Mods, might be worth putting this in the other Fora. I only look in here a couple of times a year 🙂 and only did this time because of the PM.

amavous with a youtube link.

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/

Straight search in Title for “de Havilland The Golden Years” brings up 2 copies.

http://www.bookfinder.com

Search here brings up 5 copies, some in the UK but dearer.

The Malta Story gets me every time when the almost afloat Ohio is dragged into Grand Harbour lashed between two destroyers, especially as I believe it’s film of the actual event and not a re-creation. Without that tanker Malta was lost.

Funniest is difficult but probably any where a Wellington takes off, a Stirling carries out the bombing raid and a Halifax lands back at base. Adjust aeroplanes to match the particular film.

I seem to remember there was one edition of a magazine, a try out (pilot)with a different title, prior to Flypast No 1, which initially was bi-monthly.

Mark12

Classic Aircraft IIRC. I’ve got a copy of it around somewhere.

I like the German for the UH-1.
The RE-8 = Harry Tate, bit of poetic licence with rhyming slang.

Harry Tate was a famous music hall comedian during the early part of the 20th century. I think that makes it sort of rhyming slang but not cockney.

The standard Lotus engine (at the time) was the 2 litre Talbot Sunbeam derivative, which had the usuall Chapman treatment, i.e twincam head and twin 40’s (sidedraught carbs), this engine had 2 further incarnations, as a turbo, and a dry sump turbo (later engines were also charge cooled)

Wrong way round. The Talbot Sunbeam Lotus had the standard Lotus engine.
Originally derived from, or tested with depending on where you read it, the cast iron slant four from the Victor FD. The first few were built with Vauxhall blocks but quickly went to aluminium Lotus blocks.