The B17 the greatest bomber of the war!

All those men and engines just to drop a hand grenade on Berlin.

Originally posted by mixtec
Well if were going to refer to math as plural, then we should refer to other subjects also as plural like “Im going to study my historys, chemestys, physicses, literatures, etc”

It may have escaped your notice, but mathematics ends in an s. The others don’t.

Just read Flypast myself and I think it said that June next year is the current plan for the final flight of the SAAF one.

There was a thread a few months ago which included the surviving TSR2s.

I had a feeling somebody said there were no engines in XR220 but I’m not certain and I didn’t look myself last time I was there.
I saw the covers on the intakes and didn’t think of looking at the back.
Never thought of them deliberately nobbling it so it couldn’t fly but given the way the cancellation was handled it comes as no surprise.

XR222 was never completed so although there’s a lot missing, most, if not all, of it was never there in the first place. I think Ashley said the cockpit area is completely bare.

In the car park on the north side at Duxford there’s a one foot slice of rear fuselage, just big enough for the taileron and fin/rudder pivots.
I read somewhere once that there are/were a number of airframe parts at Farnborough but whether it’s true or not I don’t know.

While we’re throwing insults around, we could remind Pilot that the only reason France has a permanent seat on the UNSC is because Churchill insisted they be treated as victors.

I think, like most people, that Churchill was a great man but he wasn’t infallible.

Master of disguise, that man.

Sold my first edition of Spitfire – The History to buy the second edition and I’ve been regretting it ever since.
Don’t think Key have ever heard of proof readers. Spelling mistakes, typos, paragraphs repeated and that’s just in the first dozen or so pages.
To refer to Sir James Martin as George Martin defies belief.

On a non-aviation note, I can add two more that are both terminally tedious, read at your peril.
Journey Up The Amazon by Peter Fleming, unbelievably Ian’s brother. I did it for my O level English Lit back at the end of the sixties and it had a lot to do with me giving up the subject. (Shakespeare didn’t help, either).
The other one is about the building of the Panama Canal. I’m not going to look for it as I’d probably doze off as soon as I saw it.

I wouldn’t necessarily agree about Warby being well-liked by his contemporaries.
Just re-reading a couple of books about Malta during WW2.
Seems that neither Laddie Lucas or Harry Coldbeck (who took over PR duties after Warburton) had a great deal of time for him.

Meant to watch the prog Friday night but got delayed by some ale. I’ll have to wait for a repeat.