Heads up this afternoon, Flight of The Phoenix, BBC2 2:50

Unfortunately it clashes with the Cup Final and painting the kitchen and non of my VCR’s work properly.

Is it national garage sale day today, all the villages round here are selling their tut, just been to Bardfield and couldn’t find any complete examples of DH Hornets parked on anyones drive, my missus has gone looking for one in Panfield, with a bit of luck, she will be landing on the cricket pitch shortly.

Ok, Ok, I retract what I said, but it was supposed to be a bit tongue in cheek compared to some of the vitreol on this thread, sorry Mr Saunders, carry on the good work, now I know what you are really doing.

Lets knock this Dambusters remake on the head.

My mates son is a profesional performer/writer/producer/musician, who’s recieved the call to go to New Zealand to meet Peter Jacksons production team to discuss the sound track for a new film.
The new film will be the ‘Dark Materials Trilogy’ by Philip Pullman.
Now if any of you have read this trilogy, it relegates Harry Potter to the role of the Famous Five, no offence meant JKR, youv’e done a good job, but these books are heavy.
Presumably all 3 books, Northern Lights, (not to be called this as the American market don’t know what they are), Subtle Knife and Amber Spyglass will be made in sequence as Lord of the Rings was.
This will no doubt take up quite a bit of Peter Jacksons time over the next few years and I can’t see him having any time to get involved in Dambusters.
Read the books, they will blow you away.

Aaaah, the Canberra, must be the only a/c that has constantly served the RAF during my 50 years of airshow visits.
What exactly are the tasks of the survivors, do they fly out from Marham every day, I did notice that there was one in Afghanistan recently, must have been a real maintenance problem.
I remember going on holiday to Cyprus about 15 years ago and seeing them constantly drifting along the Greek/Turkish border, haven’t seen one for ages, the last time was probably over the north Devon coast a couple of years ago.
I have a very good book on the Canberra which of course I can’t find, but it relates how in the early days, during interception trials at high altitude, the USAF/Canadian Sabres would fall out of the sky and the Canberras would use their superior high altitude performance to turn the tables and see them off in a dog fight.
Are we likely to see a repeat of the Marham farewell to the Victors when the squadron winds up.

spitfires, hurricanes, mosquitos and lancasters are famous the world over for there exellent service during world war 2 and so they should be.
but has you all know these types was not the only exellent designs that played a very important role during the war. i would like to know what is your favorite unsung hero of the RAF.
to me its got to be the bristol beaufighter, a fantastic aircraft, but hardly gets mantioned. also the handley page halifax, better looking then the lanc in my opinion. i know they did not live up to expectations but i think the shorts stirling looked awesome. you would think the shorts sunderland would get more of a mention as well. what do you think….

I go for the Tiger Moth, after all isn’t it the a/c that most pilots first flew in.
By the way SCIMITAR what is that picture next to your name, I thought you were a Scimitar fanatic and that looks like a Russian type to me, Flagon?