Bring it on, I say.
It’ll make a change.

He’s a nice Kiwi lad who frequents this place.
Knows his stuff on Kiwi aviation too.

We’ve talked together about The Great War a bit over the years.

He won’t be happy though.

Andy

But i can watch the BofB movie time n time again. I think the real aircraft help 😉

Yes it was pretty wooden.
Everytime Christopher Plummer made an entrance it was like a dining chair had been thrown on the set.

I still think it was a half a step up on the later offerings being discussed here though.

And as you say, real aeroplanes (mostly) did help.

A.

p.s. Rearly, you didn’t know what SW and OS meant! What a bunch of computer n00bs! :dev2:

No desire to know to be honest.
I treat the computer the way most people treat the modern car–if it starts, I can move it (just) from a to b.

My interst and knowledge of what goes on inside an internal combustion engine is I presume considered archaic in many circles.

A.

Well my friend.
As a wise man once said.

“It’s amazing just how much information is available on the internet. It’s even more amazing just how much of it is complete cr*p”.

If you’re using the serious sections of this forum as a reference library on aviation I’d say this: I’d treat 50% as surmise, another 25% as just plain disinformation and the rest as something close to the truth.

Also, and it’s a small point but of interest to photographers and artists, many pictures will be copyright to someone or other.
So if you’re copying stuff, you might like to ask permission first, from the photographer etc

And perhaps, seeing as you’re also such an aficionado yourself, why don’t actully contribute on one of the serious parts of this forum (Historic, General Aviation, Airliners etc) rather than posting obscure technical complaints on this bit, which is the rather light hearted, away from aviation section..?

Andy

Well I listened as I spannered a Honda 900.
The bit about Spitfires was cr*p–It was five minutes before the end, and had John Nichol (Gawd knows why he’s suddenly an expert on Supermarine products) spouting about how valuable it’d all be.
So, a complete waste of time.

However, earlier in the show, they did a piece on the Burma railway which featured a couple of old boys who had been ‘guests’ of the Japs.
I’ll tell you, find it on I-player and listen..! If you’re not moved, you’re either dead or made from asbestos.
It was a very good piece indeed.

Whether Mr Vine needed to go all the way to Rangoon himself, remains to be seen but I was left with a lasting impression of the country.
If it carries on improving, I can see myself fancying a trip there one day.

A.

If the children are in a caring, loving environment what the hell do the politics of the foster parents matter?

Well apparently in Rotherham it does.

PeeDee.
I’d be interested to hear your partner’s views on this.
I did wonder myself if there was more going on than the media reptiles allowed us to know.
I have to say though, I’m still more inclined to settle behind my initial point though–happy to be proved wrong though.

For those of you who do care, you can see her here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20476654

Usual obscurations rather than straight answers–the usual blanket–it’s in the interst of the children blah, blah.

It’s a pity the authorities don’t take such close interest in many of the excesses that occur in care homes.

Quite frankly, I reckon many children would be safer fostered even by that nice Uncle Adolf and Auntie Eva than they are in privately run care homes which takes hundreds (if not tens of thousands) of Pounds a week from the tax-payer etc.