As far as Britians concerned i think Johnathan Ross would be a great candidate. 😀 😀

Yes Anna give it to someone who can’t pronounce his own name. 😀 :rolleyes:

Nice pics Anna 😀

Fair enough!

Hmmm. Well off topic, but I’d hold up a hand to wanting to acknowledge the Hurricane’s contribution to the Battle of Britain being significantly greater than the Spitfire’s, despite the modern perception that the Hurricane was some kind of ‘also-ran’ to the, yes, glamourous Spitfire, if it is remembered at all.

There were more Hurricanes. They shot down more enemy aircraft than the Spitfires. More, actually, than everyone else put together.

In historical terms, pointing that out to (often) repeated surprise can hardly be called ‘revisionism’ in its prejortative sense, but certainly a correction of a false impression of the Spitfire’s supirior contribution, rather than its genuinely superior performance. An inferior piece of technology which achieves more (though greater numbers, themselves a factor of older, easier production requirements) than a ‘superior’ one can rightly be seen as an ‘underdog’, can’t it?

Or were you advocating this view, and highlighting ‘Spitfire snobbery’?

And are we off topic yet? 😀

Could we have won the Battle of Britain with just the Hurricane, NO.
Could we have won it with just the Spitfire YES. This comes from EX battle of britain fighter pilots. ask any ex battle of britain fighter which aircraft they
would rather go in to combat in and 90% will say the Spit, or put it another way in which aircraft do you think Dowding if he had the choice in 1940 would have put his fighter pilots in, the only reason the RAF were flying hurricanes in 1940 is because there was not enough spit to replace them, it’s not Spitfire Snobbery it’s fact, after 1940-41 the Hurricane as a fighter was second class.
Why do people keep going on about the how the Hurricane shot down more
Aircraft than the Spit, it’s been said before a hundred times on this forum.
Phil.

But was it 😮 or was it faked :confused:

Of course it was faked, in fact the yanks got so good at faking it they faked
it Six times :rolleyes:

Britains finest hour.

Well yes they probably were the First English Men in Space :rolleyes:

America’s Finest Hour.

[QUOTE=JDK]Damn right.

Hear, er, hear!

A good day to be proud of an amazing LSR achievement (it’s more like flying at that speed!)

Britain has a great collection of wonderful stuff to be proud of, and it’s a global achievement too – if I may…

1. Old Warden. (Very British; but the Bleriot, Czech-flown Spitfire, and Canadian built Lysander, not to mention a few others do come to mind…)
2. Grahame White Hangar – Ohh, tough one. CGW flew an Anglo-French Farman, and there’s a couple of airframes (Hanriot, Caudron G3) in it whose ‘Britishness – isn’t.
3. Airspace – Several airframes from Canada, including a Lysander, Lancaster and CF-100…
4. Cold War Cosford… (Don’t mention the F-111. :p )
5. Black Magic Rebuild Project… Survived thanks in part to use by the Portuguese…
6. A flying Vickers Vimy... Built in America, funded by an American, and flown by all sorts of people including an Aussie and a Yank, plus some bloke from Basingrad, People’s Republic of…
7. NX611 – Or the ex-Spirit of Surfer’s Paradise; sponsored by same for flying back from Australia…
8. A Miles Falcon – Thanks (in part) to the Swedes…
9. Friends on the Forum – Wordwide…
10. Old Enemies on the Forum :p Also too close…
11. Chipmunks – Canadian designed by an ex-pat Pole (Wsiewolod Jakimiuk)…
12. Alex Henshaw… Record breaker not within the British isles, but the length of Africa, with some (acknowledged) help…

OK, it’s a bit of a mickey-take, but it IS a global preservation scene, and the jewels are spread widely around the world. It’s great that so much is available, whether in the UK or anywhere else. It’s not to knock TT’s point, which with the JCB is a great one, but to acknowledge that it is (and IMHO always has been) an international game.

Proud to be a citizen of the world. ;)[/QUOTE

Well that a bit like saying we shouldn’t be proud of the British Museum because it’s full foreign artifacts, or that the French Shouldn’t be proud
of the louvre because it’s full of art from all over the world. The British & the French put those to places together for the world to see, nobody else.
But like you say it’s a bit of a mickey take, because if it’s not then it’s a bit of a silly comment. 😀 so stop trying to belittle the things that makes this Gods Country 😀 😀 😀 oh and before you go off on one,please take note of the
smilies
Regards Phil.

Kudos to the security folks (with an assist to the Pakistanis!) who caught the potential bombers at Heathrow today!! Way to be on the ball and stop another terrorist plot….could have really made a mess over here if they had gotten through, what with plotting to blow up 10 planes headed for the US…Well done!

Mark

Thanks Mark, a lot of people in this Country have got there heads so far up
there arses they can’t see whats going on around them. I keep wondering
which Country they will target when they do get an Atomic Weapon.