I presume you are referring to “the one that got away” with Hardy Kruger; a typical British black and white film; had they wanted to portray his escape as funny they would have had Norman Wisdom play the lead role, as it was, the film makers were probably still mindfull, that showing German success stories, was not good box office business, and portraying them having a laugh at us, was one script too far.

The Great Escape, on the other hand is very flippant in its view of the Germans Guards (goons), and compresses so many escape attempts into the first 10 minutes, that its hard to take it seriously.

However, we are brought down to earth with a bump, upon hearing (and seeing) that the Germans, were not in fact “goons”, but cold blooded killers, and unfortunately not an untypical act of brutality, hither to reserved for civillians of the occupied countries.

Just make sure you do something with the jar.
My mate was taking his dog for a walk on !!!!!! beach very early last sunday morning and came across a washed up canister. Thinking it might be chemicals or explosives or whatever, he peered at the lid to find it inscribed with the name of a certain local Crematorium followed by some late gentlemans name.
Taking a chance he unscrewed the lid prior to taking it to the local police station, only to find it full of stones, it was obviously intended to follow it’s occupants mortal remains into the waves, but such is the power of the sea!!
So where to you want to be tipped out then, is this a service that DX provide, have you checked with them before making your will, when that container gets opened, there ain’t much left, and I can’t think of many cinder paths around DX that would accomodate it.
Lets not be morbid and look forward to a good, schoolkid friendly day out on Friday, with a lot of imput from our mates in the USAF.

Theres always the tank compound……..

Well I think it’s not a bad effort, always assuming that you have built it from the crashed remains of freighter, (you just happened to be a passenger on), in the middle of a very sandy place, that gets quite warm during the day, and has as part of it’s (oil well equipment) cargo, a seemingly unlimited supply of pressed dates…

As far as I can recall this was removed during a previous overhaul, and was not in the engine when it crashed. However, I saw this on his stall at an RREC event in 2007 and it was being advertised as Griffon! Oops

Indeed this is possible, as I have a tail wheel tyre from this A/C, also removed during overhaul; I seem to remember a member of this forum, was disposing of these items on behalf of one of the factions up at Bruntingthorpe, but there is no getting away from the fact that they are linked to a sad event, and that on their own (without history) would be worth less. (thats worth less , not worthless).

I believe they do a family membership at £98; 2 adults and any number of children under 16 (hope some one gets this one).

Slightly ironic as there was a piece on Spitfires this morning on BBC news, also featuring Carolyn Grace,and the voice over said that she was off to display at an outside concert….

So there is 2 tenths difference over a run of about 40″?

It’s obviously the new forum project, the stub wings are mine, the exhausts are clearly from Graham’s Spitoon, and if I’m not mistaken the prop blades are Merlin Pete’s handywork….