Where Eagles Dare and and Forever Young and First of the Few missing too.

Just googled it was July 21 1996 at Barton, killing the crew, a sad loss of both men and machine

Sadly, even paying the extra to have a few digital cable channels including the US version of Discovery Wings didn’t work! It is now re-named….wait for it…..(insert fanfare here)….’THE MILITARY CHANNEL!!!!’ You can imagine what that is like.

I hope the UK version doesn’t go the same way. every time I see a military type doc on other channels (Discovery Civilisation the biggest culprit) it seems to be all about the tank war with the odd ship thrown in. At least Wings for the most part for all its faults is aviation related.

Incidentally did anyone catch Robbie Coltranes prog on superchargers? Lots of excellent footage of Spitfire TE566 and ‘109 Black 6 (sadly missed in the air) in flight.

Over the years we have had movies about ‘how we won the war single handed’ from both the American side and the British. but very few taken if any taken from the view of the Axis powers, Tora, Tora, Tora and Bridge at Remagen come to mind but they used both sides perspective. If we are going to do a ‘remake’ of Battle of Britain, or any war movie, why not make it from the perspective of the Germans telling of their frustration of not being able to crack the allied defences whilst suffering because of politically bad decisions on their side of the fence. you never know it may resurrect some exitinct German aircraft like the Stuka, Ju88, Do17, Me110 or He111.

I think I read the Dominies were retired (is that right?)

The RAFs Dominies are still in service with 55(R) Sqn at RAFC Cranwell

I remember helping out at the Blackpool RAF Town Show and one of the exhibits was the replica Nimrod fuselage, we were constantly asked if it was a submarine! One smart alec, when he spyed the wheels of the two trailers it was made up of, said they were for when the pilot wants to land it on the seabed!

I guess the point was, it got some people flying who couldn’t afford it any other way.

But I agree about the looks. This cartoon sums it up perfectly!

Cracking cartoon! By A ‘Whats the point’ aeroplane I meant that it looks like one of those pre-Wright Bros. attempts at making a flying machine that was doomed to failure. As there were/are better designs it makes you think ‘Whats the point? – It’ll never take off!’ Maybe they were trying to go back to those bygone days! 🙂

My candidate would have to be the Mignet Pou de Ceil (Flying Flea) – a ‘Whats the Point’ aeroplane.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/mignet-flying-flea.htm