Hmmmm…. Compaired with other warfilms and also various Titanic films, Dambusters must rate amongst one of the historically most accurate films.

There are points here and there. It’s still a good film though.

Congratulations, everybody else here pretty much knows that much.

That wasn’t the message I got from your meanderings.

No, it wouldn’t but do YOU know the limitations? Are they even published? And just eyeballing it isn’t going to tell you everything if you don’t know what’s going on downstream.

No I don’t know the limitations specific to the F35. However I have worked on enough a/c (as a propulsion technician) to know that there are limitations dependant upon speed, engine configuration and intake configuration.

I would imagine that BDR would be carried out using more conventional materials. Whilst not looking pretty it would suffice. BDR is after all nothing more than quick repairs that get an a/c operational for a limited time.
Examples of this are:
Honeycomb repairs were done by removing the damaged inner honeycomb, filling up the space with an expanded foam sheet and rivetting a slab patch over it.
Repairs to machined skin surfaces were normally done with sheet steel fixed with jo-bolts and sealant.

I was always under the impression from interviews with pilots in books and documentaries that the Lightning was a good dogfighter and that with the introduction of the Typhoon the RAF was getting back to single-seat dogfighters after a 20 year absense.

Roly Beamont’s party piece with the P1 was to do a reheat turn within the airfield boundaries. My own personal experience, sseing them practice air displays amd interceptions I would say that it was indeed very agile. Better than it’s counterparts at the time. One even pulled over 10g and returned intact.

After all, everyone has the right to make themselves look like an utter twunt. Even Dutch MPs.

They do, on a regular basis.

Show me an MP that isn’t!

Pauses for thought……………………………………………………
No, nothing.