Going back to my answer , for what it’s worth here’s a link to the Helicopter History website which is not dead, 8th question down; http://www.helis.com/faq/
Make of it as you will.
Could well be…. http://home.earthlink.net/~firedog46/spitfire.html
FarlamAirframes photo features the same blackboard that was in a shot posted about a week ago, doesn’t it? I tried a search but couldn’t find it.
I take it your Dad was the landing craft skipper so, e4w? His footage was amongst the best. I didn’t know such craft serviced two landing beaches either.
I found a lot of the rest of it quite interesting but with some hohum, I’m afraid. A bit too like many propaganda films of the time. Although I understood why when the searchlight bloke said he was careful not to film his ‘workplace’ or anything that might be of use to the enemy.
And the quotes from letters home from the German artillery spotter were more interesting than his footage for the most part imho.
But the air-to-air Luftwaffe footage was very interesting.
Suggest you look at `specials` as well..!
😮 You naughty boy!
Not old news at all as far as I’m concerned, I raised just this question a few weeks back.
Good question, I was wondering about enamelled nameplates because of the weight factor. But seeing as how the bombers circled the city for about an hour and a half prior to dropping their loads (the first bomb and last were about half an hour apart) it’s hard to say which aircraft it came from.
Another oddity – the first two bombs were released together, then there were three single bombs and finally the massive mine which devastated a large area and caused all the fatalities. And there were about ten to twenty planes flying around at the time.
I thought (in my own innocent way) that if you press the bomb button all your ordnance dropped, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Or am I wrong?
Oh, and thanks to whomever corrected my thread title spelling mishap!
The Blackburn Blackburn gets my vote every time.
Cheers, hiflyer, enjoyed the report. A little searching, and Voila!.
My Dad may have been one of the builders of the Sunderland the American (89? Wow, he looks much younger!) flew in.
There’s a nice long report on two vets getting a jolly in one of them running this afternoon on the BBC News channel. Includes plenty of inside and out Cat pr0n.
The first shot of the Cat is lovely, the dark colours contrasting with the paint scheme serves to highlight the wings and fuselage. And that’s a cracking shot of the raindrops on the B17 cockpit. And the rest aren’t too shabby either – particularly the rain-sodden couple passing in front of the second Cat photo contrasting with the plane’s brighter light. Not a wasted day at all in my opinion.
The first shot of the Cat is lovely, the dark colours contrasting with the paint scheme serves to highlight the wings and fuselage. And that’s a cracking shot of the raindrops on the B17 cockpit. And the rest aren’t too shabby either – particularly the rain-sodden couple passing in front of the second Cat photo contrasting with the plane’s brighter light. Not a wasted day at all in my opinion.
Possibly the one you’re looking for, about halfway down the page ‘Reply #6’. Mentions a prop being recovered.