Cheers for posting them, very nice, especially the WWI stuff. Whats the blue one with ’15’ on the front? Very curious bird

Farman Vache mécanique 🙂 🙂

Longhorn or shorthorn?

TMN
Thanks for posting.
I’m glad to see more Great War input on here.

Well I saw it too.
My recollection was “oh sh*t” and as he recovered I looked across the ten meter gap between me and Mike and he was giving me the ‘throat cut’ sign as I looked at him.

I just sat and watched the video again and I still get that cold feeling.
He is one lucky pilot.
Cheers
Andy

I did hear a story (via Setter) that there might be pieces of one in a workshop in Croydon, New Zealand.
Any members of our Kiwi congregation know anything about this???
Andy…

Just arrived home tonight.
The forecast according to Hiscock for Saturday was “sh*t till twelve, then slightly less sh*tty in the afternoon”
That was pretty much the case.
Sunday was tons better with a full display flown.
Highlights.
MS 406
Me 109
Fokker Triplane–with a rotary
and then after all else had flown on Sunday out came one of the Bleriots and the MS monoplane and the Caudron G.III and I was a happy man.
Later
A.

Dunstable Morris Dancers are on tour again then Andy? 😉

Have fun, don’t drink all his beer this time!

I’m spending 4th July with him.
A cause of tension?–probably. 😀 😀

Kansas City, end of June.

As you have complained about the lack of replies, here goes. I’m not a Pacific war expert even though my late uncle was a Corsair armourer on board HMS Illustrious, but I thought that the Battle of Coral Sea was a disaster, did we not lose the Exeter, USS Houston and an Australian cruiser as well as several destroyers or were they a diversion away from the main American fleet which was succesful, I’d like to know more about what happened.
Cheers.

Pete
you’re thinking of the Battle of the Java Sea fought in February 1942.
Indeed that was a disater where the American, British, Dutch, Australian (ABDA) force was annihilated.

The battle of the Coral Sea was seen at the time as a draw but was actually a strategic victory for the allies as it stopped the Japanese advance on Port Moresby.

Hope this helps.
Andy