Avro Lancaster 3 times

How I hate you 🙂 🙂 Which Lancasters did you fly in? PA474 or actual service aircraft?

Notice the Skyraiders too?

awwwwwwwww 😀

I think Ray and co have sharper minds at their age than most of the channel 5 crew have now 🙂

I like how ray explained to Suchet how the wire went in one end of the tube and out the other! 🙂

Thank you for the reply EN830. Good to get back on topic.

Kev, your reply, as many of the others here, was well thought out and put very nicely. I would love to see free entry for all vets but I think the IWM should be given some credit for what they have done.

Again in regards to your post Kev, you wrote “The War Memorials that our drunken and callow youth choose to defile by using them as a toilet name those who made the supreme sacrifice. “. This is very sad and true but I hope that this isn’t a view taken of all young people. Some of us do care and some of us do regard the history and sacrifice that went before us as important. This is precisely why I think the IWM should be applauded for staging this airshow, at least a few people, young people, may go home after the show witht their parents and actually want to know more about what happened at Sword, Juno, Gold, Utah and Omaha on June 6th 1944.

steve

[RIGHT]C’mon guys! To allow D-Day vets in would be a great stance and a very nice gesture but how would the IWM do it, lets think this through. If the IWM do let all D-Day vets in then why should the IWM have an event for one campaign with free entry to veterans and then for other campaigns, not. How fair would it be to have veterans who made an equal contribution in other campaigns or men and women who served at home in important vital capacitys, to turn up and not be allowed free entry simply because they didn’t serve in this particular campaign. Either make all vets pay or let everyone who contributed in to the event free, thats including everyone from the women who made the buttons to go on the uniforms to the people in the factories at Yeadon, Woodford etc, assembling the lancs.

At least the IWM have done something to make this a special day for anyone who served. Lets contribute on this postive aspect and the factthat this show and the many others will contribute to keeping the memory,
of these brave people, alive and fresh in the minds of new generations.

Mind you if they were gay, left handed, single mothers of an ethnic minority and not a British Passport holder they would be given a grant without question.

This is perhaps the most narrow minded thing i’ve ever read on this forum, what a shame someone who makes such a usual valuable contribution would post such a bitter and unfounded post. Im tempted to write more about your comment but this isnt the place for it, I do want to submit my disapproval of those comments though. [/RIGHT]

why is she gutted?