It’s illegal for Englishmen not to practice archery on a Sunday. I reckon there is the option available to nick any ******* that you are trying to pin something on with no success now.

No.

No.

You can stick happy Christmas up your arse. Bloody season of goodwill. Goddamn economic bull****. ******** to it all. Make like a turkey and get stuffed. Bah humbug.

(But thanks for the thought!)

Yeah, is a bit harsh. Serge has copies of the service records of Belgian pilots from 609 – there should be one or two of use to you.

Mark

Sandys, a spy? I think the word traitor is closer. He’d decided that aircraft were superfluous by the time he visited Bee’s Tempest wing in 1944.

“Wouldn’t you get bored with all those BJ’s ??????”

You’ve crossed the line Ian. I thought you had a sense of humour. I was wrong. You are clinically insane and need sectioning.

“CIVILIAN test pilot chicken”

Haha. Was that the retired old boy in ‘Chicken Run’?

I seem to recall that Wg Cmdr ‘Bee’ Beamont was the first British pilot through the barrier (in an F86?). I also seem to recall that he wrote something on the politics of the time and the fact that the Americans were first through the sound barrier (due to politics?). America had a rather large hold on the world in the 40’s, and Britain was pretty much told exactly what to do by them. Projects were cancelled, right up to the TSR-2. You can blame our governments or anything else you like – but look across the ocean and you will see that there is almost definately more to it than that.