Today was the day. Interesting that his body has never been found, maybe like the Vickers 1 and Otzi the iceman, his time will come.

without being at all morbid and meaning no disrespect to any of the five members of the Pole team who all died, Captain Oates was lost on the Beardmore Glacier, and if memory serves, Scott and his team were buried in their tent at the foot of the Glacier as well, so nature will take its course slowly and they will find their way to the sea. P/O Evans was lost further south and I don’t know if he was buried on the platau or the glacier.

Captain Oveur

I think to send himself up like that was fantastic, but he will always be “Mr Phelps”….

Agreed, an incredible act of sacrifice and whatever your thoughts on Scott (Fiennes or Huntford camps) a lot of the plans were a mess (mark depots with a single white flag like Scott did, or an “X” of black markers North, South, East, West each giving distance and bearing to the depot as Amundesn did for example).

From what I read, he would have lost his feet had they made it back, and an old gun shot wound in his thigh had re-opened through scurvy. He must have been in agony.

Ultra Chloraseptic…

Anaesthetic Throat Spray.

Directions : Read the inclosed leaflet first before using this medicine.

Adults and teenagers: Do not spray into the eyes.

I mean, come on, really…. thats almost as bad as instructions on Shampoo…..

“And not a peep from the media”

remember, the day that Mr Blair gave his evidence to the Iraq War rubber stamp committee, I mean the independant enquiry, more newspapers featured Jordan and whatever his name is as headline news rather than Mr Blairs evidence.

that speaks volumes I think…..

its the Ju-87 that gets me all worked up ! without starting a Hendon bashing session (oh, actually, lets….) its a horrible mish-mash and doesn’t make any sense at all.

If you have later Me-110 etc, then why not the Ju-87 with cannon etc ?

I have spoken to Mel Williams, the publisher, numerous times. A very sincere individual who does the best he can under the circumstances. The operation is understaffed and he has to arrange and co-ordinate everything himself, plus the fact that they lost a North American distributor, is the reason for the late issues. The magazine is certainly worth the wait although the news are usually stale.

That may well be true MigL, but he also a business man who has taken payment to supply goods and while I appreciate the many problems that they have experienced on a personal level as well as directly with regard to the publication, the lack of communication has been pretty poor and even if no publication is forthcoming, an update on a simple web site could have and should have been made in my view.