So your in the US, and your going to ship the A/C to Hungary for repair, then back to the US to carry on?

So if I drive like an idiot and plough into a bus queue and kill people its just an accident then? Still thats my last post on the matter until the AAIB report.

Yes, unless you intended to kill them, in which case it would have been a deliberate act; I actually knew someone who did that very thing, he was driving like an idiot but never intended to cause anyone harm; it’s an issue of judgement which ever way you look at it.

I don’t think Jack was aiming to raise a storm or even debate on whether the date is this or that. I think he was just trying to highlight the lack of widespread remembrance of it: it was quite an important date after all.

Yeah that! (grammar police go fk yourselves)

Are they anything like this? (got one in the Spitfire project seat )

I must admit when we were toying with the idea of “a place in France” I was hugely impressed to find that almost every derelict farm house, came with it’s own (derelict) hangar!

That’s offcast’s thankyou.

Perhaps he used the weight of the machine gun to counterbalance the A/C whilst (as has been suggested) he got out and shot it full of holes with a side arm? whatever the actual chain of events, the award of a VC was not in keeping with the ethos “for valour”

There are no steel ferules in the wing attachments, but I think I’ve heard of a modification to allow their use as a “repair” for oversize holes; if you look at the shape of the fuselage at frame 5, it is wider at the top spar attachment point, and so less room for 4 bolts, no doubt a cunning plan was hatched which meant that the top three, carried the same load as the bottom four.