RE: Cockpit teaser

Is it a hovercraft of some sort?

RE: Another Quiz….

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 18-10-02 AT 10:32 PM (GMT)]Thanks for putting us out of our misery at last! 🙂 I could be wrong,but I’m fairly sure the platoon sergeant in Private Ryan was Sgt. Horvath,rather than Horvatch.Typo??
By my reckoning,the film in which John Wayne flies P40’s in the Far East is called ‘Flying Tigers’.In Flying Leathernecks, he plays a Marine pilot flying Hellcats and Corsairs.The nickname for a US Marines pilot was a ‘Leatherneck’,hence the name of the film. I’m trusting my memory on this one-probably not a wise move!
My memory is also telling me that the two squadrons on Angels One Five were codenamed Pimpernel and Beeswax,as opposed to Hornet. Time I watched a few of these again.Looking through the list I realise just how long it’s been since I’ve seen some of them.

RE: Another Quiz….

The answer to number 2 is that ‘Septic’ strains his Legimentum Mucea (spelling??) pronounced,’Mukai’.According to Septic,we should all have noticed it in cows.

RE: Radio Times ‘Dambusters’ letter…

Well put Tony,nice one! 🙂 I just hope they print some of the letters that have been sent in response.All too often in newspapers,mags etc, they will publish a letter by someone who hasn’t a clue what they are talking about,and then they fail to print any of the responses sent in reply to it.Uppermost in my mind are the events of June last year and the coverage they recieved in the general media,particularly the Evening Standard.Goodness knows how many letters they recieved from us forum members and the wider public,but they chose not to print any of them.

RE: Interesting Lightning story from the 70s

One of the things that occurs to me is whether a Lightning could be ditched at all.I don’t claim to be an expert,but by my reckoning a Lightning would have to be travelling at a fair old lick even at it’s lowest controllable speed,perhaps in excess of 100mph?
To my mind there is no point in ordering the pilot to ditch.He could simply have ejected,so why would he make an almost certainly fatal ditching attempt??
To my mind,the whole story has been blown out of proportion,twisted etc etc.Perhaps there was some sort of military cover up to begin with,but there seems to have been alot of ‘spin’ and general sensationalising of the events added since.

RE: Prays to all those affected by this horrible act..

This is very sad and tragic news,and I for one am seriously angry about this,almost as mad as I was when the WTC was attacked.I’m with the US point of view in terms of the fact that something has to be done to destroy global terrorist networks,although I also agree with the above statement about the dubious wisdom of attacking Iraq.I’m not convinced though that this attack has too much to do with the Iraq situation.As far as I can tell,much of SE Asia is a hotbed of Muslim extremism,and according to some ‘experts’ who’ve voiced thier opinions,there is alot of sympathy for Islamic terror groups in these countries.This could well be more to do with the local situation than the global one.

RE: Save a Sea Vixen

Hi Merlin,
I think David is making a fair point.Mustangs are much in demand in the US and elsewhere,and just about any substantial bits and pieces that come onto the market are snapped up at potentially airworthy prices.It’s a similar situation to what we have over here with Spitfires-you can basically build one from scratch if needs be,and this is frequently what happens.This means that any old identifiable bit is immediatelly a potential flyer.As David was pointing out,these high prices lock out the museums that might want a Mustang for static display.Even the IWM couldn’t get hold of a static Mustang at a reasonable price,hence the wood/plastic one on a pole in the AAM.I think there are probably more Mustangs surviving in airworthy condition than static examples.
If the IWM couldn’t get hold of one,it seems likely that East Fortune folks wouldn’t either.