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Originally Posted by Dave Homewood
All I can say is, what on earth are they teaching British kids in school?

Dave, the answer is I’m afraid very little about WW2 these days it seems….
The PC brigade have largely put a stop to it….
When I asked them about this, my other halfs 2 kids (aged 23 and 21) went through the whole of their schooling without it ever being mentioned…”

Whilst WW2 WAS covered in my GCSE history lessons,the teacher who taught us knew next to nothing about it.Even when we had exercise books to hand she managed to get things wrong.I was away one lesson and when I came back the next I found she’d drilled it into everyone’s heads that the Battle of Britain was fought in 1941! I’m not usually all that outspoken,but she was getting so many things wrong I piped up and she offered me the chance to plan some of the lessons and teach her a few things-I ended up teaching the teacher!

Sir Stephen Grey?Do you know something we don’t Franck? 😉 🙂 Seriously,that’s a beautiful picture,thanks for sharing. 😎

The link doesn’t seem to be working 🙁

Dunno if classic airliners are your thing RobAnt,or whether Brooklands would be too far to go,but there’s the final taxi-run of the Vickers Vanguard taking place at Brooklands tomorrow.I’d be down there myself if I could make it,but sadly I’m ‘ooop North’ for a few days,so I can’t. 🙁

If XE601 were rebuilt to fly here in the UK,what are the chances of it being allowed to retain it’s Rasberry Ripple scheme?Would there not be a CAA ruling somewhere that prevented a civvie aircraft from wearing a current military scheme??

I don’t have a fear of flying as such,although I still can’t decide whether I enjoy it or not.I’ve flown a few times in AEF Chipmunks when I was in the ATC and some civvie spam cans since and unfortunately I’ve still not shaken the airsickness bug.I don’t fly all that often,which is perhaps part of the reason why I haven’t defeated it yet.
Despite this,if i’m offerred the opportunity of a flight,I’ll go for it and in hindsight I’m always glad I did-to be offerred the chance to fly is still a privelage.I’m hoping to do some gliding early next week,and I’ll let you know how I get on.I’ve heard it’s even more nausiating than powered flight,but I’m still game-am I nuts or am I nuts?? 😀
With regards to vertigo,I used not to be able to go more than three steps up a ladder,but things have improved alot since.One thing I still don’t like doing is walking across footbridges over busy roads,it’s an extremely odd feeling having cars rushing past under you!

Sadly,the Heston tower/terminal building is gone. 🙁 I’m unsure when it was demolished,but there now stands an oh-so-beautiful warehouse on the site,which is incidentally where Mr Chamberlain waved his bit of paper and declared ‘Peace in our time’.It’s a great shame that it couldn’t have been preserved.Not so long ago,I saw an aerial photo of Heston taken in the 30’s and another taken very recently and compared the two.It seems only a couple of the original hangars still stand,which is a great shame,although I’m assured that what does still exist is now listed.