“I’ve got cactus in my y-fronts, a vulture on my head”

Originally posted by DazDaMan
…is that it gets you pi$$ed! 😀

yeah, yeah, yeah….. 😉

Originally posted by Snapper
Stop bloody carping on about who’s got the best beer. You’re all bloody wrong! Belgium has the finest beer known to man. And if you don’t believe me, we’ll bloody well have to fly over to Charleroi and go drinking as another meet-up.

We can visit Florennes perhaps.

Roger can pick us all up too.

Not sure about Belgian beer, sampling session required.

Could visit the Brussels museum 😀

Originally posted by mike currill
CAMRAs team of judges were all Scots:D

and your point is? :p

for those that like a darker ale.
Caledonian 80/-
Orkney Dark Island
Skye Red Cuillin
Arran Dark

But I’d advise you avoid the Orkney Skullsplitter, unless you have a death wish 😉 😀

kne 😎

liked Cosford the only time I’ve been. never been to Coventry. So if the dates fit, count me in.

K.

Originally posted by kev35
The Royal Family is in grave danger of becoming nothing more than an expensive irrelevance.

Kev, surely you meant to say

‘The Royal Family has become…’

Ken

Originally posted by EWR303
Did the Sopwith go into production before the Fokker DR1?

looking at the Shuttleworth collection website (here) it says:

The Sopwith Triplane served extensively with the Royal Naval Air Service and was a very successful fighting aeroplane. The Triplane was used to achieve air superiority over the Western Front during 1917. The Triplane was a very agile aircraft and so successful that the Germans demanded a version to counteract it. After several trials, the Fokker Dr.1 triplane was produced and achieved notoriety in the hands of Manfred von Richtofen (the Red Baron).

Despite the Triplanes successes the type’s operational career was quite short, it was replaced by the Sopwith Camel by November 1917. Fifty Triplanes were built by the Clayton & Shuttleworth company before production was changed to Sopwith Camels.

enk

Thanks Daz, just checked the Hannants site, they have a resin kit of a F21 listed as a future release. I’ll probably wait for that since I have quite a backlog of kits just now.

As an aside i notice that most marks of spitfire are referred to in roman numeral form except the later marks (21 and later), can some kind sole tell me why?

enk