By: Chipmunk Carol - 13th January 2005 at 13:48
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By: Melvyn Hiscock - 13th January 2005 at 00:04
So how do you pronouce Timmy?
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By: Chipmunk Carol - 13th January 2005 at 00:02
So how do you pronouce Timmy?
By: Mark9 - 12th January 2005 at 20:48
I’d like a ginny and tonic, please…
😀 😀 😀 So would I, 😮 Don’t tell Robbo :diablo: 😉 😉 Anna 😀 😀 😀 :p
By: Andy in Beds - 12th January 2005 at 20:34
I should think the Maybach petrol engine of a Mark IV Panzer was about the same economy wise as that motor of yours.
Probably made in the same factory too! 😉 😉
By: Andy in Beds - 12th January 2005 at 20:07
Anywhere near the route that Bridget and I will be taking on our way to La Ferte in May, Melvyn? Sounds as if it could be worth a diversion.
Mike
I’ve been that way many times.
We cross and re-cross Great war battlefields many times on the road to Paris.
If we’ve got time we can get off the motorway and head towards Baupamme and then take the old Roman road to Albert which goes roght across the 1916 Somme battlefield.
I once worked out that every invading army since the English army of Henry V had been that way.
Melv’s right, it’s great tank country.
Later
Andy.
By: J Boyle - 12th January 2005 at 19:20
And for that matter, what was the Vickers Vincent named after? Is Vincent a place in the UK? Or was it a specific person’s name being honoured? Lovely planes by the way, I love the Vincent and Vildebeest.
According to Bailey-Smythwood’s The Names of English Aircraft 1908-1958, it came during the first flight.
Appearently someone said…”Vow, that plane van go…” 🙂
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 12th January 2005 at 19:05
Why not, are you going on the bus?
If Patty flies the Dearwings on the 5 March then the PFA will instantly and automatically issue my permit and so I will taxy the Rearwin to France as that might be a suitable museum to house it in!
Even if the Rearwin is not finished I am going over for the whole week before.
Melv
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 12th January 2005 at 18:49
Anywhere near the route that Bridget and I will be taking on our way to La Ferte in May, Melvyn? Sounds as if it could be worth a diversion.
There are two motorway routes from Calais. One takes you across country and then down the main A1. This is he one that passes Vimy ridge. It is also very boring and flat for a lot of the way which prompted a friend of mine to comment “Nice tank country, no wonder the Germans invaded” The other, the A16 goes south from Calais, past Boulogne, Abbeville (good restaurant/bar at the airfield) Amiens and then into northern Paris where it stops short of the ring road by a few miles. More interesting route though. Why not go one way and come back the other?
I, of course, do not plan to drive.
M
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 12th January 2005 at 17:37
Named after the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
A Google search will give you all the information you need on the battle.
And well worth a visit when you are next in France. The tunnels there are incredible. Go east on the motorway from Calais and it is just before you join the main Lille to Paris motorway.
M
By: vildebeest - 12th January 2005 at 13:58
My guess on Vincent is that it is named after Admiral Vincent who won the battle of Cape St Vincent. There was an Admiral Hardy after whom the Hawker Hardy might be named so there may be a theme here for GP type planes.
As you say, lovely aircraft.
Paul
By: vildebeest - 12th January 2005 at 13:48
Vildebeest is I understand Afrikans for Wildebeest
Paul
By: Dave Homewood - 12th January 2005 at 13:39
Hmmmmm……….given that most aircraft are named after something else, eg Vickers Vildebeest is named after a vildebeest..what is a Vimy ?
But if you mean a Vildebeest is named after the animal which is a type of Gnu, that is spelled (in English at least) as Wildebeest. I have always wondered, is Vildebeest some sort of foreign or old-fashioned spelling of Wildebeest? :confused:
Goolge Vildebeest and it comes up with almost totally Vickers Vildebeest references. Google Wildebeest and you find the animal.
And for that matter, what was the Vickers Vincent named after? Is Vincent a place in the UK? Or was it a specific person’s name being honoured? Lovely planes by the way, I love the Vincent and Vildebeest.
By: Slipstream - 12th January 2005 at 12:38
Hmmmmm……….given that most aircraft are named after something else, eg Vickers Vildebeest is named after a vildebeest..what is a Vimy ?
By: Eddie - 12th January 2005 at 11:43
I wouldn’t show off about that, old chap.
By: Barnowl - 12th January 2005 at 11:21
I have always pronounced it vImy, like grimy…
By: Arabella-Cox - 12th January 2005 at 11:18
I’m from the old school, VEEMY. But that was in the day when the MALDEEVES were the MALDIVES and when Ken-ya was KEEN-ya, but what do I know?
By: Dave Homewood - 12th January 2005 at 11:08
I have always heard it said as Vimy – rhymes with Timmy. However, having some small connection with France, Les amis grenouilles tend to also use something similar except it has a leetle more emphasis on the first vowel so eet eees more like Veeeemy, as in rhymes with Teeemy. They then throw a cow at you from the battlements. So, much as it pains me to admit, Bridget was right originally.
Ah, like the Australian pronunciation then? They never use the letter ‘i‘ either.
By: Mark12 - 12th January 2005 at 11:04
“Please gimme, gimme, gimme a chance to fly in your Vimy.”
Mark
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 12th January 2005 at 09:29
I have always heard it said as Vimy – rhymes with Timmy. However, having some small connection with France, Les amis grenouilles tend to also use something similar except it has a leetle more emphasis on the first vowel so eet eees more like Veeeemy, as in rhymes with Teeemy. They then throw a cow at you from the battlements. So, much as it pains me to admit, Bridget was right originally.
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