Dunno about anyone else but my old Mk1 BS Detector goes into operation when I hear these sorts of urban legends. :diablo:

I am totally unconvinced that the colour yellow, which AFAIK is in a number of badges and coats of arms, is some form of Heraldic shorthand denoting cowardice. I would have thought a white feather would have been more traditional for British stuff. 😀

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I’ll give it a few more hours before I take the plunge and choose what will inevitably the wrong colour 🙂

Isn’t it always the the thing that happens? 😀 Still as I recall one answer you got over at HS suggested yellow (stands out inf the dark). One thing – I don’t think they’d be is red – that colour disappears completely in the dark.

Of course you could always hinge the escape hatch then when the real answer emerges you could repaint it. 😉

Everytime I see pictures of that work of art you are creating, I am overwhelmed.

That is modelling at its finest.

Mmm – wasn’t there a poem written about him: “I wandered lonely as a crowd…….”? 😉

“When all at once I spied a host
A host of Ollie’s posts …”

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Okay before any of you guys go slating me off or trying to discourage me this is a serious idea.
I was browsing the planetalk foroum and i know there is mention there of making a compilation book of memorys of the spitfire for its 70th aniversery. But has anything simmiler been done for the Hurricane? I am thinking of doing the same idea but for the Hurricane and putting it on the web, or even (this is a dream realy) getting it printed.
What are peoples thoughts on this idea?
Before anyone asks, yes i am prepared to put in the time, money and effort. I whant to do something like that. Im not to fussed about getting it in print but i would like to get it on my site.

Weren’t you going to write a book on the Schneider Trophy and the Bendix races? Looks like you’ve got a pretty full schedule. 🙂

Medal Story

Out here in Australia when I was a kid – 50 years ago – schools would have an ANZAC Day event where us kids would wear our parent’s medals.

Both my parents served in New Guinea during WW2 (My father was in the engineers while my mother was a nurse) and as a result received exactly the same set of medals (4 each).

So whenever I appeared at these school things I tended to rattle and clank more than the average kid, and spend time explaining to all and sundry why I was wearing two identical sets of gongs. 🙂

It’s certainly not on show at the moment, although there’s a lot in store I’m not aware of. Could it be the same as Lincoln Nitschke’s piece? (See linked pic.)
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Unless there has been some work done on it , that’s not it. The Pt Cook one was very rough – just residues of interior green. When I saw it it was in the connecting passage between the two aircraft display areas.

Given the number we used out here you’d think there’d be a few more bits lying around.