A BOING B52!!!!!

“Ladies and gentlemen, I am your pilot for todays flight, Captain Zebedee”

LOL. Nob-head.

“I’m sorry, the person you are looking for is not available. Please try again later.”

Here we are, from the horses mouth so to speak. My 83 year old ex-auxiliary groundcrew friend (Spit squadron from 1938 – 40, then all over the place) says the following:

“Spitfires never ever had inertia starters, it was either a trolley ack –not available in France– or put the cranked handle in and start winding , praying that the pilot knew what he was doing .”

(The France bit again being a reference I made to the Poilu’s etc”

No, it doesn’t seem to be. Unless, that is, you are concerned over whether you should supply articles to a site with absolutely nothing to say for itself, and with no ‘copy’ to measure against. I for one wouldn’t dream of donating heavily researched ‘detailed, in depth’ articles which could net me hard cash from aviation / other press publications to a site that has no evidence of its worth, for nothing whatsoever.

However, if I was wanting to build a site from nothing, into an authority on warbirds that would be visited heavily (and attract a decent income from advertisers) I would probably attempt to get free copy from experts who are flattered enough / gullible enough to let me use them.

I’ll tell you what, why don’t you send me your car, and i’ll drive it around for evermore, if it passes my selection criteria. Fair?

Here,s me, my wife, and my daughter. We’d just intercepted a stork at Angels 15.

Here goes: