Readers Letters

Any sign of five TBM Avengers anywhere? They went missing from the Bermuda Triangle just after the war….and a bunch of airliners….and a Martin Mariner rescue plane…and the Cyclops, a US Navy ship…and….

Mark

The 5 TBM’s ended up at Close Encounters of the Third Kind :rolleyes:

TNZ

Any sign of five TBM Avengers anywhere? They went missing from the Bermuda Triangle just after the war….and a bunch of airliners….and a Martin Mariner rescue plane…and the Cyclops, a US Navy ship…and….

Mark

That’s newspapers for you…got it wrong again.

This is the first paragraph from the said link …
It is now some years since the Daily Sport, a paper not frequently quoted in the Weekly Worker, ran the headline “World War II bomber found on moon!” This startling intelligence was supported with a photograph, quite clearly showing a Lancaster bomber silhouetted against the lunar surface.

Funny thing, in the 80’s I worked in a FX dealing room and one of our number subscribed to News of the World. I very clearly remember that fine rag publisihing the very same article and I can assure you all, being then as now an avid historic aircraft enthusiast, the photograph was of a B24 (seen from above). To the unititiated I can see how that might be mistaken for a Lanc.

Also, I read that:

Southampton City Council has called for the terminal at Southampton International Airport to be named after the famous inventor (RJ Mitchell).

© Copyright 2005 Newsquest Digital Media.

I started trawling the snoozepapers to find this letter. Not found yet, but in the meantime, I found this in The Winnepeg Free Press Theatre/Arts pages (Boy, I do get around).

Western Canada Aviation Museum

The Hispano — The Last of a Great Line, commemorative exhibit and a tribute to the Hispano “Buchon” fighter bomber, featured in the 1969 movie Battle of Britain, the Spanish-built version of the famous Messerschmitt, on loan from the Canada Aviation Museum; open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday; $7.50, students & seniors $5, children $3.

with all that lot the moon must be getting crowdedd – I don’t want to go there now.

Last time I was there it was a B-52

….not to mention the telephone call-box,and London bus!!!!!!!!

Last time I was there it was a B-52

Zwitter old bean Goring is a small village in Oxfordshire, I do believe you mean Goering 😉

This bloke’s not called Goring by any chance is he?

Well, it WAS the Daily Sport….!!

According to this link, it was a Lancaster:

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/489/wmd.html

That’s newspapers for you…got it wrong again.

Mark

According to this link, it was a Lancaster:

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/489/wmd.html

..well it can’t have been that bad.

Didn’t one of the UK ‘Red Top’ tabloids run a story that one had landed on the moon? :rolleyes:

Mark

You mean that didn’t happen? 😮

I shan’t be buying that paper again! 😀

No problems with being shot down either.

No defence, but I think it was as mentioned by an American. What I recall of the letter was the fact that the Bf109 was given as a better aircraft than the Spitfire – no problems with nose diving or inverted flying, more aces flew it and the like.
Why doesn’t someone refer to a copy?

Flood

B-17

Interesting letter in todays Mail from a bloke who reckons there was no Battle of Britain , and the Spit and the B17 were both lemons.
Anyone else see it?
Cant wait to see the replies.

..well it can’t have been that bad.

Didn’t one of the UK ‘Red Top’ tabloids run a story that one had landed on the moon? :rolleyes:

Mark

Any chance you could post it, Der? So we can, erm, criticise it? 😉

He can go suck a spitfire then!!!! Very “lemon like” I don’t think.