privateer it was

Moggy

Hi
I think the photo was a B-29, the B-17 didnt have the range ….
…. lol……
cheers
Jerry

Actually its been quite a few years since i read that article over a cardboard sandwich in the works canteen but i seem to remember the outline of a liberator or possibly even a privateer!!

Close enough for The Daily Mail

No, its a Sandringham VH-BRC

Mia is so capably inventive I can’t believe that she is still a ‘trainee’. With the publication of that ‘piece’ she must now, surely be, a graduate of the College of Make It Up As You Go Along Journalism.

Isn’t there a Sunderland in the Hall of Aviation at Southampton ?

Not much to look at but the prop and engine might do as a nice display item once properly cleaned and conserved..

Thanks Dave, but I don’t think she has earned the right to any accuracy.

Moggy

I prefer the Daily Sports ” B.17 found on the moon” a more refined paper…

Hi
I think the photo was a B-29, the B-17 didnt have the range ….
…. lol……??
cheers
Jerry

Reporter update – Daily Mail

Moggy – re post #8,

You may need to edit your post – for ‘his’ make that ‘hers’ etc.(and you DaveF68).

Looked up the author ‘person’ Mia De Graaf:

From her web page:

Mia de Graaf
Home

I am a trainee reporter on the Mail Online graduate scheme. I spent the first four months at the Manchester Evening News and the next two at Caters News Agency in Birmingham. I am now based at the Mail office in London.

Articles range from breaking news to fluffy animals. !!!

(See for yourself at miadegraaf.com)

Personally, I place the blame for the shoddy articles in that awful paper firmly and squarely on the editorial staff!

P.S. The Sunderland is NOT a fluffy animal – it’s a PORCUPINE

Indeed they are at pains to stress it’s a Mk1. That isn’t my issue with the story. As others have pointed out it is dreadful, the Mark V was just something appropriate and hard to interface his head with.

How can anybody write ‘All of them were gunned down… etc”, when he is staring at pictures of one that sank quietly at its moorings?

And all the rest of it.

The only saving grace is that nowhere did he manage to insert “Flying Porcupine”

Moggy

Even by Daily Mail standards that is bad, bad, bad.

Don’t you want to take the ‘journalist’ and bang his head really hard against the one at Hendon? Several times.

Moggy 😡

By which time he will realise that’s a mk V and the Pembroke one really is the last mk I

I prefer the Daily Sports ” B.17 found on the moon” a more refined paper…

WOW! Makes me want to rush out and buy a copy of the DM. Although not many do these days. Headlines like that used to sell news papers. Starts of intact but as you read on down its becomes less and less intact. Nice photos though.

Is it better than none? To state that these ‘crafts’ (sic) flew over Germany to keep the U boats from ‘advancing’. Because they were ‘long haul’.. before all the ‘vessels’ were ‘gunned down’…

I’d say not.

I think they must use a different definition of ‘intact’, for a start…

Even by Daily Mail standards that is bad, bad, bad.

Don’t you want to take the ‘journalist’ and bang his head really hard against the one at Hendon? Several times.

Moggy 😡