Shall we start a collection of the rumours that just aren’t true, but keep on popping-up time and again through sheer “If I repeat it often enough it may come true”?
Within the last day we’ve had
“I’m told NX611 got its wheels off the runway”
“After (Insert the bl**dy Vulcan’s serial here) has flown will they get (Some other Vulcan) into the air?”
We must be due for a “Three Lancasters were covered in preservative at the end of the war by my dad who then wrapped them in bubble wrap and cling-film, encased them in lead boxes filled with an inert gas and buried them in an air conditioned and structurally reinforced quarry”
Any more offers?
Moggy in cynic mode since Reims was binned 😡
By: mike currill - 1st August 2003 at 21:35
Sorry folks, I’ve just read my last offering and it would appear that I have a dyslexic computer
By: mike currill - 1st August 2003 at 21:29
further to my previous psot, my son says that it is not a malicious rumour moer, a case of wishful thinking how right he is
By: galdri - 1st August 2003 at 20:42
One Icelandic story!
There is supposed to be an almost intact Ju-88 D-5 laying in one of the lakes in the highlands. It only has a few bullet holes in the fuel tanks according to the story.
As the story goes in was here on a recce flight in 1942 and got into the hands of P39’s which holed the fuel tanks. As it did not have fuel to reach the base in Norway the crew landed it on a frozen lake and made it’s way to Germany via U-boat. When the ice melted in the summer, it is supposed to have sunken to the bottom.
Anyone interested in plane hunting in the Icelandic Highlands?????
By: warbirdUK - 1st August 2003 at 19:56
Originally posted by Mark12
Eight years ago six Spitfires were seen in a hangar in Burma
Yep, One is still in the UK languishing in the South! I was looking at it about three weeks ago!
Cheers 🙂
By: EHVB - 1st August 2003 at 08:44
A semi derelict but basicly complete German WW2 machine survives in Holland. Has been there since 1945. Owner don’t give anybody permission to view and won’t sell. His children however know the value and want to sell. So, it will emerge in due time as the owner is allready well in his 80ties. BW Roger
By: Moggy C - 31st July 2003 at 16:57
Originally posted by Robbo
Not so much a rumour, but a bit of wild speculation……Was the Colt flying over Southwold/Walberswick on Saturday none other than Moggy??? I suppose I should have reached for the bogroll to lay out a recognition signal.
Rob
Not me, I was firmly grounded that weekend. But it could well have been the aircraft 🙂
Moggy
By: BlueRobin - 31st July 2003 at 16:48
Ahem
One of Atlantique’s Dakotas is at Shawbury, helping out with the Horsa glider project.
Which will fly.
Of course 😉
By: Mark12 - 31st July 2003 at 16:45
Originally posted by Mark12
Latest. A thought to be long extinct Japanese type, a ‘Kate’ bomber, is spotted in a Sussex chicken shed.
Looks like this rumour was wrong. It was Surrey.
By: mike currill - 28th July 2003 at 20:27
Snotty, now we know you are being silly, everyone knows the only gun position on a Horsa glider was a ventral dustbin turret into which the gunner was inserted head first.
How’s this for a malicious rumour. The lottery heritage fund will have a change of heart and give a grant to the Vulcan to the sky fund on the codition that it carries a bomb bay load on its first post restoration flight which is to be dropped from 20000ft over the Houses of Parliament,Tony Blair
By: Snapper - 28th July 2003 at 17:16
SCOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As some of you know, I manage a photolab. I was just on the machine doing some wedding photos, when I recognised…..
JANIE!!!!!
She must have been on honeymoon on the Sunday. Apparently, her Hubby is a big old bruiser of a B17. Hmmm. Sally is not a blokes name to my knowledge…so in who’s company is Janie spending those tender moments now?
By: Ashley - 28th July 2003 at 16:58
Blue Robin…it could be interesting :p
By: sparky - 28th July 2003 at 16:44
I don’t….but I know a bloke who does,………..well actually its a mate of his who knows I think;)
By: Yak 11 Fan - 28th July 2003 at 16:39
Originally posted by sparky
BTW this blokes mate Knows what happened to “Janie”at FL:eek:
Do you have the address for this blokes mate as I’m afraid we cannot allow this secret to be revealed.
By: BlueRobin - 28th July 2003 at 16:36
Chinese Whispers. Excellent. Who wants to play? If we PM each other in turn, it would be interesting to see what the original message gets turned into 🙂
By: Ashley - 28th July 2003 at 16:34
:p @ Sparky
By: sparky - 28th July 2003 at 16:21
Ashley
Have you been drinking or is that just a rumour:)
Well I heared from a bloke in The Red Lion who know a woman who’s going out with a bloke who’s mate said that he’d heard a rumour that some blokes bought a P-61………..so it must be true!!!
BTW this blokes mate Knows what happened to “Janie”at FL:eek:
By: Ashley - 28th July 2003 at 15:45
Peter…the thing with rumours is, if a rumour is passed on to someone else as being a rumour then this is fine…the problem is when someone passes a rumour on as “fact”. For example, if I said “there is a rumour that so and so has acquired such and such an aircraft”, you can bet anything you like, there will be at least one person who then posts somewhere else/tells someone that “so and so HAS acquired such an aircraft”…then the tale told to the next person becomes “so and so has acquired TWO of these aircraft”…like Chinese whispers…am I making sense here? 🙂
Ashley
By: scott c - 28th July 2003 at 06:40
The p-38 under the ice is glacer girl and she is now flying in the US so no rumor there its TRUE.
Scott c
P.S. It looks nice too
By: Kenneth - 27th July 2003 at 21:08
A contributor to this forum is giving his Piper Colt a tailwheel conversion and reengining it with a PT-6…..
By: dezz - 27th July 2003 at 14:53
Well I heard that there are loads of aircraft under the ice somewhere? They may even get a p38 out and return it to flying condition!!!…..sounds fantastic….but if that’s true, and you all know it is, who’s to say what’s out there.
Dezz 🙂
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