As a relative ‘newbie’ on this forum, I was wondering if it would be possible to meet some of my fellow forumites ‘in the flesh’ as it were at Legends?

I am aware that I’ve been quite vocal in certain threads – maybe encouraged by a bonhomie that exists between people who actually know each other, while I’m talking a little out of turn as a ‘stranger’. Similarly, with a few exceptions I have no idea who I’m waffling incoherently at.

What we need is a meeting point – is there one? Or a ‘lost forumites’ tent?

Oh, and in a vain attempt to remain on-topic – Beaufort!

Just a guess, but yeah. Apart from there being a fair few in theatre with the US, I believe the Chinese used them as well.

All I can find for ‘Blackhawk’ around 1943 is the US tool manufacturer. Looks like they also manufactured hydraulic systems since at least 1929 – but there my googlability runs out. The ‘T6’ part of the code might refer to the treatment of alloy used – although I’m not sure how common T6 was in 1943.

Any other ideas?

Sorry to argue with myself, but on checking it seems that whether or not the Blenheims were ultimately picked up, it was a report of unidentified aircraft by a searchlight battery at Mersea Island that initiated the alert.

However, it was still the ‘backwards’ radar plots that caused the ‘blue on blue’ interception. But maybe you knew this bit already?

Did you know…
…that the military P-3 Orion, the beloved sub-hunter of various airforces, still retains the baby milk warmer from the L-188 Electra airliner that it is derived from!

Umm.. I think that might be the radar you’re thinking of.. The P-3 can microwave steaks too!

It gets better.. the ashtray design in question was from a 1936 Ford car. Here’s a Boeing 737 cockpit ashtray (can’t find a pic of the 767 one) and the Ford Tudor from 1936 to prove it. Do I get ‘Nerd of the Year’ for this?

Sorry Stuart, was only being silly 😀

ooh, ooh, me sir, me! I’ve got one!

The pilot’s ashtray on the Boeing 767 (apparently it has one) is allegedly exactly the same as that on the B29