In Battle Damaged photos there’s an aircraft just beyond that trailer thingy to the right of the B.17 – can someone confirm my suspicion that it’s a Brigand/Buckingham type aircraft, and what are those unusual markings (or is it me imagining things) ?

I thought this thread was about Linda Lovelace, but she isn’t 95, she’ll be 50 next month.

If she hadn’t died as a result of a car crash in 2002, she would have been 60 years old next month.

Just finished the latest edition of “Jugs” ..some interesting articles

I’m not quite sure what you mean there, Steve………..

Anyway, currently reading Christopher Brookmyre’s ‘Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks’. Brookmyre is one of that generation of Scottish writers that has emerged over the past 20 years or so, and has a sharp but humorous eye for the foibles of human nature.

Thanks for the above, Brian, excellent as always. I’d booked my tickets and was looking forward to the event, but had to cancel when my wife fell ill.

Any gen on shutter speeds /ISO ratings used ?

Possibly the most famous exit line in cinema history – James Cagney,White Heat (1949)

‘Made it, Ma, top of the world’

All I got is this, from 1928 and 1933 ‘Who’s Who in Aviation’ – he does not appear in my 1935 copy, so I presume his demise was before that edition went to print. No B or D though!

BIARD, Henry Charles

b. Godalming, Surrey; R.A.C. Av. Certif. No. 218. Learnt to fly at the Grahame-White School, 1911-1912, later instructor at Grahame-White School, during War served in R.N.A.S.; from June, 1919, to date test pilot to Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd., won Schneider Race on Supermarine racer ” Sea Lion” at Naples, 1922; third in Schneider Race on Supermarine racer “Sea Lion” at Cowes, 1923; obtained World’s Speed Record for seaplanes on Supermarine racer S.4, 1925 , went to America to fly Supermarine racer in Schneider Race, crashed during water trials. Add. Roseneath, Station Road, Sholing, Southampton, later 111 Portsmouth Road, Woolston.

The Supermarine ‘Putnam’s’ refers to him as a Channel Islander. Perhaps his parents were from there, or early life spent there?

Is anybody here old enough.. apart from Pete Truman and myself.. to remember the Rag Trade with Reg and the late Miriam Carlin..now that was a funny show

Yes, Steve, I’m old enough – I still reckon the funniest character in that show was a dithering little old lady played by, I think, a veteran actress called Esme Cannon. Magic.