… don’t get me started on vintage tractors

Vintage tractors always seem rather hard to start 😀

The Vimy was not likely to formate with much due to it being one of the few aeroplanes that gets bird strikes on the trailing edge

:D:D:D

Not wishing to, or intending to start a “vigorous” discussion but I must admit that I have never been able to understand any decision by the British government concerning aviation or space technology development since Sandys incomprehensible decision in 1957. Other countries the size of Britain or smaller seem to be able keep in the game but Britain just sort of gave up, or relied on buying cheaper elsewhere. The loss to homegrown research has been inestimable – but then I’m not a Pom so perhaps there is good reason – however I might add that Australia is no shining light in promoting home grown either.

Saw this on the BBC this morning and according to the report the message is already at Bletchley Park museum being deciphored as it was in the red tube used only by the secret services during the war.
Cannot wait to see what the message reads.

Jay

Quote –

“Help crashed in chimney – send birdseed urgently!“

😀

Because even the S&M (!!) book on the spitfire is definitive in title only!

Is that the one with the chapter entitled “Spitfires in Bondage”? 😀

Welll Birkenhead is a bit of a Spitfire free zone (believe me I know…) so I guess they are picking up on the fact that this was an unusual happening – although I am not sure how that equates to a ‘service of commemoration’. I would have thought a special exhibition in the Town Hall would have been more suitable in the circumstances (that thankfully did not have a tragic outcome).

Considering the pilot baled out over The Dingle and the Spitfire carried on over the Mersey its a miracle it did not hit any building or person as that part of the Wirral was (and is) very built-up. Maybe thats what they have in mind in organising a service….

I know this is blatant thread drift but what on earth is a Dingle?

“Do cats eat carrots?” (we later had a cat that gnawed on carrots, helping establish my lifelong mistrust of anything I was told or read)

That’s odd – I once had a cat that liked cooked cabbage. They never fail to amaze.

Dowding and Park