HE177 if it can only be one.

But if that unlimited budget could be put to a coordinated action I’d love to see a line up of the WWII ETO heavies on an airfield somewhere. Stirling, Manchester, Lancaster, Halifax, B17 & 24, the HE177 & JU488, FW200. Was there a Russian heavy?

Straight over my head twice on that wee flight Friday.

And yesterday I had the privilege of a day in the tent at the Airshow. Fantastic stuff, wonderful aircraft and displays and in the presence of a number of vets.

Highlight of the show (aside from the obvious) a very impressive line up of de Havilland product as a mark of honor to the vets and their past comrades.

The Mossie is wonderful! We and WoW show were very lucky and are very thankful to all involved in letting it be here. Great stuff and thank you.

Cheers D

The Trigan Empire

Nice one Steve. I did a bit of googling myself yesterday and found it’s quite a cult passion … sci-fi and graphic art blogs all revering the quality of the series, for example rated well above the Star Wars saga. A huge tale of empire in beautiful colour artwork and inventive content … even if the plots were very B&W … bronzed goodies and BAD baddies.

I’m guessing but what you probably found (on eBay) is the edited Tales of the Trigan Empire (7 of 12 graphic novels edited down into one book) and they’re expensive enough (hundreds of $$$). I only found one place t(lost it just now) o get the whole saga = 12x hardback volumes @ 70 quid each. Ouch!

Don

Is it this ? ( Ranger magazine ).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_(magazine)

Actually the link’s a bit weird,you have to click on the first line where it says Ranger ( magazine )

( I’m a female with obviously too much time on my hands 🙂 ).

Bumblebee … well done to you too as it turns out. I’ve just had a look at that and it seems Ranger was merged into Look and Learn. And the Trigan Empire comic strip started in Ranger then came across to (or was restarted in) Look and Learn.

So well done! But the magazine I subscribed to was Look and Learn.

cheers

Look and Learn?

YES! Inspired … well done!

I did a quick Google image search of “Look and Learn” and there’s “The Trigan Empire”. I’ll warrant that’s the graphic series I had in mind.

Thank you.

Look here on wikipedia

The vid with the really spectacular stuff is actually footage from missile range cameras of radio controlled target drones being shot down.

The one of the B17 exploding, with engines falling off, props still spinning, is a good example.

Anon.

I’ve seen that particular incident of the B17 … I always thought “holy crap, poor b’s on board”!

Where is it … a link anyone?

Sounds daft, but I could not remember the squadron number for the life of me – yet could see “KL-T” from the picture! 😮 Cheers!

Better eyes than me … where’s the [K]?