I remember hearing an interview with, I think Kenneth Lee, Battle of Britain Pilot, who said that very few ex fighter pilots made good ’employees’ after the war……………easy to understand why.
But Bomber and Coastal pilots did seem to do pretty well with BOAC etc.
I will have to pay another visit sometime soon 🙂
That’s one well worth saving.
Great finds, thanks for sharing 🙂
Think its fake. The second thatched house ( middle house) is thatched in Combed wheat reed. This did not start to be used until the 60’s around that area. It would have been thatched in Long Straw. Also not many house would have a decorative ridge pattern unless it was thatched in Norfolk reed, as the other thatched house has which is thatched in Long straw.
The breadth of knowledge on this forum never fails to impress 🙂
OK, I found this.
Alex
Buried at Sea? Unusual for a land crash.
Hi
Legend has it …..
the lady of the lake and excalibur was dozmary pool on bodmin moor …
cheers
jerry
And every other pond in the Westcountry …
“strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony” 🙂
Didnt read all the threads, but:
Did Grumman aircraft name their ships first?
Or did Grumman decide to name them after the British did?Wildcat (Martlet in FAA)
Avenger (Tarpon)
Hellcat
Hellcat – proposed to be called the ‘Gannet’ in FAA service.
…but also a Pacific Northwest wind, which I think is the appropriate derivation.
Not according to Wikipedia
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook
(Usual Wikipedia caveats apply)
Some, but not all – e.g. Chinook.
Maritime aircraft explorers (Anson, Hudson).
London, Lerwick, Stranraer, Sunderland, Seaford, Shetland would tend to point to a different theme for floaty ones.
Looks like Dowding was right not wanting to send anymore then 🙂
(Glad Pilot OK!)
Thats cool, I wonder what the Russians called it??
Kobrastochka.
I have read somewhere that this was supposedly one of the reasons for the cranked wing on the F4U Corsair, is it so?
Always a very classy-looking machine. Good to see it back 🙂