OK chaps (and chapesses)
Since Kiters has so generously stitched me up for this I have decided to post this as the latest ID quiz.
No prizes for guessing aircraft type or even who it belongs to but:
Where was it?
What year was it?
What was the occassion?
What was the significance of the hotel we stayed in?
How much did I drink that night?*
and
How long did it take us to disassemble it after the event and pack it for transport?
* This is not part of the quiz it is just I would like to know, I can’t remember . . .
Melvyn
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 21st April 2004 at 23:24
Originally posted by Archer
Aahh, half a point for me then!
You can’t even spell. Have a whole pint, treat yourself.
And of course you can post pictures of your cat on your website too. I guess Sid has grown by now.
Off to the next quiz now!
Sid has a few pictures up. There is a link on the Guinness the Cat website.
Went to Michael Turner’s exhibition opening and Michael’s first words were “How’s Sid?”
MH
By: Archer - 21st April 2004 at 14:27
Originally posted by Melvyn Hiscock
Posting the pictures takes up restoration time!and cat stroking time.
and. . . . . . .
IT WAS LUXEUIL!!!!!
Aahh, half a point for me then!
And of course you can post pictures of your cat on your website too. I guess Sid has grown by now.
Off to the next quiz now!
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 21st April 2004 at 12:16
Re: Re: Re: Tours.
Originally posted by Mark12
‘The lunch pack of Notre Dame’Mark
I don’t know the name but the face rings a bell*
Melv
*for our colonial readers, this is the ancient English art of only telling the punchline of a joke.
By: Mark12 - 21st April 2004 at 11:58
Re: Re: Tours.
Originally posted by Melvyn Hiscock
[B]You can probably get treatment for that these days
Nope, not even close.
Melvyn
Melv,
Got it.
Paris, mid-day, wrapped in polythene.
‘The lunch pack of Notre Dame’
Mark
By: VoyTech - 21st April 2004 at 11:46
Google says:
“l’escadrille 124 soit officiellement créée le 18 avril 1916 sur le terrain de Luxeuil”
So was it Luxeuil?
PS. Tack so mycket Papa Lima!
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 21st April 2004 at 11:42
Originally posted by Archer
You could always put them on your website so that the non-OW go-ers might get a chance to see them!As for the base: Luxeuil perhaps?
Posting the pictures takes up restoration time!
and cat stroking time.
and. . . . . . .
IT WAS LUXEUIL!!!!!
By: Archer - 21st April 2004 at 11:38
Originally posted by Melvyn Hiscock
so that I can show you pictures of the Rearwin.
You could always put them on your website so that the non-OW go-ers might get a chance to see them!
As for the base: Luxeuil perhaps?
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 21st April 2004 at 11:38
Originally posted by Eddie
How about Vosges?
No thanks, I just put one out.
er,
I mean no, sorry.
Melv
By: Eddie - 21st April 2004 at 11:36
How about Vosges?
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 21st April 2004 at 11:27
Re: Tours.
Originally posted by Mark12
Just a hunch.
You can probably get treatment for that these days
[QUOTE] Is this Tours?
Mark [/QUOTE]
Nope, not even close.
Melvyn
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 21st April 2004 at 11:25
Villeneuve?
Toul?
Non
Non
By: Mark12 - 21st April 2004 at 08:33
Tours.
Just a hunch. Is this Tours?
Mark
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 20th April 2004 at 23:38
No,
Long, LOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGG way from Paris and an even longer way back when you have a hangover of biblical proportions (I’ll explain that on 15th too).
At one point we stopped to check everythign was OK. The fuselage was on the back of a truck and it was towing a gliver trailer with the wings and tail in it. One of the guys looked at me, then at the dirty white trailer and then back at me and told me that my face and the trailer were the same colour.
Not a well boy.
Melv
By: JDK - 20th April 2004 at 23:34
Wild stab in the dark
Orly.
Hmm… Realises how POOR that is.
Anyone?
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 20th April 2004 at 23:31
No shares available (although sponsorship is welcomed) as sicne I have worked on every single part I intend to OWN every single part.
MH
still no one has given the name of the base
Melvyn
By: JDK - 20th April 2004 at 23:27
Cool.
But look Melvin, I’m not buying it. Not even shares.
Cheers!
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 20th April 2004 at 23:21
Originally posted by JDK
Where was I?Completely out of my depth, I’m ashamed to say. And not even swimming in Melv’s huge drink intake either.
Good one.
Next!
The drink is now a thing of the past but after that weekend I know I have nothing I need to prove to anyone!
The drive back to Paris was very, very long.
I’ll tell you the whole story at Old Warden on 15th as I may well saunter up so that I can show you pictures of the Rearwin.
Melv
By: JDK - 20th April 2004 at 23:04
Where was I?
Completely out of my depth, I’m ashamed to say. And not even swimming in Melv’s huge drink intake either.
Good one.
Next!
PS Is it just me, or Has Papa Lima gone b&w and QUITE a bit younger. I knww I should’ve taken those tablets.
By: Papa Lima - 20th April 2004 at 20:22
Bardzo dobrze, Voytek!
Dzienkuje
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 20th April 2004 at 20:18
It was indeed the formation of the Lafayette and the Americans were the guests. The French were a little confused as I was the only Englishman there and so they made me an honourary Lafayette! This may have had something to do with the fact that all Americans were officially on duty and so could not drink, something the French didn’t understand, and the fact I wasn’t on duty and I did, I was there representing my country after all.
The significance of the hotel was that it was the same one as had been used by the pilots in 1916.
The date (I’ll be kind) was October 1991, so it was the 75th anniversary. There was at least one Mirage 2000 with suitable decoration. We had assembled the SPAD the previous afternoon (I say ‘we’ in the widest sense since I didn’t get there until they had finished) and had to keep it hidden until the guest of honour had arrived and been ushered into his briefing. we then rolled her out onto the parade ground and so he arrived to see a genuine SPAD in Lafayette markings. A stone Indian head was unveiled and then the party started.
We got the SPAD into a hanger and out on overalls over the suits. We got the SPAd disassembled, packed and loaded onto a trailer and glider trailer in just a bit less than two hours.
Then the party started, some of which I can remember. The guy in the photo was the Squadron Leader and he and I got on very well even though he didn’t speak a word of English. Oh the power of red wine!
The only thing left is name the base?
Melvyn
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