So….

This boat that’s being left to rot has more connection with aviation than the bizare torpeado boat and submarine wreckage on full, covered display at Duxford?

Duxford is the Imperial War Museum, not the Imperial Aircraft Museum.

Nothing to do with this thread, but regarding JDK’s signature.
I know you lot did a great job of training and re-educating our tame Yank, but are you sure he didn’t say “airplanes”?

I remember reading, on here or in one of the mags, a pilot’s impression. He said the Allison was smooth, the Merlin sounded a lot rougher at low revs, and the Griffon sounded like it wanted to go and kill something.

I posted a link to a 1/72 scale Wyvern last year. Unfortunately the page has gone now. It was based on the old Frog kit and would have been awesome in any scale.

Rolling Lancs was one of Alex Henshaw’s party tricks, to the consternation of unwitting passengers. Described in Sigh for a Merlin, IIRC.

Mark12, revenge for my diatribe against collectibles, which I lost (grrrrr). Was it pegs and lucky heather you were peddling, or were you pedalling? 🙂

There appear to be two diametrically opposed viewpoints here, both strongly held. However, I don’t think they are as different as it seems at first.

The dedication of the researchers is not in doubt. They have every right to be delighted with the outcome after so many years hard work. Apart from the items recovered, to pinpoint the actual spot(s) is a feat in itself.
Ray Holmes is an elderly gentleman, apparently not in the best of health, and is perfectly entitled to be a little bemused and possibly out of his depth. Being modest, he also doesn’t seem to think he did anything special and wonders what all the fuss is about.
Although not entirely fair to the team in Germany, to use them mainly as a backup in case nothing was found in London does seem understandable.

Most people who are defending the programme seem to think that those like myself that were not impressed are complaining about the content, the researchers, workers or others deeply involved in the two projects.
I don’t think that is generally true and in my case it certainly isn’t. To me, the programme was spoilt by the presenters. The woman was irritating and John Suchet’s many years as a newsreader didn’t train him for off-the-cuff questions or what to do with the replies. I don’t see why Joe Public’s opinion should be any different. We were already interested in what was going on. If it has fired the imagination of anybody that wasn’t interested beforehand I shall be delighted to have my opinion proved wrong.

I hope, with judicious editing and, presumably, some extra footage after the artefacts have been cleaned up that a later broadcast or DVD will be substantially better.

Despite beiing born only 7 years after WW2 ended, I was taught nothing about it at school. I’m interested in WW2, industrial archeology and anything mechanical.
Anything I know about any of them, I’ve taught myself.
My school history lessons, at which I was abysmal, seemed to be 16th and 17th centuries for my entire time there. No wonder I was hopeless at it.