thee aircraft engineers are at a trade fair, one from BAE, one from Embrear and another from Aerospatial, they were in the “gents” and having releaved themselves as the Embrear guy was thoughly scrubbing between his fingers he said ‘at embrear we are meticulous about everything we do’, the guy from Aerospatial was inspecting his fingernails after washing, he said ‘at Aerospatial quality control is everything’. the BAE guy pulled up his zip and said as walked out ‘at BAE we know enough not to pee on our bloody fingers!!!’.

Greg (coat on…………..gone)

here’s a couple of reasons hedgies are getting rarer these days…. :diablo:

Greg

here’s some of mine. AJ your lightning is pretty good, my good lady (Ladyritz) recognised what it is too 😎 .

Greg

me?. well its work on saturday followed by…… errrrrrrrr….. work on sunday……… Ho what Joy 🙁

Greg

It would be useful to know what type of ordnance to expect and where. Is it likely to explode and what would cause the ordnance to go ‘bang’ after such a long time in the ground?

tc

i can send the EX down with a large hammer to help test the likelyhood of any explosions if you like, 😮 :diablo: on a more serious note though. i watched a prog recently where the german bomb disposal crew were using old RAF and USAF post bombing recon pics to help find uxb,s. are there any old luftwaffe pics available?.
hope this helps,
Greg

here’s a spifire from my collection, its the airfix MK1 done as a russian air force example with very weathered camo (and it wasn’t quite finished when i took the pic)

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=37414

hope you like.

Greg

btw, your models are exellent Daz mate.

Did any Lancasters fly (at that time) with a nacelled engine attached to the bomb bay? That might fit the bill as far as a description of RATO goes. Did any Lanc ever get fitted for RATO? – Nermal

there was at least one lanc with a bomb bay mounted jet engine in a necelle, it was flown by the Swedes, i’ll see if i can find reference to it.
that B2 in the pic, wasn’t it the one that had either a Python or Dart turboprop mounted in the nose at a later date?.
Greg

as promised, a glass has just been raised here for a fellow enthusiast, and there will be another before the night is out.

here’s to you Steve, may you be revelling in the company of the hero’s you cared so much for in that great mess room in the sky.

Steve Young, a great father, pilot, funny guy and friend to those lucky enough to know him.

Greg