I wish it would be made clear, Peter Jackson is not directing it. Co-producing it, yes I cannot remember the chaps name but he was 2nd director on King Kong and has worked with PJ for years.

Christian Rivers

see this post http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=999504&postcount=33

in this thread http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=999504#post999504

… London woithout her is not London.

Appreciate your sentiments but IMHO that’s going a bit far … there’s a lot more to London than a famous ship or two …

I should add aeronut, that what we have here is a VERY UNUSUAL circumstance, hence the volume of accessible information.
– the majority of Lancasters shot down took their crews with them, for all to survive was rare indeed
– le Havre was an atypical target
– we have the Canadian link
– etc.

In these sorts of investigations, a good starting point is
http://www.lostbombers.co.uk/
There you enter the bomber type (“Lancaster”) and the date/s and and you’ll get the answers Andy gave you (is this what you did Andy?). Then click through on each aircraft (thumbnail pic) and you’ll get details. One of the four returned to the UK and crash landed, two of the four crashed over Europe killing their crews, one of the four – PA970 of 405 squadron RCAF – crashed and the crew evaded. As Andy says, this is almost certainly the crew you’re interested in. Don

B-58

Mobryan’s kind of right. The B-58 was designed as an extremely high speed, high altitude bomber. But as Soviet air defences became more effective at altitude (both interceptors and SAMS) that tactic became less viable. So alternative ideas were contemplated including low level. And iron bombs. Not sure if stand-off weapons were considered or could be carried. Anyway fundamentally what happened is the B-58 was not suitable at low altitude because of its integral wing tanks (vulnerability to AA) and, given it’s primary role [high altitude] was also no longer viable, it had become obsolete and was therefore phased out. Also a very expensive aircraft to operate, but that’s secondary.

I opened a thread recently about the B-58 prototype http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=69710 and in it Bager1968 gave us a link to Joe Baugher’s excellent website about the B-58 … check it out http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b58.html

Not so

I understand your disappointment but do not share it.

As is often enough discussed here for most of us to now have a grasp on it … copyright in a photograph rests with the photographer. If you’re going to display something interesting/noteworthy to a photographer you must expect it to be shown to someone else. Unless of course you manage to claim/maintain ownership of all images taken (as some attempt to do) or ban photography as a quid-pro-quo of sighting (ie. as a contract, be that verbal or written, eg. on an admission ticket or similar).

There is no case to blame the messenger unless he/she broke such a contract. Was there an explicit “thou shalt not publish” contract?

And as one of the thousands of members all around the globe, I’m pleased and interested to see what PA474 looks like and couldn’t give a toss about when or how the image is “unveiled” or revealed (because I’m bleedin miles away).