RamsAy?? Shame – I don’t have a photo of him.
Motto? Can’t think when it was first perpetrated, but it’s one that I have always used!
= Tim
N****r in the Woodpile – a different point of view.
I cannot see how the stupidity of someone being injured in trying for a kill should merit a VC. Much better to survive & up your score? A publicity move?
Hannah – yes, a hundred times over. And today – covering a grenade to save your chums (& yourself, yes) – yes.
= Tim
Heat? No – but it was Summer.
Here are the Boys. A bit young??
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= Tim
As it so happens, baz, I did that engine change with them. Overnight!!
Who could survive without them??
= Tim
A bit off topic again, but who cares? The weather needs livening up in this part of the country.
SABRE an abomination?? NonSENSE! I LOVED mine. Even though I give you that the Fury & Temp II were nicer to fly.
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Just noticed in the book – at that time – our SCRAMBLE time from cockpit readiness was 25 seconds. Gold Medal??
Not sure whether the Squadron badge was designed for the Sabre, or earlier?
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= Tim
Could you e-mail me?
= Tim
I’m really cross.
Wanted to add in the day that we escorted an escapee Me 108 from France – but searched in vain.
The one & only Tim, Christer – of 151 Wing.
Bell rings??
Actually, CFE Tangmere, June ’45, where I was able to fly 10 new types.
I was home for 3 weeks from India, where I had TWDU at Ranchi with 9 types!
All good fun!!
= Tim
Must disappoint you, Mondariz – my time on the FW190 (& BF110) was just ‘handling experience’, rather than trials. I would have had the BF109 as well, but some berk demolished its undercarriage the day before!!
And the several US aircraft on strength were more for weaponry trials than combat.
As seen before, I met my fate much earlier, before the massed September ’40raids, & thus survived. Everything has a silver lining?
By the way, that is ‘my‘ Christer??
It really bugs me that, having flown the FW 190, P47 & P38, I did not have combat time in any in which to evaluate them. Other than the fantastic roll rate of the 190.
Had I had it, like in real life with the BF109, I would have met my fate!!
= Tim
PS Forgot to say what fascinating information this thread has brought up.
If I read it correctly, the early Shackletons did not have contra-rotators?
Tell me more. I only met them in 1955. Soon after which I smashed 8 of them!!
A great thread!
= Tim
Of course – the new breed of forced air central heating!
Need the prop to cool the engine?
Thanks!
Abbey – would that have been the one landing at Tangmere – do you think?