The pilot statue is probably not a pilot as it’s wearing an observer’s harness and carrying a chest pack parachute. Could be wrong but I don’t think any of the types operates from West Malling had pilots who wore that set up.

No, but the Mossie NF navs did

:mad:Sickening.
What is this country coming to:mad::(:(

I have emailed my MP and linked this thread.
However I have very little hope that this will produce any results.
My MP is Dr Poulter, who prefers to be known as “Dr Dan”, and is right up our Dave’s a*sehole. Our Dave, being a PR man, or puff artist, is all mouth and trousers, but extremely short on action.

;)Crazy and misguided spring to mind.;)
However to follow the theme, the 20 mm Hispano Mk5* was fed through a “belt feed mechanism”, which was rather like a small drum. I wonder if the fitting to the gun would enable the old drum mag to be cobbled on ?
See my pic of plumbers rearming, the man on the extreme right is cuddling said “belt feed mechanism”, which held 7 rounds and to which the belt from the ammo tank was attached.

Well, it was a good landing, they walked away.

Much better when you have two Merlins

“Hindsight is marvellous – but it isn’t available at the point of sale.”

Excellent daveg4otu, whenever the name Dresden crops up I’m afraid the red mist descends. What about London, Rotterdam, the towns indiscriminately bombed by Zeppelins and Gothas in WW1. Not to mention Wielun, see this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Wielu%C5%84

As an 8 year old I still remember hearing German bombs whistling over our roof as they bombed our village in 1940, still remember a couple of years later seeing the glow of Canterbury burning after being vandalised by the glorious Luftwaffe.
The Germans deserved everything that was coming to them.

Unfortunately Hitler had the idea of the EU and his successors have delivered, ask the Greeks. Our turn will come unless our dozy politicians can wake up, but Cameron still has dreams of being head boy and Millibrained petrifies me. Hopefully I won’t live to see the day we all have to learn German