I’m sorry but the shortening of British or Briton to Brit is insulting and derogatory to me.

It HAS been used as a hate word e.g. “Brits Out”

How on earth can you come to that conclusion because it was used once in a derogatory fashion?
Would “British Out” have been more suitable?

Most collective national names have been used in nasty ways on many occasions and I won’t even consider listing them here.

I use an expat forum here in Spain and Brit is commonly used as an abbreviation of the collective noun.

It’s even listed twice in the Oxford Dictionary:
Brit n. (colloq.) British person. [abbr.]
Brit. abbr. Britain; British.

I’m English, but cannot object to being referred to as a Brit, even if it’s used in a derogatory fashion, which so far I haven’t heard.

PC has gone much too far, IMLO.
Luckily, the Spanish don’t suffer from it!

BD, the link you provided quotes the aircraft as using a 45 hp BMW engine, whereas the other links mention a BMW engine of 60 hp.

There are very few internet references to Schmeidler, but as this thread is only a fun one for those who have an interest in identifying historic aircraft, I think cherry picking should be left to other threads?

One of the most successful recordings of the 60s.

We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, ‘There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.’
But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well’ve been closed

Who’s American Carol, is she pretty?:diablo:

It’s neither English nor Scottish, since I was born in one place and raised in another.

So you have a mixed accent.
Everyone has an accent of some type, it’s impossible not to have one.

I know a Spanish girl who learned English in England from an English teacher, but she speaks English with a French accent, work that one out.:confused:

According to this site:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213149/trivia

Unlike Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), real Mitsubishi Zero fighters were used. Three original Japanese aircraft were used – one operated by the Planes of Fame Museum (Chino, California), one from the Museum of Flying (Santa Monica, California) and the third from the Confederate Air Force.