Lived in Tremar back in the 70’s. Rumour has it that the father of a kid I went to school with in Torpoint had a Lightning on a stick. Guy by the name of Ernie Marshal in Downderry, bit of a property tycoon back in the day, he had a Countach in ’76…
On a related note:
There is a rather large abandoned complex just off Mulholland Hwy in Los Angeles that was some sort of pre WWII nazi farm/commune type place.
Ever seen a B52 barrel roll?
I saw one manage about 30% before ground interference…
I also spotted this:
http://www.starmanauctions.com/new%20online%20sales/pictures.htm
I just spotted that ad at the top of page 98…..The first word that entered my mind was “Nigeria”………..
His RAF issue pisspot was on Ebay last week, last bid I saw with 20 hours to go was 35quid…
Perhaps it was this?! 😀
http://cgi.ebay.com/RAF-CHAMBER-POT-WITH-EMBLEM-LETTER-OF-PROVENANCE_W0QQitemZ6601996486QQcategoryZ106154QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Apparently belonged to Stanford-Tuck, no less, so you never know!
Skipper
Probably worth a few bob seeing as it was owned by Batman.. LMFAO!! 😀
I saw a pic years ago of a P47 that had a neat hole on one of the prop blades from a 88 round that passed right thru it & exploded under the aircraft making a helluva mess. Also another with about 3ft of telephone pole embedded in the leading edge of the wing.
Re-open Bourne ? 🙂 How about Fowlmere? Bottisham? Rougham? Not like there a shortage of former airfields around the area…. Waterbeach?
Doesn’t that conjure up the most wonderful images for the never yet produced movie
“Carry On up the Nuclear Deterrent” ?
Moggy
& then there is the contamination aspect from the BB’s being in direct contact with *stuff* while inside the sphere… I sure as hell wouldn’t be picking them up…
The one at March AFB…
There are large lumps of one at the bottom of a local canyon, don’t much fancy a 5 mile hike into rattlesnake country to have a look at it tho
If ya pay attention during the film you’l notice that almost EVERY time John Wayne has a line it’s followed immediatley by the sound of an aircraft flying over.
It made oi laugh.. 🙂
The van lacked Royal Navy; Meet Interesting People and Torpedo Them or similar, it was blank as far as I recall.
Any ideas?
There are two types of boat: Submarines.. & targets…
One of my junior school teachers shot one down with AA, dunno if she got a medal for it, but she used to mention it a lot.