I’ll try and post a photograph later today to see if you recognise my R-1830 piston. 🙂

…that is very illuminating, with the reservations we must always apply to Wikipedia…

It also throws up an interesting fact (Wikipedia reservations apply) in that Polish ‘airmen’ did take part in the parade, albeit in groups of RAF personnel.

To me that throws up an interesting question in that Polish aircrew fought during the Battle-of-Britain and throughout the war in RAF squadrons. Although these are often called ‘Polish’ squadrons, to what extent were they actually Polish; were any of the aircraft paid for by the Polish government in exile, were any of the other costs, including pilot’s pay, met in this way?

To me at least, this possibly played a part in the ‘exclusion’ from the parade; were Polish pilots expecting to parade in Polish uniforms and under Polish flags?

Politics? Winston, leader of the opposition at this time, was never one to miss a trick!

Maybe there was more to it than that; the new Labour government of Clement Attlee was busy exporting Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines to the Soviets at about this time.

I must admit I was not happy with the decidedly anti-establishment end to what I thought was enjoyable documentary.
However, C4 have always been anti-establishment and their vilification of the Government is no surprise to me.

Strange really when they’re government owned but there is an element of that attitude with the BBC sometimes. I did wonder when these programmes were advertised if they hadn’t been commissioned by the government in some way to defuse public concerns about immigration?

Still the ‘Polish pilots win the Britain-of-Britain and are then betrayed by the British’ angle would be hard for any documentary maker to resist, wouldn’t it! :rolleyes:

I did wonder if it was from eBay ‘cos it is fairly common for pistons sold on there to be misidentified.

Were you after a master or slave rod?

The RAF should have flown one like that just before they were withdrawn…

…think of all the UFO sightings there would have been! :diablo:

Thanks for spotting my mistake…..although the original ‘Goole’ title seemed to generate more interest! 😀