dark light
Airliner World
Combat Aircraft
AeroPlane
Flypast
Airforces
Aviation
Pcpilot
Air

AlanR

Forum Replies Created

Viewing 15 posts - 4,651 through 4,665 (of 5,556 total)
1 2 3 … 310 311 312 … 369 370 371
  • Author
    Posts
  • September 22, 2012 at 11:50 am in reply to: WW2 flying ace Sir Douglas Bader endangered other pilots with his tactics #1044206
    AlanR
    Participant

    We are also talking about a period in time when the public desperately needed
    heroes. Most of us can only imagine what it must have been like back in the
    early 1940s.

    September 21, 2012 at 8:32 am in reply to: Canberra XH134 #1045744
    AlanR
    Participant

    Just one question.

    How is it that an aircraft such as the Canberra (as well as many other ex-military jets) are allowed to fly in private hands ?

    Is it because they are not classified as a “complex aircraft” ?

    September 21, 2012 at 8:01 am in reply to: ITV Series Heroes Of The Air Starts 20 Sep Ch5 (UK)! #1045774
    AlanR
    Participant

    Overall it wasn’t a bad programme. Aimed at those who have never heard of Bader,
    young and old, I would guess ?

    Then again you have to think that those who know little or nothing about
    WWII, still probably wouldn’t have watched it. Which is a great shame.

    I’m looking forward to next week’s story about Beurling, as I know little
    about him. Apart from the odd chapter in books about Fighter pilots of WWII.

    September 20, 2012 at 11:11 pm in reply to: Which (XH558 'Arisen') Vulcan Display has been the most memorable for you? #1046063
    AlanR
    Participant

    Southend 2011 the only full display I have seen since its restoration or the passes over Southend Airport in August 2012.

    Yep, same here.

    September 20, 2012 at 10:43 pm in reply to: ITV Series Heroes Of The Air Starts 20 Sep Ch5 (UK)! #1046092
    AlanR
    Participant

    Read the Controversy over cause paragraph here. 😉

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader

    September 20, 2012 at 10:15 pm in reply to: ITV Series Heroes Of The Air Starts 20 Sep Ch5 (UK)! #1046116
    AlanR
    Participant

    Who’s next for the Beano treatment?

    George Beurling : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Beurling

    September 20, 2012 at 4:22 pm in reply to: General Discussion #289261
    AlanR
    Participant

    Alan….it happens! I think there was even a TV series “I didn’t realise I was pregnant!”

    Well, I’m only going by what a doctor said when this subject came up a few years ago.
    He reckoned it was virtually impossible for a woman to get to a stage where she was about to give birth,
    without knowing. She may be in denial, perhaps for whatever reason not wanting to believe it, but she
    would definitely know.

    I wonder how much they got paid for going on that TV programme ?

    September 20, 2012 at 4:22 pm in reply to: British Soldier Gives-Birth on the Frontline! #1883145
    AlanR
    Participant

    Alan….it happens! I think there was even a TV series “I didn’t realise I was pregnant!”

    Well, I’m only going by what a doctor said when this subject came up a few years ago.
    He reckoned it was virtually impossible for a woman to get to a stage where she was about to give birth,
    without knowing. She may be in denial, perhaps for whatever reason not wanting to believe it, but she
    would definitely know.

    I wonder how much they got paid for going on that TV programme ?

    September 20, 2012 at 4:09 pm in reply to: British Soldier Gives-Birth on the Frontline! #1883151
    AlanR
    Participant

    “…She didn’t realize she was pregnant ?…”

    Is she trying to insult everyone’s intelligence ?

    September 20, 2012 at 4:09 pm in reply to: General Discussion #289264
    AlanR
    Participant

    “…She didn’t realize she was pregnant ?…”

    Is she trying to insult everyone’s intelligence ?

    September 19, 2012 at 10:21 pm in reply to: Spitfire XIVc RM689 -(Old Thread 2004) #1047444
    AlanR
    Participant

    Any updates on RM689 ?

    I’d met David Moore a couple of times at computer meets.
    This is before the days of the Internet as we know it now. When it was Prestel and Micronet. There was an online computer club called Direct Line (before the insurance one started). It was run by a couple of chaps in London. They used to have get togethers at a pub just off the M25 a couple of times a year. I remember David showing us a video of him flying in formation with a couple of Norwegian F-16s. I still have a WWII computer game I bought from him.

    It was a very sad day when he died.

    September 19, 2012 at 2:53 pm in reply to: 8 South African aircrew killed in suicide bomb attack #532176
    AlanR
    Participant

    Awful thing to happen.

    Nothing will ever change in the God forsaken country.

    September 19, 2012 at 2:49 pm in reply to: East Kirkby Airshow #1048224
    AlanR
    Participant

    Nice pictures, looks like you were blessed with glorious weather.

    I’m not overly struck on the colour scheme of the Chippy. A little too much red for my liking.

    September 19, 2012 at 9:57 am in reply to: Messerschmitt 109-E for Medway? #1048727
    AlanR
    Participant

    ……………………………………..>>>>
    When I saw the Defiant a few weeks ago it was getting on to being very close to completion. However, all photography of the aircraft at Medway has been banned by the RAF Museum and there was a large sign proclaiming thus. I think its a RAFM ban, not MAPS from what Lewis Deal told me.

    This sort of thing really annoys me. Officialdom just for the sake of it.

    If there is a reason, say so. 😡

    September 18, 2012 at 10:55 pm in reply to: Jersey air show 13-09-2012 #481692
    AlanR
    Participant

    Lovely pictures. It’s a long time since we went to the Channel Islands.
    Shall have to go again. Although I do prefer Guernsey.

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 15 posts - 4,651 through 4,665 (of 5,556 total)
1 2 3 … 310 311 312 … 369 370 371