Unfortunately if you tell them not to do it, they will. May be we should encourage minors to have sex below the age of 16, just like their parents did. Then they would consider it to be un cool and wait until they are 16+

They are faster than pretty much anything else on the island

I bet they couldn’t catch Snapper in his mini though

Snapper would out run them in his Mini, without having to change up into third gear !!!

If anyone is interested, I have a clip of film, courtesy of the Pathe Gazette website, showing Whirlwinds. The film is silent and is 4.31 MB in size, but I have broadband so if anyone is interested in seeing the clip, I’m happy to e-mail it to them. It open with Windows Media Player, so I think anyone should be able to play it without any problems.

If you’d like the clip, feel free to PM me with your e-mail address.

I have the same footage on video, it’s of 263 Sqn at Angle in South Wales in mid 1942 when the Whirlwind was released from the official secret list.

It features amongst others Sqn Ldr Robert Woodward and Flt/Lt (Later CO of 263) Geoff “Glass Eyed” Warnes, who for some reason has his left foot strapped up. It also shows Jim Coyne, Joe Holmes and Canadian Hap Kennedy. Joe Holmes was one of several pilots who was accredited with wounding Field Marshal Rommel in 1944 whilst in command of 266 (Rhodesia) Sqd.

In this months Wingspan on page 9 there is what is claimed to be a sonar image of a Sunderland at the bottom of lake Winderemere, the article also claims that there is another Sunderland and a Sandringham in the depths of the lake.

How feasible would it be to raise at least one of these rare airframes?

Call that coffee, it’s all froth

But the Yanks have bought from this side of the pond for their own use before, just off the top of my head there’s the Canberra, Harrier and Hawk so why not his time????