“From this day, till the ending of the world, we in it shall be remembered. We lucky few, we band of brothers.

For he who today, sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother”.

Not really from a film as such but from “Band of Brothers”.

Its from Henry V but it was used as the title for the book and the miniseries

‘Well, well, well, well. I’m here to tell you that life as you knew it has ended. You all may as well go into town tonight. You may as well laugh and make fools out of yourselves. Rub your pathetic little peckers against your honeys or stick it in a knothole in the fence but whatever it is, get rid of it. Because at 0600 tomorrow your ass is mine’ Clint Eastwood – Heartbreak Ridge

‘Mr. Ambassador, you have nearly a hundred naval vessels operating in the North Atlantic right now. Your aircraft has dropped enough sonar buoys so that a man could walk from Greenland to Iceland to Scotland without getting his feet wet. Now, shall we dispense with the bull?’ Richard Jordan – Hunt for the Red October

Martin

There is a book due out in January which features the Airfix artwork – it has the classic on the front cover from the old 1/72 scale B-17 “bit-o-lace” under heavy attack and burning away nicely while dispatching a few BF-109’s…

Love the Buccaneer box though !

James May from Top Gear did a show about classic toys and covered the model kits. he even did an interview with the bloke who did most of the Box Art paintings for Airfix. Was repeated recently on Dave

http://dave.uktv.co.uk/shows/docs/james-mays-top-toys/

So have all these eurofighters run out of flight hours then? How many prototypes were there?

IIRC there were 6 prototypes

DA1 & DA3 – EADS
DA2 & DA4 – BAe Systems
DA5 – Alenia
DA6 – Casa – Destroyed in crash during testing

Martin

There was another series about ten years ago covering outstanding British designs with epsiodes on the Spitfire and Shcakleton.

Yes I remember that series but I think it was nearer to twenty years ago. It was part of the ‘Perpetual Motion’ series. They also covered he DC3/C47, Moggy Minor and the Blackpool Trams. The Shackleton episode was shown just before they retired in 91. I still have it on VHS somewhere. I might dig it out and watch it again

Martin

Chippie with 10AEF RAF Woodvale, mid 80’s when the Meatbox was on the gate!

I flew out of Woodvale as a Cadet too. I remember the Meatbox well IIRC they got rid of it and replaced it with an F4 Phantom til that was binned now there is nothing. or at least there was nothing there when I last passed the gate about four years ago

Martin

]IIRC, “Wings of the Apache” was its initial title. Renamed “Fire Birds” when someone later realised the attack heloes had 1) short stubby fixed wings; 2) multiple long narrow rotary wings.
“Wings of the Apache” conjures an image of an aircraft with long, broad wings.

Also, ISTR in the end of Highlander I, a RAF jet fighter flies by, but we see only its tail end, so I always forget whether it’s a Harrier or Jaguar?

‘Wngs of the Apache’ was the UK title and ‘Firebirds’ was the US title of the film.

The RAF Jet at the end of Highlander is a Jaguar that was based with 226 OCU at RAF Lossiemouth and is mentioned n the end credits

Martin

well done, peter another one brought back to life:D

Martin