Precarious BE-2

Bah! at least ‘my’ Funbus has wings! :diablo:

TT

(You havent spotted my forum signature yet then Steve…)

Think you need to look up the definition of wings!!!!!!! somthing to do with providing lift :diablo:

( its been spotted and appropriate action will be talken in the future 😉 )

F/o Jones decided to try what the Harrier does now but misjudged the landing spot.

“I still think it looked better on the other wall, dear.”

ADrian

It looks (and clearly flies) a bit like TT’s Vickers Funbus! 😀

Bah! at least ‘my’ Funbus has wings! :diablo:

TT

(You havent spotted my forum signature yet then Steve…)

I’ve just been given a copy of the attached photograph of a BE-2c, “delicately” poised!

Does anyone know the story behind it – failing that a caption competition perhaps? 🙂

The well known P/O Drunkey “where’s my beer” Smith walks away happily with the first prize, a crate of lager, for winning the “who can land nearest the hanger” competition
dezz 🙂

It looks (and clearly flies) a bit like TT’s Vickers Funbus! 😀

No, you´re all wrong. Thats a photo of an early prototype of this….

…before they decided they needed to make the wings a little bigger.

😀

lovely model of that incident at OW….

Insulting….moi?

I’m hurt….

TT 😀

“All right, Master Clarence, you put it up there, you get it down.”

Incidentally, Biggles wasn’t abstemious at all in the original books, and hit the bottle heavily in one of the short stories after losing a friend.

Who is going to post the photo of the BE-2 trying to make a collect call in telegraph wires on the railway?

Glad you brought up point one. I was tempted to, but I would have only been further insulted by TT for being a Biggles anorak or something.

As far as point two goes. OK I can’t resist!
(Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial archives)

Incidentally, Biggles wasn’t abstemious at all in the original books, and hit the bottle heavily in one of the short stories after losing a friend.

I stand corrected! Thank you for that, must raid the girlfriend’s collection and see if she has some early early ones (if you see what I mean…)

ANyway, let’s see if I can nick a good caption from somewhere… Ah yes…

“Late on the round-out again, Hoskins?”

Adrian

Skipper “Simon, when I said, don’t just stand there get one up, that is not what I meant!!”

“All right, Master Clarence, you put it up there, you get it down.”

Incidentally, Biggles wasn’t abstemious at all in the original books, and hit the bottle heavily in one of the short stories after losing a friend.

However, when they were re-jigged for kids after leaving the pages of Popular Flying, references to wine women and song had to be ‘managed’. The women and song stayed, but it had the bizarre result (that I recall being entirely confused as a kid by) of Biggles and Wilks fighting over a case of “pre-War lemonade” :rolleyes: It was Champagne which is worth fighting over unlike lemonade which is not.

Who is going to post the photo of the BE-2 trying to make a collect call in telegraph wires on the railway?

Instructor to pupil:

“You can open your eyes now…”

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Or: “Hmmm, that’s an odd way of decorating the Sywell Museum…”

When I was a kid all my gliders eventually finished up on the roof.

Back to the BE, here’s my best effort (so far)

borborygmi eh? some form of food folding…?

TT

Hey, now that IS a good definition!

Looks like my campaign for more borborygmi is gathering pace, at least until Steve eats his lunch…

Adrian

borborygmi eh? some form of food folding…?

TT

That’s all right. I’ve just been and looked up ‘borborygmi’.

At least it made me go and eat lunch!! 😀

Does that mean its got one pair of wings bigger than the other?

Steve

Oooops….. Looks like I’ve hijacked your thread! Sorry!
No Steve, it doesn’t, but it ain’t a bad guess.

Adrian

I just like sesquipedalian words! 😀

Adrian
(goes back to anorak and dictionary)

Does that mean its got one pair of wings bigger than the other?

Steve