Got to rush as I’m late for a leaving do… Anyone fancy taking a peek at great Sampford (RAF or village!) for me?

Thanks!

Adrian

The idea of getting close to the Richard Montgomery scares the living daylights out of me…

According to last summer’s article in “New Scientist” the closer you are to it the safer! Should it go “phut” then, while there will indeed be a most impressive bang just off Sheerness and lots of merde falling out of the sky, the major effect is likely to be a wave – a mini-tsunami if you like – which will build as it travels (again, tsunami-like).

Sheerness is too close for the wave to reach any height enough to cause damage – just the falling merde to worry about – but it’s places like Thameshaven oil terminal on the other side of the estuary that need to worry. Think about something the size of the Boxing Day tsunami hitting an industrial installation pumping oil ashore – 😮 😮 😮

Personally though should the worse happen I’d like to be a VERY long way away with a considerable supply of clean drawers!

Think about it, chaps. Would you be able to concentrate on your job whilst carting klingons round in -30 degrees cold for six hours at a time?

Didn’t Michael Bentine have to deal with a group of Aussie airmen who kept “losing” Elsans in “combat” over Germany?

Adrian

Very nice, Steiglitz! Always good to see something a bit different – I especially enjoyed those Morane-Saulnier parasol shots. Do My eyes deceive me, or do I spy a SPAD lurking behind one?

What on earth is F-AZBG? It looks like a Stampe who’s mother was frightened by an elephant! 😀

Adrian

P.S. M’sieur Langham, I think the Russian bioplane must be a PO2 – I don’t think it’s that big, just that Steiglitz was a bit close!

I think that you will find that others have been working on similar projects.This was taken at Headcorn earlier this year. :p
Phil

Always good to see Headcorn getting a mention, Phil! It was the first place I ever flew from (in a Robin Dr400, I think, G-BGRH), and I went to a school on the ridge visible at the back of the photo. We used to be able to sit at the stairwell windows and watch the parachutists. If that’s the same red-and-blue Islander they had then, they’ve got good milage from her!

Adrian

Coo, you must have wet yourself when you saw it! I don’t know what effect it will have on the enemy but it scares me!

😀

Adrian

well, I did have a go yesterday at taking a piccy of the Utterly Butterlys in action with a 1950s folding camera so you never know, we might see that here yet!

Would have tried with the Box Brownie, but I don’t have a “Sports finder”…

Adrian
(sadly, all this is true!)

I’d say this twin-engined a/c is a Douglas B-18B “Bolo”

Martin

You could be right, Martin, as Dave says it’s very snub-nosed for a Lockheed twin (mind you, we do have snub-nosed Marauder as well!). I had forgotten about the B18’s existence.

Adrian