Nah… 😉

Seriously, good stuff MrBlueSky

PM sent to pfP7063 and Firebex before I saw these, but anything else you have chaps bring it on anyway!

Interesting challenge what with the ribs not being parallel to line-of-flight. Them being at 90 degrees to leading edge helps – I’ll need a good think. Diagonal truss work on the Hurricane’s been good training for this one!

Really great stuff! 🙂

Agreed – This person’s first language isn’t English. It’s Bull***t.

Sadly, the miss-spelling of Hawkinge and Manston suggests someone quite possibly from these shores, but who has no regard for the relationship between spelling, punctuation and the spoken word – perhaps one of the txt generation. The impression I get is of a very young Delboy with none of the charm.

Amusing though his claims are, they are also technically fraudulent. My disquiet isn’t around the attempted sale of these items – only a deserving idiot would bid – but for the future, as this person’s abilities around forgery and the written word improve with experience. Oops, I’m getting all moralistic. Sorry.

🙂 I’m guessing he thought he could make up two of these from one four-blader. Talk about not getting it!

The seller tells me that ‘its for display purposes only’ in answer to my question about rotation direction.

Richard Hillary mentions doing it (the old Severn bridge, that is) in “The Last Enemy” – it was a regular sport at his OTU – No 5 (later 55), Aston Down. The remarkable number of losses from that unit and 52 OTU around the site of the old bridge (which had a variable vertical clearance, from lots to not enough dependent upon a very large tidal range) might have had some connection to this.

To clear up any ambiguity – this is the Severn Railway Bridge, demolished in the late sixies, and not either of the current bridges. Most spans were 100 feet, while two (I think) were nearer 300 feet. The challenges for Spitfires (span 36ft 10 in) were the smaller arches (actually not arches but roughly square). I doubt you’d want to try a Wellington through one of these!

So many things wrong, due to ignorance and assumption.

A glaring example – The memorial is not to an RAF Command set up for and solely tasked with the bombing of Dresden. To read the Mail article one would think that this was the case.

Groups with an ‘ism’ to promote love mass ignorance. It keeps things simple, and history maleable. The only way to deal with this is through understanding, analysis and dissemination of information. A 14 year old relation said recently ‘yeah, but the bombing of German cities was bad, wasn’t it? Because there were no nazis actually in the cities, and they never did anything to us’. Turns out this was direct from his history teacher.