Some background reading on rocket powered vehicles:

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html

If you go to Google Earth and press the clock in the upper menu bar – you can go back to 2004 and see the train on the track with the carts.

It is also on the 2010 image as they seem to have bug@$!£ed up the image and reused the 2005 one with the new image of the adjacent fields. Either that or they have taken down the new airspace extension and put the train back in since last month.

Going back in time you can see Sally B jumping around several standings and the aircraft being slowly cleared from behind the sheds next to M11.

Fortunately there are ca. 7 images from different times to play with.

It might be of interest to some to read full text of Winstons “The Few” speech.

With regard to the famous paragraph In general it seems to have been curtailed beyond the first semi colon…

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day; but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers, who will play an invaluable part in the case of invasion and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meanwhile on numerous occasions to restrain.”

FYI there were no red pigments that were light stable for any period of time until the development of the diketo pyrollo pyrolles in the 70/80s up until then all red paints faded and would not be the same colour for any length of time.

Indeed Tim – there is not much written here on RAF Balloon Command.

Seems to have been overlooked by more illustrious or is that precocious siblings.

I recall that they were also responsible for downing of many German aircraft.

Waiting to be shot down by the experts – but

I undertand that the paint standard from 1930 was BS381c.

For which numerous online colour charts exist and which most manufacturers can mix.

I use cellulose paints as they are one part solvent borne.

The Dark Green and Dark Earth sold by LAS Aerospace are to the BS381 standard.