Lucky to remain upright and no fire.:eek:

Looks like fuel escaping in the last photo.

….apart from possessing a large pair of prop spinners….
Don

Replica prop spinners:rolleyes:

ahhh the ACME thunderer, mine had good use till just recently, as a cliffman in the Coastguard, it was used when the radio failed (as a back-up).

Bl**dy loud!!

Unknown Blenheim down in France

The bit of BoB film where the Spit crashed on the Beach looked very realistic. Was that a real crash or a very clever mock-up with a model ?

Quite enjoyed the programme really.

IIRC an article around 1969 said that particular model should have plonked into the sea but, glided further than anticipated with spectacular results.

After a bit of digging around, Ed Rae was a rear gunner on Halifax shot down, made POW, so I guess was presented(?) by Squadron on repatriation.

Passed away 1999

http://www.dunrobincastle.com/Aviators/Aviators_WhoWeAre.htm

about halfway down.

Another report suggests 1940hrs

http://forums.bmaa.org/default.aspx?f=15&m=85426

Do read the story again. It happened at 1900hrs and was “getting dark”. It’s still pretty much daylight at 7pm here in East Anglia.

Sorry, didn’t read it at all.

On the video at 00.26, “……we had our lights on and were a big target………..”

00.45, “….at anchor off Deal in the dark………..”

00.55, “…..if no one had seen him ditch…..”(due darkness)

it also said 1900 ish, poor reporting, they didn’t know the exact time he ditched.

Soooooo, what was he doing tooling around in the dark then……