Yes, now you’re in tip top health, would it be possible for you to come over to Legends at Duxford next year, there’s a chance of 2 B-17’s, and at least 1 Lancaster, you’ll enjoy the American Aircraft Museum and you’ll probably be treated like royalty, I’m sure quite a few of us on here would be pleased to meet you, go on, treat yourself to a trip to the UK.
Have you ever been over here incidentally.

I go along with the condolence line, but surely sensible comments, whatever that means, can be included, if the mods are up to working them out, no offence meant, it should be possible to combat any hint of who and why dunnits.
But ‘sensational’ photos of the incident are out for me, if someone is determined to find them, other sources on the net are available, poor Hoof and the P-38 seem to get everywhere.

Liz’s old man came round on Wednesday, he stood at the bottom of the garden and said in his best Hungarian accent, ‘bloody hell Pete, that li’l old pikes getting big’
PIKE, but it’s gone, no way, the little or rather 150mm long monster was trying to get at the dragonfly larva. It then vanished and despite my best efforts since, I can’t find it anywhere.
How it’s survived, and what it’s eating is beyond me, all I want to do is get it back in the river so it can have a nice life.

My big grouse this week is that poor bloody bull in the Hindu temple. Ok, it’s got TB, can this be treated, probably, does it mix with other animals, nooo, did it look ill and unhappy, noooo, was it loved and looked after, yesssss.
Bloody Min of Ag and the filth are simply jobsworths, they should be put down, along with all the other scumbags that destroyed all the animals at our local kids farmyard during the foot and mouth incident, those particular animals had as much chance of contracting it as a blue whale in the Atlantic, the effect round here was devastating, and I heard on the grapevine that it was a mistake. B#######

I was only joking NF, but it was a disgrace to bring the ship over from French waters and dump it in such a lovely spot without consulting with Devon County Council, what was in the minds of the powers that be at the time is anybodies guess.
I don’t know what affect it will have had on the tourist trade, presumably people have cancelled or like myself, will keep away, I’m fairly resilient myself and I’m sure the area would benefit from my cash, but I’ll have 2 young kids with me and I’m not prepared to risk them getting covered in oil or standing on something offshore.
The water around Branscombe is pretty murky at the best of times, the de-contaminations squads, with the best will in the world, can’t guarantee that everything has been recovered from that vessel or rather, what came off of it.
I remember the Torrey Canyon well, we went to the Isle of Wight that year and they’d even put booms across the Solent at Lymington because they were so worried about the oil spill.
I have been tangled up in oil spills on beaches before, mainly in East Anglia, it’s not funny having to wipe down yourself and the kids with white spirit on a sunny day.

That is why it has taken so long to get the thing floating again. The time has been spent sealing all the holes so when it was split in two, it wouldn’t sink again. Sea salvage is quite an exact science although mistakes do still happen. The Dutch are the experts in this field or should I say sea.

A bit of practice for the RAF re the Torrey Canyon might have done the trick.

You want to relax, not rush anywhere? If I could do my honeymoon again i`d go for a slow boating holiday across Scotland starting in Inverness taking in Loch Ness. Beautiful scenery , enough to do but remote enough to relax and “be romantic”.

Yeah, but who do you get to operate the locks, my missus hates it.

That doesn’t suprise me at all – especially given that Sir John was in the Ack-ack during WW2, so he’d have been interested.

Yes, I knew he had gone – a shame, a gentleman in the old sense of the word.

Are you sure about the Heinkel? I thought the Spains Hall Hurricane was an OTU machine from Debden?

Adrian

Ah ha, it wasn’t the Hurricane I was thinking about then, you know the story, lone Heinkel attacks Courtaulds factory at Bocking, Hurricane and Heinkel shoot each other down, Heinkel crew land in a stick across Finchingfield green, pilot coincidentally breaking leg on war memorial, Hurricane pilot, Canadian/Polish killed, Heinkel down at Gainsford End, Hurricane?????

I did a bit of sniffing about on the net to see how ‘Faith’ had managed to survive, not too much info, but I was interested to see contemporary pictures of it sporting a 3 blade prop and one source suggesting it had been re-engined from a Blenheim, presumably this engine is still in-situ. Does anyone have a bit more info on it’s survival, personally, after looking at a site giving operational details over Malta during 1940, this must be one of the most historic airframes in the world and should be treated accordingly. With due respect to the Maltese, if nothing is done, it might be better off in Yeovilton, it was their a/c after all, it would certainly get all the TLC that seems to have previously passed it by.