Maybe I’m being uber-cynical, but having worked in Turkey in a military environment, and seen how the Turks operate at first hand, I wouldn’t entirely put it past them to shell their own people just to escalate matters, and force NATO to become involved…

These would be the Spitfires that were seriously shredded by Hunter cannon fire in a well known film?

That was the first thing I thought of, too!

Now here’s a nice photo of Jimmy, doing his charity work at the Haut de la Garenne children’s hospital in Jersey. Yes, that particular children’s hospital.
When he owned nightclubs in the 1960s, he was a well-known thug who would, by his own admittance, have punter’s legs broken if they incurred his wrath.
I don’t blame these women for waiting until he had safely shuffled off…

Never liked him.
Back in the late 1970s early 80s I knew a nurse who had been on the receiving end of Savile’s advances at a hospital she worked in during one of his ‘charity’ visits.
He was well known for sexually touching up nurses during these visits, and she felt physically sick every time he appeared on TV…

Other photos taken at the same time show 309 Polish Sqn at Drem, December 1944. Here’s a Google map capture from roughly the same location today…

Too late – the flies have got ’em…

Thread drift warning.

Not sure that’s correct. I have worked with formica and it doesn’t look like laminated paper. I suspect the “connection” with the drop tank is that they are both made from composite material. Formica was apparently invented in 1911. (I don’t think the Formica corporation would agree with your point about cheap furniture!). It would be interesting to know more precisely what the tanks were made from.

Well, I’m only passing on what I heard in the documentary. If you look up Formica in Wikipedia…
“The name Formica now refers primarily to the decorative product composed of several layers of kraft paper impregnated with melamine thermosetting resin and topped with a decorative layer protected by melamine, then compressed and cured with heat to make a hard, durable surface.”

now compare it to this account from the son of someone who actually made them…
“During WW2 my father was a supervisor of an assembly line manufacturing paper fuel tanks for P-51’s.
The factory was a paper mill located in the town of Bury ,county of Lancashire,England.
The tanks were made of Kraft paper laminated with resorcinol glue.There were three main components.The nose cone,tail cone ,the middle body.These were shaped over wood forms.
The paper was wound around the main body because it was a simple cylinder.The cones were more complex and were hand laminated.The paper that covered the cones was cut like flower petals.As each layer was aplied with glue it was squeegeed with a specially shaped squeegee.After forming wood baffles were riveted in place.Other pipes and fitting were added.The interiors of the three sub assemblies were coated with glue and then sprayed with fuel resistant shellac laquer.The three assemblies were bonded together in a horizontal hand cranked press.Once the tank was cured it was pressure tested to 6 psi.
Acceptable tanks were then given two coats of cellulose dope.They were then given two coats of aluminum paint applied by spray.Stenciling was then applied.13,166 tanks were made.
dcniner”
(from http://www.ww2aircraft.net)

BSG-75.

Do you, and others on the forum, think we should go the Australian way, it’s very tough to get in there, as there rules and regs are much tighter than ours.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Even Australia has relaxed its immigration laws – until around 1973 they had what was known as the ‘White Australia Policy’, which barred anyone with signs of ‘colour’…