What amazed me about that programme was the wide variety of types flown inside 24 hours.
A lot of 1940s military aircraft were not easy to fly, and emergencies could rapidly develop from simple overcontrol.
So hats off to those brave ladies, and men, who flew for the A.T.A.

I think Park was treated very shabbily, elbowed aside by the big egos.
Here is my pic taken yesterday and I like the statue, in the style of Nelson on his column. This mans victory was no less significant.

Yes, a good programme.
I watched with great interest as they spoke with Bill Green. He was shot down within a mile of my home. I don’t remember the occasion, being only 8 at the time, but it was all part of a strange unreal time for us. At least we always knew we were going to win, I don’t know why this was, the BBC must have done a great job.

When they showed the Bentley control room and spoke of the famous time when Churchill was told “there are no reserves”, it brought a little tear to my eye.

Sorry to get emotional, but I still have some vivid memories

I can remember trying to hide when uniformed ladies came into a pub selling a magazine called “The Watchtower”
http://www.watchtower.org/
Look and run

The blue one is 50s. I scrounged one when I had a car and had it fitted, saved me when I did have a near head-on. One of the very first to have a harness fitted in a car in 1955.

Congratulations Baz on an excellent job

Any idea what the penalty is for a westerner snooping around military airfields in this part of the world?

Just take a “goolie chit” with you

Reading through this thread makes me realise how seriously the current education system has failed our children.
I went to school from age 5 to 16 from 1937 to 1948 finishing with the equivalent of GCSE (plus exemption from Matriculation) so I had two years of varied jobs, farm labourer, clerk, and met assistant before walking into a navigators job in the RAF at 18. No sweat.
Nowadays they are not allowed to do competitive sport in case they feel ‘disadvantaged’, they do not learn to spell, write or add up, but on leaving school face intense competition for the job they want. A crazy situation which does the country no service.
Bring back the birch and 3 Rs
Rant over.