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1batfastard, I know there was film of a Stirling, but you said “Sterling” in your post, so not everybody gets things right all the time. And as for a bigger boat, the BBC would have been criticised for spending money on getting one out there, I’d guess. I’m sure it was the one thing the lady will remember about the day the BBC rowed here out to her father’s last resting place, “why didn’t the BBC lay on a bigger boat?”

Short Sterling????

Apart from a rowing boat, I’m not sure what else BBC could have laid on for a trip in an inland lake in Northern Germany.

The empty floor space is for wars yet to come.

The wrecked car is bit of art by Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller entitled “Baghdad, 5 March 2007”. It features a car damaged in the bombing of the Mutanabbi Street book market, which resulted in the deaths of 38 people.

One of the engines from DV202 has been recovered, it’s in the local museum. I’m surprised the identity of aircraft was questioned.

Damn those women er… John. Who let them out of the kitchen. Having just spoken to a lady in her 80s she was still very emotional about the programme having had two cousins who served in Bomber Command. One, a very sick 91 year old former pilot, was wheeled out to see the programme and he too was a bit emotional by all accounts. But hey, let’s have more about guns, bombs and wing spans.

They have

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?131117-The-Lanc-Britains-Flying-Past-BBC2-2130-20-July