I dont thnk nowadays they can m ake a historically correct version. What do they call the dog??

Humm, Let me think a second about that one, Humm I got it, how about Nig@er?

Hi,

£16 to £21 M to make the film.
Wow 😮 ,

How much did the real thing cost in £’s I wonder

? :confused:

Alex

£21 M, for a film with lots of effects!!!!!!! Stand by for some scratched film water effects and poor modelwork 😮

Bader V Gibson

Well, according to one recent TV programme it was Douglas Gibson VC who led the raid. I expect the bouncing bomb was just a delivery system for tin legs to Guy Bader. Andy Saunders

Bader V Gibson

I’ve got it, Bader was actually Gibson’s secret 5th kill in his new stealth Beaufighter in their battle of who would be the biggest SOB in the RAF. :diablo:

Reason for edit, new research (I though Gibson only got 3 kills on 29 Sqn) 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

Hardly surprising. After all, it’s powered by the same engines that powered the F-104 starfighter and B-58 Hustler. They weren’t exactly lethargic either.

Incidentally; I’ve often read that the Tupolev Tu-154 was the fastest airliner. Whether we’re talking about absolute top speed or maximum cruising speed I can’t remember.

Most likely needed the thurst from those engines, The 990 had serious drag problems that resulted in those carrots on the wings being added, just to allow it to reach that 990 KPH figure that it got its name from.

hey guys were having a chat about this over in commercail aswell:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=997641#post997641

On checking the above thread it mentions the DC-8. I think the guy is right on that one in that a DC-8 did MACH 1 in a dive, the event is quoted in The Illustradted International Aircraft Guide – Early Jetliners dated around 1979/1980 (Cannot find my copy to confirm the date).

I have to say that my eyebrow raised ever so slightly in Roger Moore style when I watched the part that proclaimed that Bader and the Big Wing won the Battle of Britain!! Maybe I just misheard that part, but it is certainly the way it came across. Well I learnt something there . . . it wasn’t JDK’s Hurricane or the Royal Navy that won it after all !! :diablo:

Script Editing again I’d say, However the narration did say that the Big Wing did have its faults (which we all know of) and the fact that the wing was over London during the 15th Sept attacks did play a major part in making the German High Command aware that the RAF was far from beaten. That is a well documented fact in a lot of articles that I’ve read and its about the only plus point for the Big Wing tactic. As for JDK’s comments, WHAT WAS LEADING THAT WING THAT DAY (See attachment) 😀 😀 😀

It was not a bad program by a long shot and in my view done in a damm sight better taste than that one about Ray Homles’s Hurricane that was done by Channel 5 a while back.

Anyhow, Thanks to information that I found on this thread, It now looks like I may have some BIG Spitfire profiles to draw (both with DB on the side) as somebody liked my creation below.

Papa Lima, Its on a DVD and will most likely be on its way to Sweden after you get back from the US as I’m most likely going to look at a Spit or two this weekend, should I get yet another car problem fixed first. 😡

Max Mach is 0,86, which is well below most Boeings. But compared to old RAF Hawks it is fast.
That has a max of Mach 0,88 , but the cruise at 30000 feet is just 652 km/h or Mach 0,6 .
Maybe the infos from the “Hawk-drivers” were doctored a little bit.
At least it is the fastest British built airliner after the Concorde!

I’ve been told by a guy on the RAF VC-10’s in the Gulf back in 2003 that on a C1(K) with the wing pods off and the IFR probe fitted, the max chat crusie on the aircraft is a bit faster than the book figure for a standard VC-10. what the figure was he would not say, but he did admit it was over 0.9 Mach. He could have been Line Shooting of course and the VC-10 with an IFR probe is not an Airliner.

Hi everybody, thought I would like to share with you photographs of some wooden model aircraft that were built for me. As you will probably see, they are meant more for the childrens market and are usually sold as “Toys”. Hope you will agree that they are more suitable for collecting and displaying. If you want to see any more, (Lancasters, Halifaxes, Blenheims, and so on), please let me know and I will post more photographs.

Very nice, beats the Wooden Bucc and Tornado that I made in woodwork classes at School.