Were some used at Jodrell Bank ??

Very pleased to see Timbo had to clean his aeroplanes on 39 Sqdn. When I served on them I always remember having to scrub our Mosquitos for the AOC s inspection. We had Teepol and one of our brighter sparks was cleaning the fuselage roundel and called the CO over to demonstrate to him how the blue streaked across the white when Teepol was vigorously applied.:D:D

I suppose a famous example is the Ju 88 nightfighter carrying all the latest radar gear which landed at Woodbridge. A novice crew had taken off from a drome in Holland, bound for Berlin.

No! No! How else do you think they can get going without an engine?

Amen

Well done Neil. You must be crackers, but good luck with it.

Here you go, and this is more than any pilot needs to know:

Fineness ratio is a term used in aerospace engineering to describe the overall shape of a streamlined body. Specifically, it is the ratio of the length of a body to its maximum width; shapes that are “short and fat” have a low fineness ratio, those that are “long and skinny” have high fineness ratios.

Now you can forget it.

No I can’t forget it.

For years I’ve lived by the old saying
“I prefer my girls built for comfort,

not speed” 😉

I look upon the Daily Wail as a comic book, nothing more.

As for the over emotive references to Dresden, get real. It was total war, Hitlers description, so we were all in it. There were no innocents on either side.
I was blown out of bed by a V1 a month after Dresden and I wanted to hear that another German city had been devastated every night.
AVM Harris and every other person who served in Bomber Command were, and are, heroes first class.