Don’t know why but this aircraft has always intrigued me.

Anyone know of any good books, magazine articles, and/or websites on it?

I’ve read Joe Baugher’s write-ups, but that’s about as detailed information as I’ve been able to find.

Would love to find lots of great pictures of Banshees too…..especially in RCAF colors and with AIM-9 AAM’s.

Squadron have published one of their “In Action” series on it. These are still available.

Can anyone help with info on a Flare gun Number 4 mk 1 made by Molins Machine Gun Ltd of London?

Here’s something >

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-weapons/signal-pistols.htm

Nah. They were still being used… I’m almost serious! Why Swifts is indeed odd though.

IIRC the Swifts were the rather disastrous early marks which were scrapped or otherwise decommissioned fairly quickly. The Swifts which became the quite successful recon aircraft were the later marks which were seriously redesigned.

I wonder? ( oh no says you !!!! )

Seriously though would they have made the connection? was it that unusual for a tail to be shot off? wasnt there a weakness with some of the 109’s losing their tails in combat during a dive ?

The early models of the 109F had a weakness in that area. Strengthening plates were added to fix it. Later models of the F didn’t have the problem.

The funny thing about comedy is (if you’ll pardon the pun) that there are no qualifications in the subject , and even if there were what would something like a NVQ (not very qualified) prove?

The fact that you are “falling about laughing” is enough for me, as an amateur, but I do think you have a contradiction in terms ,with amateurs and the London palladium, as I believe they only book professionals.

And yes you do resemble that remark!

Ummmm sorry what was that? I’m now ROFLMAO 😀

Anyway as the Marx Brothers are dead, and the Three Stooges have also departed for the Heavenly Choir the casting problem remains. I see you as played by Ricky Gervase. As for the others perhaps we could bring together the cast of Pearl Harbour and call the thread Pearl Harbour 2 – The Asylum Strikes Back 🙂

Personally I’ll accept any supporting role offered – that’s ‘cos I’m a pillar of society.

😀

I joined this forum for serious debates and increase my knowledge of our aviation heritage and at the same time hopefully help others.

With surreal posts like above, I find myself getting increasingly disillusioned.

I do not feel we are doing the memory of those who served and died any justice by continuing this type of debate.

Just lie back and think of England – the result will be much the same.

😀

I’ve split the thread at this point so that the ‘Bader Enigma’ comedy show doesn’t swamp the more serious discussion above.

Moggy
Moderator

Serious discussion ? And here I was under the impression that the whole thing was a wind up from beginning to end. 😀

Navvies with shovels claiming to be archaeologists, real archaeologists told in no uncertain terms by the navvies that their “hawwwkkk spit!!!!” professional qualifications are not worth a pinch of dried sparrow poop.

A whole TV show made and broadcast about not finding the legless one’s Spitfire.

Someone claiming that the legless one actually spent some of his war service in a hotel in Liverpool at the expense of the Germans and the British.

Various others claiming various other things. Two noted authors having a bit of a set too over who did what and to whom.

Tell me when’s the film coming out – it’ll be a scream. It’s a pity that the Marx Brothers are no longer with us.

🙂